End of year price review

• By IT Norwich
• 1 Dec 2021
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Just before the end of each calendar year we review our hourly rates and publish them on our web site; the new rates described below come into effect for all work performed from 1st January 2022. The cost of living is set to rise by a considerable amount in 2022. UK inflation had already hit […]

Why you might have coffee to thank for your webcam…. and what you should know about the coffee we buy.

• By IT Norwich
• 17 Sep 2021
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You might think that writing an article about coffee is off-topic for an IT business, but you’d be wrong for at least a couple of reasons, at least as far as we see it. Most of us IT types (at least the old-skool ones) have at some part in our career lived on coffee. Whether […]

Log off and shut down, versus shut down on Widows 10 based computers.

• By IT Norwich
• 16 Sep 2021
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Back in the good old days of Windows XP and Windows 7 (and in fact every other version of Windows I can think of), when you shut down your Windows based computer, you would be automatically logged out of Windows. It makes perfect sense that this would be so. Microsoft decided to mix things up […]

Laptop Price Points Explained (or How Much is a Decent Laptop?)

• By IT Norwich
• 15 Sep 2021
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Every so often we are asked how much a ‘decent’ laptop will cost. Of course the answer depends on what you mean by decent. Typically you can spend anything between £300 to £3000 on a new laptop and unsurprisingly there are significant differences between them but laptop purchases should be led by the IT requirements […]

IT\norwich Cloud Backup Customers: We’re Backing up Your Email

• By IT Norwich
• 27 Aug 2021
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Some time ago, the ability to backup Microsoft 365 Mailboxes with the Acronis based IT\norwich Cloud Backup was introduced. Over the last few months we’ve done some trials and are satisfied this feature works as expected. As a result we are now automatically rolling out the service to customers that have the IT\norwich Cloud Backup […]

Are you damaging your reputation with Google Analytics? … And why we use Matomo!

• By IT Norwich
• 17 Aug 2021
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You could lose your customers’ trust and risk damaging your reputation if people learn their data is used for Google’s “own purposes”. By choosing an ethical alternative such as Matomo, you won’t make privacy sacrifices or compromise your site. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for cookie consent. Background to Analytics Google […]

Our move is complete…

• By IT Norwich
• 29 Jun 2021
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We’re delighted to announce that we’ve now completed our office move to Lenwade. Our new offices are a little larger to accommodate our steady growth and at the same time will allow us to offer faster response times to our customers in North Norfolk and West Norfolk. The move itself went relatively well and we’re […]

We’re Moving to Lenwade!

• By IT Norwich
• 8 May 2021
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We’re excited to announce that after four years of trading from our offices at Burton Road in Norwich we’ll soon be relocating to new premises. Our new offices at Lenwade are a little larger to accommodate our steady growth and at the same time will allow us to offer faster response times to our customers […]

What is an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and why do you need one?

• By IT Norwich
• 28 Apr 2021
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Like most of our customers in Norwich and throughout Norfolk your business will have at some point suffered power outages. The lucky ones have not lost data and suffered no damage to their infrastructure however there are some customers who – because their systems were not protected with an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) – have […]

IT Growth in Small Businesses (Ad-Hoc Networks versus Managed Networks)

• By IT Norwich
• 15 Apr 2021
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Many small businesses start out with a set of computers that are organised in an ad-hoc way. Perhaps some computers are owned by the business – others are owned by employees – but regardless of who owns these devices, this casual approach to how the technology infrastructure is set up will almost invariably become a […]