Category Archives: Iceland

How the Reykjavik City Council Got Its IT to Toe the Line

Halldór-Ingi H. Guðmundsson lives in Reykjavik, Iceland, and when he isn’t off fishing or cycling he looks after the town hall’s IT in his home town. Iceland’s capital and the island’s largest town, Reykjavik has an extensive infrastructure and offers numerous critical services for its citizens. If anything is out of order here, there are […]

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The IT Challenge: How to Manage Diverse Systems Consistently

Whoever is in charge of IT is always something of a flea circus keeper. They must have everything under control—all issues that might spring up on devices at any place in their organization. They are supposed to be enablers, bringing new areas of operation to bear, but without losing control. Examples include (unofficial) bring-your-own-device (BYOD) […]

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Reykjavik city administration manages Mac with Microsoft SCCM

In this blog post, we will talk about how Iceland’s capital Reykjavik city administration manages Mac with Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM. “The expense of the comparatively small Mac flotilla in our organization sometimes made me break out in a sweat… Thanks to Parallels Mac Management, this nightmare is now over. If I don’t […]

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PixPuffin Photo Management System for SMBs Runs Carbon-free on Iceland’s GreenCloud

NordicPhotos image agency has released PixPuffin, a cloud-based photo management system for medium sized and small businesses.  Web-based, without any need for additional software or servers, it is the first of its kind and specially designed to administer  the image library of today’s companies and organizations. The system has been in constant development for over 11 years as the core system overseeing NordicPhotos’ own image library. Based in Iceland, the system is cloud hosted on greenqloud’s 100% renewable energy servers, making PixPuffin the first completely eco-friendly image management solution available.

Between single user solutions and large, very expensive server based media management solutions, the creators of PixPuffin felt that user friendly and affordable image management solutions were somewhat lacking from the market.  Businesses and organizations can save a great amount of money every year by using a solution like PixPuffin, they can save time and prevent damages such as lost images and expensive copyright mistakes. Furthermore, they can improve or extend the use of their images, save on image purchase and make their marketing and PR presence better than ever.
For more information www.pixpuffin.com and www.greenqloud.com

“We have talked to almost 200 companies during the past few weeks and it surprised us how much of a problem image management is becoming within companies of all kinds,” said Arnaldur Gauti Johnson, Managing Director.  “They are using more images than ever, but lacking systems to manage the images and the copyrights attached. Access to the images is also becoming increasingly important as many administrators in the company need to grant access to the media and clients as well as the employees and they must be able to control this access.”