Marco Tapia
December 12, 2014
Offshoring to countries with rates at slave levels and repatriating profits to tax havens…. Our kid's future is bleak . A bit of reflection before XMAS.
Just a bit of a XMAS reflection… Offshoring to slave rates countries and repatriating profits to tax havens…. Our kid's future is bleak A good friend of mine called me to see if my company could provide his son with some work experience during this s ...
October 24, 2014
Business future lies in cloud technology ?
My colleague David Booth recently wrote a nice article about Public Cloud Computing. This can be found here. David's article is timely and confirmed by the statement that Business Future lies in Cloud Technology as reported by MICHAEL SMITH in the Th ...
March 23, 2014
Are you still using tapes for your company backups? They were common in the 90's
During the 1990's, tape was the best technology available for backing up and archiving computer data. But today there's a better technology - cloud storage. The cloud is a network of servers that lets companies store and retrieve their data online. L ...
March 11, 2013
Are IT wages increasing or decreasing - who is to be believed?
Are IT wages increasing or decreasing - who is to be believed? The Australian Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor has said that the "vacancies for local IT workers were decreasing and that real wages in the IT sector had fallen between 5% and 12% i ...
February 14, 2013
Offshoring is finally dead !
Offshoring is finally dead. ! Well, according to Gartner (Predict 2013) and my own experience by talking to business people returning from a bad offshoring experience; there are strong indications that offshoring is struggling if not definitely comin ...
January 22, 2013
Technologies and skills that can enhance or diminish productivity
Productivity is doing more with less or doing the same faster and/or cheaper. So, the removal of inefficiency means increase of productivity. Implementing new business systems, using some new technology effectively, improving technology related skill ...