Monthly Archives: November 2016

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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