Retained IT needs a small nut. But that takes big balls.
Between April 2012 and April 2013, summit organizer GDS International gathered together 231 North American CIOs, vice presidents and IT directors for a collective 7.5 days of structured conversation, learning and networking. Last month, they handed MeetTheBoss TV the resultant data and asked us to write about it. You can download the full CIO U.S. IT ...
3 Ways Co-location Data Centres Are Helping Your Business
If you’ve found yourself reading this blog post then we’re guessing you’ve got a good grasp of what big data is and what it looks like (despite the elusiveness of any concrete definition). Although relatively old lived, big data in its ‘latest’ form is hoping to combine a maze of new data combinations – internal ...
Weekly Roundup: Week Three
Here at MeetTheBoss we pride ourselves on the quality of our content. So what better way to share with you the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème, every Friday for the week’s best content, than with a weekly roundup?! As you may already know, as well as ...
IT Security: Are Your Users Buckling Up?
@NPAPryke There is no panacea cure when it comes to IT security. Of course, if you’re a CIO or work in corporate IT, you’re probably swearing at the screen right now. It’s a no-brainer. This, we all know. And yet solutions are still sold to plenty of SMEs – and let’s not forget a few ...
IT Security: From A Fortress To A Hotel
@NPAPryke Hack and breach codes. Fiber optic cables blinking a million times a second. Ultrabooks with connections quicker than the blink of an eye. Sure, these thing exist – in Hollywood. But for the world of enterprise IT security, the focus isn’t on the ‘Need For Speed’ or cracking ‘Mission Impossible’. In fact, for a ...
BYOD: This Phone Will Self-Destruct In Five Seconds
Has anyone seen Coke Zero’s latest marketing campaign for the imminent release of James Bond’s Skyfall? If you haven’t – go ahead, I’ll wait here for you. Done? Great. Why am I bringing this up? Well – despite the fact that I’m a self-confessed advertising geek – it lends itself well to analogising what’s going ...
Securing Success With the Online Retail Sector
A new report released this week revealed that more than 15,000 people have become victims of fraud in the first six months of 2010. The report, which focuses on UK consumers, was compiled by Action Fraud – the national fraud reporting centre – and reveals that the amount of money people had been tricked out ...