19 August 2026
Predictive surveys are cheap and done from a drawing. Everything that makes them wrong is decided on site, usually after the drawing is signed off.
Read more about A Wi-Fi survey belongs before the ceiling goes up6 August 2026
RAID protects against one specific failure: a disk dying. It offers nothing at all against the four things that actually destroy data.
Read more about RAID is not a backup, and the day that becomes obvious4 August 2026
Load, runtime and the mistake almost everybody makes with the number on the label. A UPS that is too small does not fail gracefully — it fails at the exact moment it was bought for.
Read more about Sizing a UPS for a small server room27 June 2026
A tidy rack looks like pride in the work. What it actually buys is the difference between a five-minute change and an outage.
Read more about Cable management is a maintenance decision, not a tidiness one12 June 2026
Most maintenance contracts are priced on response time and silent on the things that decide whether you ever need to invoke them.
Read more about What an AMC should actually cover14 May 2026
The two common policies are update everything immediately and update nothing ever. Both are decisions nobody made deliberately.
Read more about Firmware updates on a live network30 April 2026
Shared drives fail slowly. Every exception is reasonable on the day it is made, and the result is a share where everyone can read everything.
Read more about NAS permissions that do not become a liability2 April 2026
Most small server rooms are rooms that were available, not rooms that were chosen. The equipment does not know that, and heat is the reason a five-year server lasts three.
Read more about Cooling a server room that used to be a cupboard5 March 2026
The cable outlives the switches on both ends, twice over. Choosing it for the equipment being installed today is choosing it for the equipment being thrown away first.
Read more about Why Cat6A when the switches are only gigabit19 February 2026
A three-year cycle is a habit, not an analysis. The machines that need replacing are identifiable, and they are not the oldest ones.
Read more about When to refresh a laptop fleet, and when not toA site visit and an honest infrastructure audit — no obligation, no scripted sales call. You get the findings in writing whether or not you work with us.
