I feel very lucky to be working at Maxima, planning and delivering our Cloud products and services, at this most interesting time in the IT industry, and against the background of an economic climate that is causing many businesses to re-think their business model and re-examine their costs. I can’t help thinking that out of the turmoil will emerge some truly great UK businesses that will revitalise the economy.
Growing your company can be frought with difficulties. We look at how you can successfully overcome the challenge.
Taking your business to the next level through expansion is a gamble. You hope that the untapped customer demand creates revenue faster than your suppliers want paying for helping you build the infrastructure. If the demand is there, then you keep ahead in the cash-flow stakes. But if the growth fails to arrive on time, a lack of working capital can take a business down.
IBM’s thought leadership whitepaper on trust, reliability and security decisions when choosing the right model for your business for example:
How easy would it be to lose your service if a denial of service attack is launched within your cloud provider?
Will you suffer a data security breach when an administrator can access multiple stores of data within the virtualised environment they are controlling?
Could you lose your service when an investigation into data loss of another customer starts to affect your privacy and data?
When man landed on the moon (if you are a believer, still cannot understand why they don’t just point a telescope at one of the landing sites and stop those who doubt it) there was over 200 known problems with the astronauts space suits alone. So if you are worried about a transition to cloud computing surely the challenge is less daunting, and even better, you do not run the risk of your insides being sucked out! It is fair to say that no one knows the full extent of the challenges and risks of moving to cloud in every situation.
For the survivors in the city of Sendai and its surrounding coastal region, now dealing with the loss of loved ones, homes and livelihoods, the immediate prospect is – of course - bleak. Despite this, Western journalists have been impressed by the stoicism and determination displayed by the local population. There’s a Japanese proverb that translates as ‘fall down seven times, get up eight’, and we’re certainly seeing this resilience in how Japanese people have behaved in the face of catastrophe.
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