Electric Picnic gets underway tomorrow in Stradbally, Co Laois, just down the road from Blacknight‘s Carlow HQ. Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather was up early this morning to get a drone’s eye view of the sunrise, as the festival site stands ready to rock! Anyone planning to do the same should note that a no-fly zone comes into […]
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Panorama at Sunset in Carlow [Video]
Ireland is enjoying some unusually fine weather this week. This video by Alan O’Reilly speaks for itself. [youtube]https://youtu.be/UF6cR5pgdpw[/youtube] Alan is support manager at Blacknight, and runs CarlowWeather.com. The outlook, he says, is good.
Everyone Must Play a Part in Defeating Child Abuse Online – An Interview with Mick Moran of Interpol [Audio]
Here’s the interview we promised you with Interpol’s Mick Moran. We aired a video extract from this just over a week ago; now here’s the extended interview, just under 30 minutes, recorded when Interpol’s Assistant Director for Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation paid an informal visit to Blacknight HQ while on holidays in Ireland recently. Click on the […]
Jobs, Lots of Jobs! Nitro, Blacknight and More!
Nitro, the Australian founded, San Francisco headquartered, document management company are having a week-long recruitment drive for their EMEA HQ in Dublin, culminating in a talk by their Director of Engineering, Brendan Dillon at Career Zoo tomorrow at 2:30pm. They’ve been busy promoting their ‘work hard – play hard’ corporate culture, which they’ve nicknamed ‘The Wombat Republic‘, in a a […]
Féile Chásca Cheatharlach [Podchraoladh]
Is i gCeatharlach atá ceannáras Blacknight, mar sin is ceart agus is cuí go gcuirfimís tús le sraith podchraoltaí i nGaeilge le comhrá le Bríd de Róiste ón eagraíocht Glór Cheatharlach. Labhraíonn sí le Conn (23:19, 14MB, MP3) faoin nGaeilge i gCeatharlach, agus faoin bhFéile Chásca atá á eagrú ar an mbaile. Bhí an Fhéile […]
Hailo Goes Nationwide
It’s revolutionised taxi travel for many of us – especially when travelling for business – and today Hailo has announced that it is now live in 20 new towns and cities! They’ve been steadily rolling it out since the Dublin service launched in 2012, adding Cork, Galway and Limerick in 2013. The 20 new locations […]
Weathering the Storm in Carlow [Audio]
On Wednesday of last week, 12 February, a ferocious storm tore across Ireland, felling trees, damaging buildings and leaving 200,000 people without power. Backup systems kicked in seamlessly in the Blacknight data centre, so staff had no cause for concern. But one Blacknight employee had an extra interest in what was going on outside. Alan […]
Live Video: Blacknight Data Centre Launch
Blacknight’s new data centre will be officially launched at 3pm by the Minister of State for Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD. You can watch it live here: Live streaming video by Ustream
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Blacknight’s New Datacentre
We’re counting down to the official opening of Blacknight’s new datacentre this afternoon at 3pm. You can watch it live here on technology.ie and at blog.blacknight.com. And while we wait for the show to start, here’s a guided video tour of the new facility, with Blacknight CTO Paul Kelly. [Update: 5 Feb 2014 – Video […]
Ireland’s Newest Datacentre is Open for Business
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Dl7rwlL8oOc[/youtube] Technology.ie is brought to you by Blacknight, Ireland’s only ICANN accredited registrar and leading provider of hosting and domains. We don’t blow that trumpet too much here on this site, but we hope you’ll forgive our excitement on this occasion. On Monday, Minister for Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD, will officially launch our new […]