It’s no secret that teams are absolutely critical to the success of every organisational endeavour. After all, an organisation is obviously, in every sense, a team. There is no “Perfect” Team. “One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist”. Stephen …
Despite the importance, and complexity, of the enterprise cloud data archival space there is a dearth of simple, clear and equivalent comparisons of each of the major offerings (Amazon Glacier vs Google Nearline vs Azure Storage), particularly as concerns costs. Paramount to any foray into exploring these solutions as possible technologies to implement in your scenario …
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IT provides an essential service to all organisations, and requires of all its practitioners a selfless, generous, and often patient, approach to support and improvement. All too often colleagues feel that IT professionals are “superior”, “dismissive” or just “too busy”. This is, of course, dangerous as it can create an environment in which it is …
We’ve recently been putting together some plans for new buildings and facilities. During this process we were debating which cabling approaches to take. Even amongst ourselves there was some some debate about where we could use Cat 5e or Cat 6, if we should invest in Cat 7 / Class F. When optical fiber would …
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This is a look at the important topic of environmental control for the IT estate of SMEs, this is not a data center centric discussion. There are plenty of excellent resources on how to manage the environmental aspects of data centers… On numerous occasions I’ve come across ambiguity, doubt and sometimes all out confusion …
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I’ve been so busy of late what with my move into the charity sector, particularly whilst building on the excellent team I was greeted by, that I’ve had very little time to post lately. Despite this I was so impressed with what Dan Pallotta had to say at TED that I circulated this to a …
Below is my very simple, clean & clear summary table of the most commonly discussed Greek & Roman gods, something I had surprising difficulty in finding online elsewhere! It is worth noting that the Gods of each culture were based on the same core concept / understanding and as such they share both a structure …