The term "managed hosting" describes the provision of a ready to use IT stack including hardware and infrastructure software for the deployment of applications. Providers house the infrastructure in central data centres accessed by customers over the internet. In the past this has usually been on the basis of hardware servers dedicated to individual customers, however the increasing use of virtualisation has allowed managed hosting providers to reduce costs by sharing infrastructure between customers, creating the earliest versions of what the industry now refers to as compute clouds. Computing platforms provisioned and managed by specialists provide higher service levels, greater ease of secure access and more manageable costs than many organisations are able to achieve internally. ...
15/06/2009 | Quocirca_-_Managed_Hosting_in_Europe_-_June_2009.pdf | VIEW
Most users must have had one of those bad PC days, when you arrive at work enthused to complete a task, only to end up spending the day waiting for IT to fix your newly broken PC, or in a small business often doing it yourself. When this happens at the server level, many users are impacted, and it can be expected to happen at the most inconvenient time, such as the end of a month, quarter or year. ...
24/04/2009 | Plan B - April 2009.pdf | VIEW
Whether we like it or not we are all IT users now. Through the ubiquity of networks of devices that we rely on for information, security and day-to-day transactions even those who eschew technology now rely on it, even if they do not acknowledge it. The failure of these networks can lead to widespread disruption, unhappy customers, unproductive employees and lost business. Ensuring their availability, security and efficiency is a job for experts who need powerful tools to carry out the task. ...
16/09/2008 | Quocirca - MSPs and remote device networks - Sept 2008.pdf | VIEW
Businesses of all sizes have to manage an increasing diversity of remote users and devices. The task ranges from simply keeping systems running to ensuring security, compliance and the achievement of environmental goals. Under this sort of pressure, IT managers and managed service providers, to which the task is often outsourced, must have flexible access to powerful tools and an ability to share the data those tools rely on. ...
16/09/2008 | Quocirca - remote IT management - Sept 2008.pdf | VIEW
The average European business, if there is such a thing, has more employees who use IT than do not; around 65 per cent. This reliance on IT is a challenge for those managing end-user devices because these are now distributed widely. ...
04/02/2009 | No remote concern - Feb 2009.pdf | VIEW
There have been a number of reports recently about the death of the desktop PC, which sits in a fixed office and is deserted every day by the average user at around 5:30pm. ...
18/01/2009 | The benefits of remote IT management.pdf | VIEW
Sales managers need to segment target markets in order to marshal their staff and minimise conflict in the field. One obvious way to do this is by business size; the way vendors of any product or service sell to and manage small business customers is often very different to the way they deal with large enterprises. ...
28/10/2008 | We are all IT users now - end point management.pdf | VIEW
Sunday 7 September 2008, will mark the 10th anniversary of the incorporation of Google Inc (not to be confused with the registration of the www.google.com domain 11 years ago in September 1997). In those 10 years Google has created one of the world’s most valuable brand names, become a verb and proved, during a period when many other online ventures failed, that a highly-profitable business can be created on the internet or as it is often termed, in the cloud. ...
03/09/2008 | Happy 10th Birthday Google, but have you done anything for businesses.pdf | VIEW
Increasingly, small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) are becoming more reliant on their IT infrastructure. This is not just because it is used to drive important internal applications, but because the majority of SMBs now use IT to automate interaction with external organisations. This means that an IT failure does not just affect SMBs, but also the businesses with which they interact on a regular basis. ...
28/01/2008 | When a crisis hits, how safe is your IT.pdf | VIEW
Recent research from analyst firm Quocirca has shown that about 42 per cent of European businesses now rely on web-enabled applications and these are often being accessed over the internet. ...
09/12/2007 | Don't get stuck in the networking jam.pdf | VIEW
