Get your LAN ready for the Cloud and 5G
Please stay with me on this one, it’s a slightly boring topic, but I’m sure if you’re involved in buying, designing, maintaining or looking after IT Servers, Networks, Cloud Systems or something similar, then you’ll take something of use...
Read morePractical Advice for Securing Internet Accounts
Computer Security is a huge area and topic now. It’s now common place to see various high impact hacks and breaches covered by national news and Security has also been heavily dramatized in TV and Film over the last...
Read moreThings to think about when moving to the Cloud
It’s now 2018, and more so than ever, Cloud Computing is still complete bollocks. For the most part, if you ask ten different people what it means, you’ll get ten different answers. Are you simply renting Virtual Machine capacity...
Read moreWhy Network Access is Important with the Cloud
The world of IT Services has changed. Years back, everyway was talking about how get to the Cloud and how we can migrate our systems across to it. Now, we’re all talking about how we can operate in the...
Read moreDevOps – It’s culture, not technology
This 100% for DevOps and Agile… I’d spotted an article on The Register and thought it was worth a brief post because I thought it was right on the point. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/08/devops_real_talk/ With DevOps/Agile, if you use the “process” to...
Read moreHow we do monitoring…
I’ve been talking to a few people about how we do monitoring and why it’s different to normal monitoring at Factory Internet. I think sometimes it’s important to understand why something is done a certain way to really understand...
Read moreWhy independent consulting is important.
In the world of technology, we often work with companies and trusted partners who we think have our best interests at heart. After all, we’re a customer and we’ve been working with them for some time, why would they...
Read moreWhy monitoring is critical in todays world.
In the world of IT, when people are asked about monitoring, generally the response is about up/down monitoring for servers, Network Operation Centres looking at banks of screens with red, green and amber blobs on them showing them a...
Read moreThoughts on IoT/Edge Computing and the Cloud
Recently, there has been a lot of talk around how Edge Computing/IoT/Processing at the edge will be a major focus moving forward. I tend to agree with this approach and I think it’s following a pattern that’s always been...
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