Yes it’s here, it’s another one of those predictions for 2018 type of posts. Well kind of, but this one focusses a little more on what I think I’ll be getting into during 2018 and also what I think will prevail in related technologies. Here are my thoughts for 2018 based on what I’ve seen…
Telemetry is one of those things that tends to divide a room. On one hand it’s productive and accurate feedback for your product of choice and on the other hand it’s big brother spying on what you’re doing in that product. I wanted to share a recent experience with you based on my recent upgrade…
I’ve done IT community ‘stuff’ actively now for about 5 years. When ‘stuff’ I mean blogs, books, user groups, speaking, twittering (is that a word?) and so on about the stuff that I work on and the stuff that interests me. Across those 5 years I’ve worked with a lot of people both as colleagues…
We’ve all heard of the cloud by now, it’s fair to say it’s now a mainstream term for many people (not including the weather!) and most would agree it’s the future. When we look specifically at enterprise IT there’s still a discussion to be had on whether you should go public cloud, private cloud or hybrid cloud. There’s…
They say the only constant in IT is change. It’s fair to say it’s been a little while since I last did any significant writing or presenting and a lot has changed in my world since then but here I am alive and kicking and getting back into the swing of the IT community again.…
Today’s world is ever moving and ever evolving. Week by week there’s new software, new devices and people naturally want to keep up to date with the latest and greatest. Traditionally, trying to keep your corporate IT in line with this requires an army of staff and deep pockets. The days of a standard issue…
How much do you think your end users know about what is going on behind the scenes in your IT department? Are they even aware of some of the systems that keep your organisation ticking over and enabling them to perform their duties effectively? I suspect the answer to those questions are probably something like…
Training – “The action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behaviour” To put this into the context of IT, I think most organisations can disregard the animal training, although I have known a few businesses with office pets but we’ll assume they don’t use a Surface Pro. So back…
More than patches 