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SSD Speeds: Are we being mislead?
In a previous post we talked about the difference in disk read/write speed when enabling and disabling FileVault on a MacBook Pro fitted with an SSD. The software used to test was ‘Blackmagic Disk...
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@GloNetworks
While we’ve had a GloNetworks twitter account for some time our tweets up to this point have been few and far between. But now we feel we’re ready to up our tweet game and we’ll be tweeting far more...
View ArticleRemoving E-Trust – Simplified
In our experience changing between anti-virus software can be more hassle than it first seems. Even if the new antivirus vendor will claim to remove the previous software sometimes it just can’t, and...
View ArticleiPhone 4S includes Bluetooth 4
There was an obvious air of disappointment when the new iPhone version was announced. The gadget loving people of the world held their breath in anticipation of the iPhone 5 and instead were presented...
View ArticleiPad2 not too secure!
Tablet devices have become popular business tools in the last few years, they offer many of the benefits of laptops without some of the drawbacks. The iPad is currently the most popular tablet device...
View ArticleDon’t get stuck in the IT dark age!
Recent research by hardware manufacturer Intel (and supported by the Confederation of British Industry) has highlighted the lack of investment and expertise in IT in small businesses in the UK. Their...
View ArticleGlo’s Recommended Software
As an out sourced IT Support company serving many different areas of business here at Glo Networks we use a large variety of different software every day. As such we would like to suggest some of the...
View ArticleInternal Emails Banned!
If you follow technology or business news you may have heard that Atos, a large (giant?) technology services company, have announced they intend to ban their employees from using internal email. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft Support Lifecycle Dates
If you’re running Windows Vista or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 it may be time to think about upgrading as today marks the end of Microsoft’s mainstream support for the products. As with all...
View ArticleHow large is 150PB? – Microsoft offers a new perspective on the size of all...
Recently Microsoft has been making changes to their free Hotmail email service. In fact, while all the accounts and addresses remain active, Hotmail as a service is no more. Instead the 300+ million...
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The decline of 08XX Numbers?
We are currently undergoing some exciting changes to our internal phone system, and we want to tell you all about them! There has long been public pressure about premium rate numbers and their use...
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Connecting to Remote Desktops via Remote Desktop Gateway Servers
Occasionally we’re asked by one of our customers to give a third-party access to one of their servers for various reasons. Recently we’ve been surprised that a number of these third-party users, often...
View ArticleSPLA a good alternative to traditional software licensing?
Here at Glo Networks we are always looking for new ways to get the best value for our customers, which is why we now have an SPLA (Service Provider License Agreement) with Microsoft. An SPLA is an...
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VHD Compacts Made Easy
From time to time we have found it necessary to compact dynamically expanding VHD’s for various reasons (for example reclaiming space on the host drive or shrinking the VHD for migration). In the past...
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iOS Mobile Data Usage
Recently a few of our customer have experienced overcharges on their mobile phone contracts due to exceeding their monthly mobile data quota. In the age of iDevices, what with streaming, VOIP calling,...
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Windows 10
The Windows 10 technical preview has been available for a while now and while we’ve not spent a great deal of time with it as of yet we would like to share some of the new features with you: Metro =...
View ArticleHow to ask for IT help
As you can imagine as an IT support company we have a fair bit of experience in helping people with IT, but in this blog post we’d like to go a bit meta and help people ask for help with IT. The...
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Support Contract Calculator
We’ve recently simplified our options for support here at Glo. We now offer either Reactive (ad-hoc) support, or to get the best of what Glo has to offer we highly recommend our Proactive monthly...
View ArticleOffice 365 Free for Non-Profit Organisations
If you run, or work for a charity you will probably have an email address for use with the organisation, and as such you should be interested to hear that you can get a subscription to Microsoft’s...
View ArticleWindows 10 Release Date – July 29th
Yesterday Microsoft announced the release date for Windows 10: 29/07/15. In just under two months the newest version of the Windows OS will be available for PCs and tablets. As we mentioned in our...
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