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Fear and loathing in IT: how to transform your teams’ communications

Ever known someone who just sucks at communicating? Who can’t be honest about how they feel?

“I love you.”

“Er, cool.”

Really?!

That person is fooling no one. Except perhaps their partner. Unnecessary pain ensues.

Take-away: communicating openly with other human beings reduces suffering. But it’s very hard to do – which is precisely why it’s so valuable.

In the IT world, things are no different. If resentments build between individuals or teams, information is withheld, a sense of competition prevails, an unwillingness to take responsibility develops or any other kind of organisationally-maladaptive behaviour emerges, unnecessary pain will... Ler mais

7 Commandments of a bullet-proof Business Continuity Plan

You want your business to run tediously smoothly. To be boringly uneventful. ‘Business as Usual’ (BAU) is your goal.

There are three fundamental elements that make up your business and that should all be available and working together in depressingly cadent synchronicity: people, offices and systems.

The ability to keep running as a business after any event that disables or inhibits any of these fundamental elements – that stops BAU – is Business Continuity (BC).

To maintain the cringe-worthily efficient running of your business at all times, you need to carefully define how your business is going to react in the face of events that could disrupt your people,... Ler mais

Datacenters nacionais, a melhor solução para alojamento

Seja usando a cloud ou serviços de alojamento tradicional, organizações de todas as dimensões estão a adotar o alojamento das suas aplicações em datacenters externos como forma de se adaptarem às exigências dos ambientes de TI modernos. A proximidade entre o datacenter e o cliente é um aspeto cada vez mais importante na escolha do fornecedor ideal.

A cloud funciona eficazmente como uma abstracção da realidade, mas não podemos esquecer que na sua base existe uma realidade de infra-estruturas de suporte que tornam a cloud possível. As infra-estruturas mais essenciais são os datacenters onde se alojam os sistemas que suportam as plataformas cloud.

Seja em cloud ou utilizando... Ler mais

How to prepare yourself for a cyberattack

A cybersecurity breach costs on average $3.5 million. Typically, it goes undetected for 209 days, and it takes 32 days to respond appropriately once it has been detected [1]. To make matters worse, there is a one million person shortfall in security experts, according to CISCO [2].

So whether or not your organization is prepared for a cyberattack could be the difference between success and failure. Here’s the outline of a plan:

Prepare

The most important part of a plan is the objective.

What part of your business do you want to protect? Is keeping your protecting your reputation the number one priority? Or protecting revenues? Uptime for your customers... Ler mais

How to optimise the performance of your web application

There a lots of statistics – most of them probably totally apocryphal – about how much money a slow website can cost you. You only need to know this: slow web applications enrage your users.

Avoid enraging your users by following these tips:

Acceleration

First things first – make sure performance is up to scratch.

Web acceleration and regional distribution

Cache static resources using caching servers distributed across a region or worldwide. This brings those resources closer to your users and reduces the amount of time it takes for a server to receive and deliver a request. If origin web servers are down, regional nodes will deliver... Ler mais

Tranformação Digital: o contra-senso das redes sociais

As redes sociais são um dos fenómenos tecnológicos que mais tem contribuído para a transformação digital das gerações. Palavras como Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn são tão comuns hoje em dia que fazem parte do vocabulário de qualquer cidadão.

No entanto, e apesar do fenómeno global, muitas empresas teimam em ver as redes sociais como um inimigo da sua produtividade. Se é verdade que as redes sociais podem ser um dos grandes motivos de distracção dos colaboradores para (in)justificar a falta de objectividade no cumprimento das suas funções, também é verdade que utilizar essas mesmas redes sociais para promover os bens ou serviços de um empresa, é uma forma de chegar a um público cada vez... Ler mais