It is without question that any task, project, how big or small it can be, has to start with careful planning. In terms of disaster recovery, I have discussed planning and how to analyze existing plans in my previous article. However, the disaster recovery plans have to have a proper disaster recovery tool that can […]
In today’s world, a failure is not something just your employees handle and work to recover. Anyone connected somehow to your company bears the consequences somehow: your business partners, your customers, any party outside your organization that face you take some hit. The consequences of the failure is revenue loss from the inability to conduct […]
Almost no business is local anymore. Even if the company is operating in one location, it does business with other businesses who are geographically far away. Many companies are on the way to operating in various geographical locations. This dispersion brings challenges to collaboration and communication, which are traditionally addressed by visiting the locations in […]
Most of the employees are honest, well-mannered people. They are expected to behave courteously even when they leave the company on bad terms. Almost all of them will act as they have behaved, but when they don’t, they can pose a huge threat to the company. Protecting the company’s data (and systems for some employees) […]
Cloud computing gives enterprise users more flexibility than ever before while putting more pressure on the enterprise IT. End users want better applications, high performance and absolutely intolerable to downtime, development teams need rapid access to test and development platforms, whereas executives want justification of the all cloud related expenses and want to see the […]
Releases are risky and painful without doubt. Not only there is the user side of things but also the scripts, manual steps, orchestrations which add another layer of complexity. IT managers struggle with all these while also thinking about the increasing demands. But does it have to be that hopeless? Isn’t there anything we can […]
IT professionals are aware of the damage malware can cause, at least this is part of their everyday work. On the other hand, end users are often not aware that such harmful code may be living in their computers, tablets and smartphones. From a security perspective, since the users are not aware of the risks, […]
Are you still thinking that a breach is something that happens to others, something that you follow in the news? Hopefully at least you are considering a data breach as something imminent and thinking about what to do and where to start. In this article I will ask some thought provoking questions to help you […]
Every type of work involves some showcase projects and tasks and some sluggish tasks, which most of the time fall victim to procrastination. Being sluggish does not mean that they can be done some undetermined future time nor they are less important than the showcase ones. Let’s see what they are and how can we […]
There is the cliché of “doing more with less.” Almost every company is asking their CIOs to do more with less budget. This is way annoying than it sounds, I agree, but surely it forces people to think creatively to free up resources. Throughout the article, I will discuss ways to free up resources to […]
I have spoken a lot about the IT and the business users from various perspectives: from the shifting role of the IT from technical to business side, from resentment, from the importance of the human element to the point of leaving IT for the end business. In almost all articles, I tried to take a […]
Identity, access, BYOD issues are surely a thing in an IT Manager’s daily routine. However, these are not the only things that need to be managed. There are the various different systems, different networks and different applications which are the veins and the neurons of the enterprise. IT managers need to squeeze some time from […]