Author Archives: Dan Hewitt

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Service Line Manager Private Cloud Services

Second major Amazon outage highlights you get what you pay for


Clients of Amazon Web Services experienced a second major outage due to electrical storms in the last few days.  The power was restored to the data centre environment about nine minutes later but Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, Heroku and other companies … Continue reading

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Cloud migration – great benefits await those who plan well


Working with a range of clients, you start to appreciate the reality of what’s involved in moving workloads from a traditional on-premise delivery environment to the cloud. Whether it’s because of push-back from users, IT department concerns or feature gaps, … Continue reading

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The effectiveness of cloud is often determined by the transition


How an organisation approaches the transition to the cloud will often determine how effective cloud based solutions are for them.

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IaaS capability providing options for business


A while ago I wrote about how business data backup is often an ignored essential. What would be the impact for a business if it is victim to a disaster or more commonly a virus – and lost its most … Continue reading

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Can cloud computing help business achieve greater productivity?


With central government elections just around the corner, expect to hear increased discussion about respective parties’ ideas to increase New Zealand’s productivity specifically gross domestic product [GDP].

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