A German logistics group’s CTO flew to South Africa last week. Part of his visit was a meeting with Si Futures — and what he found when he examined the environment we built is the kind of validation that does not come from a survey. It comes from scrutiny.
• Business impact: years of consistent infrastructure work, long-term partnership approach
→ CTO endorses Si Futures environment as meeting the group’s global infrastructure standard
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The Microsoft Change That Will Break Your Office 365 Backups
Microsoft is retiring Exchange Web Services in October 2026 — a backend change that will silently break backup tools, archiving solutions, and integrations still relying on EWS. Find out if your Microsoft 365 backup is at risk and what to do before the deadline.
When Your Website Is Your Whole Business
A client’s entire operation ran through one website — events, payments, bookings.
Business impact: unmonitored plugins, undocumented infrastructure, no active oversight
→ Managed WordPress hosting and proactive support; migration completed one week ahead of deadline.
When the Data Centre Has a Bad Night: What Happens in the Hours Nobody Sees
Most of the work that keeps a business running is invisible — and that is never more apparent than when something goes wrong at 2am. Si Futures shares what really happened over one weekend when a data centre power event took down a financial services client’s authentication infrastructure, and what it reveals about the difference between embedded managed IT expertise and transactional IT support.
When the Carrier Has Problems: The Client Conversation That Can’t Wait
When an IT partner spots early signs that a connectivity carrier is under financial stress, what should they do with that information? Geordie Hogarth argues that the instinct to wait is both understandable and wrong — and that the obligation to raise difficult supply chain conversations before clients are forced to react is one of the clearest tests of whether an IT partnership is genuinely embedded.
Misconfigured, Not Hacked: Why Your Firewall Settings Are a Bigger Risk Than You Think
The most common route into an SME network is not a sophisticated attack — it is a firewall setting that was wrong from the start, or that drifted over time. Nicholas Broderick explains how benchmarking against CIS standards turns assumption into accountability.
What the Handover Document Doesn’t Tell You
When a business changes IT provider, the handover document is rarely the whole picture. Rudie de Vries explains what a thorough estate assessment actually uncovers — and why the gap is almost always larger than anyone expected.
When Your Hosting Provider Gets Hacked: The DNS Security Risk Most Businesses Never See Coming
A travel consultancy contacted Si Futures because they could not send or receive email — not because of anything they had done wrong, but because their hosting provider had been compromised. This is the DNS security risk most businesses never think about: the infrastructure you rely on sits in someone else’s hands, and their security posture becomes yours by default
The Hidden Layer of IT Resilience: What a Monitoring Platform Migration Really Teaches You
Si Futures shares what a decade-long PRTG-to-Zabbix monitoring platform migration really revealed — why alert calibration matters more than alert volume, and what every IT leader should know before committing.