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Author Archives: nb1302
Google hit with record EU fine over Shopping service
The BBC today reported on its web page that Google had been fined a record amount Continue reading
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NHS in England hit by ‘cyber-attack’
With the BBC reporting NHS England being hit with what appears to be a ‘cyber attack’ and the fact that GDPR is less the 12 months away here has never been a more important time to invest in security. Continue reading
Posted in News, Security Alerts
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Cloud-should I migrate?
Whilst many are thinking of moving their systems into the cloud for cost, security and uptime, I would say think again. Continue reading
Posted in News
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Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation
In an announcement today the Linux Foundation announced that Microsoft had become a Platinum member of the organisation and as part of this John Gossman who is Architect on the Microsoft Azure team will join the board of the Linux Foundation. Continue reading
Posted in Blue Shell News, News, Technology
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Think IT security is to costly think again
In recent times many companies feel that the cost of implementing IT security or having it checked is just not a cost effective use of company money
” After all we buy our virus checker and we use the same software as the big corporate down the road”
Well think again, not only is a breach likely to cost you serious damage to your reputation, under the new General Data Protection Regulation you could be fined up to four percent of your annual turnover. Continue reading
Posted in Blue Shell News, Security Alerts
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Microsoft Announces price increases on back of Brexit
On 24th October 2016 Microsoft announced it was planning to raise its prices by 13% for it Enterprise services and a whopping 22% for its Cloud services in the UK from January the 1st 2017.
This was blamed on the drop of the pound recently due to Britains decision to leave the European Union or Brexit as it is know. Continue reading
Posted in Blue Shell News
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America Finally relinquishes control of Internet to ICANN
After 47 years since the first message was sent over ARPA net the forerunner to the modern day internet America has finally given up control of the top level DNS and ip allocation Continue reading
How to list only directories in Unix or Linux
We were asked recently by a customer how to list only the directories when doing an ls command Continue reading
Posted in Tech Tips
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Russia Kicks Out Microsoft Software For Local MyOffice
In an Article by Ilya Khrennikov posted in Bloomberg Technology on 27th September 2016 Moscow City will drop Microsoft products in favour go home grown software Continue reading
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Oracle New T7 Servers with M7 co processor and Latest Solaris 11.3 Operating system a massive leap
Oracles new T7 series with M7 co-processor looks amazing and the integration of the latest Solaris operating system and database to the Hardware provides massive leaps in security stopping unauthorised access to parts of memory it will help prevent such things as heartbleed
Posted in Technology
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