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 ...
Will hybrid clouds be solution-driven?
A recent GigaOm article on Amazon’s enterprise cloud ambitions struck a chord after I landed at AWS reInvent. A while back, I had written about the Public Versus Private Cloud Trap and a reader suggested that the ‘name game’ is merely a battle between VMware and Amazon who are, in effect, marketing to their strengths. ...
Into The Limelight: Cisco’s SDN Paradox
At ARCHIMEDIUS I’ve talked about the challenges facing Cisco over the next five years, especially the rise of software-defined networking (or what some of us were calling infrastructure 2.0). Indeed, as networks become more elastic and dynamic, custom software will start to take the stage over its custom hardware cousin. Think back to the glory days of SGI’s multi-billion, ...
Falling Short: The Promise of A Hybrid Cloud
As marketers and enterprise leaders continue to battle over the superiority of public and private cloud computing, perhaps it is time to recognise that both fall short of the ultimate cloud promise – the hybrid cloud. The hybrid cloud could make a data centre essentially boundless, allowing IT teams to optimise apps at unprecedented levels ...
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 ...
Enterprise Content Management: Become a Value Creator
When discussing business solutions, you could often be forgiven for thinking you’ve just walked into a spelling bee. BPO. OSS. CRM. Sorry, could you put that in a sentence please? -Of course, it’s unavoidable in today’s tech-heavy world of enterprise solutions; without them, we’d spend our days in a binary mantra of repetition, hopelessly spinning ...
Shadow IT: It’s Here. Deal With It.
Another week, another cloud. But not just any cloud. This week’s cloud is serving the “dirty little secret” Jill Dyche referred to in her incredibly insightful article for the Harvard Business Review a few weeks back. And what is that dirty little secret? Shadow IT. From Skype to Gmail, USB sticks to Google Docs – ...
Consumerisation: How To Makeover Entrenched IT
It’s 2012 and the world of the touchscreen is well and truly upon us.We’re already talking about the second screen experience; augmented reality is starting to make waves – and lest we forget that the iPhone 5 has just reared its slightly larger head. Bolt on the continuing global rollout of 4G networks and add ...
Navigating The Cloud With Joachim Horn: Why Simplicity Rules
Ah, the cloud. The latest ascendent to the throne of business terminology with more buzz than a beehive. Indeed, its seemingly endless sea of definitions has left more than a few CIOs in the corporate sphere questioning their cloudy decisions. Ahem. But as solutions continue to reduce time to market and cost – as well ...
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 ...