David Booth

David Booth

Director of Managed Cloud Services and IT Support at PicNet

David joined PicNet in 2004 and has held several roles straddling the breadth of IT. David has worked on numerous projects for a number of medium and large size companies and Government agencies. David consults as a vCIO, Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst and drives the IT Support and Managed Cloud Services at PicNet.

David Booth

March 22, 2016

How Cloud Computing can save time and money in the Construction Industry

With the ending of the mining boom, Building and Construction is one of the few industries in Australia that continue to do well, however with declining productivity and the recent slowdown in new housing projects the pressure is on for construction ...

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David Booth

September 7, 2015

Predictive Analytics, a solution to knowing your Marketing ROI

There is an old adage in marketing that goes "Half the money that I spend in advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half". This has often been attributed to department store magnate and father of modern advertising John Wanamaker. ...

#centazio#machine-learning#marketing#predictive-analytics#roi

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David Booth

December 5, 2014

When WANs "half fail"

Have your Internet or WAN links ever performed below the advertised specifications, but because of a lack of evidence and/or performance statistics, you were unable to prove it? Well, we recently faced such an issue and I would like to share with you ...

#it-support#wan-performance

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David Booth

October 23, 2014

A Layman's Guide to Cloud Computing

The idea of cloud computing is not a new one. The concept has come and gone through various guises over the years. Consequently "the cloud" can mean many things to many people and this is why it can get very confusing to even seasoned IT professional ...

#cloud-computing

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David Booth

July 23, 2014

Wireless Network Rollout for Retail Premises

In the past 9 months we have been involved in a project to roll out Wireless network infrastructure to a large retail chain. I thought I would share some of the technical aspects of the project to help anyone that may be contemplating doing something ...

#aruba#wifi#wireless#wlan

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David Booth

July 3, 2012

IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise

It has been over a year since IBM launched its public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Smart Cloud Enterprise (SCE) and over three months since PicNet moved its external facing applications to SCE. From this, I would like to share with you ...

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