Moving to the cloud should be a collaborative process – failure to involve the employees who are supposed to be benefiting from it could be disastrous While the benefits are pretty clear for most businesses, moving to the cloud can seem like a daunting task. In some cases, an inability to see past the upheaval…
A new security framework proposed by researchers could help to ease CIOs’ Android concerns Recent figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC) show that 84.7 per cent of all smartphones shipped during the second quarter of 2014 ran on Android. While it may seem like iPhones are everywhere these days, iOS’s market share for the…
7 questions when considering cloud computing The business IT world is abuzz with “cloud computing”, a term that can be used to describe many things, from emails to anti-virus, accounting software packages to storage and everything in between. Whilst the allure of low monthly payments as opposed to having to purchase a local server outright…
The cloud is changing how businesses operate, and flexibility is easily the order of the day Most businesses have changed pretty drastically over the last 20 years, with technology playing a huge part in the shift. This in an ongoing journey, which means that many of today’s buzzwords will be the norm for tomorrow’s enterprise.…
Companies considering a move to the cloud to improve their collaborative efforts probably choose between Google Apps and Office 365. However similar, both suites have their pros and cons which can prove helpful or troublesome to certain categories of businesses. Though Google Apps kept its word about giving us collaborative applications, Office 365 has an…
With a little help from the cloud, disaster recovery is now easier than it’s ever been before – any excuse you thought you had has just disappeared Even for the biggest and most organised businesses, things can go wrong. Just two months ago, London-based fashion retailer ASOS found this out the hard way when a fire hit its…