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Microsoft is pushing everyone towards windows 10, you get a free upgrade, if you upgrade before July 2016. At present upgrades will not be forced on companies that have PC’s on a domain e.g. connected to your local server. Should I upgrade? In short yes. This is the final Operating System from Microsoft and it […]

Stewart Watkins sat on the panel of the CompTIA Apprenticeships – Today and Tomorrow session at Bishopsgate in London Today. The audience included Training Providers Employers and representatives from the Skills Funding Agency. Stewart was available for questions from the audience and provided a London SME IT employers view of the Apprenticeship Scheme. Employers have

Lighthouse IT MD Stewart Watkins and Apprentice Bradley Taylor at City Hall for the London Tech 500 Apprentice evening. Stewart and Bradley where invited on stage to talk about Just IT Apprentices in London. They were both available for a Q&A afterwards talking to London Employers considering taking on an IT apprentice. Lighthouse IT has

Lighthouse IT have developed a custom silent auction for the BOSS Benevolent fund charity. Alex Taylor, Technical Director at Lighthouse IT has developed the silent auction software free of charge to help this great cause. Additionally Stewart Watkins MD of Lighthouse IT will be one of the awards judges on the night judging the innovation

The update is coming on the 29th July this month. The issue for employers is that the free update has been sent directly to your staffs PC’s do you really want your staff upgrading their operating system before you have tested all your internal applications for compatibility? What if your CRM or MIS system is not

LighthouseIT has now joined the Growth Accelerator Programme. GrowthAccelerator is a unique service led by some of the country’s most successful growth specialists. It is designed to help Company’s find new connections, new routes to investment and new ideas and strategy that a business would need in order to help to achieve its full potential.

Hardware Desktops / Laptops Companies change old PC/s because they’re too slow. But that old machine could be brought back to its original performance by wiping it clean and reinstalling Windows or, if you prefer, the free Ubuntu Linux operating system. Which is often more efficient. E.g. an old laptop that cannot play HD Videos

As with many IT Reliant Companies in the World today, a backup solution is always necessary for sensitive and important data that allows the company to function on a day to day basis. These backup solutions can vary in cost and effectiveness, with many being solely reliable on the companies internet speed and capability, and