Getting data security right by removing the ‘sensitive’ in sensitive data Considering that on average a hacking attempt occurs every 39 seconds, the likelihood of suffering a cyberattack is no longer a remote threat but rather a distinct possibility. It’s not a question of “if” but rather “when” in the minds of security professionals. Most other people…
How The Pandemic Is Changing Service Relationships. You may or may not have seen the ‘drive-in wedding’ recently. It’s a great example of how people overcome crises and get a little more creative. It’s something businesses can learn from, as we gear up for a long winter with the pandemic. What has become clear is that we…
Why keeping control in the cloud is the clear choice post-pandemic. Mid-March saw an almighty scramble within IT departments up and down the UK. Whatever the state of readiness, the lockdown announcement sparked a Herculean effort to enable teams to seamlessly transition to working from home wherever possible. The experience of those facilitating remote working environments varied significantly, however. On reflection…
What does digital transformation really mean? Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology in all aspects of the business and by doing this, fundamentally changing the way the business operates and the way it provides value to its clients. Apart from this, it’s also about cultural change. It is about the necessity for organizations to…
Serverless Computing – what to consider when investing It wasn’t until relatively recently that physical servers were the backbone of every data centre. While on-premise servers have by no means disappeared, more and more infrastructure components are finding their way into the cloud every year and hype around serverless computing is growing. But what is it? Serverless computing…
Designing geographically distributed environments with the Google Cloud Platform Every cloud provider makes it possible to create geographically distributed environments. I’m going to take a closer look at this using an example of Google Cloud Platform – GCP. Why do we need geographically distributed environments? What motivates the creation geographically distributed environments? There are three main reasons. High Availability…
