Demystifying observability with four simple questions
Last year was a big year for observability, with many businesses making concerted efforts to gain a better understanding of its value. Leading technology research firms applauded its potential to simplify increasingly complex IT environments, with Gartner® featuring observability in its Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends report. Analysts also predicted a bright future for the technology, with some […]
Five Areas Where FinOps Tools Fall Short
In a simpler world, optimizing your cloud spending would be as easy as deploying a FinOps tool, receiving recommendations to reduce costs and acting upon them. Cloud cost optimization is much more complicated in the real world. Although FinOps tools provide useful data and insights that may serve as a starting-point for discussions about managing […]
IT investment: the key to attracting and retaining top talent
The global shift towards remote work three years ago has fundamentally transformed workforce expectations and priorities. No longer content with working nine-to-five in an office cubicle every day, employees are demanding hybrid working environments and greater say over where, when, and how they work. Flexibility has become a core requirement for the modern worker – […]
Take Backups to the Next Level
World Backup Day was initiated in 2011 by Ismail Jadun, a digital consultant who believed that data loss and theft needed to be a more significant priority for organisations. Today, twelve years on, the growing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks has spotlighted business resiliency as an essential boardroom priority. In recent years, ransomware attacks have […]
Optimising Observability with Consumption Pricing and Billing
From word processors and simple firewalls to complex, multi-layered cloud native stacks, the evolution of technology in recent years has changed the world. Businesses are now firmly reliant on their tech to be able to function – customers and employees alike are so used to the convenience it supplies. Online presence, customer experience, productivity; all […]
Top 10 IT Observations for Business Leaders in 2023
There’s no two ways about it – 2022 will go down as one of the most tumultuous years in recent times. Technology has not remained immune from that disruption, with significant challenges faced ranging from privacy and accountability concerns to growing sustainability and regulatory mandates. But the opportunity technology presents remains positive despite a lack […]
Low-Code Enterprise Software Testing — Helping DevOps Teams Do More With Less
Throughout 2022, one thing has been made clear to anyone observing the U.S. economy: it is not a matter of if there will be a downturn, but when. In response, companies are looking for any way to lower expenses and have been reevaluating many of their ordinary priorities. Investments in IT are facing increased scrutiny, […]
Going all-in with evergreen cloud adoption brings its own challenges: how managed services hold the key to unlocking business value
Complex legacy systems are fast showing their inflexibility to meet today’s business pressures of increased consumer demands, supply chain shortages, and recurring economic uncertainty. The market volatility has driven many businesses towards cloud-based systems that enable ‘evergreen’ IT strategies providing consistent updates and the ability to quickly add new functionality to match business goals. But […]
Understanding the role of the modern CIO
Is the CIO a bridge builder, the engineer who designs the bridge, or the forecaster of the bridge’s toll revenues? The answer is that the CIO’s role is a combination of all these functions. Over the last couple of years, CIOs have transformed from fulfilling functional, technology-operations roles into broader remits, including being strategic change […]
Why the time is now for telcos to implement Quantum-safe networks
At Mobile World Congress in September, Luke Ibbetson, head of R&D at Vodafone, said: “Quantum computing is by far the biggest revolution in computing since the 1950s.” This is not an overstatement. Quantum computers will be capable of easily performing calculations beyond the capabilities of classical computers, including those involved in cracking public key cryptography […]