High Levels Of Uptime In Action

This week Microsoft released a patch for their hardware virtualisation platform, Hyper-V, that was highly recommended.  It was the first patch of its kind in the 2 years that this technology has been publicly available.  It was important enough for us to bypass our normal patch change control process – we take matters of security and stability very seriously. read more

EuroCloud formally opens for business across Europe

Europe’s first ever SaaS and cloud services organisation now operating in 16 countries plans to be present in 25 European countries by the end of 2010. read more

New Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant

Microsoft has announced the release of a new tool to assist developers to migrate from MySQL to Microsoft SQL 2005 and SQL 2008.  The current release is a Customer Technical Preview (CTP) which is a very early testing version, not usually to be used in production. read more

Encrypted USB Memory Stick Vulnerabilities

We have experienced a surge in popularity of our laptop and USB drive encryption in recent months.  We are often asked about full disk encryption for USB drives as an alternative to our current Software as a Service (SaaS) encryption offering which just doesn’t encrypt data but can also eliminate it.

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C Infinity Launches New Private Cloud Platform

We are proud to announce that we have successfully upgraded our virtualisation and management platform that are key components to our Private Cloud dedicated server hosting service.

We run an Infrastructure-as-a-Service based in an Irish owned and located data centre, the number two data centre in Europe.  This provides solution developers and organisations to build a Software-as-a-Service solution on an existing private cloud infrastructure in Ireland that is secure, fault tolerant and extremely reliable. read more

Sponsor Of Greenhouse Business Camp

We are once again proud to sponsor Greenhouse Business Camp helping to provide support for start-ups and growing companies.

What is Greenhouse Business Camp?

The Greenhouse Business Camp is a free “unconference” for people who are self-employed, starting their own business or thinking about starting their own business.

You can read more about the Greenhouse Business Camp and what they do by visiting their site here.

Website Hosted By C Infinity Wins Golden Spider

C Infinity would like to congratulate Insolvency Journal for their win at the 2009 Golden Spider awards.  They won in the category of “Best Professional Services Website (non-portal)”.  The judges’ comments were they “thought what is striking about insolvencyjournal.ie is the quality of its execution. Great content, up to date with very high quality visuals used to illustrate data. It is a fantastic example of how good content can keep browsers on the site and more importantly coming back for more”.

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C Infinity Announces the First Live WebsiteSpark Member in Ireland

C Infinity (http://www.cinfinity.ie) has announced that they are hosting the first member of Microsoft’s WebsiteSpark program to go into production in Ireland.  a:m web (http://www.amweb.ie) went into production on C Infinity’s private cloud managed server hosting solution.  This follows C Infinity being hosting the first member of Microsoft BizSpark program to go live in Ireland, TradeFacilitate (http://www.tradefacilitate.com). read more

C Infinity Sponsors the Microsoft Technology User Groups

This week saw the launch of the new website www.mtug.ie for the Microsoft Technology User Groups (MTUG) in Ireland.

This is a collection of non-profit groups that teach their members about and how to best use Microsoft technologies.  For example, there is a Windows User Group focusing on Windows technologies in the business.  The Dublin Area group (DAMTUG) focuses on the developer community.  There are SQL and Sharepoint user groups.  And there are regional user groups in the North, Cork, Galway, Cork, etc. read more

Big Red Book And C infinity Announce €300,000 Deal

Big Red Book today announced a strategic partnership with C Infinity to provide Big Red Backup – a secure online data backup for all its customers. “C Infinity is one of the leading data backup and IT infrastructure providers in Ireland and we share the same ethos of quality service and excellence in customer care” said Marc O’Dwyer, MD of Big Red Book.

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