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10 Thoughts About the New Digital Norm
I recently listened to a podcast with Omer Wilson (Digital Centre) and Bill Angle (CS Technology) where they discussed digitisation and the new normal for businesses.
Driving Data Centre Costs Down
If you are looking at migrating from on-premise to a colocation data centre, consider running a RFX process, which will drive down costs. How you
What is a Structured Cabling System and how does it benefit your business?
These days you would be hard pressed to find a medium to large business which is able to operate without a resilient data and communication
How To Support Business’s Increasing Reliance On AV and Workplace Technologies
We live in a changing world and from a business perspective, the absence of physical face to face contact has seen a rapid uptake in
What do we mean by Mission Critical?
We at CS Technology often describe our role as ‘Mission Critical’ Consultant, Engineer, Strategist or Technologist depending on our specific focus, but what exactly do we mean by Mission
The Importance of Redundancy
Business continuity, disaster recovery, and operations management are three common phrases used when talking about redundancy. This often encompasses the more ubiquitous IT infrastructures such as
Data Centre Migration Planning
Data Centre Migration refers to relocating the information technology from one data centre to another. Mostly commonly migration is from an on-premise data centre to
Working in a post-COVID world
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most unprecedented events in the past decade. Although it has brought many challenges to workplaces in every
Sustainability of Data Centres
There are many important considerations to assess when selecting an IT infrastructure solution; uptime, price, location, tier and much more. It is also important to
What are the 5 types of virtualisation?
Virtualisation as a form of technology has been around since the 1960s and is now very much a staple term in the IT industry. Simply
Why is the cloud called “the cloud”?
While cloud computing has been around since the 1950s, it has become more widely known in the past decade. When I’ve asked family members and friends what they think
The Art of Discovery
Data centre migration projects can vary in strategy and driver, target state and levels of transformation, size, complexity, and cost but inevitably all start from
Should VMware Cloud be a major milestone on your cloud journey?
As a data centre consultancy, we have had to move with the times and ensure we continuously educate ourselves as the data centre evolves. This
IT Consulting – Did You Get What You Paid For?
As a career business development veteran with over 20 years IT/ICT industry experience, I have observed the evolving nature of consulting, client engagement and what
COVID-19: This Decade’s Digital Accelerant
COVID-19 is impacting every facet of the worldwide economy triggering a sudden need for organisations to accelerate digital transformation and respond to the unprecedented changes
What are the types of data centre migrations?
Relocations, consolidations, cloud migrations, hybrid migrations…these can all be considered as types of data centre migrations. It is important to be able to distinguish between
Migration Is Not Just Hardware
A Data Centre migration is just picking up hardware and moving it, reconnecting the networks and pressing the power on button…right? Yeah, right! When considering
Global Investment Bank -Workplace Relocation
Planning, integration and management of financial services technologies, IT Infrastructure and end user technology for our global investment banking client.
The Power of Vulnerability in the Workplace
About 5 years ago, my lifelong friend (and housemate at the time) sat opposite me in our loungeroom on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Stretched out
What does it actually mean to have a workspace that “works” for you?
Around a month ago I wrote a LinkedIn article sharing my experience of working from home versus the office during lockdown. Soon after I had
The advantages and challenges of working in a remote team
Over the years I have been involved in various projects leveraging remote teams. This is due to the projects typically being for multi-national organisations where
Lessons from 100 Data Centre Migrations
As a data centre consultancy, we have planned and executed hundreds of data centre migrations over our 28 year history. From a few hundred up
On-Premise vs Colocation vs Public Cloud
As organisations expand their IT infrastructure, they may come across the difficult decision of whether to host their servers on-premise, in a colocation data centre or on a public
WFH or WFO?
If you asked me in February if I liked working from home (WFH), you would have heard a resounding “no!” in response. Today, however, my opinion has changed slightly with
What is Business Continuity Management?
Business Continuity Management, or BCM, means different things to different people. The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) defines business continuity as having a plan to deal with difficult situations,
AWS vs Azure vs Google – Which cloud should you choose?
Cloud computing is continuing to be widely adopted by businesses of all sizes around the world. Its a no-brainer decision for many businesses – cloud computing offers high availability to
Top Tips for Effective Remote Meetings (for you and other participants!)
Here at CS Technology Australia we have embraced the working from home situation, and are leveraging the tools we have to ensure we are remaining as effective
Tabcorp Data Centre Consolidation
Ben Peskin, APAC Head of Data Centre & Cloud for CS Technology, talks about what the project team have achieved for Tabcorp in standing up a new data centre as part of the data centre consolidation program.
Western Union Workplace Refresh and Data Centre Migration
Office refurbishment provides opportunity to design and adopt collaborative workplace technologies.
