A city dweller, our youngster born in the eighties. Variation is his game, web apps, firewalls, .NET, PHP and any other 3 letter acronym you can muster. And when he’s not at work, the city dweller heads for the Outer Hebrides to see his family.
On Tuesday 16th February we’re going to install new firewalls in our Manchester data centre. While we do the work we’ll be operating all services through our Derby site and turn off Manchester.
This work follows on from our network upgrades in Derby last week and will bring our network fully up-to-date. continue reading Further network upgrades
On Tuesday 9th February we’re going to install new firewalls in our Derby data centre. For a short period of time we will turn off Derby and operate all services through our Manchester site.
While Derby is turned off we’ll also be upgrading our network and servers to make sure we offer you the best service possible.
We’ve now ordered our new firewalls, we’ve gone with a pair of Cisco ASA5510s for the data centres and an ASA5505 for our office. We chose the Cisco firewalls for a few reasons I’ll explain below.
continue reading Progress with Firewalls
This is a follow on to our post on Perl module config files
continue reading Creating Perl module RPMs
We currently use Cisco PIX firewalls in both our data centres and office, we haven’t really had any problems with these but asCisco stopped providing software maintenance at the end of July now seems a good time to replace them. continue reading Firewalls
PricewaterhouseCoopers are predicting that due to ad spend shifting away from traditional media, digital and mobile will take an incredible 78% of global entertainment and media ad spend by 2013.
continue reading Changing the face and pace of media
The Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas last week hit the headlines for demonstrating what it saw as severe flaws in cloud computing when it comes to data security, picking an example of how users of Amazon’s Elastic Computer Cloud were tricked into using virtual machines that then left the back door open for fraudulent shopping.
continue reading In mobile we trust
All our services have been running live in our new Derby data centre for over a week now and everything been working fine.
If you’ve got any questions about any of the changes we’ve made give us a call or drop us an email.
All services are now back up and running across our two sites in Manchester and Derby. We’ve spent most of the day today watching log files and checking customers had the right IP addresses for us on their firewalls.
continue reading Data centre move complete
All our servers are now settled into their new home in Derby. We’ve got quite a bit of testing to do before transferring over any services and we’ll post an update later today letting you know what’s happening.
continue reading We’ve moved
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