So by now everybody and their gran (maybe not?!) has heard of the cloud however I am still surprised when talking day to day with customers how many people, even those involved in the IT side of things, have skewed negative preconceptions that continue to put them off implementing and taking advantage of cloud services […]
Read MoreWe’re talking to a lot of customers who are moving their email to Office 365, and wondering how that will affect Enterprise Vault. A quick google or bing might find details of EV.Cloud and that might seem like the obvious choice, but that’s not always the case. As always with these things, the devil’s in […]
Read MoreAvoid Ransomware with Malwarebytes FREE INSTALL & SOFTWARE DISCOUNT Malwarebytes is an essential tool in every techie’s kit bag. Most IT workers have used it to clean infected PC’s where the anti virus product has failed. Ransomware is now one of the biggest challenges in IT. At Consilium we are dealing with Cryptolocker attacks on a […]
Read MoreLast week saw Veritas’ first independent worldwide ‘Vision’ conference in more than 10 years. From the opening of the first keynote speech which was a Hollywood style lights and laser show, the general theme coming through the whole event was “Veritas is back”. Veritas seems to have back the buoyancy of old and a spring […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Teams Since Microsoft’s event on October, there has been a lot of press claiming that the folks from Redmond have been working hard to steal the ‘innovation’ crown from Apple. Certainly, while the release of the 2016 Macbook Pro has left a lot of heads being scratched, it seems the new products from Redmond […]
Read MoreWindows 10, has brought many new and exciting features to end-user computing. Backup & Recovery features of Windows has evolved in each iteration of the Windows life cycle. Despite the evolution of Windows, backup and more importantly recovery is still not an easy task. Windows 10 Backup made easy with Veeam Endpoint Backup! At Consilium we have been recommending […]
Read MoreTesco Bank had to temporarily suspend online banking operations for current account customers after thousands were affected by hacker fraud on the weekend of 5th November 2016. The bank has confirmed that small amounts of current accounts were subject to online criminal activity resulting in money being withdrawn fraudulently in some cases. The bank has […]
Read MoreWe’ve been talking to and deploying a few azure technologies to our clients over the last few years as the ‘cloud’, specifically Microsoft Azure, slowly pushes itself into every organisation’s infrastructure. Obviously, as more and more services are offered by Azure and implemented by larger enterprises, there always seemed to be a common question asked […]
Read MoreAvalanche is a notorious online criminal network specialising in Malware, Ransomware and money laundering. They have hundreds of servers working daily, causing havoc to organisations worldwide. Law enforcement agencies from the USA (FBI), EU (Europol) and the UK (NCA) seized around 40 servers and took a further 200 offline. In addition, they shut down over […]
Read MoreXP is a security disaster. Unpatched and unsafe. 90% of the NHS is still using XP according to recent freedom of information requests from Citrix. 42 out of 63 trusts responded. 24 trusts expressed a desire to move to VDI. Not sure the rest have a plan. Organisations with XP need to address security […]
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