As the economic climate continues to suffer around the world, many businesses are searching for cost cutting measures in an attempt to maximise profit margins. One area in which many are finding such a saving is in IT. A number of new and innovative technologies boast cost saving benefits, making this sector one in which [...]
Cloud computing is the new IT trend that is grabbing the industry magazine headlines, and although it is being positively embraced by many users, some are needlessly worried about security issues. Bringing together the three major trends of virtualisation, utility computing and software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing is still regarded with a degree [...]
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Arthur Cole spoke with Tom Joyce, general manager, Avance Software Group, Stratus Technologies about disaster recovery strategies for the SMB.
Cole: Stratus specializes in continuity and availability solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. What sort of challenges do SMBs face that larger organizations do not?Joyce: Stratus has a long history serving customers from the global [...]
The internet has perhaps had more influence on the way people interact with the world than any other invention in recent history. In the last decade, the internet has increasingly become a ubiquitous feature throughout society, with a large proportion of UK households now having access to the World Wide Web, providing them with round-the-clock [...]
Accountants Holden Associates who provide a tailored service towards micro and small businesses have decided to provide all their clients with more than just accounting software.
Accountants Holden Associates have teamed up with the leading provider of on-demand online small business software, winweb, to provide their award winning solution to all their clients free of [...]
When someone talks about the internet these days there are a lot of terms that can be quite confusing. Things like software or platform as a service, grid or cloud computing can and will make your thinking cloudy if you do not keep up the pace.A definition of a platform as a service is a [...]
Recently, Microsoft announced plans to consolidate its data storage and Web services business units. While most saw this as a sign of the bad economic times, Joe McKendrick thinks maybe it’s actually a smart business move.
Should the enterprise adopt public clouds as promoted by Salesforce and other SaaS/IaaS promoters, or are internal/private clouds the way to go?The fact that so many people are still asking either/or questions like that marks how little understanding there is of cloud technology and its paradigm-shifting capabilities. The simple beauty of this new way of [...]
