On the 12th of May 2017, one of Europe’s largest broadband and telephony companies realized that it couldn’t access its own systems any longer. They had been encrypted by a ransomware, which was demanding bitco...
Cloud computing lies at the heart of any scalable business enterprise. Purchasing dedicated hardware for all your data and computation needs is a waste of both money and manpower. Shifting your IT processes ont...
Disasters are inevitable and their outcomes can be devastating. But that should not stop us from preparing for the worst-case scenarios. Often in case of unpredictable natural disasters like earthquakes, storms...
While the tech and enterprise industries always discuss the benefits of cloud adoption in terms of scalability, availability and cost, there is yet another driving force which is pushing companies to adopt clou...
At the start of the year, we had said that CIOs will get cloud savvier in 2015. We had come across several CIOs and IT heads dealing with issues related to mismanagement of SLAs, lack of transparency in cloud m...
The cloud has thrown up compelling concerns such as security, privacy and reliability which are difficult to ignore. But companies that have adopted cloud do not worry much about these issues. In fact, accordin...
“If you ask any IT infrastructure professional what he spent his work hours doing, he would not be able to tell you. He has just been fighting fires, monitoring alerts, just trying to ensure systems are as avai...
According to a blog by Gartner’s Tom Bittman, private clouds are failing! He asked 140 respondents who had private clouds in place, “What was going wrong with their private cloud?” A whopping 95% said that ther...
At the recently held event, New Style of IT Day, which we co-hosted along with HP and Veeam, the IT heads of some of the leading companies in their respective industries spoke about business continuity, challen...
The cloud is now all the rage, and adoption is growing across all industries. While awareness and knowledge levels regarding the cloud are growing, the complexities attached to it are as well. Issues related to...
As the head of a good IT team you have your work cut out:Run the IT operations smoothly and in a highly available manner Focus on new initiatives that will help the company achieve its business goals in the s...
The past few years have been about Cloud: hype and hoopla, growth and confusion, price cuts and commoditization. And 2015 will also be about Cloud. But we think this year will be different. This year, CIOs and ...