Category Archives: Managed Services

20May

What questions should you ask when choosing a Managed Service Provider?

Kevin Clark, Solution Architect at Logicalis North America, looks at the drivers behind a growing trend towards managed service adoption, and the questions a sensible CIO should ask before selecting a managed service provider (MSP). CIOs and IT departments are feeling …read more

Posted May 20, 2013 8:30 am | 0 Comments
22Apr

The rise of Shadow IT – should CIOs take umbrage?

A recent article from Logicalis Australia discussed Shadow IT, sometimes know as Stealth IT, and how CIOs need to re-assert themselves in their organisations as other departments take the lion’s share of IT budget.  Joanne James, VP of International Marketing …read more

Posted April 22, 2013 1:43 pm | 0 Comments
04Feb

Lessons from a superstorm: What can Sandy tell us about Disaster Recovery and DRaaS?

As the post-Sandy clean-up and recovery continues, and the costs (both human and financial) are added up, Vince de Luca looks at what we can learn from a technology point of view – has DRaaS been proven? Given that Sandy …read more

Posted February 4, 2013 9:00 am | 0 Comments
28Jan

When flexible working met outsourcing

One ‘enterprising’ employee in the US last week reminded us of one the basic truths of IT security. Logicalis CEO Ian Cook looks at what happened when flexible working met outsourcing. At first glance, it is hard to know whether …read more

Posted January 28, 2013 9:00 am | 0 Comments
22Apr

Has video collaboration come of age?

Rodrigo Parreira, CEO of Logicalis Latin America, explores the latest developments in video collaboration asking, ‘Now the user experience lives up to expectations, has the technology come of age as a tool for global collaboration? Has video collaboration come of …read more

Posted April 22, 2012 5:00 am | 0 Comments
04Apr

Is Your Organisation at the Edge of Innovation? It’s Time IT Applied the Final Push

Chris Gabriel, VP of Solutions Management at Logicalis Group, thinks ICT has too often been a limiting factor when it comes to innovation at the organisational edge.  He argues that the time, and the technology, is right for change. Is …read more

Posted April 4, 2012 12:44 pm | 0 Comments
20Mar

DNS Poisoning and the Enterprise

Fabio Hashimoto, Technology Manager at PromonLogicalis, gives us the low down on ‘DNS Poisoning’, a hacking technique exploiting inherent vulnerabilities in the internet technologies that are now commonplace in enterprise systems. First of all, what is DNS Poisoning? DNS Poisoning …read more

Posted March 20, 2012 2:49 pm | 1 Comment