Within the next five years, the number of people connected to the Internet is forecast to rise to over 7 billion. The number of things hooked up to the web is projected to be around 50 billion. While the Internet of Things (IoT) still has to fulfil certain promises, the base is already there. From…
The Ebola crisis, also a pandemic because of cases in different countries, has hit the nation of Sierra Leone the hardest. National and international health teams have worked round the clock to contain the disease and prevent new outbreaks. Pharmaceuticals companies have ramped up efforts to develop new vaccines. Sierra Leone counts almost 12,000 people…
IT security managers and IT teams can install the latest antivirus software and firewall appliances to protect their computers and networks. However, there are also other signs to look out for, which software and hardware products are not always smart enough to see. Human beings on the other hand are naturally gifted in spotting strange…
Information technology has certain features that make it possible to calculate probable dates of demise. It’s all digital, with a finite number of bits and bytes, and calculable error rates. As disk storage capacities increase, technologies viable today may run out of steam tomorrow. They cannot scale forever. Unlike vinyl records in the music industry…
If the title of this post makes you go cross-eyed, don’t worry. All will become clear. Let’s explain. Active/active IT configurations consist of computer servers that are connected in a network and that share a common database. The ‘active/active’ part refers to the capability to handle server failure. First, if one server fails, it does…
First there was the dedicated, physical server. Then came virtualisation to help organisations mix and match over different servers on their sites. After that came cloud computing with more virtualisation (and multi-tenancy thrown in). However, organisations typically still did their virtualisation between machines in close physical proximity, even if they were using cloud services. Now…