Azure Beats the Corporate Datacentre
Now released, initial reading of the preliminary RCA of the 4th September (2018) Azure outage further reinforced to me the intrinsic value that the cloud brings to IT operations of any scale. You read that right, reinforced my view, no diminishing in sight. Available...
AIIM Forum 2018 – The GDPR is here!
June 20th was a busy day. AIIM Forum 2018 took place in the ILEC centre in the IBIS Hotel in West London and I was there with extaCloud as sponsors of the event for the second year running. As you would expect, the GDPR was high on the agenda at all times...
Happy GDPR Day!
(Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash) Happy GDPR Day! Today is the day. The big one. The main event. From today the new European Union Regulation - The General Data Protection Regulation - comes into effect. Unless you have been under a rock for the last two...
The Bullhorn Mentality
(Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash) I was recently making some changes to my LinkedIn profile, nothing out of the ordinary there, I guess. Seeking inspiration I decided to go take a peek at some of the profiles of my peers as I was pondering sprucing up...
Marketing Run Amok or Genius in Hiding?
(Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash) If you play in the Microsoft Ecosystem, especially in the SharePoint space, you’ll likely be aware of the recent brouhaha surrounding a marketing campaign brought to life by independent software vendor (ISV) AvePoint. In...
Is Moving To The Cloud Becoming Too Complex?
(Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash) Recent financial data (see here) from Microsoft is suggesting that the shift of Microsoft customers away from traditional on-premises usage of products towards the Microsoft cloud is gathering momentum. Despite the...