CIO WaterCooler | Gavin Whatrup | Activity https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/members/gavin-whatrup/activity/ Activity feed for Gavin Whatrup. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:56:19 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v=3.4.4 en-GB 30 hourly 2 6d59fd2efb0db6d0af9cbdddd27ec9f5 Gavin Whatrup updated their profile https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/news-feed/p/10950/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:31:12 +0000 0 ba4c1223086a05449061cdc4486f0547 Gavin Whatrup updated their profile https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/news-feed/p/8132/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:53:48 +0100 0 97066faa978b73e2b40382ec461c76cf Gavin Whatrup updated their profile https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/news-feed/p/6189/ Mon, 13 May 2019 13:53:22 +0100 0 04e4a8d374834fa5fb98c2d4f162ca89 Gavin Whatrup changed their profile picture https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/news-feed/p/3614/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:01:29 +0100 0 76771cccff29210f8dae6d725edeaac2 Gavin Whatrup posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=500 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:12:11 +0100 How to Be Smart with Security
What are you most important assets? Your people, staff, employees, or that awful term, human resources.
What is the biggest threat to your organisation? The same.

The Danger […]

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How to be Smart with Security

The biggest vulnerability our businesses have are our people. Those creative, precious, innovative, unpredictable, and dangerous people. An errant hyperlink click here, an over-enthusiastic Send…

]]> 0 3034dd5864e5c61612528207cffd76b2 Gavin Whatrup posted a new activity comment http://ciowatercooler.co.uk/data-gravity-move-the-apps-to-the-data-not-the-other-way-round/#comment-617 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:11:48 +0100 I agree that data mobility is a huge problem. Big Data solutions, by definition, require the interconnection of many data sources, and the application of complex processing to achieve its aims. Moving large and complex data sets is impractical given the current cost and time to do so. So also absolutely agree that data gravity is a concept we… Read more

In reply to - Jean Bozman posted a new post. Data gravity is becoming an ever-more-powerful force in data center environments. In this view, it makes more sense to analyze data where it has the greatest density – which is […] ]]> 10e694fd03731d96e00828f260eeba78 Gavin Whatrup updated their profile https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/news-feed/p/1099/ Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:51:45 +0100 0 6c9d4bf5ebe56ad38dd9f932a3cbfb81 Gavin Whatrup posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=6057 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:50:10 +0100 The Shrinking of the Organisational Unit

The way organisations work is on the move again. Categorising people by traditional methods of department, function or geography is hamstringing innovation, and the operational structures behind these silos…

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If you are the head of IT, IT Director, CIO, IT Manager, or otherwise in charge of your IT operation, then you’re not who I want to talk to. Sorry, nothing personal.

However, you are most likely to be the […]

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Disastrous Business Continuity Planning

If you’ve handed the task of protecting your business from a DR event or incident to your head of IT, you’ve probably made a mistake. One that she or he won’t thank you for, and nor will the business.

]]> 0 9902de2251a11459ff80c58ea7923072 Gavin Whatrup posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=395 Thu, 05 May 2016 11:30:25 +0100 As the turmoil around the Panama Papers leak wanes, our attention gradually starts to drift to other headlines. People of power and privilege were engaging in tax avoidance schemes? Has it ever been thus?

What […]

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‘PANAMA’ PROVES WE’RE STILL NOT LISTENING

As the turmoil around the Panama Papers leak wanes, our attention gradually starts to drift to other headlines. People of power and privilege were engaging…

]]> 0 c8394c78e851a9be2b2fa01ca9404745 Gavin Whatrup updated their profile https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/news-feed/p/824/ Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:31:20 +0100 0 2b9cf3f2ff9e4995d4e066e9b3f7f0ca Gavin Whatrup posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=383 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:45:26 +0100 Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value. There are two parts to that statement, firstly potential, and the second, value. Sounds simple. And to translate these two components into something […]

]]> 0 e68ff461fb58fe8ac3b7955ddd6bdfdc Gavin Whatrup posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=5243 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:45:26 +0100
Risk – Abstract concept or Valuable asset

Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value. There are two parts to that statement, firstly potential, and the second, value. Sounds simple. And to translate these two components into…

]]> 0 a3c0dec36e3298ed880cce3f566dbce5 Gavin Whatrup posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=4963 Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:28:41 +0000
Hubble, Bubble, Tablet & Trouble

Take one laptop, add a pinch of tablet (any flavour), smart phone and wearable, and simmer gently adding liberal sprinkle of home device as required.…

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