Strategy
Progressive Web Apps explained
The all-in-one web solution for all devices Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are websites on steroids, they can empower your business to do more with less effort. If you want a website and apps that work on any device without the need to register with app stores then a PWA is for you. PWAs have been…
Oracle Database SE2 High Availabilty
Oracle have announced the general availability of Standard Edition High Availability (SEHA) on Linux, Microsoft Windows and Solaris with Oracle Database 19c, Release Update (RU) 19.7. It benefits from the cluster capabilities and storage solutions that are already part of Oracle Grid Infrastructure, such as Oracle Clusterware, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) and Oracle ASM…
Keep on running
The classic hit keep on running originally recorded by Jackie Edwards reminds me that although there may be hurdles, persistence pays off. At the time of writing this article, the coronavirus is today’s hurdle so how are you dealing with it? What are your options? Keeping a business or organization going is all about Business…
The importance of health checks
Most commonly an IT health check is seen as a security assessment of your infrastructure. This is extremely important but should not be the end of the story. It is a good idea to have specialist health checks across your technology stack to have a more complete picture of your inventory, vulnerabilities, compliance and return…
Defining the Value Proposition
Defining the Value Proposition Questions Who are your customers? Identify which customers are going to benefit from your product or service. In B2B this may be industry verticals, department or role. For example, our customers can be from any industry but the department we support is normally IT and the end users would be the…
12 tips for your database strategy
Database Strategy Tips BAS Technologies have helped many clients establish a healthy database strategy tailored to their business needs. Firstly, in my opinion, any strategy must be clear and easy to understand. I have seen too many strategies that go too deep too early in some areas and ignore areas that really matter. Apply KISS…
16 database recovery strategy mistakes
High Availability and Disaster Recovery statistics Statistics from the “2018 State of Resilience” report by Syncsort, a leader in big data software solutions, highlight an increase in pressure IT leaders are feeling to ensure security, high availability and disaster recovery. Having surveyed 5,632 IT professionals globally on data protection strategies, the report shows a staggering…
Linux Y2038 bug
Remember Y2K? Well for those that have not yet heard, Unix/Linux came ready packaged with a Y2038 bug. Don’t panic yet though, Y2K became virtually a non-event because there was a lot of pre-work done to prevent catastrophy and Y2038 should go a similar way. Y2038 is caused by the use of a 32bit integer…
Best Practice or Smoke and Mirrors?
Best Practice is defining your Best Practice Most IT professionals will have their own idea of best practice and some vendors even provide tools to check for their flavour of best practice. Often however best practices are not quantified or measurable and as such are in the eye of the beholder. Worst still is that best…
Pros and cons of cloud computing
You are most likely to be already using cloud There are very few businesses not using cloud computing to some extent, in fact the 2018 IDG Cloud Computing Study revealed that this represents the model for 77% of enterprises. There are incredible advantages of using cloud solutions and there are plenty of other options that…