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A new Quocirca research report, Master of Machine, sponsored by operational intelligence tools vendor Splunk, shows that European organisations are suffering an average of three critical IT events a month. When the cost to the IT department and the broader business are added together, on average each incident runs up costs of over €100K. Do the sums – that is tens of millions of Euros per year. 65% of respondents say such an event has also caused reputational damage to their business.  Whilst critical IT events are inevitable, some organisations cope better that others. The average cost can be reduced

Organisations need to balance innovation and business improvement with good governance and efficient use of IT budgets and resources. But this is not easy. Plenty of people right across the organisation think they know what IT they need and can easily go out and buy it. The term ‘shadow IT’ has become a popular way to describe this in recent years. But the practice of parts of the business buying IT systems, software or services without the knowledge of the IT department, is not new. It has happened since the days of the first mini servers, dot matrix printers and

Data can be one of the most valuable assets your company owns, yet we often hear of large organisations being hacked and losing data, so what can smaller businesses do to reduce the risk? Here are a few pointers. Create a plan Detail what data you have, where it is stored and who has access to it. Also detail who is responsible for things like data backups and controlling who can access which pieces of information. Organise your data Having a “Shared” area on a server where everyone stores everything is inefficient. Organise the data in a way that means