A risk review and investment guide for IT professionals
As business – and indeed the wider world – becomes digitally-driven, the pressure is on IT professionals to ensure that their organisation’s electronic data is effectively managed and protected to minimise operational and business risk. A corollary to this, though, is that the growing dependence on data also brings the opportunity to do data management and protection better, especially as the threats of ransomware and the GDPR require budget holders to pay increasing attention to actively managing data. Let’s look at the key requirements facing any data-using organisation.
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Content Contributors: Tony Lock & Bryan Betts
Bryan is a technology enthusiast and industry veteran. He has been analysing, explaining and writing about IT and business in a highly engaging manner for around three decades. His experience spans the early days of minicomputers and PC technology, through the emergence of cellular data and smart mobile devices, to the latest developments of the software-defined age in which we all live today. Over his career, Bryan has seen at first-hand how IT changes the world – and how the world changes IT – and he brings that extensive insight to his role as an industry analyst.
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Bryan Bettshttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/bryan-b/13 February 2023
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Bryan Bettshttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/bryan-b/5 January 2023
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Bryan Bettshttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/bryan-b/19 December 2022
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Bryan Bettshttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/bryan-b/
Tony is an IT operations guru. As an ex-IT manager with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, his extensive vendor briefing agenda makes him one of the most well informed analysts in the industry, particularly on the diversity of solutions and approaches available to tackle key operational requirements. If you are a vendor talking about a new offering, be very careful about describing it to Tony as ‘unique’, because if it isn’t, he’ll probably know.
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Tony Lockhttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/tony-lock/8 February 2023
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Tony Lockhttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/tony-lock/3 February 2023
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Tony Lockhttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/tony-lock/12 January 2023
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Tony Lockhttps://www.freeformdynamics.com/author/tony-lock/2 December 2022
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