Nov 25, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Online shoppers scouring the internet for deals during Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas present a nice big juicy target for cyber criminals. From email phishing attempts to social media scams, hackers are continually coming up with new ways to fleece unwitting...
Nov 18, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is aiming to make it that bit easier to upgrade to Windows 10 for existing Windows users with the Windows 10 November update, the first major update to the new operating system since it launched in July.The update delivered a host of updates and...
Nov 10, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has announced an expansion of its public cloud presence in Europe with new data centres to be based in the UK, slated to begin operations from late 2016. The move follows hard on the heels of a similar announcement by Amazon Web Services (AWS) last week.The...
Nov 5, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
TalkTalk is trying and failing to mend its broken customer relationships following the recent mega breach, in one case offering an individual who had £3,500 stolen from his personal bank account £30.20 as a “good will gesture [and] final...
Nov 5, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Latest Firefox provides web surfers with a more private browsing experience with Tracking ProtectionMozilla has offered web surfers a more private browsing experience in the latest version of its Firefox web browser.The development comes amid growing consumer...
Nov 5, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The official word is out: Microsoft is dropping its commitment to provide unlimited storage for its OneDrive consumer storage service for home and university users.But what about users of its OneDrive for Business service?Microsoft’s November 2 blog post...
Nov 5, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers have been left “open to fraud” following ‘unauthorised access’ to user accounts, the firm has revealed.A total of 1,827 customers have had their names, phone numbers and partial bank details exposed on an...
Oct 14, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The government has suspended its £40m broadband connection voucher scheme after the budget ran out owing to high demand.The scheme had been open to SMEs in 50 cities around the UK to receive grants of up to £3,000 to cover the cost of installing high-speed...
Oct 6, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has announced a range of Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile devices including the Surface Pro 4 productivity tablet, the Lumia 950 XL phablet and the Surface Book, Microsoft’s first convertible laptop.The range was revealed following an announcement that...
Sep 23, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has officially released its Office 2016 application suite for Windows, bringing a greater emphasis on collaboration and cloud features, as well as greater cross-platform consistency with Office applications on other platforms.Available immediately, Office...
Aug 20, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Its not just Microsoft’s Windows phones which are overdue for an upgrade. Its Surface Pro 3 was launched more than a year ago, in June 2014, and its Microsoft Band will also be one year old in October this year.Now Chinese blog WPDang reports that their...
Jul 29, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
If you want to do a clean install of Windows 10 you can do it starting today with a new Windows 10 ISO file downloaded directly from Microsoft’s website and install on a USB key.Click Here To Download Windows 10 From Microsoft Source: New...
Jul 29, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Windows 10 is distinctive for several reasons. First, it introduces the “Windows as a service” concept, in which most users will automatically receive incremental updates with both feature and security patches. Second, it is a free upgrade for most...
Jul 29, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Windows 10’s automatic updates have smashed into and through Nvidia’s driver system, sending the new operating system off the rails to disaster even as it launches.Early adopters are experiencing glitches (particularly in multi-monitor setups) and in some...
Jul 22, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google is making it easier for users of its Drive productivity application to access documents created in any of the Microsoft Office suite applications.The firm said that the move follows other efforts to smooth the Drive online document creation experience and make...
Jul 20, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hands On Among the most promising features of Windows 10 is Azure Active Directory join, which lets you sign into Windows with an Office 365 account – but Microsoft still has work to do before this presents the seamless experience you might expect.There...
Jul 14, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Office 365 is in a state of constant evolution, so it’s not at all surprising that Microsoft would attempt to capture some of that work in a new plan (literally, a menu of options sold to customers). At this week’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in...
Jul 14, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has confirmed that Office 365 customers in Britain will again dodge a cloudy price hike bullet that customers in parts of mainland Europe and further afield are facing from next month.Businesses in the Euro zone and those in Denmark, Sweden, Australia and...
Jul 7, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The UK will be the biggest market in Europe for data centres by 2020, according to a new report.The report, from Tariff Consultancy Ltd (TCL), also predicts that data centre space and power in Europe will increase by almost 20 percent from 2015 to...
Jul 6, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is revising the price of its Azure cloud computing services, apparently in response to fluctuating global exchange rates.The good news for UK customers is that they will not be affected, but the company is coy about where exactly the changes in price will be...
Jul 2, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft Office 365 has achieved the English Health and Social Care Secure Email ISB 1596 standard, which allows Outlook to be used for emails containing personal and sensitive data.ISB 1596 requires email service providers to meet a set of independently audited...
Jun 30, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Gartner research recently published their Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services and recognized Microsoft Azure as a leader for the second year in a row based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. This comes at the heel of recent independent...
Jun 17, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Box today followed rival Dropbox to integrate Microsoft’s Office Online with its cloud storage service.”Today, we’re introducing Box for Office Online, making it easier than ever for our customers to create and manage their Word docs, PowerPoint...
