Could underwater datacentres be the future?
Microsoft has recently retrieved a shipping-container-sized datacentre from the seabed off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The sealed container itself was coated in barnacles, algae, and sea anemones! Where did the idea come from? The concept was first ‘floated’ back in 2014 and was actually suggested by a Microsoft employee during the company’s ThinkWeek event – in […]
Read MoreCase Study – Moving to the cloud
The Problem A local firm of accountants approached Cloudworks during a period of rapid expansion at their Nottingham office. The company utilised on-premises servers and infrastructure for both Microsoft Exchange email and file storage and were looking for an IT company to “Take them into the cloud”. Cloudworks recommended deploying the Microsoft Office 365 suite […]
Read MoreCovid-19 brings Zoom phishing scams to the fore
Leading security app provider PSafe estimates that so far this year there have been in excess of 47 million unique phishing scams. A number of these have been targeted at the collaborative software platforms that have seen huge increases in use since the mass move to remote/home working in response to the pandemic. One such […]
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