Discover the exciting world of AI innovation at BlakYaks as we delve into the realms of Artificial Intelligence and explore the Azure OpenAI service. In this blog, we share our early insights and success with the YakBot OpenAI console, a seamless gateway to the Azure OpenAI service, tailor-made to enhance productivity within our business.

BlakYaks, a UK-leading Microsoft Azure specialist building, migrating and operating secure cloud-native platforms, today announced that is now a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP). By becoming a KCSP, BlakYaks joins an elite group of service providers in the UK recognised for their excellence in helping organisations leverage the full potential of Kubernetes. The KCSP program, managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF®) in partnership with the Linux Foundation, is a pre-qualified tier of vetted service providers who have deep experience helping enterprises successfully adopt Kubernetes.

At BlakYaks we believe in giving back to our community and we wanted to celebrate our second anniversary in a meaningful way, so we decided to volunteer with Heath Hands, a charity organisation that works to preserve and protect the natural environment of Hampstead Heath.

We are offering free-of-charge Azure workshops to celebrate our second business anniversary! Speak to us during the month of March and book a session to optimise your Azure cloud-native platform.

BlakYaks turns two years old!

Welcome to our blog series "Meet the Herd". In this section, we will give you a closer look at the wonderful people that make BlakYaks so great. By way of fun interviews and spotlights, you will get to see the faces behind the business and find out what drives and inspires them.

BlakYaks is certified as a Great Place to Work® UK, achieving a whopping 99% average of all Great Place to Work® survey statements.

BlakYaks is celebrating its 1st anniversary! Today is a special day for our team as we are celebrating BlakYaks’ first full year in business. We would like to thank the Yaks, our customers, partners, and those who believe in us and support the journey we are on. We look forward to what is in store for our second year in business!  

We are happy to announce that our key services and solutions are now listed and made available for purchase on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, making our solutions more transparent and accessible for our current and future customers and partners.

Reflection is an important part of growth, it not only challenges us be critical of ourselves and the environment around us but it beautifully transforms experiences into genuine learning (A theme that will persist throughout this article) and so with my personal six month anniversary with BlakYaks fast approaching, it seemed only appropriate to take a step back from all the certifications and office comradery to reflect on what has been my first six month at BlakYaks.

We are a specialist Azure and cloud-native consultancy & engineering business based in the UK (London), delivering technology services and solutions to larger businesses. As a business, we set out with clarity regarding the technology partnerships and some cloud-native tools that are strategically important to us, and ultimately to many of our customers. Selecting a set of strategic technologies and tools is important because it drives some strategic imperatives for our business.

This blog shares key considerations for organisations (particularly technology infrastructure teams) as they navigate the transition to cloud-native enabling technologies. There is pent-up demand across the industry from application development teams wanting their infrastructure technology colleagues to provide tech tools and services that enable them to build micro-service architectures. These architectures depend on and are enabled by containers, platform-as-a-service and serverless technologies.

Designing and building Azure scaffolds, landing zones and adopting best practice from the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework and extending the platform with enterprise containers requires a number of integrations to be considered to ensure the full eco-system is working as planned.