So, you’ve gone ahead and upgraded to Windows 11. You’re ready to explore the fresh design and all the new features. But instead of smooth sailing, your computer slows to a crawl… random errors start popping up… and you can’t install any security updates… That’s the nightmare faced by businesses that try to run Windows …
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Warning: Don’t ignore hardware requirements for Windows 11
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Windows 11 uptake is at an all-time high – what are you waiting for?
Still holding on to Windows 10 in your business? It’s time to start thinking about making the move to Windows 11. Three years after its release, Windows 11 is making major headway, with its market share reaching 35.55% in October 2024. While Windows 10 still holds around 60.97% of the market, change is on the …
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You are backing up Entra ID….right?
In a similar style to my previous M365 backup post (yet-another-m365-backup-blog/) this isn’t just a re-write of other posts – the post by Henrik Brusgaard, VP of Product at our partners Keepit is up there with the best of them, and well worth a read – why-back-up-azure-active-directory/ Henrik’s post details the impact of an Entra …
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The HPE MSA – Hiding in plain sight?
I have been in London recently installing an HPE MSA array for a client – whilst they have an incredibly well sorted main infrastructure solution from HPE, with enterprise-class flash storage giving them incredible resilience, performance and AI driven management and planning, they needed something for a specific workload. It needed to be highly performant, …
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A third of all data loss is caused by problems with backups
Losing access to your business’s data – even temporarily – is a nightmare worthy of a horror movie. Data backup tools create copies of your data and store them in a safe place. If something goes wrong, recovery tools will use these copies to restore your lost files. So, if your business already uses backup …
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82% of businesses are still on Windows 10 – are you?
You’re ready for the upgrade… what’s holding you back? With the end of support for Windows 10 just over a year away, many business owners are starting to wonder why they haven’t upgraded to Windows 11 yet. Are you one of them? Research shows that most businesses could make the switch, but a surprising number …
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Take back control! Respond and Recover from a ransomware attack – Part 3
Following on from our first two posts on Cyber Resilience (Take back control! Cyber resilience and ransomware – Part 1 and Take back control! Prevent and Detect Ransomware – Part 2) today we look at two other pillars in a Cyber Resilience strategy – Respond and Recover. In part 2, we looked at how a …
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Take back control! Prevent and Detect Ransomware – Part 2
Take back control! Prevent and Detect – Pt 2 Following on from our first post on Cyber Resilience (Take back control! Cyber resilience and ransomware – Part 1) today we look at two of the pillars in a Cyber Resilience strategy – Prevent and Detect. Ransomware is likely to be the most prevalent risk to …
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Take back control! Cyber resilience and ransomware – Part 1
Cyber resilience is a wide-ranging subject, and a properly implemented strategy will cover a large range of subject areas, right across the business, from human factors, through detection, response, restoration etc. Cyber resilience is your business’ ability to take back control. To recover with confidence – never paying the ransom and returning to normal business …
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