Having graduated from a degree, as pleasurable as being burned at the stake – Accountancy, I can honestly say I had no idea what career path I would like to pursue. Accountant, Investment Banker, Management Consultant were all options that had been fully exhausted. I.T.? Well considering I achieved an E at A/s level ICT and my decision process for purchasing a new laptop, involves walking into PC World and asking the overly zealous attendant for a laptop that has a nice colour and holds lots of pictures. RAM? Gigabytes? Dual-compressors? As long as it plays DVD’s and accesses the internet when I press the little blue, e, thingy who cares? I thought I was probably too luddite for a career in technology.

Tectrade of course cropped up, described by my docile...[more]

Recently at the 2011 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google, gave a lecture in which he commented on the need for the UK to nurture its polymaths and to bring back art and science together.

It has been a challenging week this last week, helping one of our customers through a DR situation.

Tectrade got a phone call first thing on Wednesday morning to say that a tier of storage was offline and the vendor’s support was unable to bring it back over night, could we help?

Following a couple of calls and remote investigation of their environment we had a clearer picture of what the situation was. An entire MDISK was offline on their SVC which meant several critical servers were down, and to make matters worse it was month end the next day.

Tectrade supported the customer through this experience, by liaising with the vendor directly, gathering the logs and information required, making suggestions and supplementing the customer’s skills with our extremely knowledgeable staff. Tectrade continued to work on...[more]