What IT-related skills should you have internally in your Not for Profit? This is a frequent conversation I have with organisational executives. So, this morning I decided to scan IT job ads in the Not for Profit sector to see what roles were being advertised. One job...
Not everyone will agree with me, but I believe that servers are a liability for most Not for Profits. Hear me out. I regularly speak at conferences about IT risks for Not for Profits. And without fail, there are always a handful of organisations in the audience that...
In this episode of ‘IT in Plain English’, what does a suitcase have to do with servers? Not normally a lot, but Tammy Ven Dange uses your ordinary carry-on to help explain the difference between a server, a virtual server and the cloud. Sign-up here to subscribe to...
The use of public storage clouds like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services to host organisational data is not new. Neither is the use of Software as a Service (SAAS) such as Salesforce or Xero. Nevertheless, I still hear about organisations trying to replace old...
What the heck is a cloud anyway? Everyone is talking about the cloud! We’ll just move our servers to the cloud. Why don’t we store it in the cloud? Which cloud are you using? In plain English… a cloud is a place to store data or software on the...
The use of public storage clouds like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services to host organisational data is not new. Neither is the use of Software as a Service (SAAS) such as Salesforce or Xero. Nevertheless, I still hear about organisations trying to replace old...
