Like all businesses, law firms had to adopt remote working strategies throughout lockdown and into these socially-distanced times, but is this a habit that’s here to stay? I have friends who are partners of law firms and home working has become the new norm for them. They can even...

I wrote the original blog with the title What are the advantages of using a local data centre? back in 2013 and it remains one of our most popular blog posts to date, often leading to enquiries from businesses and organisations that need a hosting facility. Since then, more people...

The coronavirus pandemic forces businesses to close their offices to meet the Government’s social distancing rules. This saw more people than ever are working from home.In April 2020, statistics released by the UK's Office for National Statistics showed 49.2% of adults in...

In this video I explain how COVID-19 has immeasurably changed our world with some offices lying largely empty with staff working from home. This has put pressure on our office-based servers that may no longer receive the care, attention and security they once had when the office...

No-one would have envisaged the move to homeworking would have been driven by COVID-19. We are witnessing a change in the way we work, not just today, but for some time to come, maybe even forever. This could be a sea change moment in the standard working day for most of...

Our working world has changed radically with one of the main changes inflicted by lockdown being that many of our offices are empty. One of the things we need to consider is that if our offices are going to be occupied less, should we be thinking about what is residing in the office,...

As we move into the next phase of lockdown and social distancing, it does not look like many of us will be rushing back into our offices anytime soon. Although Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said people who cannot work from home can return to their workplace as long as they are...

In the last few weeks, we have been using our blogs and social media platforms to give businesses advice on work from home solutions to keep them operational during the coronavirus lockdown. One key element has been the use of virtual private networks (VPNs). These allow staff...

We know that your business data is irreplaceable and to lose it could be disastrous in terms of missed orders, lost sales information, contacts, payment details, employee records, etc. Stories of customer details being lost or leaked has been a feature of news feeds this year with...

When people think about a ‘data centre’, they may imagine large glassy skyscrapers in London and Manchester or hulking warehouse-sized structures in out-of-town locations. While these certainly exist, there are local alternatives that may be more suited to businesses. But which...