The playroom in the office is finally up and running. Bit difficult to make it out from the photo but sits alongside the video presence suite and gives visitors a chance to…
One rule for all
With the parliament expenses taking up a huge amount of news print, there seems to be lack of comparison between their structure and private business. I have expressed my concern previously that…
Wecession
I haven’t yet coined a phrase so we will see if this one catches on! Lots of talk recently on the quick in and quick out of the recession following a ‘V’…
Business will suffer as Tiscali sell to TalkTalk
Carphone Warehouse took Tiscali for £236m earlier this month which will have an interesting impact on the industry. Working through the numbers I believe the value works out to be around £138…
Big boys aren’t immune
This afternoon saw a large number of users across the internet fail to access Google. We had a high volume of customers this afternoon report that Google.com and Google.co.uk were unavailable. And…
Lost art
It may seem really simple but it is amazing what a difference a thank you email makes when you are happy with a service. In our busy lives it is all too…
When is 100 Mb/s too much?!
Recently had a new fibre line installed into the office for general office use, VoIP and video. As you can see from the picture it is bloody fast bringing a 50 MB…
Alistair Darling defends 50%
I went to the IoD (Institute of Directors) annual convention yesterday at the Royal Albert Hall. They had a number of speakers talking about their businesses and what they are doing in…
Which exchange? I’ll have two please.
It beggars belief but for those of you who have read my previous pieces on the aggregation services Fluidata offers in the form of PureFluid and Advance, it turns out that other…
How green is IT?
With technology around the globe generating more CO2 than passenger jets it is interesting on how our demand for faster and cheaper electronics will impact our goal to reduce global emissions. I…
Dual Advance
As a follow on from my last piece about BT suffering from a major outage over the weekend I thought it would be worth detailing our latest development for business internet resilience.…
Failover is key
Businesses across London have been suffering for the past few days with no communications following a tunnel borer cutting through a major BT trunk at the Olympic site. The fault has affected…
Desperate for business
It has been interesting watching how our competitors have reacted to the global downturn. There seems to be almost desperation among them to secure new business at the moment with clients reporting…
Sometime cheap isn’t always best
Interesting article in this week’s Sunday Times detailing a high number of compromised computers ostensibly controlled and monitored by the Chinese Government. What is fascinating from my perspective is the fact that…
Another trial BT?
BT recently announced details on their FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) trial that they are planning across the UK. They are looking to enable roughly 0.035% of the available cabinets with this…