Opinion
162 articles
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Email Continuity for SMEs: After a Morning Without Email, Do You Need a Plan B?
Email continuity options for small and mid-sized businesses compared: fallback channels, an emergency mailbox, a continuity service or a second email system, and how to choose.
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Microsoft 365 Outage Hit AI Too: Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude Connectors Reported Affected
During the November 2026 Microsoft 365 outage, Microsoft listed Copilot as potentially impacted, and OpenAI and Anthropic reported Microsoft 365 connector issues. What was reported and what to...
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Your AI Is Only as Safe as Your Backup: Why AI Infrastructure Needs a Recovery Plan
Companies spend heavily on AI compute and almost nothing protecting what it produces. What an AI recovery plan covers and what it should cost.
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Is Wi-Fi 7 Fast Enough for NAS-Based AI Workflows?
Wi-Fi 7 is fast enough to use an AI assistant and browse a NAS from a laptop. It is not a substitute for a cable between the NAS...
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Can AI Help Detect Ransomware Before Your Backup Gets Compromised?
AI-assisted anomaly detection can catch ransomware by its behaviour, sometimes before backups are touched. What it sees, what it misses, and where it fits.
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The Hidden Problem With Open Offices: Your AI Noise Cancellation Isn't Enough
AI noise cancellation cleans up your calls, not your office. What ANC, Teams voice isolation and Krisp can't fix, and the room changes that can.
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Why a S$300 Router Could Be Costing Your Business Thousands
End-of-life routers, no failover and no network separation: how a cheap router turns into outages and botnet risk, and what Singapore offices should check.
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Why Buying a Laptop With Soldered RAM Could Be Your Biggest IT Mistake
Soldered, on-package, LPCAMM2 or SO-DIMM laptop memory across brands: when soldered RAM is fine and how to size it for a four- to five-year fleet.
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AI Workstations Are Getting Smaller, but Data Centres Aren't Going Away
GB10, Mac Studio and RTX Spark put 128–512 GB AI on a desk, while hyperscalers spend ~US$720B+. Which AI work belongs where for Singapore firms.
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The Death of the Traditional Server Room? Why SMEs Are Rethinking On-Premise IT
Hybrid, not dead: what Singapore SMEs keep on-premise, what moves to SaaS or cloud, and what repatriation surveys really show.
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The Problem With Mixing 10 Different Laptop Models Across One Company
Why unplanned laptop sprawl costs more than role-based tiers: drivers, BIOS, docks, chargers and spares, what Windows Autopilot fixes and what it doesn't.
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The 16GB Laptop Is Becoming a Bad Business Investment — Here's Why
16GB is still enough for most office work. It becomes a bad buy when it's soldered and must last five years. Requirements, costs and Singapore prices.
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Why Your AI Project Might Need More Networking Power Than GPU Power
When networking really limits AI and when GPU memory matters more: link speeds, model-loading maths and cluster advice for SME AI projects.
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Why Government IT Procurement Can Fail Before the Equipment Even Arrives
GeBIZ thresholds, specification rules and Auditor-General findings: where public-sector IT purchases go wrong, and how agencies and schools can avoid it.
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Is LTO Tape Backup Still Relevant in 2027, or Is It Finally Obsolete?
LTO-10 capacity, shipment data, cost per TB vs hard drives, the air-gap case and when Singapore SMEs should skip tape for NAS or cloud backup.
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Is Digital Signage Becoming an Expensive Subscription Business?
Signage CMS pricing per screen, a 5-year cost for 20 screens, free and self-hosted options, and how Singapore businesses should budget.
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The AI Storage Crisis: Why Fast SSDs May Become the Next Expensive Bottleneck
Why AI demand pushed enterprise SSD prices up in 2026, when storage speed really limits AI, and how SMEs should plan capacity and endurance.
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The Problem With Buying Refurbished Enterprise Hardware for Production Systems
Refurbished servers, switches and storage: licence transfer fees, firmware access, drive wear, NEA e-waste rules and when used gear is fine to deploy.
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