Your business systems may be world-class, robust and powerful. But their usefulness will be diminished if staff are unable to exploit the systems effectively. That’s when mistakes happen, sometimes very costly too. New projects may well make adequate provision for training staff: users, managers and technicians. But a few months down the line, people [...]
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Proprietary platforms are increasing fragmentation
The software developers’ dream of “write once, run anywhere” is getting ever harder to achieve, instead of simpler. Because key hardware and software manufacturers are increasingly reverting to the prehistoric, proprietary platform mentality of a bygone age that blatantly disregards the interests of their partners in the iT value chain. Leaving everyone with a [...] Using an ethical hacker to test your security
The greyest part of the iT underworld is the murky domain of hackers, constantly bent on breaking into poorly protected systems. The so-called ‘black hats’ tunnel away, looking for new ways to create their mischief and havoc; while the rest of the iT security world plays [...] preserving data and systems integrity
The temptation to avoid a discretionary iT upgrade can be overwhelming, because we are conditioned to believe: if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Of course, skipping the odd hardware or software generation, or two, is not a bad strategy if you need to save precious time and money, by not upgrading systems that [...] The landscape of information service development is changing quickly, as more and more business services are created out of a mish-mash of components from sometimes unlikely providers. These combinations are somewhat charmingly known as mashups. Some rudimentary precautions are required, though, if you want to prevent [...] |
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