Cloud

Most people will by now have navigated the first month of lockdown and be working successfully from home. Your business may have moved to the cloud before COVID-19, or moved more recently. Many will still be working remotely on servers and devices with the data stored locally.

Remote working can bring some challenges when you want to ensure a consistent experience across multiple devices and where access to numerous apps on demand is needed. Virtual desktop infrastructure may be something to consider?

Working from home is now an everyday reality for many of our customers and network issues can be a challenge. As schools have now closed and other businesses have also sent people home, many home workers are struggling with ensuring they can run their real-time work apps such as Voice and Video conferencing without interference from other people, who are also working from home or using other online content.

Remote working for a hacker is brilliant, and not in the sense that they can work from home in a dark room wearing a hoodie. But because remote working means that a business is intentionally giving a path into the internal network that could potentially be accessed by anyone on the internet. This blog post covers some of the things that we have encountered across the team over the years.

As your business grows, we can also advise on the next step, whether to Sage 200cloud Standard or Sage 200cloud Professional.

In the last decade, the number of people working from home has risen by 74% meaning it’s more important now than ever before to stay connected outside the office. Learn everything you need to know about how Chess Cloud PBX enables you to stay connected, from any location, with any device.

BT has announced it will end-of-life its Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) by 2025. ISDN is used by over one million UK businesses. In this blog, we will answer the key questions around the switch off and the next steps to a future-proofed solution.

Martin Bacon, Cloud Voice Specialist from Chess, looks into the features, benefits and what options are available to you and your business. Is your telephony system still stuck in the dark ages? Look at what you can do to move to the cloud and making business calls as simple as 1,2,3.

Introducing the brand new Sophos product, that tracks assets in public cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform - and keeps them safe.

How Easy Is It To Hack Office 365 and 2FA?

This week we are joined by Stuart White, Chess Penetration Tester, he takes us through a live hack, targeting Office 365 accounts and the techniques you should be aware of to avoid being compromised, even when using 2-factor authentication.

Cloud Telephony has many names, like VoIP, SIP Trunking and Hosted Voice. Whatever its name, it gives businesses like yours the tools to advance into the future. Read on to find out the 6 greatest benefits.  

BT have announced they will be starting the big ISDN switch off in 2020. Future proofing your business is no longer an option, but a necessity.

How does Backup differ from Disaster Recovery? In our recent Chess webinar, iland Solutions Architect Nicholas King clearly demonstrates the difference. Find out what happens when a data centre is hit by a power outage, and what steps are required to restore systems.

There are just over three months to go before the end of general support for VMware vSphere 5.5, on 19 September 2018.

Technical Architect Dean Lewis shares his knowledge and expertise to help navigate this potentially complex process, including pitfalls to look out for.