Category Archives: Public vs Private

Choose your model carefully


When choosing a new car to buy you consider a number of factors – make, model, year, mileage, price, ongoing service and color. The chances are, you will consider its ability to enhance your lifestyle and transport you from A … Continue reading

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Do you have your own yellow brick road?


Unlike Dorothy in The Wizard of OZ, some businesses jump head first into the cloud without a yellow brick road or roadmap to guide them along their way and get them to where their business ultimately wants to be. Consider … Continue reading

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Are you losing data in consumer clouds?


Traditionally, businesses could create a secure perimeter around their technical environment and protect it from attack from a few different angles.  If you had a firewall, locked down operating systems with anti-virus installed and some physical security – you were … Continue reading

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Government “cloud first” approach welcomed


It’s good to see Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain leading from the front on the Government’s adoption of cloud computing. Last week the minister issued a statement where he described cloud computing as “an exciting, emerging technology”. He says it … Continue reading

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Your online identity is only as secure as the weakest link


An online post by Wired’s Mat Honan is a chilling reminder that the security of your online identity – and potentially personal data, ability to communicate and even money in your online bank accounts – are only as good as … Continue reading

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