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Follow the sun
Earlier this year, Jitscale’s American office moved to larger premises. Bigger housing for a growing team. Our engineers across the ocean serve our U.S. clients by the well-tried Jitscale methods; they respond to the demand for outsourcing infrastructure management, a demand also clearly present in the U.S.
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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.
Have you already sorted your 2012 IT budget?
A survey by VMware shows only 41% of Dutch SMEs use cloud computing. With this, we considerably run behind on our fellow entrepreneurs in neighbouring countries. The European average is about 60%. In my opinion, this means, given the worldwide leading role of the Netherlands in fields of technology, we’re making a gaffe. But together we can turn this around. Re-scrutinize your 2012 IT investments and look at the benefits cloud computing brings to your business critical IT platforms.
Digital dependence requires agile IT strategy
The ‘Miljoenennota 2012′ (Budget 2012) got out, again, long before its due date of the third Tuesday in September. This time it wasn’t some ‘slip’ by a political employee, or by a journalist who refused to stick to the DA-notice. This time it was an error by the IT company that, according to its website, enables ‘accessibility of your annual reports’ etc. We can at least all agree they stuck to their word on this one.
CIO Summit Berlin 2011 – the state of affairs mapped out
Quintijn Knepper and Eelco van Beek, commercial director and CEO of Jitscale respectively, annually get round the table with different C-level executives of big multinationals during several international conferences to discuss their joint vision on the future of IT.
DDoS attack does not necessarily cause downtime
At the beginning of this month, the Rabobank suffered a DDoS attack, crippling mobile and online banking services. The attack also caused a poorly accessible email system.
Moving on with cloud computing
Because of cloud computing it is now pretty straightforward to purchase entire infrastructures by credit card, for example to enable online services through internet. But a recent disruption at Amazon proved more is involved when it comes to continuous availability of infrastructure in a cloud.
Cloud Computing Migration Guide
Companies and multinationals realize they need to get on board with cloud computing and find out how all these possibilities can benefit them. This raises all kinds of questions: What clouds are there?
Invest in functionality, not technology
“Companies are not interested in technology, cloud computing and storage. That’s correct! They should focus on their core business. A bank should lend money, a media company should publish content, a logistics company should send parcels to their destinations and a health insurance company should insure healthcare. None of them should be occupied with IT. That’s something you buy.”
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