
Author David Poole on 10 October 2022 David Poole's blog
David Poole
CTO / CSO | Chief Technical Officer / Chief Security Officer
David has nearly 30 years experience in the IT industry principally in banking and mobile technology. David’s motto is “get the job done”. David gained a Ph.D in Physics (solid state) from Cambridge University in 1982. He also has a Master’s in electronics from Birmingham University.
Other interests: Art, karate and weight training
Author David Poole on 10 October 2022 David Poole's blog
If you are running Windows Server in the cloud, which you want to access via remote desktop (RDP) there are some basic security rules you need to follow. This is necessary, first and foremost because exposing RDP to the internet is “low hanging fruit” for hackers. We highly recommend taking the following ten steps.
Author David Poole on 17 January 2022 David Poole's blog
Without the cloud it is very difficult to store and share the huge volumes of data needed for genome sequencing. Given the sensitivity of human genome data in terms of ownership and privacy, security and compliance are paramount.
Author David Poole on 28 April 2021 David Poole's blog
You have heard of containers, but find them a bit of a mystery? Then this article is perfect for you. In it, we explain the concept and characteristics of containers. This helps to understand why containers are one of the big trends in IT.
Author David Poole on 14 April 2021 David Poole's blog
In this post, I will show you how to make your application data persist by adding a persistent volume claim to an already deployed pod/container.
Author David Poole on 16 March 2021 David Poole's blog
In this article I demonstrate how to set up an autoscaler to scale up the pods when the CPU usage exceeds a certain threshold and back down again.
Author David Poole on 16 June 2020 David Poole's blog
JupyterLab is the most widely used data science / machine learning IDE. Deploying it on OpenShift / Kubernetes adds another layer of flexibility in terms of convenience, resource allocation and horizontal scaling across user groups.
Author David Poole on 26 April 2018 David Poole's blog
Deploying OpenShift to the cloud as opposed to bare metal, is an ideal way to get up and going quickly, being particularly well suited to development and test environments where instant resource availability and flexibility is key. A great way to smooth the path to a successful OpenShift deployment is by using automation.
Author David Poole on 24 December 2017 David Poole's blog
On the final day of our Advent Calendar, we congratulate Switzerland for being the world’s best in innovation. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) carries out an annual study of worldwide innovation and calculates an index called the Global Innovation Index (GII). Switzerland has come out on top for the last 8 years.
Author David Poole on 19 December 2017 David Poole's blog
High-temperature superconductors (high-Tc or HTS) are materials that behave as superconductors at unusually high temperatures. The first high-Tc superconductor was discovered in 1986 by IBM researchers Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller, who were awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials”.
Author David Poole on 18 December 2017 David Poole's blog
In 1970, the physicists Martin Schadt and Wolfgang Helfrich invented the twisted nematic field effect (TN-effect) whilst working at Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, in Basel. This invention rapidly paved the way for commercial Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD), which are still in use today.
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