Set against the backdrop of an ever-changing market, it is becoming clear that IT resellers, VARs and distributors are adapting in order to remain relevant. With the advent of cloud, this is becoming even more of an issue, with channel businesses changing not only their portfolios, but their business models, sales approaches and company culture
How Financial Services Providers can reap the rewards of migrating to the cloud.
Since its widespread introduction into the business environment cloud has been transforming operations and challenging traditional mindsets regardless of industry. While the majority of industries have overcome the initial challenges and obstacles to adopting some form of cloud technology, those in more heavily regulated industries, such as financial services (think investment services, insurance, hedge funds),
The legal sector is in a state of constant change, driven by compliance and regulatory requirements, intense competition and the ever-present need to be more cost effective, while also maintaining or increasing productivity. Traditionally law firms have been slower to adopt new technologies or consider how advances in IT can benefit operations. This is mainly
Choosing the right server infrastructure is crucial to business success. Yet with the trend towards cloud adoption accelerating, the IT infrastructure landscape for large corporate organisations is undergoing a major transformation. “In fact, recent research from 451 Research’s ‘Market Monitor: Cloud Computing, Q1 2016’ report shows that in the UK, cloud is set to grow
Technology developments and virtualisation have created huge potential for what can be achieved with businesses’ continuity and disaster recovery plans. Recent developments in enterprise technology means that organisations need to radically rethink their approach to disaster recovery and create new solutions that are more flexible, scalable and cost-effective. Disaster recovery is now high on the
Over the last few years, the concept of business continuity has become a popular topic for organisations. This is especially true, not only for corporates and global conglomerates, but for SMBs as well. Depending on the industry and sector in which these organisations operate, business continuity may encompass more than simply keeping the organisation going
Over the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of cyber attacks — from data breaches and DDoS events, to hacking attacks and malware. And it’s not only the frequency of attacks that has increased, but the sophistication of the attacks and the attackers that is growing as well. The result
Cloud has been the buzzword of choice in the IT industry for the past decade or so. In that time, conversations on cloud computing invariably leant towards cost, security, data sovereignty, choosing the right supplier and selecting the right cloud computing model. A key part of this latter topic was the comparison between cloud and
Many businesses are now enjoying the benefits of cloud computing, but migrating traditional IT infrastructures to a cloud-based model can be a daunting prospect for many mid-market firms without the relevant knowledge, skills or experience.