Build vs. Buy; In-House vs. Cloud

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Expansion into new markets. Business intelligence. Online and e-commerce development. Mergers and acquisitions activity. ERP and application integration. Compliance requirements. Network consolidation. Telephony and unified communications projects...

06 June 2011

The Millstone That Is Your Email Inbox

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Look around at your colleagues, can you see the weight that sits on their shoulders? Let’s be truthful we’re all suffering from email overload. Most employees within an organisation now have access to email and its uses are endless. The original...

06 June 2011

The uncrossed-fingers approach to email continuity

by: John Iball

With businesses becoming more and more reliant on their email systems it would seem obvious that resilient business email systems are a necessity, not a 'nice-to-have'. Email outages are costly, and not just for the obvious reasons. Yes, there wil...

24 May 2011

Evolution not Revolution.

by: Hugo Harber

Are on-demand IT services really all that new? Are we really experiencing a revolution in the way businesses consume the IT services that support them? The way I see it, SMEs harnessed the benefits of Iaas & SaaS long before they were known by tho...

27 August 2010

Buying services from the cloud

by: Hugo Harber

Last time I talked about the attractiveness of buying services more flexibly, on a user centric basis, and have been asked by a couple of people what types of services are best suited to this. My response to this is simple; it's not what you buy i...

25 February 2010

A decade for transformation?

by: Hugo Harber

I was recently reading some articles on the predictions for the growth of Augmented Reality – an industry that barely exists today that in just 4 years time will be worth just shy of $1bn dollars. It will create opportunities for software develope...

05 January 2010