About a year ago when traveling up north I stopped overnight with my wife at a small hotel. I’d chosen the hotel largely because of its location en route to Aberdeen where we were headed but also I’d selected one with guest wifi. The guest wifi used a captive portal solution with a terms and […]
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What’s the risk with an IP? When securing an Azure subscription there are a whole bunch of important things to do – many of these Microsoft has documented very well on their website. One thing that isn’t well documented is how to monitor the creation of public IP addresses in your subscription. Public IP
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We have considered various options around how to migrate a SQL database to Azure and concluded: On-Premise highly consolidated virtualized environment with SQL Server running on VMs whilst the virtual hosts are licensed – this is the most cost effective model – moving to cloud will be more expensive unless you move away from MS
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All AMDH Services Limited service offerings that were previously on the G-Cloud 10 framework are now available on the G-Cloud 11 framework through Digital Marketplace. Our services are centred around helping customers move their on-premise applications and services to cloud.
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One thing I wanted to touch on for a while now is the Azure SQL PaaS offerings. If you have SQL on premise then at present you manage the server, the database, and the application, but Microsoft want to be helpful and so they have offered to take on the management of the server and
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Banks “improving” security About 6 months ago one of my bank account providers decided to change the online login security measures so as to “improve security”… they went from username and password to username, password and selected characters from a so called “memorable phrase”. About 2 months ago another followed suit – again username
Banks & MFA – Fatally Flawed Solutions! Read More »
I recently damaged the screen of my android mobile and made a decision to replace it – it was still usable in the short term as the screen still worked; it just had a crack across it (it was a Samsung Galaxy S8 so probably prone to this anyhow). I managed to migrate all my
New Phone? How to move MS MFA across… Read More »
So, moving from a on premise highly consolidated hypervisor based SQL environment to cloud and using the on prem SQL licensing doesn’t cost in – but don’t Microsoft offer any concessions to encourage the move to Azure? And what about using the Azure pay as you go licensing – is that any cheaper? A little
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If you are considering moving to cloud there are a whole load of different “costs” that you need to consider and build into your business case… There’s the rental costs of the new environment, including things like: Connectivity Costs Virtual Machine Costs Cloud Storage Costs Monitoring Costs and so on… Then there’s the cost of
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Since 1 October 2014, Cyber Essentials has been a minimum requirement for bidding for some government contracts. AMDH Services Limited takes it’s cyber security very seriously and first certified with the Cyber Essentials scheme in March 2018 and has just completed its recertification. We believe that even though we are a small business this qualification
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