All articles by John Oates

John Oates

Shadow IT a threat or an opportunity for the enterprise

There’s no one to blame for shadow IT except the IT department. It began happening because business units don’t have the time or inclination to deal with painful procurement processes.

Lessons learned from notPetya

The most recent ransomware outbreak which hit systems worldwide at the end of June was initially identified as a variant of Petya but ended up being called ‘NotPetya’ because it only shared a small amount of code.

Bringing cloud speed to the data centre

The accelerating speed of business development is a reality for businesses in all areas of the economy. Research from Oxford Economics, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, found widespread pressure to accelerate time to market over the next two years.