Marco Tapia

Marco Tapia

IT Consulting Services Senior Advisor at PicNet

Since founding PicNet in 2001, Marco has been responsible for its overall strategic direction, its consulting services and its business development. Marco's experience includes Company Director, CIO, Business Technology Consultant and IT Project Manager. He has managed large and medium size IT functions for national and international corporations.

Marco Tapia

November 5, 2009

IT Disaster Recovery Plans may be dead

PicNet Users Group - 22nd October 2009 Topic: Disaster Recovery The PicNet Users Group meets quarterly, bringing together CIOs and senior IT managers of large Australian companies to informally discuss important industry related items. Meeting Outcom ...

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Marco Tapia

October 22, 2009

A CIO can help the corporation to increase revenue

In the past, IT was a significant expense and seen as a necessary evil. Later, it became "an enabler,“ helping organisations make processes more efficient and in many cases, increase productivity by removing costly labour from the process. However, I ...

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Marco Tapia

October 13, 2009

Web 2.0 - what is it? A practical and realistic definition of Web 2.0

After reading many web sites, discussed with peers, IT professionals, Marketing people, etc, I think I have come across to best possible definition of Web 2.0 I attended an AMCHAM seminar by Dominic Thurbon from the Productivity Project who enlighten ...

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Marco Tapia

September 30, 2009

New web site for PicNet - 50 reasons why you need a web site

We have produced a new web site for PicNet including a refreshed corporate image, look and feel. Our top notch web designer, the creative and the development teams have put together a great web site to inform our customers and prospects of our busine ...

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Marco Tapia

September 14, 2009

Spam - is it a real problem? More than 90% of emails are spam.

At PicNet we managed service a number of corporate environments, and at some, we have installed Google email filtering powered by Postini (that we resell rebranded as Risk shield email protection). At others, we have Sophos and also GFI MailEssential ...

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Marco Tapia

August 27, 2009

Do you wonder how to complete an IT project on time?

Have you ever wonder about the feeling of completing an IT project on time? Believe it or not, there are a good number of examples where IT projects have been completed on time, on budget and as per agreed specifications. The most basic form of contr ...

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