Global Technologists Achieves 2025 Cyber Essentials Certification
We are pleased to have passed the IASME Cyber Essentials Certification for 2025. Cyber Essentials, backed by IASME, is a UK government-endorsed certification that helps organisations guard against cyber threats, demonstrating cybersecurity controls, covering firewalls, secure configuration, user access control, malware protection, and patch management. Achieving certification boosts trust and helps comply with regulatory requirements. […]
Read MoreGlobal Technologists now Disability Confident
We are very pleased to announce we are now members of the UK Government’s ‘Disability Confident’ scheme, which aims to promote equality of opportunity for disabled job applicants and employees. More information here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Read MoreDatabricks Enables Microsoft Entra RBAC Integration
In a significant move towards simplifying identity and access management for Databricks on Azure, Databricks now has an enhanced integration with Microsoft Entra, Microsoft’s unified identity platform (previously Active Directory). This development allows organizations to seamlessly import roles, users, and groups directly from Entra, enabling smoother collaboration with the Databricks ecosystem and eliminating the need […]
Read MoreGit integration released for SSMS v.21
In November 2024 Microsoft announced that Git would be made available in SQL Server Management Studio version 21 (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/announcing-sql-server-management-studio-ssms-21-preview-1-and-copilot-in-ssms/4286966) Historically DBAs have had to make do with roll-your-own source control integration tools and a plethora of alternatives sprang up – Flyway, a migration-centric schema control system, was acquired and integrated to Redgate in 2019 (https://www.red-gate.com/blog/database-devops/redgate-embraces-open-source-with-its-ongoing-development-of-flyway); […]
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