Monthly Archives: November 2023

In the summer of 2022, one of our Marine-based clients relocated their business operations to a new boatyard due to expansion. This move allowed for the construction of a new office space and a state-of-the-art boat building facility. The project involved designing a new network from scratch, something we love getting our teeth into. We collaborated with the client to install design and build the network with future additions and enhancements in mind. This included: The subsequent phase focused on planning the transfer of the current network, encompassing several servers, CCTV, a storage array, and power redundancy. The new network rack was designed around existing and new hardware with organising the physical equipment for a cleaner appearance and enhanced security in mind. Our team devised a network wiring diagram and 2D plan of the network rack top to bottom, detailing … Continue reading →

The Southern Solutions and SWL project Are you ready to hear about the most exciting IT project of all time! Let me hear the clunk-click of your seat belt, because we are about to take you for the ride of your life! Almost any service that your server provides can be hosted in the cloud. There are some exceptions to this, but as a whole, an SMB could run quite comfortably without the need for an in-house server these days. This was the goal for one of our customers that utilised 2 in-house servers to provide a database to their staff and remote access to that database using the remote control. We contacted the company that provides the database-backed software and they reported that the only way to access the database if it was hosted would be to utilise remote … Continue reading →