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1Tech supports Your Games Room to deliver a new e-commerce platform
1Tech is an AWS consulting partner having a global presence but locally focused to the UK, European and UAE regions. We are a 20 year old organisation with serious and long standing credentials. We have been helping Your Games Room to deliver their new generation E-Commerce platform which is a leading US firm providing luxury
Read More1Tech supports Flexu to deliver a revolutionary Cryptocurrency platform
1Tech is an AWS consulting partner having a global presence but locally focused to the UK, European and UAE regions. We are a 20 year old organisation with serious and long standing credentials. We have been helping Flexu to deliver their next generation Cryptocurrency platform which has been designed for longevity. 1Tech has created their
Read MoreBlockchain – Part 2 – The 51% hack and the AWS Solution
Blockchain – Part 1 – a Foundation of Distrust Proof of Work In Part 1, I discussed the proof of work algorithm which involves creating a cryptographic hash that would require approximately 10 minutes of compute time for every block that is added to the blockchain. The problem with this mechanism is that for every
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Mutual Suspicion In his 1982 PhD thesis entitled “Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups” and subsequent essays including “Achieving Electronic Privacy” some ten years later, David Schaum discusses the need for information sharing, but also the need for privacy. Banks need to be able to verify banking transactions such as purchases;
Read MoreRobotic Process Automation is already here and it’s awesome
Oops! There’s a joke that goes: “I got drunk last night and sent a nude photo to everybody in my address book. It cost me a fortune in postage.” The joke here is not that the author sent a nude photo to everybody in his address book; because I’m certain we’ve all sent emails in
Read MoreBuilding the Mars Rover with your Kids
Wouldn’t Know Where to Start? Every year we hear about somebody else’s children doing incredibly exciting things with technology. It always seems to be something well beyond the capability and budget of the average parent and so we dismiss it as – “they’re lucky to have a parent who can do that.” But Cloud Technology
Read MoreA useful guide to Cloud Best Practice
With so many guides on best practice, available, a natural response would be not ANOTHER one. In response to this I have sought to keep this guide brief, pragmatic and relevant to everyone in the business. Understand what you want to achieve as a business (but keep it fluid): Establish clear targets & metrics aligned
Read MoreConsolidating Microsoft Licensing on AWS
As a leading software provider, Microsoft has built a reputation of being a reliable vendor to business and personal users alike. For many, there is no recollection of a time before Microsoft applications that have become a staple part of our lives and long may that continue. Many companies have adopted a Microsoft offering as
Read MoreLet the Cloud be your Facilitator, not your Downfall
What does your Business Do? If you were to go to the CEO of the Aerospace company I worked for in my first job fresh out of University and asked him what his business did, he would probably say “We make buttons, switches and panels for aircraft.” If you were to ask one of the
Read MoreApplication Modernisation
“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” – Steve Jobs In an earlier article, I discussed modernisation and noted that the intention to modernise is to replace an older system/ model with an entirely new one and that there cannot be any middle ground. It was noted that the entire organisation
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