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Any support that is not based on an exchange of goods or merchandise is referred to as a service. Users do not buy 'things' from service providers that they can unpack and touch, they primarily buy expertise and experience. Services are always 'immaterial' at their core, even if concepts or carrier media are handed over at the end. Our IT service counts...

Many pages make a book: The word 'blade' in 'blade server' does not refer to 'blade' or 'cutting edge'. In such a computer, circuit boards are combined like 'blades' in a housing under a 'cover'. The idea is to connect several computers to a single power supply, a single shared storage medium and a single ventilation system.

In December 2017, the IT service company b.r.m. successfully completed the next stage of Eco-Step certification. Since 2008, the company has regularly had its integrated management system put through its paces there. Among other things, the implementation of the following industry standards was tested, which EcoStep has developed specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...

The Bremen Chamber of Commerce has recognized two people at b.r.m. as trainers for the profession of "IT specialist, specializing in system integration". One is the owner of the company, Harald Rossol, and the other is b.r.m. project manager Marius Ammermann. b.r.m. is thus making an important contribution to remedying the increasing shortage of skilled workers in a profession that...

Forestry has coined the term sustainability: a forest should always be managed so carefully that, firstly, the biotope remains healthy and, secondly, the timber yield does not decrease over the generations. Sustainability therefore describes a long-term method of management. In the course of the ecological debate, this principle was then applied to other...

For most laypeople, the 'Secure Sockets Layer' (SSL) is just a Chinese IT term. The term actually refers to the network protocol for the secure transmission of data. Only those sites that have been certified in accordance with SSL are considered secure transmitters in global data traffic. Now, when an Internet giant like Google offers an estimated tenth of...

Since Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg began to thoroughly 'clean out' his network, the platform has been getting closer to reality again. It wasn't just the American election campaign that showed everyone how easily Facebook could be misused as a 'fake news sling' under the old rules. The loss of advertising revenue and the increasing use of the platform were probably also factors in the...

The fact that energy efficiency and climate protection also play an outstanding role in IT is not only demonstrated by the server farms of large digital companies, which are all located close to the Arctic Circle for cooling reasons. b.r.m. has taken a different approach here and now uses the waste heat from the servers to air-condition the offices. This, and many other measures in the field of...

The major search engines only appear to work 'free of charge'. Every user pays to find information on the internet by disclosing their queries. This results in 'user profiles' that allow a customer to be presented with precisely the advertising that matches their interests. Google's AdWord system dates back to the year 2000, and 'AdWord' is a made-up word derived from...