Archive for 'Tips'
Choose Your Own Misadventure: The Problem with Google Drive for Businesses
Posted on 26. Apr, 2012 by Aaron Endre.
Businesses should steer clear of Google Drive. Here’s four compelling reasons why.
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Huddle’s Guide to Sensibly Securing the Cloud — Part 2: The Cloud’s Smooth Operators
Posted on 24. Apr, 2012 by James Matthews.
How does operational security—from how equipment is procured and maintained to how data is treated in disasters—affect overall cloud security? James Matthews, Head of Enterprise Technology at Huddle discusses.
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Millions Affected by Google Gmail and Docs Blackout — Just Ahead of Google Drive Announcement
Posted on 19. Apr, 2012 by Aaron Endre.
It was widely reported on Tuesday that a number of popular Google business services, including Gmail, Google Docs and Google+ were down and out. The outage was experienced around the world beginning around 12:30pm ET on April 17 and lasted for more than an hour for both personal and business users. When they attempted to [...]
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Huddle’s Guide to Sensibly Securing the Cloud — Part 1: Getting Physical with Security
Posted on 28. Mar, 2012 by James Matthews.
Welcome to the first of a four-part series from Huddle covering topics related to cloud security! This series will help demystify the terminology, acronyms (and accreditation) in order to provide greater clarity on the concepts associated with cloud computing. This series is more of a cloud-computing field guide for time-strapped senior IT executives who need [...]
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The run up to working from home during the Olympics
Posted on 13. Jan, 2012 by Pauline.
Many of the London-based public sector organisations I work with are about to embark on home-working dry-runs. Before the Olympic celebrations kick off in London in July, public sector staff are testing how they can ensure that it’s business as usual when it comes to getting their jobs done. At Huddle, we run our entire [...]
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The practical cloud in government
Posted on 28. Jun, 2011 by Pauline.
In the final instalment of our Introduction to cloud computing in government series, I’m covering cloud computing in action and how UK government departments are already benefiting from the cloud. Introduction to cloud computing in government View more presentations from HuddleHQ The first thing to remember is that we aren’t just talking about data centres [...]
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Cloud computing in government: The security questions
Posted on 24. Jun, 2011 by Pauline.
Following Wednesday’s post on what cloud computing is and the key benefits for government, today I’m going to cover security. Introduction to cloud computing in government View more presentations from HuddleHQ It’s impossible to talk about cloud computing without mentioning security and, with certain cloud providers recently failing to adequately manage their systems, the topic [...]
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Cloud computing in government: Webinar recap
Posted on 22. Jun, 2011 by Pauline.
Last week, Huddle’s public sector team presented a brief introduction to cloud computing in government. The first question covered during the session was: “What is cloud computing?” The answer to this is that “cloud computing” is a broad term covering the use of any software, data, platform or infrastructure that is remotely accessible via a [...]
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Going west, one year in
Posted on 27. May, 2011 by Andy.
Note: This is update number three to this blog post (recycling FTW!), having originally appeared on this blog last May with an updated version posted on Telegraph.co.uk in February. I also used it as the base for my talk at FOWA London last October. I’ve amended this post with some new ideas and stuff I’ve [...]
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Online collaboration: Making it work for your organization
Posted on 16. Feb, 2011 by Pauline.
In my role as a customer engagement manager here at Huddle, I frequently get asked how other organizations have made online collaboration work for them. Plenty of organizations have tried to implement an online collaboration platform and failed, so they are hesitant to try again. In my experience, there are a few key points which [...]
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What does ‘cloud’ mean for the public sector?
Posted on 28. Jan, 2011 by Steph Gray and Dave Briggs.
You’ll have seen them. Those serious-looking IT folk talking earnestly about ‘cloud’, ‘virtualisation’ and ‘software as a service’. But if you’re not an IT manager, what does it all mean for how you work? In a nutshell, cloud computing is the concept of everything as a service, from software tools like Huddle, to platforms like [...]
