Radium Technologies Ltd

Radium Technologies Ltd Radium Technologies delivers excellence in IT Support, Consulting & Cloud Computing.

Radium is based in Dublin, Ireland and delivers a range of professional IT services to suit all business needs including IT Consulting, Technical Support Helpdesk, Managed IT Services, Cloud Computing and many more! With certified technical staff and over 15 years experience in the IT industry, we offer exceptional customer service and unparalleled capability in IT management.

Today is World Environment Day.Worth knowing: Microsoft's 2018 study with WSP found that workloads running on the Micros...
05/06/2026

Today is World Environment Day.

Worth knowing: Microsoft's 2018 study with WSP found that workloads running on the Microsoft Cloud can be up to 98% more carbon efficient than the same workloads on traditional on-premises datacenters.

The actual saving depends on how efficient your existing setup is, but the direction of travel is clear.

Why it stacks up:

1. Hyperscale data centres run far more efficiently than office server rooms.
2. Shared infrastructure means less wasted compute.
3. Renewable energy commitments from providers like Microsoft Azure pull your usage greener, too.

If sustainability reporting is becoming part of your tenders, this is one of the easier wins.

Visit radium.ie/cloud-migration-services or call +353 1 901 2080 to talk through what a migration would look like for your business.

Most breaches don't announce themselves.By the time the ransomware note appears, attackers have often been inside the ne...
03/06/2026

Most breaches don't announce themselves.

By the time the ransomware note appears, attackers have often been inside the network for days or weeks.

The signs are usually small. A sign-in from somewhere odd. A password reset nobody asked for. Antivirus quietly switched off on one machine.

Individually, easy to dismiss. Together, a pattern worth checking.

Swipe through for the five we see most often, and what each one usually means.

If any of them sound familiar on your setup, it's worth a closer look this week.

01/06/2026

AI is the biggest shift in business IT right now. Most Irish SMEs are only scratching the surface.

The businesses getting real value aren't using AI as a novelty. They're using it to save hours of admin every week.

A few areas where it's making the most impact for Dublin SMEs:

- Accounting: automating reconciliation, invoice processing, reporting

- Marketing: content drafting, campaign analysis, audience insights

- Sales: lead qualification, CRM updates, follow-up sequences

- Phone systems: call routing, transcription, smart voicemail

The tools are ready. The question is where to start for your business.

Most SME owners have a vague sense that their IT could be better.Rarely a clear idea of where the gaps actually are.That...
29/05/2026

Most SME owners have a vague sense that their IT could be better.

Rarely a clear idea of where the gaps actually are.

That's what a free IT health check is for.

We review:

- Security posture: MFA, backups, endpoint protection

- Microsoft 365 licensing: what you're paying for vs what you're using

- Documentation: what exists, what's missing

- Hardware lifecycle: what's reaching end of life

- Access controls: current and former staff

You get a written summary. No obligation. No pressure to switch providers.

DM us to book one in.

25/05/2026

The most common email scam we see isn't sophisticated hacking.

It's an email address that looks almost identical to a real one. facebook.com with one letter swapped, or your CEO's address with a single character changed.

The email lands in your inbox looking legitimate. It's sent to your contacts, your team, and your finance lead. One click on a login link, and credentials are gone.

This is phishing. It's the entry point for most business email compromises we come across in Irish SMEs.

The fix isn't expensive tech. It's training your team to:

- Hover over sender addresses before trusting them

- Check for single-letter swaps (rn instead of m, 0 instead of o)

- Pause on any "urgent" request involving money or login details

- Verify senior-level requests through a second channel

Small habits. Big difference.

Most Irish SMEs have an AI tool in use right now, whether leadership knows about it or not.ChatGPT to draft emails. Copi...
22/05/2026

Most Irish SMEs have an AI tool in use right now, whether leadership knows about it or not.

ChatGPT to draft emails. Copilot to summarise meetings. Gemini to clean up reports. Claude for research.

The tools are useful.

The risk is that staff are pasting business data, client names, financials, contracts, internal emails, into public AI models without realising where that data ends up.

A few minutes of policy and a conversation with your team closes most of the gap.

Worth putting on the agenda this month.

One of the most common misconceptions we come across:"We're on the cloud, so our data is backed up."It isn't. Not the wa...
20/05/2026

One of the most common misconceptions we come across:

"We're on the cloud, so our data is backed up."

It isn't. Not the way most people think.

Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace keep your data available, but they're not running full backups for you.

If a file gets deleted, a mailbox gets wiped, or a ransomware attack encrypts your SharePoint, the recovery window is usually 30 days. Sometimes less.

A proper third-party backup sits separately, runs daily, and lets you restore data weeks or months after the fact.

If you've never checked whether your business has this in place, it's worth asking this week.

Most business owners have a vague idea of what their IT provider actually does."They sort things when something breaks."...
18/05/2026

Most business owners have a vague idea of what their IT provider actually does.

"They sort things when something breaks."

That's the old model.

Here's what managed IT actually looks like day-to-day:

- Background monitoring across servers, accounts, and backups
- Patching and updates rolled out after hours
- Backup restore testing, not just "is it running"
- New starters set up before day one; leavers revoked the same day
- MFA, password policies, phishing investigations
- Strategy conversations before problems become emergencies

The difference between "IT support" and "managed IT" is the difference between calling a plumber when a pipe bursts and having someone maintain the plumbing so it doesn't.

If the only time you hear from your IT provider is when something's gone wrong, that's worth noticing.

15/05/2026

"Can you click this link? I've been locked out."

It came from her relative's actual WhatsApp. Same name. Same photo. Same conversation history.

The only problem. It wasn't her relative anymore.

Days earlier, the real person had been locked out of Meta and couldn't get back in. The attackers who took over the account then messaged her contacts asking them to "help" by clicking a link. Anyone who clicked handed over their own account next.

This is how compromised accounts spread through WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram. Not through strangers, but through the trusted contacts you already message every week.

A few habits that help:

- Never click a login link sent through a messaging app, even from someone you trust

- If a contact asks for help getting back into an account, ring them first

- Turn on two-step verification in WhatsApp (Settings → Account → Two-step verification)

- Be extra careful with urgent-sounding requests from family or colleagues

The people you trust most are exactly who attackers use to reach you.

The biggest reason SMEs stay with an IT provider they don't like?They think switching will be chaos.It usually isn't. A ...
13/05/2026

The biggest reason SMEs stay with an IT provider they don't like?

They think switching will be chaos.

It usually isn't. A proper handover takes about 4 weeks:

Discovery, documentation transfer, shadow support, full handover. Most clients say it felt quieter than they expected.

The myth keeps businesses stuck. The process itself is straightforward.

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