By Dermot Corrigan
More advanced IT skills are vital if organisations are to take advantage of the opportunities to be offered by the forthcoming ‘smart’ economy. However, research conducted late last year by ICS Skills found that companies were more likely to be cutting their IT training budgets this year than investing in upskilling their staff.
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By Dermot Corrigan
Regular upskilling in technical courses, alongside business and management knowhow picked up along the way, have helped John Ward to his senior management position with online transaction management specialist OmniPay.
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Swine flu and the snow might have been good for something, after all. Some businesses prepared for the possibility of a pandemic by implementing measures to al low staff to work remotely instead of travelling to the office.
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Deciding on the appropriate level of security for VPNs isn’t a question of company size but risk profile, according to security consultant Brian Honan.
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By Leslie Faughnan
For several years, the IT trade has been asserting firmly that “virtualisation is now’‘. But virtualisation is quite simply the way we do computing.
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By Leslie Faughnan
VHI Healthcare is another major Irish organisation that has embraced virtualisation.
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By Leslie Faughnan
Pobal is a state agency that aims to engage communities in the development process at local level by supporting partnership approaches to decision-making. It promotes coordination between communities, state agencies and other stakeholders. Established in 1992 as Area Development Management, it was renamed Pobal in 2005. More than 170 staff in six locations around the country depend on a set of computer systems based in two physical locations in Dublin, backed by the government virtual private network (VPN).
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By Leslie Faughnan
Irish companies have been encouraged to invest in energy-efficient equipment under the Accelerated Capital Allowances (ACA) scheme introduced in March 2009.This tax incentive scheme means that companies can write off the entire capital cost of qualifying equipment against taxable income in the first year, rather than over eight years.
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By Leslie Faughnan
The doyen of Irish publishing is Gill & Macmillan, which can trace its origins to 1856. Now a successful educational and general publisher, the company has 70 staff at its head office in Dublin’s Park West.
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By Leslie Faughnan
From its lofty perspective as a virtualisation pioneer and clear market leader, VMware said that the technology was not only mainstream, but now the computing architecture of choice.” It is fair to say that every significant enterprise globally has either implemented virtualisation in its technology stack or has embarked on some practical steps in that direction,” said Matt Piercy, VMware regional director for Northern Europe.
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