Over the last month, I’ve had several conversations that have all sounded eerily familiar and all have involved the renewal of cyber security insurance. The conversations have involved firms from completely different backgrounds/revenue/technology types.  All the conversations however have had a very similar outcome.  When …

For the past few years, a selective number of investment companies/other MSPs have approached Factory because those businesses want to grow by acquisition, either because they want revenue, talent, capability or a combination of all those elements. Typically, the conversations start with a consulting need …

In years gone back, the world was a much simpler place to be, at least from a communications point of view. Going back to the early days of the Internet and Mobile communication, life was to a degree a lot more simplistic.  You generally had …

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 away from this read. The emphasis …

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 few decades. What has changed dramatically …

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 on another providers cloud? Are you …

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 Cloud and how we can do …

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 the letter of the book, you’re …

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 it. I think firstly, part of …