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Author: Paul Wells

Why you should consider moving to a hosted data centre

It is becoming increasingly apparent that information is one of the most valuable commodities in the world today, so you would be forgiven for believing that the best place for your data centre is on-site, in-house. I felt exactly the same way, and in the past, I was even...

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What is the real cost of moving people?

Whilst working for a large financial broker we moved every person in the building at least once every year and paying for the churn took almost half of my yearly budget. I appreciate that this was an extreme case but change does have a cost and understanding this and...

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CIO Today Publication

Nico Consultancy was featured in the CIO magazines publication  ‘The Big Book Of Things Technologists Say’. for their caption. “If you think humans are fallible, look to automate or don’t complain when it goes wrong”. For a free copy of the CIO book, go to the website at  http://www.ciotodayuk.com/bigbook.html Nico Consultancy specialise in creating...

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Shape Security: First Look

I’m always on the lookout for the latest innovations in security, and so we’re hoping that the new ShapeShifter Botwall lives up to the hype. Having just released in the US, the Shape Security’s ShapeShifter differs from traditional firewall systems in that it uses real-time polymorphism. Instead of preventing against specific attacks,...

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Surviving a pandemic

Introduction to a pandemic Recently there have been concerns over avian influenza highlighted in the media as Swine Flu and more recently Bird Flu and whilst neither has really lived up to the hype and media hysteria, there is a real threat as each variation is more resistant than...

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Making green IT a reality

If you haven’t already started to think about your green credentials, then you really should and not only because the Government is thinking about setting a 60% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030, it also makes financial sense as well. Some large organisations are already having to produce carbon...

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Writing an IT strategy

The question I have often been asked is why bother writing an IT strategy as the industry moves too fast, it is difficult to plan beyond three years and the document is normally out of date before it is printed off for proof reading. I normally start by asking...

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Understanding the strategically aligned organisation

A lot of IT/IS (Information Technology / Information Systems) professionals such as myself understand that it is no good just being technically skilful; you need to be able to understand and translate business requirements into IT/IS deliverables. The smarter of these people took MBA’s to help underpin that understanding....

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