Should businesses be shrinking their infrastructures to meet the agile lean business processes they need to develop in order to remain competitive in a post-pandemic landscape? The post-pandemic landscape has underscored the need for enterprises to address legacy systems and technical debt, which conflict with the agility, efficiency, and risk posture of the enterprise. Technical debt amassed, in some cases over decades, presents significant barriers to entry for modern cloud-friendly architectures which results in not only…
How Social Media Can Improve Customer Retention Ratio Today, whether you are running a well-established business or want to launch a venture, you can not imagine your business without social media. Social media has gained huge attention in the last couple of decades as it enables business owners to reach out to their customers in a most personalised…
The dangers of data collection The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in countless technology solutions that have been developed, at rapid pace, in an effort to prevent its spread. However, many of the initiatives which require extensive data collection, such as contact tracing solutions, have raised questions around how the data is…
Collaboration without the security chaos Research from the ONS estimates that – at the height of the pandemic – a record 49.2 percent of employees worked remotely. It sparked widespread reliance on cloud-based collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, which quickly became synonymous with the crisis. By the end of…
AI in the home: Smart devices do’s and don’ts The growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in our homes have been increasing exponentially in the past few years, and with a large number of the UK workforce embracing the pandemic-imposed working-from-home culture, for many of us our homes have…
Cloud Supply Chain Risk – is your MSP in control? For some businesses, beyond getting homeworking up and running at a whole new scale, lockdown has brought IT strategy to a standstill. Those that do want to move forward can face delays from their Managed Service Provider (MSP) and the restrictions lockdown has placed on them to deliver new solutions into…