John Shorten

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Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where Ireland's IT leaders share their thoughts on innovation trends and strategy. This week, we talk to John Shorten, technical director at TelecityGroup's Irish operation.

There are many concurrent projects pursuant to this agreement way in TelecityGroup Ireland, nevertheless one of the main IT projects for the year is the upgrade of our managed network service offering, which offers our clients enhanced connectivity across Europe and the rest of the world.

There were changes from the way that the indigenous company operated compared to TelecityGroup. Corporate LAN services are now controlled centrally by TelecityGroup, however this has its advantages and allows local skilled IT staff to furthermore support the business through customer-focused activities.

Private cloud solution for a long time now so this

We have been operating a private cloud solution for a long time now so this would appear as a good deal of hype to me. Public cloud offerings have inherent security risks for some of the types of clients that we deal with. The public cloud has been an enabler for clients with lower security requirements and has resulted in a business revolution in this sector.

By virtue of our security principles and requirements for ISO27001, the more secure option for us is to buy. This ensures that confidential data is not in the hands of a third party. We would tend to use off-the-shelf software with minor modifications for our business applications that are easily supportable.