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Windows Server 2016 End of Life
Microsoft

Windows Server 2016 End of Life: What It Means for Your Business and How to Prepare

Most growing businesses have a server that everyone has quietly agreed not to think about. It runs the line of business application, the shared drives, or the database finance leans on at month end. It has been steady for years, so it sits in the comms room doing its job while attention goes to the things that feel more urgent. In a lot of UK organisations, that server is running Windows Server 2016, and on 12 January 2027 Microsoft stops supporting it.

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Garry Brown the managing director of Bondgate IT - with a quote Owning a SOC doesn't make a provider more accountable. In a lot of cases, it makes it less.
Cybersecurity

Why Bondgate IT Doesn’t Run Its Own SOC

We could build a Security Operations Centre. We’ve chosen not to. Here’s why structural independence between your MSP and your SOC protects your business better than the alternative, and why “we own everything end-to-end” is starting to look less like a strength and more like a conflict of interest.

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