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Appligo

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Stonewater

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Progress Housing Group

I just wanted to say thanks to BrightCloud for their help with our server migration, another very successful upgrade. Well done everyone!

Glencore Agriculture UK

Thank you for your help with our recent Citrix and Windows OS upgrades. We had no real issues, so I want to give a …

Ultima Displays

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Motor Neurone Disease Association

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Hosting NHS applications

BrightCloud have proved to be exceptional hosts for the Trust’s system. BrightCloud are fully conversant with the software, which enables their support team to …

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How to Save Money on Your AVD Deployment

In this blog we look at how Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) helps you to consume less Azure resources, which in turn can save you a small fortune on your AVD bill.

How Droplet Containers secure legacy apps and servers

Containerising legacy apps and servers protects them from security threats which helps you achieve compliance and delivers significant cost savings when it comes to deploying apps, not only in acquisition, but also in management costs and lower infrastructure overheads.

How Veeam Cloud Connect Helps With the 3-2-1 Backup Rule

The 3-2-1 backup rule states that you at least 1 copy of your data should be off site. Veeam Cloud Connect makes it easy to get backups and replicas off site to a provider like BrightCloud, without the cost and complexity of managing a second infrastructure.

7 Reasons to Backup Office 365

Unprotected Office 365 data is a real and unappreciated risk to businesses. You may have the impression that there isn’t such a thing as …

Why you MUST upgrade to Veeam Backup and Replication v11

Veeam takes its market leading Backup and Replication software further ahead of the competition and could save your company money; here are our four top reasons why this upgrade is a MUST.

OVH Data Centre Fire Shows Why Disaster Recovery Plans Are Essential

The largest European web hosting provider, OVH, suffered a catastrophic fire on Wednesday 10th March destroying one of its data centres in France with power supplies to their other three offline until next week. OVH are encouraging affected customers to implement their Disaster Recovery plan.

Manchester United Football Club hit by Cyber Attack

Late on Friday 20th November, Manchester United Football Club released a statement announcing they had been victims of “a sophisticated operation by organised cyber criminals”.

Twitter hack highlights dangers of phone spear phishing

Phone spear phishing is a form of social engineering that was used to great effect in the recent high-profile Twitter hack. It’s not a new practice, but the massive rise in remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic has made it far more powerful, and so businesses need to be wary of the threat.

Project Sonar Finds 50,000 Windows DNS Servers Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Exploit

In early July Project Sonar found just under 50,000 Microsoft DNS servers in UDP and TCP DNS scans with the vulnerability. They also discovered that 20 companies in the Fortune 500 had 250 at-risk servers exposed to the outside world.

Microsoft DNS Server Vulnerability Highlights Importance of Patching

A remote code execution vulnerability for Microsoft DNS Server has been scored a maximum 10/10 on the CVSS scoring matrix. This poses a massive risk to businesses around the world and highlights the importance of regular and comprehensive patching.