Last week, the FunctionEight Hong Kong office was buzzing with excitement for our new arrival. Everyone eagerly watched the elevator doors as if a celebrity were about to walk out of them. In fact, we’d ordered a new printer.
We asked our 3 partners 5 questions to see their point of view. (MA–Martin Albert) (CY–Chris Young) (PA–Phil Aldridge)
In a non-capital-intensive business like FunctionEight cash is not usually a major barrier to growth. Indeed, the business was founded without any debt financing, rather sweat equity and several strategic partners with good connections were used to provide the basis for growth in the early days. However, any business that has no track record of borrowing or any debt financing in place will often find themselves struggling to secure that financing, either when opportunity knocks, or they find themselves in difficult moments.
There are many reasons why you might want to consider ditching your in-house server and migrating all your data onto a cloud-based storage system. Among them are cost savings, space savings, and more convenient access to your data around the world.
So you own your own business domain. You registered it when you first had the business idea for 5 years and you are now running a successful business almost 5 years later. Suddenly things start to go wrong with your website, email etc. Ensure you have completed the 10 items below to avoid issues of poor domain maintenance.
I recently attended the Cloud Expo Asia in Hong Kong which was co-branded as Cyber Security Expo. Well apart from it looking more like Data Centre World than anything else there were very few Cyber Security exhibitors. Those that were there were only offer “plug and play” hardware to solve all your Cyber Security Issues.
If you’ve been under the impression these were true, don’t worry, you’re not alone. These are the top 5 misconceptions that clients have about their technology.
Hear the facts, straight from one of our expert engineers.
Phishing attack is a term used to describe an attempt by which fraudsters pose as employees or large trusted businesses to extract information or cash from an individual or business.
The End IS Near, in fact in about 10 months at time of writing and this certainly will be the end of an era as Windows 7 was by far the most popular and best operating system Microsoft had launched since Win XP. Although many thought Mr. Sinatra was past his sell by date when he released My Way, it was one of his biggest hits However, this is not the case for Win 7 users, who probably all still think it is a perfectly good operating system and there is no need to use something newer (Windows 10).
Simplistically your answer should be Cybersecurity. You may be asking why, but the answer is quite simple. You can do something about Cybersecurity. Unless you have global influence then a recession will either happen or not, but you wont be able to affect it happening. True you could plan for it and take necessary precautions to ensure your business survives should a recession hit. However regardless of this uncertainty one thing is for sure – you will face multiple cybersecurity attacks in 2019 and that is something you CAN prepare for.
