I recently completed an article on Microsoft’s new datacentre in Ireland and the impact on the IT industry as a whole. http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/12/30/virtualisation-and-hosted-applications-microsofts-perspective/1/
50 Mb/s for consumers
Virgin Media this week launched their 50 Mb/s home service. I have written here before on their offering and misuse of the term ‘fibre’ and will be interested to see exactly how…
Volvo has the edge
Those of you who know me well will testify that I am somewhat of a car bore. And one of my all time favourite car manufacturers is Volvo. I am not sure…
BT Price increases
Might have passed you by but BT recently increased the cost of services for its wholesale customers. There is also talk of Openreach being given an opportunity to raise their wholesale costs…
The UK needs Power!
With talk of Microsoft and Google investing in new datacentres for hosted applications I am concerned with necessary power upgrade that is required for the national grid. With datacentres consuming apparently more…
Customer Feedback
Nice to see customer’s discussing your company’s offering online – positive and negative comments. http://www.josephjburns.com/2008/04/30/fluidata-the-cheaper-alternative-to-leased-lines As with all services customer feedback is so important as they use the service day in, day…
Reasons for Technical Support
Some of you may be interested to read our latest statistics on our support at Fluidata. Being a business only ISP it is quite interesting reading, especially as I would have assumed…
VW owned by Porsche :-(
Keeping with the car theme I did a post a few months back on VW. For those of you who aren’t aware the last week has seen it been taken into the…
Good job Hamiton!
I didn’t put a post up to congratulate Hamilton in his achievement of becoming F1 champion. Did an awesome job in my opinion and thoroughly deserved it over Massa. People forget so…
SMBs ready for hosted applications?
Interesting article one of my colleagues came across the other day discusses whether SMB’s are ready for hosted applications. From what I can make out Easynet’s take is that quite a few…
Business look to bonding
The industry seems to be waking up to the idea of bonding as the demand for higher upload and download speeds increases. Fluidata has been doing this for the past few years…
Working from home
Food for thought: http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/10/28/right-tools-making-telecommuting-possible/
Cisco 7604
Fluidata to help keep the internet ticking over. Well this is a picture of one of our new Cisco 7604 routers which will be brought online in the next few weeks across…
Are businesses mad?
This week sees the launch of BT’s new promotion for businesses. Sign up today and get a free mobile dongle so you can browse the internet when not in the office! It…
Less is definitely more
One of our most interesting products to be developed this year at Fluidata has been the VOX 2.0 service. For the past 18-months Fluidata has been using the Telefonica O2 network for…