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NotesOn: Risk Management – Datacenter Assessment – Part I

This post provides a high level overview of the best practices surrounding the selection of your Primary (or Production) and/or Alternate (or Disaster Recovery) Datacenters. The “excruciating” assessment details will be discussed in Part II but for them to make sense it is best to understand the framework in which they fit. Finally, while this is not an exhaustive dissertation on the subject it does address most if not all of the fundamentals, and with them under your belt you can more wisely determine your best solution. … Click on the title to read more [...]

NotesOn: IT Fundamentals – Cost Cutting IT Is Not The Answer

It seems nearly every IT related website, IT related seminar and IT consultancy firm broadcasts, loudly and as often and as authoritatively as possible, that Cost Cutting is absolutely imperative to an IT group’s survival in these economic times. However. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is incontrovertibly, as in 100%, the least right answer. I absolutely guarantee that Cost Cutting as a sole or major strategic initiative … Click on the title to read more. [...]

NotesOn: Risk Management-Risk Analysis

This post, Version 1.0, reviews and discusses the processes of Risk Management and in particular Risk Analysis in some detail. Both were discussed in recent posts but at a summary level. … Click on the title to read more. [...]

NotesOn: Home-Basing Out-Sourcing and Off-Shoring IT Functions

There appears to be a great deal of on-going confusion in the Corporate world as to when to (a) Home-Base, (b) Out-Source or (c) Off-Shore some or all of its IT Functions. … Click on the title to read more. [...]

NotesOn: The Sinking Ship School Of Business

Before we dig into the fundamentals of IT, it is critical that you understand why fundamentals are the foundation of success. Fundamentals are so important that individuals, businesses, governments, countries and entire civilizations have collapsed for the lack of them. And. Continue to do so. … Einstein once said: … Click on the title to read more. [...]