In the early days of Cloud services, CTOs were promised huge reductions in their operating costs. Move your infrastructure to the Cloud and you will save a fortune on data centre and hardware costs they were told. As the Cloud industry has matured, the use case has changed significantly....
When it comes to cloud computing there can be a lot of jargon and acronyms floating around. There’s a group of three that you will hear together a lot: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS if you want...
The humble Microsoft productivity suite Office 365 may not seem like the logical starting point for IT transformation – but there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. In the second of our series of blogs from the Tech Summit, Acora Enterprise Architect Dave Murphy feeds back on “the...
We sent three of our techies to the Microsoft Tech Summit in Birmingham last week. In the first of a series of blogs reporting back on the key takeaways from the sessions, Dave Murphy, one of Acora’s Enterprise Architects, reports on the opening keynote session from Brad Anderson, Corporate...
Security continues to be the number one concern for businesses adopting Cloud services. The 2016 IDG Enterprise Cloud Computing Survey found that these worries are still a major barrier to adoption – but CIOs are slowly becoming more comfortable with hosted services. Data sovereignty The power and resilience of...
I sat with Lee Ganly, Acora CTO in some of the sessions at IP Expo and it made for an interesting day. The main thread was the continual move to cloud and how it is disruptive to the industry due to it's pace of continual function and service...
With the fast pace of innovation constantly accelerating, it’s becoming increasingly expensive to keep investing in the latest and greatest IT solutions. By turning to Microsoft Azure and the cloud, you can invest in technology without risk and without expanding your budget
Backups and data protection in general has been an ongoing challenge for organisations for years. Investment in suitable hardware and software isn’t cheap and only lasts for so many years before it’s superseded by the next great technical advancement – more capacity, faster throughput and wider software support...
