Yesterday I did the preparation today I need to transfer the data and test the system ready for Monday morning and everyone coming back to work. I am hoping these are “Microsoft minutes” as I want to get home to watch the live American football on the TV today!
It was the Branston Business Network last night and I gave the fifteen minute presentation, a quick overview about cloud computing. I have put my notes online here. Thanks to all those people who said they enjoyed the talk and got some good information from it. Branston Business Network is an active, informal group of
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Nearly everything you wanted to know about the Cloud but you didn’t know the questions to ask. There is nothing mysterious about the “cloud” it is simply something you want to do, but it happens on the internet. Explain more! Rather then you owning kit and software to do a job, someone else, for free
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This is an obvious statement but our latest clients, who organise safaris to Africa, have a map painted on their office wall. Their office is a converted church so they had enough room for this huge mural. This client is new to Octagon so I have spent a couple of hours there today making sure
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OK I admit it, I was one of those people who was waiting to download iOS 7 for my iPhone as soon as it became available. I was lucky enough to be ahead of the crowd and downloaded and installed my copy of the software in well under and hour. (I used the upgrade function
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Today I was called out to a dead server. And whilst I was resolving the issue I was being attacked by a butterfly. Must have been there because of the warmth from the servers. Here is a pic of it sitting on the light.
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Today I have been to a variety of client sites and I have been helping others on the phone. I had one call today which was a little confusing at first, it started like this “we can’t access the shared drive”. A few minutes in to the conversation I had worked out the issue. It
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One of the reasons we decided to set up an Octagon twitter account was to deal with the issue of “robots” joining our feed. Consequently Octagon, for the moment, has joined the TrueTwit (www.truetwit.com) service. Robots in the I.T world are computers that attempt to subscribe to services and can possibly send you loads of
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Today we have started a twitter feed for Octagon Technology. Up until now we had been using Clive and Diana’s personal accounts – now you can follow us @OctagonT
