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How Can The Cloud Protect Us From Identity Theft? More than 600 million Internet users will store data on the cloud by the end of the year. If you’re using anything from online banking to iTunes, you’re using the cloud. Our business files have moved to the cloud, our audio and visual media have moved … Continued

Keep it clean It’s especially desktops that tend to moulder under desks, their innards becoming clogged with dust, dirt and errant hairballs. Before trying anything else, we’d suggest you open up your PC (or laptop, if possible) and have a go at removing potentially several years’ worth of debris. Dust clogs the fans, and can … Continued

Experts from the HR department at social recruitment platform jobandtalent have evaluated the IT skills most sought after by employers when recruiting for top paid positions. Jobandtalent currently hosts over 30,000 IT jobs, and sources IT talent for industry leaders such as Accenture and Clifford Chance.   The salary of IT professionals varies, with more … Continued

Last week the scale of Britain’s IT scrapheap was revealed in research by Crucial Technology, stating that Britain is throwing away 5,528 tonnes of PCs and laptops every year. The question is how many of these devices had reached the end of their usable life? How many could have been saved? Were they disposed of … Continued

With businesses of all descriptions now completely dependent on IT and telecoms to keep functioning, the need for a disaster recovery plan, no matter what size the business, has never been more compelling. Smaller businesses, lacking the standby facilities and support services enjoyed by their larger counterparts, can be hit particularly hard. Downtime is one … Continued

Most companies have inadvertently locked away the value of their enterprise data, because they can rarely harness the right information at the right time. When they finally do access information, it is often inaccurate, incomplete or unavailable. This is costing companies dearly in the form of lost revenue opportunities, greater operational costs, and increased risk … Continued

The battle for market share between the leading vendors of CRM systems may not appear to be something you should worry about, but it could affect far more than whose logo you see in your system. While we focus on the developments in mobile and Cloud, a war is brewing under the radar as CRM … Continued

One hundred years ago, in 1913, Henry Ford invented the assembly line. By introducing role specialisation and division of labor, Ford reduced the time it took to build a car from 12 hours to 30 minutes. And he opened the door for a new and different kind of economy. Without role specialisation, one person is … Continued

In recent years, a growing number of us have realised that we don’t have to do all our shopping on the high street, retail parks or in out-of-town supermarkets and shopping centres. As the internet has grown, so has ecommerce – online retail to you and me. For retail companies large and small, ecommerce has … Continued

By Vic Nyman “Cloud Computing!”  Is it the savior of IT or the bane of our existence?  Cloud computing has extreme potential, especially for achieving operational efficiencies and cost savings.  Unfortunately, with that potential is the potential for business disaster – outages in places you can’t control impacting customer satisfaction or even sales results.  Imagine … Continued

It’s one of life’s indisputable facts that sustained growth is a sign of health and vitality. Whether it’s for businesses, social groups, or even the human body, growth is a key indicator that all is going to plan. But what happens when this growth is stunted? In bodily terms, growth can be impacted by a … Continued

How To Pick A Cloud Solution That Fits Your Business Cloud services are expected to grow more than 17% by 2016. When your company is ready to move more of their processes to the cloud, it is important to pick a solution that properly fits your business. The right cloud services will help you focus … Continued

The gurus of the Cloud Management industry are betting that 2013 will prove to be the year of Hybrid Cloud Computing. Cloud Management as a concept and a service has truly blossomed. Moreover, it is expected to keep on growing at the same rate. Cloud Computing, as an industry, is expected to achieve a revenue … Continued

The manufacturing sector of the economy was an early user of ERP systems when the software first emerged, but surprisingly, most manufacturers have been slow to adopt cloud ERP. By 2010, only about 5% of manufacturing companies were using cloud ERP. One reason for this slow adoption is that many ERP providers were slow at … Continued

The promises of a better IT world being spouted by Cloud Computing are often followed by a shadow that is trying to brand all of its claims as lies and marketing propaganda made by service vendors in order to make more profit. When something is claimed to be the end-all-be-all of computing, a lot of … Continued

I propose a broad movement to collect and preserve the books and other physical materials that document the creation and development of 20th century technology. As IT professionals, we naturally think of information as being digital. But vast quantities of technological data exist in books, papers, notes and other physical formats. These data, created by … Continued

(6 Free Assets to Best Leverage Technology for Communications)  “Are you a team player?” – If you’ve interviewed for any position in the last five years, chances are you would have heard this question. But have you ever wondered what has made teamwork more important in business over the last few years? It’s because we live in … Continued

Understanding Technical Debt: Cutting Corners That Can Cost You Later Cloud technologies are known to offer many benefits, but it’s safe to say that two words dominate expectations when it comes to development cycles: faster and nimbler. As more organizations implement agile development, it’s becoming clear that expedited time to market is an expected standard … Continued