The People Behind Cloud Genius
On moving his company to Wales, he saw great opportunities for offering training and development. Currently he has recruited and trained one person from the Jobs Growth Wales scheme. He is looking to take on more trainees immediately and in the coming years.
John has experience of a vast range of IT systems – everything from NHS distributed data collection systems to massive, UNIX-based office automation systems through to Microsoft Windows server systems and Cloud-based services. His IT career spans three decades so far and he was one of the pioneers of Cloud-based computing, working in the early days of ‘private clouds’ and Software as a Services (SaaS). John’s first experience of a ‘computer terminal’, at school, was a telex machine, linked up by an acoustic modem to the local college (see picture).
He says that his greatest programming achievement is the Eventbrite -> Salesforce integration that he created for a client.
Among his qualifications: Salesforce Administrator and Consultant, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, CompTIA Security+, UNIX systems administrator, as well as honours degrees from Durham and Oxford.
In his spare time, John enjoys bread-making and bee keeping.
Disaster (sort of)
I am excited to be writing to you from Wales. It is not that that makes a significant difference to my work, but I am now surrounded by beautiful countryside rather than urban sprawl. Part of the move involved my laptop going missing. You know… the one that contained...
Cloud Genius has moved!
The good news is that we have survived the move! The even better news is that, with the business based in the cloud, there were no servers to move. Even our removal company, who seemed intent on damaging as much as possible, could not compromise our data - it is all...
Google Apps no longer free
I received some bad news today! Google Apps is no longer to offer its free product to new customers. Until now, it was possible, after the initial trial of Google Apps for Business to downgrade to Google Apps Standard, which was free. At Cloud Genius we see great...
The Why and What of Salesforce (Charity Version)
Most charities need some way of keeping track of their donors and their volunteers. Salesforce is a database that allows all of that. Here is a video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r6hxqg3PgRQ Charities have many other needs, too....
Defeating the Spammers pt2
In this article I will look at how you can prevent your email addresses being harvested from your website. It continues on from Defeating the Spammers pt1 The ‘traditional’ method was to put up a graphic instead of an email address. This may have prevented...
Special Offers and Vouchers
We have teamed up with our partners at webhost.cloud-genius.com to get you the best offers until the end of 31 October 2012. For any purchase over £20, simply put in the code 5NC25 to get 5% off. (They actually price their services in dollars, so you might scrape...
Defeating the Spammers pt1
One of the most disheartening things about having a new website is spam. It can attack in several ways: 1) The email addresses on the site are 'harvested' by spammers. All those email recipients then receive ever-increasing levels of unwanted emails. 2) The lovely...
Web Automation
On the Contact Us page you may notice a web form. When you put your information in it does three things: 1) Puts the information in my Salesforce database. 2) Sends me an email telling me that there is a new person interested in my services. 3) Thanks you for kindly...
Website Relaunch
Yesterday Cloud Genius joined the Federation of Small Businesses. In honour of this, the whole website has had a re-vamp. You will find more details of our products and services, including our incredible high-speed web set-up. It will cost less than you expect....