Jun 16, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Deutsche Telekom – German network Deutsche Telekom has announced an expansion to its work with Chinese giant Huawei, with T-Systems, its IT arm, will now be offering services such as infrastructure, platforms and applications that can are accessible via the...
Jun 1, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will be available as a free download from 29 July to anyone with a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 machine. The free download will be on offer for one year.Reports emerged over the weekend suggesting that this would be the launch date...
May 21, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cyber attacks cost US businesses and web users over $8bn in 2014, according to data from the FBI.The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) reported the figure in its 2014 Internet Crime Report, listing it as proof of the growing threat of cyber...
May 14, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
With Windows 10 coming this summer, Microsoft has finally detailed the editions of the software it will deliver to customers, splitting it chiefly into business, home and mobile versions, plus embedded editions for appliances and the Internet of Things.The editions...
May 8, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Second generation Touchschreen home phone comes equipped with Google Play for Android app downloads BT wants to arrest any potential decline in landline use by offering the best features of a smartphone to home users, including Internet access and access to apps...
May 8, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
S data centre provider claims a deal with London’s Telecity would be a “more compelling combination” than the proposed Telecity-Interxion mergerUS data centre operator Equinix has made a £2.3 billion offer to buy up UK data centre rival...
May 7, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo has been accused of running a “massive security risk” after researchers found flaws in its software.Three vulnerabilities could be exploited to install malware on users’ systems or to hand attackers a measure of...
May 6, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft and NetSuite have teamed up to offer closer integration between Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and productivity suite, and NetSuite’s ERP online software.The partnership was unveiled by NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson at the firm’s SuiteWorld...
May 6, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The device goes on sale on Tuesday in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the US and will arrive on Thursday in the EU including France, Germany, Spain, and the UK.Microsoft unveiled the model in March, touting...
Apr 30, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Bloomberg Business say Salesforce is reportedly working with advisers as the company attempts to deal with acquisition approaches from Oracle and Microsoft.The news that financial advisers have been called in, which is claimed in the report, suggests that...
Apr 30, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
First announced in January as Project Spartan, Microsoft’s new browser is based on an all-new rendering engine that has been developed to deliver an optimal experience for the modern web, and also includes better support for touch gestures and ink...
Apr 24, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
UK helicopter firm Bristow (formerly Bristow Helicopters) has becomes the latest company to tout its use of cloud services in order to bring flexibility and speed up IT operations, and the wider business.The company, which owns a fleet of 433 helicopters,...
Apr 24, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Rackspace has officially opened a new UK data centre in Crawley, West Sussex, claiming it to be the largest facility in the UK to use ‘indirect outside air’ cooling.The company announced plans for the data centre over a year ago, explaining that the UK was...
Apr 20, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Windows 10 is set to be released to the masses at the end of July, based on comments by the chief executive of AMD.Lisa Su was speaking on an earnings call to discuss AMD’s first-quarter financials for 2015 and appeared accidentally to reveal the date in...
Apr 14, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google has expanded its portfolio of network services, with the aim of ensuring that customers of its cloud infrastructure have responsive, low-latency websites.On Monday, the online ad-slinger announced general availability of Cloud DNS, its managed DNS service. For...
Apr 9, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Reports have it that HP is leaving the public cloud business because of its frustrations with competing with Amazon, Google and the rest of the market.In an interview with the paper Bill Hilf, the head of HP’s cloud business revealed that the firm has realised...
Apr 7, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has said it will no longer enable the “Do Not Track” (DNT) feature by default in Windows, two years after it angered advertisers by its approach to the feature in Internet Explorer 10. Microsoft had previously enabled DNT by default in the...
Apr 1, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google has announced plans to tighten the security of its Drive for Work cloud storage service with enhanced document sharing and tracking controls.Scott Johnston, director of product management at Google Drive, said in a Google for Work blog post that the...
Mar 31, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has added an extra model to its Surface line of Windows tablets, described as the thinnest and lightest Surface yet and coming in at a more affordable price than the existing Surface Pro 3.Available to pre-order now, the Surface 3 is based on an Intel Atom...
Mar 28, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The headline item is the ability to “enable protection and disaster recovery for VMware virtual machines and physical servers to Azure.” That’s a shot across VMware’s bow, as it does the same in its own vCloud Air cloud and preaches...
Mar 19, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The use of cloud-hosted and off-the-shelf software, together with tablets, has helped Metro Bank become an almost paper-free business. The company has also shunned desk phone to use Lync to host phone calls.Metro Bank makes heavy use of cloud-based services provided...
Mar 18, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Microsoft Band wearable device will go on sale in the UK for £169.99 from the middle of April, the company has confirmed.It will be available from Amazon, Currys PC World, Dixons Travel, Harrods, and O2.Microsoft’s device offers most of the standard...
