November 2011

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Managed Services Several years ago, I would ask my clients what their set response was in relation to their IT if they had a disaster. It was amazing how many responded in a similar fashion. “I would thro…

Lead Article (Self-help topic – FINANCE AS A SALES TOOL) Many businesses work on attracting new clients and selling more equipment. There is logic in that process. Some of the statistics from a recent survey though may scare a few people. The s…

ROI calculations In justifying the cost of an SLA or major capital expenditure, many managers live and die by cold, hard ROI calculations. It is part of the modern trend of ensuring that no individual can be blamed when something goes wrong – o…

Bring your own hardware I was at a recent meeting with a high-ranking Microsoft employee. This particular employee had the obligatory smartphone on the desk and, no surprises here; it was running Windows Phone 7 as the OS. While this didn’t see…

Thought Leadership on Internet filtering Donald Rumsfeld (former US Secretary of Defense) was roundly criticised for an abuse of the English language for his press briefing statement in 2002: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we…