by DavidSpratt | Jul 18, 2013 | ICT
Increasingly businesses are looking to the web to source IT service and infrastructure alternatives. Nothing indicates this more clearly than Amazon’s change of venue announcement for their annual Web Services conference last month. The company had to move its...
by DavidSpratt | Mar 7, 2013 | ICT
This article in the latest issue of Computerworld reflects on how increasing use of smartphones and cloud services is driving mobile data growth. It brings into focus the need to identify how a company’s spending trend is more towards data and mobile data and less on...
by DavidSpratt | Dec 19, 2012 | ICT
David Spratt, ICT analyst from Total Utilities Management Group, reviews 2012 with a mixture of humour, bile and straight up taking the mickey. Up’s Cloud services The tired old voices of vested interest have been drowned out in the rush to take advantage of lowers...
by DavidSpratt | Oct 29, 2012 | ICT
We are delighted to hear that tech giant HP has just confirmed its commitment to cloud computing. It will come as a relief to many of HP’s customers around the globe that the company has finally moved to address their lack of a viable cloud computing offering. Their...
by RichardGardiner | Sep 3, 2012 | Energy, ICT, Waste
Marc Wendelborn looks at why negotiating new utilities contracts doesn’t have to be a painful process. Negotiating supply contracts for electricity, natural gas, waste, and telecommunications is no fun. You have to do your homework, have meetings with potential...
by DavidSpratt | Aug 2, 2012 | ICT
Who owns your data if it resides in the cloud somewhere? Let’s say that you are using a cloud based CRM system and the company delivering it goes into receivership. What happens to your data? Can the receiver sell it to a competitor? Can they even demand...
