Admit it, we all have days at work where there’s nothing much on our to-do lists. While Facebook is a good time waster during such times, there is always the danger of getting caught when you slack off so blatantly. Luckily for us, there are a few online games specifically designed for play during office hours.
Technology can be so intuitive at times that we do not pay much attention to its design. When you look carefully however, you will find tons of tiny little details that shows just how much thought and care is being put into the design of your everyday technology. The blog, Little Big Details, is dedicated to documenting such discoveries. We list down a few of our favourites.
Outages and system failures in IT are common occurrences when regular maintenance is not carried out. When that happens, the company affected will experience downtime, which can be very expensive. Gartner, a technology research firm pegged the hourly cost of downtime at a conservative estimate of $42,000. On average, a company experiences a downtime of 175 hours a year. A company that experiences a downtime longer than that can incur losses of more than $7 million annually.
One of the hottest topics right now in the IT industry is cloud computing. Just last week, we wrote a blog post about the advantages of cloud computing. A few months ago, we also wrote another post on the reasons why cloud computing is a better IT solution for SMEs. As with all things new, there is a certain amount of apprehension when the subject of cloud computing is approached. Being an IT services firm, we often hear this question from clients and prospects: “Is my data safe on the cloud?”