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The knowledge of 2012
At the end of the year, lists pop up everywhere: ‘Most important news items of 2011’, ‘Greatest hits’, ‘Funniest television moments’ and ‘Sportsman or politician of the year’. In the IT world a lot has been blogged and written about the developments of the previous year and especially about our expectations for the coming year. It seems that people always want to predict and ‘know’ things. We have an urge to increase our knowledge.
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Running into the cloud
Thursday the 23rd of November, I attended the Cloud Forum XL event. What I find interesting about such meetings is not just to listen to all different opinions expressed by those present, but especially to hear all the questions put forward. About 500 CIOs gathered at the WTC in Rotterdam to discuss advantages, opportunities, and also risks regarding new cloud technologies.
We are (again) ISO certified!
The last weeks at Jitscale were dominated by the ISO 27001 recertification. The whole organization was turned over and all internal processes were audited by an external party. The result? Jitscale passed with flying colours and maintains its ISO 27001 certification! This makes Jitscale the first company worldwide that can offer platforms based on public clouds completely meeting the security standards of this certification. In the first quarter of 2012, ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and NEN 7510 will be added.
How to stay within your IT-budget?
Accountancy figures are as plain as day: over 70% of all ICT projects exceed the set budget substantially. 60% of the overspending lies with government, health and social service sectors. In May of this year Computable brought a headline which claims the government faced budget overruns in 2010 of a whopping 178 million Euro. Mainly overspending government projects make the news, but that doesn’t mean these problems don’t also occur in business.
IT Governance: prevention and cure
It’s impossible to imagine your organization without IT. Indeed: 2010 figures from CBS (Statistics Netherlands) show 63% of businesses declare to be dependent on IT. In most cases, IT is there to strongly support business processes, think for example of online accountancy systems, inventory and/or order modules, learning environments and of course corporate websites with web shops. We, as an IT organization, obviously completely depend on IT, but basically the same goes for every company.
Thanks to Steve
Here at Jitscale we’re pretty Apple-minded: we work with the latest Apples, make phone calls with iPhones, and notebook and pencils have long been replaced by those great iPads. The Apple stickers, which come with every Apple product, are this close from being stuck to our cars. As Santa Claus also appreciates Apple, there is Apple TV and iPod for personal use.
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