- Pond Webmaster
- 28 Oct 16
UK Tech price increases
Dear all, Apple have announced that with immediate effect, they are increasing the price of their products in the UK by up to 20%. Even some old models, such as the 3 year old Mac Pro has increased by almost £500 overnight. They haven’t provided us with a definitive reason for the increase, other than to bring the UK in line with other territories following on from significant currency fluctuations. Apple are not alone in this increase as we recently received the attached letter from Microsoft. Essentially they are doing the same thing and increasing most of their licence pricing by up to 22%. One thing Microsoft have done is […]
- Pond Webmaster
- 27 Oct 16
‘RansomWare’: how to avoid a disaster
Every business comes with challenges. Not just the everyday problems of remaining profitable, efficient and competitive, but challenges to the very existence of the business itself. The threats we face as business owners are evolving continually and businesses who fail to recognise the risks are leaving themselves vulnerable. Take a high-street store. One big threat is shoplifters – easily mitigated by security guards, CCTV and product security tags. What if the thieves worked out a way to take your entire stock, lock it up in a warehouse somewhere and threatened to burn it all unless you paid them a ransom? Well, that’s exactly what is happening in the digital world […]
- Pond Webmaster
- 10 Oct 16
POND Case Study
Brief Our client, a leading provider of document management solutions, started up a few years ago and Pond have been helping with their IT requirements and supporting them ever since. This particular problem arose when the hard disk in one of their PCs failed. The PC held the master copy of a database they use every day. All the client and candidate information was stored in this system and was potentially lost. Solution Knowing the value of this data, Pond had previously recommended and implemented a Cloud based secure backup service to protect their essential files. The Pond Duo-LC Cloud system with RedStor backup engine is a comprehensive system for PCs […]
