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The first day of ICE 2019 saw BMIT announce that they have extended their hybrid cloud offerings, including the addition of Microsoft’s Azure suite of services to its portfolio. This news follows yesterday’s announcement of a new €10m data centre facility and builds on the strategic partnership struck between the company and Microsoft a few […]

As more companies adopt Hybrid Cloud solutions and store their data across on-premise private cloud structures and public off-the-shelf cloud services, the need for well-defined strategies for the correct management of data becomes increasingly vital. Interestingly, according to Microsoft’s 2017 State of the Hybrid Cloud survey, 18% of those companies are not even fully aware […]

Old wisdom can still teach us a lot in how we handle modern technology: fail to plan, plan to fail; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We could go on and on, but here’s a list of the top 5 reasons why disaster recovery planning is so important for your business. […]

In the past few days, Office 365 issued exciting updates that will augment the user experience and offer better protection from cyberattacks. Microsoft has introduced new security features for the Home and Personal versions of Office 365, added some new SharePoint and Excel features, and introduced a brand-new Multi-Geo feature. Office 365 now comes with […]

I have been reading a lot about the Multicloud approach recently. Multicloud, put simply, is the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single heterogeneous architecture Care should be drawn in noting the difference between Multicloud and Hybrid cloud – the latter being the use of differing cloud deployment methods (e.g. Public/Private) […]

Cloud technology is experiencing an ever-increasing rise in popularity among businesses. Many more companies are shifting their IT infrastructure towards an operational expenditure model rather than a capital one. This allows for a more accurate prediction of what aspects of storage services a company will need, and customise accordingly by way of scalable models. As […]

The two most well-known types of cloud computing are the public cloud and the private cloud. A public cloud is one that is entirely operated by a third party. Your data is stowed away in a remote server, and all software and hardware necessary for the operation are handled and owned by the provider. While […]

Cloud computing really is an easy concept to grasp, but let’s go with the analogy route to make it even easier. In the old days, farms and factories needed to generate their own power either through windmills or water wheels. This all changed thanks to power grids, as businesses could just tap into the grid […]

Have you ever lost a file that was important to you, only to spend the rest of the day angry at yourself for having procrastinated backing up your data? Unfortunately, this story is all too common even in this day and age, and with companies the situation is no different. Whatever a company does, data […]

Cloud-based office applications are quickly becoming one of the most widely-adopted solutions for data storage, as well as hosting IT services. Unsurprisingly, businesses around the world are discovering that introducing such apps leads to an increase in work productivity and overall revenue, amongst other benefits. Despite this, many professionals are still unaware how such apps […]