Nov 26, 2015
Over the next few weeks, big businesses will be relying on their IT infrastructure to have no downtime during their busiest shopping period.
Predicted figures:
- £1.07bn Black Friday
- £943m Cyber Monday
- £856m Boxing Day
- £4.9bn Total five-week period
With potential costs of £200k an hour for website downtime, will those outside of IT begin to see the ROI of investing in security and network infrastructure?
Meanwhile, Ash Smith from London asks:
As corporate IT departments receive criticism for their sluggishness in a digital age how can we balance good solid effective guardianship and management of IT services vs adopting new technologies that are changing faster than we can implement them in a large organisation.