If you store personal data about individuals, you should be registered with the UK Government’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a Data Controller. For example, a personnel system is an obvious example of a system which stores personal information. Whether you are storing the information on your own hardware at your office, using a hosted…
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Cloud services are massively gaining in popularity – but what are they and how might they be useful to your business? Essentially a cloud service is any IT service which is supplied remotely through the internet. These fall broadly into three categories: 1) Software that you access over the internet, primarily from a web browser,…
DetailsSince we started trading as a software development company way back in 1996, we have found through experience that the key to a successful project lies not in a detailed and carefully crafted specification and design document, but instead in a strong iterative approach to development which closely involves the client at every stage and…
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If you lay down the correct systems and infrastructure, recovery from serious IT problems can be made much easier and much less expensive. Take the fairly common example of hard drive failure. Once a drive has failed, and most drives fail eventually, it may not be possible to retrieve the data from it. And if…
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