This is the blog to accompany my video for the Azure Advent Calendar! Here at endjin we work with a lot of clients who need to secure crucial and high-risk data. Over the years we have developed techniques and best practices which allow us to be confident in delivering solutions which will meet security requirements, […]

Here at endjin we spend a lot of time working with data, and securing that data is top on our list of priorities . Therefore, anything we can do to reduce the need for storing access keys is a huge win! (Here is a guest blog from Barry Smart at Hymans Robertson which details our […]

We recently had a requirement from a client that all of their Azure resources must be tagged with a specific set of tags, which were ultimately to be used for cost accounting when the bill came rolling in. For simplicity of this blog post, let’s assume the client just required that all resources had to […]

So, another year, another random blog topic change! This time we’ve left the world of Rx, and done a hop, skip and leap into Azure! Specifically, Azure AD, permissions and all things service principal. As part of a recent project we needed an Azure Functions App to have access to various Azure resources, including CosmosDB […]

This week I received an email from someone who asked how they could use our free Thought Leadership content to help their organisation move to the cloud. I realised that although we’ve released a lot of content, we’d never talked publicly about the rationale behind them and how they are all interconnected. Our Thought Leadership […]

Guest Blogger – Barry Smart IT Director & Partner, Hymans Robertson Barry is IT Director at Hymans Robertson, the largest independent firm of consultants and actuaries in the UK. He is responsible for leading the firm’s technology strategy. The firm is turning increasingly to technology to enhance and extend the services it provides to clients. […]

tl;dr – I set up automated backups of our office security camera footage and used Microsoft Flow to automate alerting if anything went wrong. At endjin HQ, we have an office security setup using multiple cameras managed by Surveillance Station, an application on our on-site Synology NAS drive. Surveillance Station handles the recording schedules and stores […]

Choosing the right cloud platform provider can be a daunting task. Take the big three, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform; each offer a huge number of products and services, but understanding how they enable your specific needs is not easy. Since most organisations plan to migrate existing applications it is important to understand how […]

Guest Blogger – Barry Smart IT Director & Partner, Hymans Robertson Barry is IT Director at Hymans Robertson, the largest independent firm of consultants and actuaries in the UK. He is responsible for leading the firm’s technology strategy. The firm is turning increasingly to technology to enhance and extend the services it provides to clients. […]

Guest Blogger – Barry Smart IT Director & Partner, Hymans Robertson Barry is IT Director at Hymans Robertson, the largest independent firm of consultants and actuaries in the UK. He is responsible for leading the firm’s technology strategy. The firm is turning increasingly to technology to enhance and extend the services it provides to clients. […]

We produced a booklet to coincide with our Future Decoded talk “The 100 Year Start-up: Embracing Disruption in Financial Services“, where we examine the challenges and opportunities in the Microsoft Cloud for the Financial Services Industry, covering the following topics: Security, Privacy & Data Sovereignty Data Ingestion, Transformation & Enrichment Big Compute Big Data – […]

This continues Endjin’s series on FinTech as part of #fintechweek Today, we are talking about the blockchain. There is a lot of hype about the blockchain – usually wrapped up with talk about Bitcoin, crypto-currencies and people being arrested in Japan. But when you cut through the hype, there is a underlying reality that will […]

This continues Endjin’s series on FinTech as part of #fintechweek Today, we are talking about regulatory compliance and the Cloud. The FCA has just closed its consultation on guidance for the adoption of Cloud services by financial institutions. Although these guidelines are specifically targeted at FS, they are worth reviewing by any organization that handles […]