We are regularly contacted by clients who are concerned about potentially harmful emails and the accompanying attachments. What is clear is that there is some confusion with regard to these attachments, particularly when it comes to standard Microsoft Office files such as Word and Excel. It is generally well known that .zip and .exe files…
Merry Christmas from Akita
The team at Akita would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and thank you for your continued support throughout 2015! Having enjoyed a fantastic Christmas party, we are looking forward to continuing to serve our clients with the highest standards of IT support and computer services in 2016. The coming year promises…
Akita Systems Achieves Microsoft Silver Small and Mid Market Cloud Solutions Competency
Akita Systems earns distinction through demonstrated technology success and customer commitment. Akita Systems, the IT specialist serving businesses in London and the South East of England, today announced it has achieved Silver Small and Mid Market Cloud Solutions competency, demonstrating its ability to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’ evolving needs in today’s dynamic business environment. To…
Network Engineer Wanted!
Job Title: Network Engineer
Salary: circa £18-27k (depending on experience/qualifications/ skills set)
Start date: ASAP
Full time: Permanent Contract of Employment
Hours: 42.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
IT Outsourcing for SMEs
It is increasingly difficult for many SMEs to find reliable and qualified IT staff with appropriate experience. This is particularly true throughout Kent and London, where the higher salaries on offer in the capital provide a major pull and make it difficult for smaller businesses to compete. Of course, the IT industry is not alone…
Our Mail Filtering Protects Against Over 3,000 Viruses a Week
One of Akita’s key services is the provision of hosted email and the mail filtering which is so important in keeping inboxes safe and uncluttered. To give you an idea of how hard our mail filtering servers have to work, on a weekly basis we handle over 750,000 emails! Of these, typically over half of…
Businesses Warned About Emails from the “Boss”
As we wrote six months ago in our blog, fraudsters and cyber criminal are coming up with increasing sophisticated ways of targeting businesses. It seems that these attempts have become a significant issue with the mainstream media finally picking up on this. Both the Telegraph and the BBC have both reported on these and hopefully the increased…
Welcome to our new clients
It has been a busy few weeks for the team at Akita as we welcome a number of new clients on board. Following a competitive tender, we were delighted to be awarded a contract for the ongoing IT support, leased line and hosted desktops for Jardox. A savoury ingredient specialist based in Sevenoaks, Jardox have…
IT Apprentice Joins the Akita Team
We were delighted to welcome our newest member of the team last week – Daniel Fleury who has joined as an apprentice IT engineer. We asked Daniel to write a few words to introduce himself and outline his background interest in computers and how he came to explore the apprenticeship route. “Starting from the end…
Windows 10 email warning
With Microsoft’s launch of the Windows 10 operating system, cybercriminals have taken the opportunity of targeting end users with an email offering a free upgrade. Windows 10 is available as a free upgrade in 190 countries, with millions of machines having already taken advantage of the upgrade (for information on whether you should upgrade, we…