“In the beginning was the word” … oops, “the cloud.” Long ago “cloud” was a buzzword, especially when it was a cool word that one knew exactly what it meant.…
Over the years, I’ve read more than a few articles about the qualities that are found in the best administrators. These articles focus on soft skills, but sometimes will list…
Despite ploughing more than £50m into the digital transformation of the NHS, evidence suggests only a handful of trusts have adopted the Government’s “cloud first” policy. NHS Digital spent…
Malware prevention is a very hot topic due to the recent ransomware attacks that have completely crippled several companies and organizations. For most smaller companies, being able to hire a…
Data management is one of the aspects of information technology that is regularly overlooked, but with the explosion of data in recent years and the growth of data only accelerating,…
Patch management at any sort of scale has always been a mundane and time-consuming task that most administrators would like to avoid at all costs. With the proliferation of DevOps…
Public cloud providers have greatly simplified the process of creating a backup, but the challenge has always been managing that at scale with things like policies for retention or simple…
One of the biggest draws of the public cloud includes services like managed Kubernetes or server-less functions. Managed services like these enable IT organizations to consume higher-level services, which allow…
One of the biggest complaints you’ll likely hear after moving to Office 365 will be about its speed, or lack thereof. Now that data isn’t sitting on your LAN, there…
Most enterprises rely on infrastructure and applications in the cloud. Whether it’s SaaS services like Office 365, IaaS in AWS, PaaS in Azure, or analytics services in Google Cloud, organizations…
