IT is moving from being a point of differentiation for an organisation towards becoming a point of constraint. Old-style approaches to computing, looking at particular applications for specific areas, one application per server and platforms engineered for peak usage are beginning to look too costly and inflexible to meet today’s business needs. The home of [...]

Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical architecture actually is. With businesses being run by process – not by technology – a new approach has to be taken: one [...]

Software as a service (SaaS) is exploding in popularity. Organizations of all types love the ability to treat software much as they do electricity – a service that they plug into and pay for monthly. In recent years, the SaaS model has been applied to all sorts of software – CRM, HR applications, sales force [...]

When it comes to IT security, almost all businesses using IP networks to transmit data will know that they have to protect themselves, and they will have systems in place to keep their data secure. However, this is often focused at the head office. For workers that are not located at the central office – [...]