Many businesses will shut down completely over Christmas, while others may stay open with employees enjoying extended annual leave at different periods. As not everyone will be working to the same business schedule over the festive season it’s ever more important that your work e-mail ‘out of office’ keeps customers old and new informed of your whereabouts.

Many businesses are starting to think about the slow down over the Christmas holiday period, but an unexpected disaster can strike at any time. So how can you protect and recover your business over the festive season? Here are some basic tips to plan ahead.

Ensuring that virtualised servers are effectively backed up requires a different approach to the backing up of conventional server installations. Many organisations are still using long established procedures used for conventional servers and now apply these procedures and applications to virtualised servers.

Sooner or later you could be at risk of losing some or all of your data. It could be a machine error, employee, application failure, cybercrime, virus or a severe storm. Who knows?

We want to ensure that with less than 1 year before the End of Support, that you have already begun your planning to migrate your applications off of Windows Server 2003.  We want to also ensure that you are aware that your migration destination does not only include Windows Server 2012 R2, but also Microsoft Azure as well as Office 365 for SharePoint and Exchange. 

It’s not too late to claim your connection voucher worth up to £3,000 for faster, better broadband through the Government’s Broadband Connection Vouchers scheme.

This scheme is available in 22 large towns and cities around the country (including London), to all customers as a discount against the total term rental / install cost of new fibre leased line (MIA) circuits

To receive a grant worth £3,000 Yellowspring can provide a connection quote from a broadband supplier in your area.

New course is launched to help members of the legal and accountancy professions protect themselves and their clients from cyber-attacks.

Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey launched on 7th October a new free online training course to help members of the legal and accountancy professions develop the skills they need to protect themselves and their clients from cyber-attacks.

Yellowspring has been recommending and reselling Easynet Internet access products for more than 10 years and is a valued Easynet Partner. The latest updated service from Easynet is Etherstream™ V  and we believe this service will help many businesses resolve problems with insufficient bandwidth to meet their Internet and connectivity requirements.
 

With IT equipment, at some point you will have the responsibility of updating it and there are plenty of businesses where having the latest equipment is essential to their operation. Cloud computing has added another option to the decision making and enables businesses to avoid large capital outlay when replacing older systems.

The total number of Windows XP based PCs still in use is difficult to quantify but estimates out in the number in excess of 1 million – do you have any?

The information about the end of the support by Microsoft has been well distributed by Microsoft, reseller, dealers, and all the different types of media covering technology. Yet despite this wide coverage so many businesses and home users continue to use the unsupported operating system – why?