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Grow your business with Office 365

When starting your own business you might have dreams of it becoming a huge, global phenomenon, or you might only hope for enough success to make a living doing what... read more

Cloud

What is a storage area network?

Whether it’s the hard disk spinning in your laptop or the rows of humming drives in a data centre, data storage is a critical part of computing. Computers and... read more

Digital

How to implement web accessibility

Guide to web accessibility: part threeAs outlined in the first part of our guide to web accessibility, ease of access for people with disabilities is an essential part of modern... read more

Digital

Web accessibility guidelines and tools

Guide to web accessibility: part twoIn part one of our guide to web accessibility, we introduced the concept and explained why it matters so much. Making the web accessible to... read more

Digital

What is web accessibility?

Undeniably, the web has revolutionised our society. One of the most powerful tools ever created, the internet has helped improve people’s lives in countless ways. Since the birth of... read more

Digital

BYOD and Office 365

We have previously discussed the benefits of collaboration in business, and how collaboration is becoming increasingly mobile as workforces head out of the office on business. A key part of... read more

Security

What is penetration testing?

“If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles.” It’s safe to say that Sun Tzu wasn’t thinking about... read more

Digital

Chatbots and conversational UI

Robots are never out of the news. Whether it’s announcements of the latest artificial intelligence breakthrough, or worries about AI systems stealing jobs from humans, what’s undeniable is... read more

Digital

What is DevOps?

If you asked the average person in the street ‘what does DevOps mean to you?’ or even 'what is DevOps?', you’d probably get a blank stare. But what... read more

Cloud

Corralling your containers with Rancher

Containers are incredibly useful, but managing them isn’t always easy. Orchestration tools like Kubernetes allow hundreds or even thousands of containers to be coordinated across multiple servers – but even... read more

Digital

What is hosted Exchange email?

What is hosted Exchange email? To answer this broader question we must break it down into two smaller questions, and define all of the words in ‘hosted Exchange email’ in... read more

Security

Domain privacy and WHOIS

Over the years we’ve received complaints from customers who believe we’ve sold their contact details on to third parties. This is categorically untrue, we don’t ever sell... read more

Digital

How the internet works: Tips for registering a domain name

When you browse for a website on the internet you can find what you want instantly by entering the name of your chosen website in the address bar of your... read more