Microsoft 365 Price Increases Incoming

Doing more with less? It’s time for a change. It’s time for the cloud.

Watch “Microsoft Azure for your cloud platform – what it is and how it works,” from @MSFTNonprofits, to learn how you can free your #nonprofit organization from constantly managing IT infrastructure so you can focus on delivering higher-impact applications instead. #Tech4Good #SocialImpact #DigitalTransformation @Office365 @Microsoft365

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Microsoft Azure for your cloud platform – what it is and how it works

Doing more with less? It’s time for a change. It’s time for the cloud.

Watch “Microsoft Azure for your cloud platform – what it is and how it works,” from @MSFTNonprofits, to learn how you can free your #nonprofit organization from constantly managing IT infrastructure so you can focus on delivering higher-impact applications instead. #Tech4Good #SocialImpact #DigitalTransformation @Office365 @Microsoft365

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Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches

This eBook, “Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches,” helps build cloud computing skills quickly and efficiently. In about 45 minutes a day for 30 days—basically a month of lunch hours!—the reader can learn to build and run secure, highly available applications in Azure. This eBook breaks down the most important Azure concepts into bite-size…

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Lizo | Transformation in the oil & gas industry: data analysis and visualization

With improved technological tools, you’re likely accumulating more data than ever. If you’re wondering how to manage it, you’re not alone. Microsoft understands that most businesses are experiencing a significant increase in data and need help. Watch this video for an example of how a data-driven company can utilize #Azure Cosmos DB and Power BI to process large volumes of data and provide actionable insights to their business. Contact Carbon Cloud for migration questions and assistance.

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Lizo | Transformation in the oil & gas industry: data analysis and visualization

With improved technological tools, you’re likely accumulating more data than ever. If you’re wondering how to manage it, you’re not alone. Microsoft understands that most businesses are experiencing a significant increase in data and need help. Watch this video for an example of how a data-driven company can utilize #Azure Cosmos DB and Power BI to process large volumes of data and provide actionable insights to their business. Contact Carbon Cloud for migration questions and assistance.

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Benefits of Azure for SMBs

We’ve been working with a number of our customers to help them to move their workloads to the cloud using Microsoft’s Azure platform. During this time these companies have discovered many different benefits to the changes that they have made. This article describes some of those benefits at a high level, we’ll be diving in…

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New member joins our Service Desk

Carbon Cloud is pleased to introduce a new member of our service desk, Amelia. Amelia has joined Carbon Cloud to work alongside the existing Service Desk team in a 1st line role, to support our clients with any IT requests. We’re really excited to have Amelia join the team and we cannot wait to see…

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ISO27001 Accreditation

Carbon Cloud Achieve ISO27001 Accreditation Carbon Cloud are please to announce that following a recent audit the company is accredited to the ISO27001 standard by UKAS. ISO27001 is an internationally recognised security standard which presents requirements and best practice for the management of internal and customer data. In order to meet this accreditation Carbon have…

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Why Do IT Professionals become victims of Cyber Scams?

Does this 1981 study provide the background to why IT Professionals, with an expert knowledge of cyber threats, still frequently become the victims of cyber attacks? In 1981, the Sedish psychologist Ola Svenson was researching people’s assessment of their own individual abilities. There had been speculation amongst the psychological community for some time that, actually,…

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Fletching Arrows Kit Car Team

Carbon Cloud were delighted to sponsor the Fletching Arrows Kit Car team that competed in the Uckfield Mini Grand Prix on Sunday. The Mini Grand Prix is contested between 22 teams from Primary Schools across Sussex and the Kit Car Project is designed to give Key Stage 2 pupils a practical challenge for their STEM…

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Carbon Cloud and ACS Consulting Partnership

Carbon Cloud are delighted to announce the formalisation of their strategic partnership with ACS Consulting. This follows an extended period of the two organisations working together to bring transformational technology services to the Financial Services and Banking sectors. The first joint technology proposition launched to the market is designed to help enterprises overcome the challenges…

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Next-Gen Cyber Security

Next-Gen Cyber Security Whilst there is already a crippling skills shortage in cyber-security, (ISC)² has predicted that this will grow to 350,000 vacancies in 2022. Today’s enterprises need to find new ways of dealing with cyber threats. It is clear that it will be difficult, if not impossible to fix this problem by throwing more…

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Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop Logon Slow

Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop Logon Slow or Delay – Please Wait for the User Profile Service   Applies to:- Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016 Citrix XenApp 6.5, 7.x Citrix UPM Roaming Profiles Folder Redirections or Remote Home Directory The Problem When you log on to a Published Desktop, there is a delay while…

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Intune, AlwaysOnVPN & AzureAD

Recently we completed a project for a large not-for-profit client who has circa 50 x offices and over 350 staff, many working in highly-regulated and/or secure environments where gaining remote access to corporate services has been notoriously difficult. Our client initially was inving a Direct Access solution, however, after discussion with Carbon around Microsoft’s roadmap,…

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IT Support | Consultancy | Azure | Infrastructure | Remote Support | PC Repair | Virus Removal

Intune, AlwaysOnVPN & AzureAD

Recently we completed a project for a large not-for-profit client who has circa 50 x offices and over 350 staff, many working in highly-regulated and/or secure environments where gaining remote access to corporate services has been notoriously difficult. Our client initially was inving a Direct Access solution, however, after discussion with Carbon around Microsoft’s roadmap,…

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IT Support | Consultancy | Azure | Infrastructure | Remote Support | PC Repair | Virus Removal

GDPR is coming..

GDPR is coming, and if you process personal data, it will affect you regardless of the size of your business . This means that there are a number of areas that you need to have checked and documented before the 25th May 2018. So what is the GDPR? It’s pretty hard to avoid news articles…

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IT Support | Consultancy | Azure | Infrastructure | Remote Support | PC Repair | Virus Removal

Introducing backup for Azure file shares

Since December last year, Carbon have been privileged to be part of the Microsoft Azure Files Backup technical preview designed to help Microsoft test and improve this service. As a result of ours and many others efforts, Microsoft have announced that this is now in full Public Preview – available for clients who have an…

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IT Support | Consultancy | Azure | Infrastructure | Remote Support | PC Repair | Virus Removal

Why I joined Carbon Cloud

Over the half term break I was on holiday with my family celebrating a significant birthday (unfortunately not my 21st) and I was talking to a couple of people that we met out there about what we did for work. Once we got part the boring part out the way of what industry we were…

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Free the chains – Azure & Office365

Anyone find noisy, dusty, hot equipment annoying? Particularly when it sits in the corner of your office whirring away, only to fall over and need fixing – meaning downtime for your business. Even if it doesn’t break, you’ll still need to maintain it (so it doesn’t) and upgrade and update both hardware and software every…

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Carbon Cloud

  Hello. We are Carbon Cloud. We have formed with one simple mission in mind. To bring the 50+ years of experience we have in the Enterprise IT space to benefit small and medium sized businesses in the South-East. All too often, the smaller business suffers from a lower level of service than the Enterprise…

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