What an Hour of Downtime Actually Costs You
September 18, 2026
Most businesses underestimate this by a factor of three or four. Here is the calculation, with a slider to work out your own number.
Learning Centre
Things worth knowing about your IT
Practical explanations of the things that actually affect UK businesses — written by the engineers who deal with them, not by a marketing department.
Cyber Essentials Danzell: What Changed, and Why 27 October Matters
September 18, 2026
Danzell has been the Cyber Essentials standard since April. The old question set expires on 27 October 2026 — here is what changed, and what now fails you outright.
Cyber Security Regulations Are Changing: Is Your Business Ready?
March 25, 2026
Cyber security has moved from an IT problem to a board-level responsibility. What is shifting, and what it means for smaller businesses.
Why Swipe-to-Airplane-Mode Is an iPhone Thief’s First Move
July 1, 2025
A thief’s first move is to cut your phone off the network. One setting makes that considerably harder.
Fortifying SME Security: A Deep Dive into Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
February 6, 2024
Multi-factor authentication is the highest-value security change most businesses can make. How it works, and where it quietly goes wrong.
Maximising Business Efficiency: Essential SharePoint Tips for Technical Success
January 2, 2024
A few structural decisions early on are the difference between SharePoint that helps and SharePoint nobody can navigate.
10 top tips to improve your internal IT systems
August 7, 2023
Ten practical changes that make internal IT less painful — none of which need a big budget or a big project.
Introducing Patch Sundays: EasyLifeIT’s Proactive Approach to System Security
August 3, 2023
Why we patch on Sundays, what it covers, and why the timing matters more than most businesses expect.
Building Our Own Eco-Friendly Cloud Platform
April 11, 2023
Why we built our own cloud platform, how we made it more efficient, and what that means for the businesses running on it.