Episode 18: Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Shadow IT - a podcast by Neil C. Hughes

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.

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