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Iron Mountain have ‘lost‘ 2 truck loads of tapes in the space of a month. There’s a few reasons why this is a huge story and a significant hit to their customers business as well as their own.
The data on the tapes can be cracked, as they admit ‘using sophisticated equipment’, which really means someone […]

I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone to hear that Irish SME’s find IT too complex, but the results of a survey commissioned by o2 are music to MY ears!
The results highlight that 21% of businesses are turned off by virus issues and 15% are fed up with spam.
Why is this good […]

Hosted Anti-Virus is more secure and reliable than local machine software, because the virus never even gets to your PC and you are not responsible for regualr updates.
From Business and Finance
McAfee customers were left bewildered recently when their antivirus program began attacking legimate third-party applications as malware. The problem was caused by an update that […]

The auDA - Australian Domain Name Administrator - deregistered domain names matching the names of the two miners that were freed.
The auDA’s policy is similar to the IEDR except that it’s retroactive - as in, you can automatically register any domain, but as the policy states, you must be able to demonstrate a reasonable claim […]

Although called by many ‘arcane’ and ‘bureaucratic’, there are some benefits to the IEDR policies.
For example, a school rang our support line today wondering if there was anything she could do about an adult site with a domain name the same as the school she worked for. Realistically there’s not, as the name isn’t unique, […]

In short, the EURid allowed bogus and phantom registrars to game the system; many registrars took payment for .eu names they were unable to secure and are now refusing to refund the payment (they probably shouldn’t have charged the person until the domain was successfully processed anyway!); the EURid system collapsed under the weight of […]

For the past few months businesses could claim ownership of .EU domains if they had company registration or trademark documentation to support this claim - and 300,000 European Union wide did so.
On April 7th this pre-registration phase ends though, and anyone can register a .EU domain name.
Predictions are flying back and forth on how many […]

We’re really pleased to annouce that we are launching (right now … this is the launch!) a ‘Free Blog Plan’ as part of our hosting services line-up!
The features are straightforward - the plan comes with Wordpress and K2 as default (K2 has a hosting365 logo and link to our site … but you are free […]

Late last week we launched a new web site - phew! You’ve no idea (actually, most of you probably do!) how much hard work goes into creating a new site from designs to content. More importantly, we spent a long time discussing the new hosting plans and features.
Typically Irish hosting companies have provided a fraction […]

A lot of companies are guilty of over using the phrase ‘world-class’ when it comes to their products and services - ourselves included, so I know I’m in a glass house here! Businesses used to say ‘guaranteed quality’ all the time, but that’s a given now - if you’re service isn’t ‘quality’ you won’t have […]