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How EV Infrastructure Providers Can Find the Right IT Partner

Dec 6, 2021 | Data, Julian Boneham

Following the COP26 global climate summit, governments and businesses globally are working to accelerate sustainability. Electric Vehicles and EV...

3 Reasons Why EV Infrastructure Must Be Robust

Nov 9, 2021 | Data

With the UK targeted to phase out ICE cars by 2035, the electric future of transport is well and truly underway. But despite the increased foothold...

Terraform Azure Deployments

Sep 21, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick

I have just finished working on a few large Terraform Azure deployments and thought I would stick a few notes down in a blog post in the hope that...

$Tracking Costs in Terraform Using Infracost$

Tracking Costs in Terraform Using Infracost

Sep 14, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick

In my last blog post I introduced a stage which executed Checkov to my Terraform Azure DevOps pipeline. This scanned the Terraform configuration and...

The Emergence and Importance of the Modern Data Platform

Jul 26, 2021 | Data, Julian Boneham

Pretty much all IT related posts these days refer to the importance of data and how it’s “the new gold”. Whilst much of this may appear to be a...

Database as a Service (DBaaS) 101

Jul 22, 2021 | Cloud, Data, Selina Dhillon

Businesses have long turned to database managed services providers (MSPs) to help them keep their databases available and performant - and that’s...

Microsoft Azure 101

Jul 9, 2021 | Azure, Cloud, Selina Dhillon

The Microsoft Azure cloud platform and its range of 200+ products and services have the potential to transform your business, take you steps ahead...

Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline with Checkov & Approvals

Jun 21, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick

It’s been just over a year since I first posted about the Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline I used to use, I say used to use because that pipeline is...

Preventx Adopts Node4 Public Cloud to Support Delivery of Sexual Health and Testing Services Across England

Apr 29, 2021 | Azure, Cloud, Customer Stories, Press Releases

Preventx, the UK’s leading provider of digital sexual health services for the public sector, has migrated from its traditional server...

Azure DevOps Multi-Stage Pipelines

Apr 27, 2021 | Azure, DevOps, Russ McKendrick

As I move into using Azure DevOps more and more, there is one thing which I really haven’t got on with and that is release pipelines. I didn’t like...

N4Stack Achieves Microsoft Azure Expert MSP Status

Mar 10, 2021 | Azure, Cloud, Press Releases

Cloud-led digital transformation Managed Services Provider (MSP) Node4, has today announced it has been awarded Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status,...

Node4 infrastructure and database modernisation helps Loans2Go cement itself in the fintech industry

Feb 16, 2021 | Customer Stories, Data, Press Releases

Node4, the cloud, data centre and communications solutions provider, has today announced that is has supplied Loans2Go with a modernised IT...

Save 30% on Windows Virtual Desktop Computing Costs

Jan 27, 2021 | Azure, Windows Virtual Desktop

Please note this offer ended on 31/03/21. Microsoft has announced a Windows Virtual Desktop offer that allows new customers to save up to 30% on...

Node4 helps Novacroft to continue uninterrupted through COVID-19 uncertainty

Jan 26, 2021 | Azure, Customer Stories, Press Releases, Windows Virtual Desktop

Derby, 26th January 2021 - Node4, the cloud, data centre and communications solutions provider, has today announced that is has provided Novacroft...

Head-to-Head with Windows Virtual Desktop and Its Black Screen Logon Issue

Dec 7, 2020 | Azure, Joe Parr, Windows Virtual Desktop

When logging into a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) environment, you would expect a relative “quickness” to get to your desktop. However, for the past...

Getting Hands-On With Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)

Sep 15, 2020 | Azure, Joe Parr, Windows Virtual Desktop

This blog was co-authored by Tim Rohde, Azure Platform Engineer, N4Stack. So, let's talk Windows Virtual Desktop or WVD as the cool kids call it. A...

Installing Oracle AHF and Running ORAchk on Linux and Windows

Sep 2, 2020 | Data, Neil Garside, Oracle

Is your Oracle database in need of some TLC? Then you need ORAchk (Oracle Check). The utility examines an Oracle system’s configuration looking for...

Whitespace delivers one year of no unplanned downtime to its customers, thanks to Node4’s managed services

Aug 4, 2020 | Azure, Customer Stories, Press Releases

Whitespace Software, the digital insurance and reinsurance trading platform, has today announced that it has delivered one year of continued 100%...

Oracle 12.2.0.1 Support Ends 30.11.20… What to do?

Jul 6, 2020 | Data, Julian Boneham, Oracle

Oracle 12c (version 12.2.0.1) was released in March 2017 and is widely used across businesses in both Standard and Enterprise Edition versions. As...

A Glance at Azure Governance: 5 Areas to Focus on for Azure Adoption

Jun 26, 2020 | Azure, Cloud, Tim Rohde

When it comes to Azure adoption, you need to use different governance tools to achieve the best outcomes for your business. Here at N4Stack, we work...

Analysing Honeypot Data with Sentinel

Jun 15, 2020 | Azure, General, Martin Rothe

Carrying on my series of posts around Azure Sentinel, I wanted to see if I could use it to process logs from a honeypot and produce useful...

5 Key Priorities for DataOps Teams

Jun 10, 2020 | Data, Julian Boneham, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle, SQL Server

Having business systems that are scalable, performant and that adequately underpin key applications has always been important. Yet the recent global...