Mar 18, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
We’ve had millennia to learn behaviours in the physical world, yet as a new digitised world emerges we’re still playing catch-up from a cyber-perspective. In the physical world we are extremely security aware, we would never walk down a dark alley or let...
Mar 18, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Virtustream, purveyor of enterprise cloud, has said that building data centres in Europe will not be the solution to the continents data sovereignty woes. The last 12 months has seen a burst of data centre construction, especially with big name players such as AWS and...
Mar 18, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
With the phenomenal rate of growth in cloud computing, the increasing number of cloud applications are demanding mega-scale infrastructures, and these infrastructures all have the same backbone, the data centre. For companies the size of Microsoft, running data...
Mar 17, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Internet of Things (IoT) and smart machines are incoming tsunamis of technology that will transform the way online grocery retailer Ocado does business, according to its IT boss. “There are these tsunamis coming our way, one it the Internet of Things, the...
Mar 12, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Everyone can agree, storage quotas for cloud services are increasing very quickly. And this means only one thing: cloud storage is getting dirt-cheap. This is nothing new, as organisations have been getting more and more gigabyte (GB) for their buck in the past...
Mar 11, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Dell and NTT Com have announced a partnership that will see the latter join the former’s cloud service provider programme, with NTT’s cloud services being made available to Dell customers globally.It has been about two years since Dell announced it would...
Mar 6, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
BT Cloud Phone offered to SMBs as company announces 1,000 new apprenticeships and graduate jobsBT says its new ‘plug-and-play’ BT Cloud Phone will allow small businesses to take advantage of many of the benefits offered by modern IP telephony...
Mar 5, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft unveiled the Lumia 640 and 640 XL at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week – and the business features on the handsets suggest Microsoft is trying to win more of a toehold in the enterprise.Launching the phones at MWC, Microsoft...
Mar 2, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Marking an important step in the research and standardization of 5G* technologies, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) has partnered with Nokia Networks to explore and harness the potential of Nokia Networks mmWave** technology in the 70 GHz spectrum band. In a joint indoor 5G...
Mar 2, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
MWC is quite possibly the biggest yearly event in the mobile world. At MWC 2014for example we saw the Samsung Galaxy S5, Sony Xperia Z2 and a plethora of other smartphones, tablets and smartwatches.MWC 2015 is expected to be every bit as big and...
Feb 27, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
TalkTalk has admitted to a data breach that led to customers being scammed for thousands of pounds.A post on a TalkTalk forum explained that a third party with “legitimate access to customer accounts” was hit by a data breach last year, causing...
Feb 27, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
A group of IT suppliers in the US has launched an “open data platform” association to boost big data technology.This comes at a time when big data analytics projects seem to be gaining ground in corporate IT. As an instance, big data analytics and...
Feb 26, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
A global study of almost 2,100 contracts covering deals worth £7.8 billion suggests that Cloud-based services are failing to capture the popular imagination of UK businesses. It also suggests that organisations are increasing the level of IT services they...
Feb 26, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Xero, a provider of cloud-based accountancy services announced it has secured $110.8m in funding from Accel Partners and Matrix Capital Management, and has appointed former Dell and Salesforce executives to head up the firm’s US operations and join the board of...
Feb 26, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google has made its free cloud storage service for music a bit more appealing, especially considering alternatives from Apple and Amazon.Users can now store up to 50,000 songs for free in the cloud through the company’s Google Play Music service, which...
Feb 25, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Motorola has unveiled the second-generation Moto E smartphone, complete with 4G and Google’s latest Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system.The 2015 Moto E is a follow up to the firm’s 2014 model and comes with a number of software and hardware upgrades, the...
Feb 24, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cloud software will drive IT spending up to $3.8tn in 2015, as competition becomes fiercer between cloud and traditional on-premise software vendors, according to a report by...
Feb 24, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
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Feb 23, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
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Feb 23, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the public cloud provider to beat by quite some considerable margin, new research suggests.http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/hybrid-cloud/4839/aws-beats-microsoft-in-public-cloud-adoption-stakes Source: New...
Feb 21, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Check out Mark Vales technical blog here - https://markvale.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/skype-for-business-whats-coming/ Source: New feed
Feb 21, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Get a recap of all the Google Apps for Work features relevant to Admins released in January 2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Ru5-7Muw8&feature=youtu.be&list=PLU8ezI8GYqs4NSPPqm9hkdWPziVh_O3EC Source: New feed
Feb 21, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has released a new set of guidelines to its Office 365 customers on how they can configure encryption to protect sensitive data as well as updates on when they will be available to mobile...
Feb 21, 2015 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has added four security measures to Office 365 to help businesses keep their data secure. Two of the measures are focused on compliance and the other two offer better identity...