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Martin

Engineer

About Martin

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.

Our SMS API is 100

This week sees the 100th release of our SMS API. Some of these releases added major new features such as MMS, some didn’t make it past our test servers and others fixed bugs or made everything that little bit faster. continue reading Our SMS API is 100


Speeding up textburst

Here’s a post about the latest updates we’ve released to our online SMS products including textburst and O2 Online Text.   These updates were primarily focussed on making everything work faster. continue reading Speeding up textburst


Textburst updates

Since putting the new version of Textburst version live in January we’ve done 7 additional updates.   These updates cover all the mediaburst and O2 branded products such as textburst and Online Text. Here’s a rundown of what we’ve done: continue reading Textburst updates


Further network upgrades

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


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.

continue reading Network Upgrades


Progress with Firewalls

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


Creating Perl module RPMs

This is a follow on to our post on Perl module config files
continue reading Creating Perl module RPMs


Firewalls

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


Changing the face and pace of media

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


In mobile we trust

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


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