Network Design
5 min
Why your vendor's "free" Wi-Fi design will cost you more.
Most organisations let the vendor design their network. That's the first mistake — and it's an expensive one to undo. Here's what a neutral design looks like, and why it pays for itself.
Industry
7 min
Your server room isn't an electrical room.
Most "small server rooms" get sized as electrical cupboards — and the consequences show up the first summer. What an IT space actually needs.
Storage
6 min
RAID is not a backup. Here's what every SME should have.
"We have RAID, we're fine" is the most common reason businesses lose data. The 3-2-1 rule, explained without the jargon — and the five questions every SME should be able to answer.
Industry
8 min
ELV is not MEP: a discipline most schools never taught.
For a generation of architects and engineers, ELV got one slide in college — if it got covered at all. Meanwhile, the building industry quietly split it out into its own discipline.
Security
5 min
Five firewall rules every SME should have in place today.
The simple policy decisions that separate a secure network from a breach waiting to happen — and why most SMEs get at least two wrong.
Field Notes
6 min
Field notes: connectivity in places roads don't reach.
What auditing public Wi-Fi at scale in remote India taught us about designing networks that have to survive — and why the principles translate directly to corporate environments.