News & Updates

Guido Tapia

July 22, 2014

Project Management for a Wifi rollout

[/images/Terry-White-Logo5-150x150.jpg]https://picnet.com.au/blogs/marco/files/2014/07/Terry-White-Logo5.jpg Successfully managing a project requires a finely tuned balance of techn ...

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Marco Tapia

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 ...

#aws#azure#backups#cloudberry#cloudberry-aws-azure-backups

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Marco Tapia

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% ...

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Marco Tapia

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 struggl ...

#offshoring#outsourcing#software-development

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Marco Tapia

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 sk ...

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Marco Tapia

October 2, 2012

IT Service Desk Models

What is the difference between a call centre, a help desk and an IT service desk (ITSD)? With over 10 years experience in IT, we break down what an IT service desk is, the pros and cons of various ITSD models and the types of organisations ...

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