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Homeoffice and us

March 13, 2020

It’s March, 2020. The dominating theme in every single media outlet? Beer. Or isn’t it? Well, the word nobody can hear anymore is “Corona” – and in some way it also affects us as a business. By our customer basis, we are dealing with a pretty side spectrum of customers. Some customers, like coffee shops and hotels, we are normally going on site, and take care of the Infrastrucutre of the customer on premises. Mostly, as a convenience and better service to the customer. But a lot of it can be done remotely, and via teamviewer.   On the other

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Business Travel for me

December 12, 2019

We are almost in the year 2020 now. Public transport works very well in western europe, and flights are cheaper than a night in a 2 star hotel. I have personally flown for many times, from Switzerland to Scandinavia, and from Switzerland to all places where there was some work, or there was a conference. I always had a rule that I won’t fly to neighboring countries, but e.g. to Serbia I took a flight many times. Yet, we have decided to change this. Things cannot continue how it is, as it’s just not really environmentally friendly – there are

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The Openfactory Christmas party

December 6, 2019

This year the Openfactory Christmas party had a difference. The party also coincided with the 10 year anniversary of Openfactory. This meant that this year we were going to need an extra big pan for the cheese. The Openfactory Christmas party has become a bit of a tradition now. It is the time of year where can relax a little and get together with colleagues and other people we collaborate or work with. Each year the conversations becomes more interesting as we and our network grow. As with our (net) work, we like to keep things low-key, in the case

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Resilience

November 27, 2019

How does a business become more resilient? It can be a very tricky one. Do I build my business infrastructure like a Formula 1 car? Insanely fast, very safe because nowadays when a formula 1 car crashes, the track on which it is racing is built in such a way that the track has the capability of dealing with most crashes by creating zones that slow the car (wreckage) down, and the car itself is built in such a way that an impact gets absorbed by all the bits that simply shatter and disperse the energy away from the safety

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The basics. Back up.

November 26, 2019

As the value of (your) digital data increases on a daily basis, so does the need to keep your data safe. It is always very hard to put a true value on your data until you either lose it or lose access to it. It is often only at that point that people realize; that drive, that computer, that server has something on it they truly need and value. This could be anything, from your accounts to client/vendor data for your business but there is more, maybe you have been writing a book, making music or any other type of

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Lit buildings

October 25, 2019

This is a building which inside has fibre optic cable throughout and fibre optic cable up to the property itself. Although you may be located in a fibre enabled area, more often then not the last cable from your property to the first street cabinet is still copper. This means that your speed is determined by this last cable. There is an industry tendency to refer to all internet connections as fibre broadband but I find this dishonest. It is techno-washing of the customer. There is a tendency in the industry to techno-wash the customers. Counting on the fact that

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