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The number of companies moving services to the cloud is growing. More than four out of five organisations now use cloud based services, according to the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF). This is part of an ongoing steady increase from 48 per cent in 2010, to 61 per cent in 2013, to 78 per cent in 2014, and 84 per cent in 2015.
We at hSo are passionate about getting online and staying connected. After all we are an internet service provider. However, in the growing era of the Internet of Things, there are limits to what should be connected to the internet and what shouldn't.
Your office was designed for humans. That's great news for your coworkers, bad news for your office plants and terrible news for your business-critical IT systems.
It is possible to retrofit your office to provide a better hosting environment for your servers, but that's very expensive. Luckily, there's a better option, called colocation – or colo for short.
It's not just server applications that are migrating to the cloud. Business telephony is heading there too.
That's according to the latest research by telecoms consultancy Cavell Group.
It found that UK business demand for hosted VoIP services surged by 31.9% in 2015, bringing the total number of seats (end-user subscriptions) to 2,175,065.
A few of our customers have a 1Gb/s leased line to their office.
If current trends continue, you could have a 1Gb/s broadband connection at home within the next decade.
Businesses are increasingly finding themselves on the receiving end of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
IT infrastructure that's been knocked offline by malicious attacks is the stuff of IT managers' nightmares. Unfortunately, it's becoming a reality for an increasing number of organisations.
That's according to the latest Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report by network security firm Arbor Networks.
It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft has finally axed desktop support for versions 8,9 and 10 of Internet Explorer (IE).
When your IT stops working, everyone notices. Whatever the cause, your IT team gets blamed and there's a mad scramble to fix the problem.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Many problems are avoidable, if the right technology is in place.
Here are 20 ways you can minimise IT downtime and keep everything running smoothly.
Sick of cold-calls? You’re not alone. More than 280,000 complaints about cold calling were made to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) last year - 11 per cent more than in 2014.
Britain's telecoms regulator Ofcom is set to reveal whether BT should sell Openreach - the BT division charged with maintaining most of the UK's network of telephone exchanges, phone lines and telecom ducts.
BT's rivals have long claimed that BT's ownership of Openreach is problematic, with Vodafone, Sky and TalkTalk insisting Openreach should be spun off as an independent business.
It's the New Year, so we decided to give it a go and write our very own list of the biggest trends that
(we think) will mark 2016.
There are two main steps to connecting your business to the Internet.
Your Internet Service Provider creates a link between your site(s) and its own core network, probably by using one or more of these technologies:
Remember CRT monitors? Brick-sized mobile phones? What about buying hundreds of software licences? Technology moves fast and the current front-runner in office innovation, shunting clunky traditional software setups into the past, is SaaS.
Brace yourself, winter travel chaos is coming.
The Met Office has predicted colder and wetter weather than usual in December and January. With this warning comes the very real risk of employees failing to show up for work due to weather and transport woes, which will cause major disruption to businesses across the UK.
Planning to work from home? Here’s how to make your work-from-home day incredibly productive:
1. Set An Objective For The Day To Complete Sizeable Tasks A, B and C. Don’t Let The Work Day End Till You’ve Completed Them
The credit crunch hit many retailers hard. But some are fighting back, by capitalising on six key trends that broadband has unleashed:
E-commerce – A Segment of Retail That’s Growing
This month, we're very excited to be featured in Public Sector Technology, a publication from independent publisher Raconteur. The magazine talked to hSo's Customer Development Director Avner Peleg about the expansion of the Network Services Framework to include SMEs and the need for change in IT procurement in the Public Sector.
Broadband has been great for most businesses, but it hasn’t been good news for everyone:
As a savvy IT Manager, you know that server virtualisation makes a lot of sense. There’s just one problem: Your company’s penny-pinching Financial Director probably won’t approve it.
Let’s look at your options.
Option 1 – The Full Works, From Day One
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