Posts by Mike Knight
Cyber Insurance Costs HOW MUCH ???
Five crucial reasons a cyber insurance policy justifies the financial outlay: 1 – Cyber risk is a business’s most significant liability.In our digital era, businesses are dependent on digital assets instead of physical ones, making them susceptible to cyber threats, often ranking as the top risk for most companies. Given the frequency of cyber events…
Read MoreM&A Outlook
Opportunities and Challenges for Managed Service Providers in 2023 Despite facing a series of geopolitical disturbances, the global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape is expected to remain resilient in Q2 2023, according to Intralinks’ Deal Flow Predictor. Specifically, M&A activity is forecasted to be steady compared to Q1 2023 and show considerable growth when contrasted to Q2…
Read MoreWhy MSPs should integrate ESG Into Their M&A Strategy?
What is ESG? ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. It’s a set of standards for a company’s operations that socially conscious investors use to screen potential investments. Environmental criteria consider how a company performs as a steward of the natural environment. It includes factors such as a company’s energy use, waste, pollution, natural resource…
Read MoreYour MSP Sale And ‘Earnouts’
In a deal structure known as a “earnout,” a portion of the acquisition price of a firm is postponed and dependent on its future performance. Earnouts can provide a number of advantages to both buyers and sellers, including the chance to spread out the final purchase price over time and pay less up front. To get at a deal…
Read MoreNew AI That Generates 3-D Models From Text
The Shap-E AI system from OpenAI (creators of ChatGPT) and available for open-source download, can create 3D models from text. What Is It? According to the Cornell University researchers behind the system, Shap-E is “a conditional generative model for 3D assets” which, unlike other 3D generative models “generates the parameters of implicit functions that can be rendered as…
Read MoreWant A .Dad Domain For Father’s Day?
Here we look at most of the modern top-level domains and their uses, along with the advantages and disadvantages of choosing a newer, lesser known, or more specific TLD for your website domain name. What Are Top Level Domains? Top-Level Domains (TLDs) are the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System (DNS) structure of…
Read MoreChatGPT Banned At Apple
Apple has reportedly banned the internal use of ChatGPT and other chatbots plus AI writers like Bard, Copilot and GitHub to prevent the sharing of sensitive company information. Internal Document Seen The ban came to light following a report by the The Wall Street Journal, which said it had seen internal documents informing Apple employees of…
Read MoreAI Contributes To 55,000 BT Jobs Cuts
BT has announced that the completion of its fibre roll-out, 5G rollout, adapting to new technologies like AI, plus general cost cutting are key reasons why it will be axing up to 55,000 jobs, primarily in the UK, by the end of the decade. 40 Per Cent Of The Workforce The massive 40 per cent…
Read MoreGetting Off The Ground Isn’t Always Easy!
Chuck Yeager (famous for being the first to break the sound barrier) mentioned in his excellent autobiography that whilst he was training Neil Amstrong in high-altitude flying, he found him a little a bit cocky. In fairness, Neil did have a training crash at one point and was lucky to survive – these were very…
Read MoreThe Law of Pragnanz for MSPs
The Law of Prägnanz originates from the field of Gestalt psychology, which began in early 20th-century Germany. Prägnanz, a term borrowed from German, directly translates to “pithiness”. Various eminent German psychologists proposed this law as part of a series of principles to explain human perception. It became a fundamental tenet of Gestalt psychology, influencing fields…
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