Tag: cloud services

November 13, 2019

With the increasing prevalence of cloud services, as well as the growing threat of data breaches, organisations are becoming more aware of the risks associated with poor security infrastructure. However, these threats can be mitigated by having the appropriate security […]

November 7, 2019

Many organisations, large and small, are moving their data and processing to the cloud to take advantage of the flexibility, efficiency and cost savings it can bring. However, there is sometimes a misconception that the move to cloud also relieves […]

October 7, 2019

I had a really big document retrieval challenge this month. Fortunately, Google Drive came to my rescue. Here’s the full story. One of the things that’s become apparent to me as I continue my journey in #adulting is that it’s […]

September 30, 2019

In an ideal business world, enterprises would forge strategic partnerships with their cloud services providers that lead to prosperity for all involved. It doesn’t always work out that way, however. Things change over time, and in many cases the relationship […]

September 30, 2019

One of the nagging challenges IT leaders face is cultivating enough talent to adopt and implement cloud services, so they often resort to poaching from other companies or scouring universities for engineers schooled in modern computing skills. But that piecemeal […]

September 17, 2019

IT operations teams are contending with the reality that growing volumes of workloads are running across multiple cloud services. While multi-cloud environments are growing ubiquitous, many IT operations teams are still trying to get by with the same tools they’ve […]

September 4, 2019

ASR goes under several names including computer transcription, digital dictaphone and quite wrongly, voice recognition. Speech recognition is all about what someone is saying, whereas voice recognition is about who is saying it. This has been further confused by the […]

August 28, 2019

As organizations grapple with the explosion of new and novel threats, they are often constrained by both time and resources to address them. With the cybersecurity skills gap expected to reach 1.8 million by 2022, according to The Wall Street […]

August 23, 2019

The recent Capital One data breach affecting 100 million customer accounts was blamed on a cloud server misconfiguration, which is among several common problems, a survey reveals. A study from security firm Tripwire found that 84% of organisations find maintaining […]

July 29, 2019

The thirst for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services continues to grow, but the industry has become dominated by major providers and this may hamper competition in the future. According to Gartner, the IaaS market grew by 31.3 percent in […]