2021 and UK lockdown 3

Best wishes to all our customers, partners and friends for the new year, let’s hope that 2021 is more straightforward than its predecessor! As we all know, the UK is currently in a state of lockdown.  We would like to reassure all of our customers though that CF Systems continue to operate as closely to […]

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Merry Christmas from CF Systems

Firstly, all of us here at CF Systems would like to wish you the very best wishes for Christmas and the new year. The CF Systems service desk will be open as normal throughout the Christmas period, with the exception of Christmas Day when we will be closed.  If you require any technical advice or […]

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UK lockdown 2

As everybody reading this will now know, the UK enters a second lockdown on Thursday, November 5th.  CF Systems operations, including our service desk, will continue to operate as normal from this date.  We will liase closely with our clients where site visits are required to ensure that any risks are kept to a minimum […]

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The New Normal

According to a Xerox study, summarised by IT Pro at https://www.itproportal.com/news/uk-workforce-will-be-the-last-to-return-to-the-office/, even with the apparent slowing of the COVID-19 pandemic, its likely that the return of employees to their offices will take twelve to eighteen months.  The actual time varies by country, but the UK will be amongst the slowest to return, with just 18 […]

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Tier 2 IT Support Engineers

CF Systems are undergoing a period of rapid growth and are, as a result, recruiting for Tier 2 Support Engineers. CF Systems are Cornwall’s leading IT Support and services business.  With partners including Dell, Microsoft, Cisco and Kaspersky we help companies including Baker Tom, Castle Air, Whistlefish Galleries and Seasalt ensuring that IT supports their […]

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How To Select The Right Videoconferencing Platform

The change in working practices forced on huge swathes of the business population by COVID 19 has driven a massive increase in the usage of videoconferencing platforms. According to App Annie, UK downloads of the popular Zoom cloud meetings application were 20 times their normal average during the week March 15th to 21st. However, the […]

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VOIP

This article is the first of an occasional series delving into more detail on some of the technologies that can facilitate remote and home working, following on from our earlier post. As outlined in our previous article about the technologies that can enable home and remote working, one of the most obvious and valuable is […]

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Palm Sunday

OK, so all of this working from home has got us thinking here at CF Systems about the evolution of devices that have helped us on our journey towards current levels of mobility. If we’re honest, its also an excuse to get in the line about “Palm Sunday”, a terrible but hopefully well timed gag […]

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Working From Home, The Technology

Working from home has never been so important as it is today. The COVID-19 virus has forced a huge percentage of the working population into doing just this and its likely that this may result in a seismic transformation in the nations working practice once the dust settles. In this post, we thought that it […]

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Microsoft Changes its Office 365 Naming Conventions

As if there weren’t enough change in our worlds right now, Microsoft have announced that they will be changing the names of its flagship Office 365 products. As of April 21st, all Office 365 Business subscriptions are being renamed as Microsoft 365 for business subscriptions. This includes Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, […]

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