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LEASE IS MORE – Financing your digital transformation
by Gerhard Malan, CFO, Viadex The availability of cash, the type of asset and its useful life, and the flexibility inherent in a leasing arrangement all take precedent for me when balancing the pros and cons. In the financial arena, flexibility is agility The notion of leasing any type of hardware has both its…
Read MoreWorldly wise: Confident risk management in global IT projects
by Pascale Bull, COO, Viadex Know what you’re shipping, know the country, know the pitfalls Technology creates a wonderful world of opportunity. It’s also a world fraught with risk, compliance complexities imposed by manufacturers and governments, volatile nations, currency differences, vendor restrictions, compatibility issues, and procurement challenges around consolidation. Global growth entails global risk. Business…
Read MoreBelieve in yourself: Brandon inspires the Viadex team
by Brian Dunleavy, Vendor Alliances Director, Viadex Tokyo 2020 here we come Almost at the year’s anniversary of our relationship with the para athlete, Brandon Beack, we were delighted to welcome him to our London offices recently. Brandon spent two weeks in Europe on a training trip sponsored by Viadex and came to see…
Read MoreCloud choices: How do you decide, when there’s so much on offer?
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists How risky is it to reduce risks? Cloud has been around, some would say, since 1996. It’s no longer a novelty. It is, however, the platform for all things new: services, processes, development, applications, interactions, and great ways of reducing risk and costs. It…
Read MoreDoing the right thing: The ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists Are we all doomed? All new technologies have their supporters and detractors. It’s in man’s nature to question the cost of progress while, or sometime even before, assessing its value. It’s a case of guilty until proved innocent. Civilised society can be justly proud…
Read MoreCeph – an Overview
With the rapid market adoption of SDS (Software Defined Storage) it is only fair to discuss the much talked about open source SDS Ceph, what it is and how it could be used to provide an SDS solution today. What is Ceph (can be pronounced sef or kef)? Ceph is an Open Source Distributed storage…
Read MoreTravel to new territories: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists The term ‘artificial intelligence’ was first coined by John McCarthy in 1955/6. This was visionary thinking at its most far-sighted: “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to…
Read MoreServerless is More: Serverless computing means no more sweating the small stuff
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists Pic’n’Mix computing Serverless computing is becoming the development platform of choice with start-ups, and Innovation and R&D teams within established organisations because it reduces reliance on traditional IT support. It also makes developers less dependent on hardware suppliers. Leveraging a cloud provider’s Serverless…
Read MoreMaking Plan B as good as Plan A: Backup and Disaster Recovery
Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists There’s no compromise in robust contingency plans Backing up systems, applications and data is good practice. We all hold this truth to be self-evident. The problem is, not all backup and disaster recovery solutions are created equal. Some are more reliable than others, some are…
Read MoreDo you speak technology? 5 top tech phrases to know in 2018
by Tommy Kolega, CIO, Viadex: Global IT Infrastructure and Deployment Specialists The ship is ready to sail We’ve settled in and unpacked our bags. The delights of 2018 beckon all around us. TTE 2018 was a great scene-setter, with much buzz around the major areas of travel and hotel technology, plus marketing technologies for both…
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