Category Archives: Blue Shell News

IBM Buys Red Hat for $34 billion US dollars

Today October 28th Red Hat announced that a deal had been struck with IBM to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Red Hat inc Continue reading

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Blue Shell Limited is on track for ISO 27001

Blue Shell is on track to achieve ISO27001 certification by February 2019 . Continue reading

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GDPR is finally here

Well today is the day GDPR comes into effect Continue reading

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Solaris 10 is End of Life 31st March 2018

Well its March the 1st Just a reminder that Oracle Solaris 10 becomes end of life Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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Worried that implementing Linux might be too much of a risk

For those of you businesses that might be out there and worrying about switching to Linux thought I am posting a list of some major organisations that are using Linux

New York stock Exchange

Department of Defence in the US
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Blue Shell Limited Joins MICTA

Blue Shell is pleased to announce it is now a member of MICTA the Manx ICT Association Continue reading

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Blue Shell Becomes Official Oracle Gold Partner

Today Blue Shell Limited officially became an Oracle Gold Partner. Continue reading

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