Major outages prove no system is infallible
The past two weeks have seen a number of outages hit major companies across the globe. Whist the exact causes are not yet known, it seems that faulty updates and ransomware may have been responsible. Barclays Monday 28th of September was payday for thousands of people in the UK and many companies were actually due […]
Read MoreHow Cloudworks are different
When businesses and prospective clients are looking for a new IT provider or to change from an existing service, one question we are often asked is how Cloudworks are different. Many of the reasons are why we started Cloudworks in the first place, these range from poor service to over priced fees and lack of […]
Read MoreCould 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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