Technology

Administrator 04/17/2023

From fairly humble beginnings, Artificial Intelligence has become a major area of interest in IT itself, and as a tool to be used in IT applications.  Artificial Intelligence is already widespread in most business application areas and is generating much interest among those who think it has the potential to turn the Terminator movie into […]

Administrator 03/16/2023

All IT departments, large and small, are under financial pressure.   Executives are asking for more from a frozen or reduced IT budget, at the same time as increasing pressure to embrace new technologies. So, the Head of IT is looking around to see what can be done to ease the pressure, both on and in […]

Administrator 02/20/2023

With the drive to cost containment following budget pressures after the pandemic, Network Automation has drawn the attention of IT departments.  In addition, customers are demanding more and better services from their service providers, and Network Automation is one way to meet those budget pressures in a cost-effective way. What is Network Automation? Traditionally networks […]

Administrator 01/18/2023

How we do business has always been shaped by the technology available at the time. However, the change has been marked since the end of World War 2, particularly since the development and deployment of IT Solutions in the 1960s and 1970s.   There has been a second marked change since the introduction of Internet-based IT […]

Administrator 12/15/2022

The move to the Cloud, coupled with enabling working from home and providing remote access to systems and data has made IT infrastructure more complex.  In turn, this has meant increased costs to IT, at a time during which budgets are being reduced and businesses are under severe financial pressure. IT has been asked to […]

Administrator 11/15/2022

Governments clearly have a vested interest in Infrastructure Security.  Many, if not all, of a nation’s essential services operate on physical infrastructure, often including IT infrastructure  Private companies, while usually not providing the same level of physical infrastructure, have an investment in their own IT infrastructure.  IT Security is therefore a major item on an […]

Administrator 09/28/2022

IT infrastructure has been evolving recently, prompted by the changing IT environments forced on users by the pandemic. Hyper convergent infrastructures (“HCI”) had been evolving since the millennium with the start of the explosion in virtualisation.   In short, HCI is an IT Infrastructure that is a combination of servers and storage that consolidates new and […]

Administrator 08/22/2022

The last two years have seen a change in IT strategies.  In some cases, business strategies have become survival strategies as they struggle with the changes in the business landscape following the pandemic.  Many want to move to an e-commerce platform and perhaps upgrade their web presence.  The effects on IT have been equally traumatic, […]

Administrator 07/21/2022

The security and reliability of an organisation’s IT infrastructure is critical for business operations. Most businesses with a mature IT infrastructure often have an assortment of equipment and software from different suppliers. A lack of standardisation can complicate day-to-day operations and the development of new systems. It adds costs and complexity to IT Services even […]

Administrator 04/04/2022

Reliance on legacy IT infrastructure is holding back many organizations and preventing them from reaching their business potential. It is also a major hindrance to digital transformation. Ripping out and replacing the existing IT infrastructure is not the easy answer. It’s a lot more complicated than that. A big part of the problem is that […]