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17/09/2023

How to give your emails the best chance of being delivered!

3 Simple tips to ensure your email server settings are setup for success.

Think of a customer email box as a mailbox. A mailbox with stickers that say "no junk mail", "addressed mail only", "no circulars". A mailbox that is also guarded by a sometimes over-zealous automated gatekeeper that sorts the mail before it even gets read. You have an important message that you wan...

31/08/2023

For a bunch of "IT Nerds", our team in the CHC office is a fairly active and sporty bunch. Quite a few of the team bike to work most days and they generally seem to be a happy bunch.

Love cycle lanes in Christchurch? Hate cycle lanes in Christchurch? Doesn't matter, Peter Brook gives his personal thoughts on them and its a compelling read - oh and there is a data story there as well.

Christchurch's new cycle lanes are awesome and the data available on Christchurch City Council's Smartview website is interesting. Let's build healthier lifestyles together.

17/08/2023

Whether it be hiding your emails from lurking eyes on the internet or keeping your credit card number secure from bad actors during a transaction, encryption finds its way into most aspects of our digital life without us even noticing. Encryption is everywhere.

But it relies on truly random numbers to ensure security - but just how do you go about generating truly random numbers? Well Deano looked in to this and its very surprising. Lava Lamps, Storms, Radioactive Decay and even Bananas are a part of the story - have a read, its worthwhile!

Whether it be hiding your emails from lurking eyes on the internet or keeping your credit card number secure from bad actors during a transaction, encryption finds its way into most aspects of our digital life without us even noticing. Encryption is everywhere. Randomness is extremely important for....

13/08/2023

Evolution is a part of business, if you aren't moving you are stagnating.

Our world and that of our award winning cloud management platform is the same, Peter Brook writes on the evolution of
MyCloudSpace from Portal to Platform - its a great read.

18/06/2023

Get the latest news from the Pure Storage conference in Las Vegas last week fresh from Phil Snowdon our very own Pure Storage Navigator and storage guru.

I must start out by thanking Pure [https://www.purestorage.com/] and Westcon [https://www.linkedin.com/company/westcon-group-nz/?originalSubdomain=nz] for giving me the opportunity to travel to Las Vegas to attend Pure Accelerate 2023 [https://www.purestorage.com/accelerate.html], and especially Car...

16/06/2023

Running Fortigate Firewalls? Make sure you are protected from a critical vulnerability ASAP.

For Softsource vBridge customers with managed services, this was taken care of already.

Fortinet have just released the following FortiOS updates for versions 6.0, 6.2 6.4, 7.0, and 7.2 for FortiGate's. At this current time (12/06/23) Fortinet have not disclosed the details of the vulnerability(s) but there is indication of SSL VPN vulnerabilities which is of high concern if you have t...

11/06/2023

As a cloud services provider we are always working on the platform, there are security patches to apply, performance updates, software updates, new infrastructure and just occasionally a replacement part that has failed.

Business hours and out of hours has changed over the years however, and as our platform and client base grows - so does the conundrum of what is inside and outside of business hours. Corey Evans blogged on the subject and considers the implications of this.

Hot on the heels of talking about platform updates lets talk some business time!! Now business time can mean a whole lot of different things to different people in different situations, so lets get specific and talk context....... As much as I love Flight of the Concords we're not talking their type...

05/06/2023

For the fans its a weekend of excitement, your inner bogan coming alive and usually late nights or early starts to catch the action live. But behind the scenes its a technology behemoth where vast amounts of data are generated and analyzed in real time in attempts to make a hundredth of a seconds difference.

Deano from our team takes a look produced a fascinating insight.

Formula 1 (F1) is a hugely popular sport globally and its popularity continues to grow. The expansion of its fan base was certainly helped by the super entertaining Netflix series Drive to Survive [https://www.netflix.com/title/80204890], which engaged even the most casual of viewers and even those....

29/05/2023

So many ChatGPT articles online these days, and probably half written at least partially by ChatGPT.....

Matthew Ford decided to get his thoughts down and discusses many of the questions and concerns that this amazing technology offers.

Foreword: I am no AI specialist. (sorry - that was five, depending on how you count them) Seriously, while it's very cool and all, I haven't had nearly the time I'd like to play with everything these tools can do. The below wall of text will likely contain errors introduced in the name of brevity. I...

22/05/2023

Of course we are a technology company, but technology exists everywhere - even in windows as one of our awesome customers Stake Glass will tell you.

Graeme Evans takes you on his personal journey to double glazing and the great benefits that he has realised!

We'd spent several years to-ing and fro-ing on what, how much, and how we would add double-glazing to our (older) house. Should we go aluminium or uPVC for maintenance, and forgo the warmer look of wood? How about the thermal properties of each? What kind of glass should we use? Would I do the work....

15/05/2023

Most orgs now appreciate the need to back up their M365 Data, if you aren't then give us a call! Its cheap and easy.

But beyond the standard backup solution there are so many more options that we can deliver, including providing immutable copies of your data as well. Ben Young explains more.

We recently had a customer enquire about if we could make their existing Microsoft Office 365 backup they host with us have additional protections in place. The answer is yes! What can we do for you? We leverage Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 in the backend so can utilise their excellent backup-copy...