The New Chief Information Officer. There are many who say that the role of the Chief Information Officer is dead, that the rise of cloud and the death of the on-premise server is steadily diminishing the role. Indeed I read one article recently that said the process of downgrading the role had already started. This [...]

There is little doubt over the fact that Google Apps has revolutionised the way business is being conducted throughout the world, in a similar vein to how Google has transformed both the search and email world respectively. Championing cloud before it became fashionable, Google has succeeded in introducing a new way of storing and sharing [...]

The term Cloud Computing has been floating around for a few years now, and is often used as a buzz word for politicians and development agencies who are looking to boost confidence around economic recovery and job growth. So what exactly is this “Cloud Computing”, and why is it such a big growth area? To [...]

Baker Security & Networks (BSN) are proud to announce the addition of the innovative Meraki Access Points to their product line, becoming the first IT company in Ireland to bring the high performance, cloud-managed wireless LAN solution to the marketplace. Embracing the industry-wide trend and fitting nicely within BSN’s cloud based philosophy, the Meraki Access [...]

Will there be anyone who won’t have their head in the cloud? The answer to that question is ‘Yes’.  As with so many other facets of life those who won’t adopt cloud in the next 10 years will fall into two categories, ‘those who can afford not to’ and ‘those who can’t afford to’.  When [...]

Is my job screwed? Perhaps before you consider that question you have to ask yourself, do you think this ‘Cloud thing’ is really going to happen?  Consider this, the company that controls, by its own estimate, 90% of the PC desktops in the world is Microsoft.  They have about 50% of the server market  These [...]

Your WAN and the cloud Perhaps one of the more interesting and unintended consequences of ubiquitous cloud computing is that it is going to ultimately make corporate Wide Area Networks redundant. Surely not, you might think? What about those big corporates who opted to build part of their IT requirement in a private cloud?  Surely [...]

The key is your identity – your identity is key In the new world order of cloud computing, it is inevitable that for most enterprises the provision of cloud services will come from many different cloud providers.  For an enterprise it is important that all of these software services are accessible with the same ease [...]

Government and The Cloud  There is a strong movement in government(s) to build their own cloud data centers.  Somehow Government see themselves as a special case separate from corporations and other large organisations.  Security is often put forward as the principle reason for government to build private data centers.  This is on the basis that [...]

Software developers and the cloud. Software developers are perhaps the group who most face a paradigm shift in their thinking with the advent of cloud computing.  However this paradigm shift has very little to do with the way they write code and an awful lot to do with their path to market for their software [...]