By Michael Grant Founder and Managing Director of UCi2i
Remote working has always been a sticky subject among businesses as there are always questions raised over whether it can have a detrimental effect on colleague communication. Common themes often relate to feeling isolated, self-discipline, managing to separate your work life from family life and losing that collaborative office culture.
Google+By Will Rowley, Cloud Evangelist, Cloud Direct
According to Gartner research, a cloud services brokerage is defined as a company that adds value to another by offering a combination of technology, people and methodologies to implement and manage cloud related projects. There has been a great deal of curiosity about this new cloud business model and how it benefits business. The essence of a cloud services brokerage is that it helps you do business better. To pin this down, here are five reasons why a cloud services brokerage can benefit your business:
Google+By Andy Cotgreave, senior data analyst at Tableau Software
Are you making a ‘Where’s Wally’ puzzle of your data analysis? At first, this might not seem like an obvious question to ask, but think about it. The challenge and enjoyment offered by Martin Handford’s puzzles stem from scanning intricate images, being visually tripped up by puns and tricks, whilst painstakingly searching for ‘Wally’. Looking for data in a spreadsheet, a vast set of rows and numbers, is a lot like searching for ‘Wally’. What are the lessons we can learn?
Google+By John Casserly, board director at Xceed
Dear Data Centre,
It’s not you it’s me. I’ve changed. We want different things.
We’ve been together a long time, but recently it’s started to feel a bit one-sided. I keep putting in the time, the data and the money, but it’s all give and no take. I’ve started to work late, spending more time with cloud vendors and trotting out the old clichés, “We’ve grown apart, I’ve got needs y’know, and a guy just needs more scalability and elasticity”. We’re still holding it together but I’ve started to wonder if this is just habit, or is it time to cut the (RoI) ties?’
Google+Alan Back, director at Data Continuity Group
The importance of backing up your data is well-known but did you know that this process only protects your business from losing its data outright? If disaster strikes and your organisation’s IT systems fail, how long will it take to get them back up and running again and resume business as usual?
Google+By David Milot, Unisys
“Roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond, Call me what you will, But I’ll take my time anywhere, Free to speak my mind anywhere, And I’ll redefine anywhere” – so sang Metallica in their hit single, Wherever I May Roam. The same is now true of IT, with so many consumer devices crossing over into the business environment, offering us the opportunity to work flexibly from wherever we are in the world.
Google+By George Davies, CEO, MooD International
‘Big data’ are the IT buzzwords of the moment, with companies both excited and intimidated in equal measure by how much intelligence can be gleaned from this resource. And rightly so, the world generates 5 exabytes of data every two days – roughly the same amount created between the dawn of civilisation and 2003 – so it is a challenge to identify what information is useful and what is irrelevant.
Google+By Tony Williams, Director of IT, Europe & Africa at Plantronics.
A recent study found that UK commuters spend up to three days a year stuck in gridlock, with Britain coming in as the fifth worst country in the world for traffic jams[1]. Not only is this immensely frustrating for those stuck in their cars, it’s also a huge waste of time and money for businesses.
Google+By Christian Toon, head of information risk at Iron Mountain
In principle, document retention should be a straightforward part of a responsible information management plan: you work out what you want or need to keep, archive it securely and destroy it in line with national guidelines. Job done, what’s next?
The reality couldn’t be further from the truth.
Google+By Christine at ServiceSource
You may not want to talk about it or deal with it, but you’ve got piles of dirty data. We all do.
In our personal lives dirty data takes the form of duplicate photos and incorrect addresses for holiday cards. For most companies the problem is a thousand times worse. Dirty data is more than an annoyance or a wasted stamp. It costs billions in lost revenue a year. It’s polluting your forecast visibility and clogging revenue arteries that are the lifeblood of the company.
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