Never before has the internet played such a key role in bringing public events to the masses. First it was the election, then football, Wimbledon, cricket and even the budget brought to…
BA’s reputation gets a battering as it struggles through another strike
Another holiday, another BA strike. For those who are familiar with my holiday plans they always involve some kind of issue. Whether it be a strike, queue on M25, volcano, war or…
Work hard play hard (again)
I have written before about the virtues of a good work/life balance, well last week saw the introduction of a new toy to our London office. The question was what to do…
ISDN is dead, long live SIP!
I had an enjoyable morning with BT Openreach last week as they outlined their plans over the coming years. While the business isn’t the most loved within the industry I thought the…
Is 400 Mb/s enough?
At our recent office launch I conducted a test with our visitors. In the playroom, where we demonstrate products to potential clients, I setup a PC with a 400 Mb/s line straight…
The joy of High Definition
Nicolas Clement, came down from the Cotswolds and entertain us with his excellent street magic. Obviously close up magic is very difficult and he is one of the best, with a CV a…
Fluidata moves office
We moved into our new offices at the beginning of the month and last week held our launch party. It was attended by key suppliers, customers and investors and gave us a…
What a view!
I am overdue to do a piece on our new office; however with our launch party tomorrow I thought it best to give a little bit of a surprise. In the meantime…
Internet usage surges as people find out who is PM
As a business internet service provider we generally see quiet evenings, high traffic loads during the day and pretty much no traffic over the weekends. Last week however was slightly different as…
It is time for a change
I have been a bit busy over the past few weeks with our office move (more to follow on that) but with polling day upon us I thought it necessary acknowledge it.…
Microsoft has lost its pizzazz
I visited Microsoft’s London offices today in Victoria to learn about their hosting strategy and new products they are launching. Being involved a little bit in this internet industry I thought it…
Practice what you preach
I think it is very important when selling a product that the business itself uses whatever it might be. This definitely helps to iron out those annoying issues that a customer may…
Fluidata helps Britain wax
Little piece on Computer Weekly on how our ADVANCE service allowed the Brazilian Waxing Company to increase sales by 30%. It seems that most of the growth has come from men so…
Protect against an outage, make a plan
Something we always like to discuss with new customers is the necessity of backup, or more importantly a plan should the worse happen. As important as an SLA (Service Level Agreement) is…
Learning to cook
I spent an enjoyable weekend at the new cookery school at Daylesford the other week. Daylesford is the brain child of Lady Bamford (wife to Sir Anthony Bamford, chap in charge of…