Just a quick request from Red to help us by participating in a survey! At Red Gate we’ve set up a project team to look at improving license management for users. This should help users manage which machines they have each license on, and also help account owners with management of users. We’d like to … Read more
On the 5th of October 2012, a team of nine plucky Red Gaters braved the howling wind and the driving rain to sleep outside. No tents or mattresses were allowed – all we took for protection were sleeping bags, groundsheets, plastic sacks and Colin’s enormous fishing umbrella (a godsend in umbrella-y disguise). Why would we … Read more
Here at Red Gate Towers, the SQL Backup development team have been hunkered down in their shed for the last few months, with the toolbox, blowtorch and chamois leather out, upgrading SQL Backup. When we started, autumn leaves were falling. Now we’re about to finish, spring flowers are budding. If not quite a gleaming new … Read more
Whilst we have our fair share, as a company, of native Scots, somehow none of them managed to attend Red Gate’s recent Burns Night celebration. Troublingly, this didn’t seem to trouble us. A Burns Supper should not, in theory, be hard to organise. We asked our head chef, Big Steve, if he’d put on a … Read more
How did you come to be working at Red Gate? I’ve been working at Red Gate for nine months; before that I had been at a multinational engineering company. A number of my colleagues had left to work at Red Gate and spoke very highly of it, but I was happy in my role and … Read more
Last Friday I was made to wake up obscenely early, which is something that I generally avoid. On this occasion, however, I was excited enough to spring out of bed when my alarm went, rather than hitting snooze three times before rousing, as is my usual routine. The reason for my uncharacteristically sprightly behaviour was … Read more
Red Gate attended the Technology Ventures Conference (TVC), held at the Cambridge Student Union on the 8th June, and we had a great day. The TVC is an event to showcase start-ups in the local area and to allow them to pitch for funding in the style of Dragon’s Den. Red Gate are one of … Read more
I recently moved from Red Gate’s Finance team to The Agency, where the Marketing magic (And all the colouring in), happens. Every year each Red Gate team is given a generous budget and a free day out of the office to go and spend having fun with each other however they please. In my four … Read more
Another year flies by and Red Gate reaches the grand old age of 11. Here’s what we got up to on our big day: At the crack of dawn we decorated the office. Cara on Reception was then wished a happy birthday by visitors to Red Gate towers for the rest of the day – … Read more
I think it was the moment when, 1500 metres above the fields of South Cambridge, sitting in the front cockpit of a yellow 1939 Tiger moth biplane in a flying jacket and goggles, the voice of the pilot came through my headphones to tell me “You now have control of the aircraft” that I thought … Read more
After reading Phil’s blog post about his experiences of working on reception, I thought I would let everyone in on one of the other customer facing roles at Red Gate… When you think of a Credit Control team, most might imagine money-hungry (and often impolite) people, who will do nothing short of hunting people down … Read more
There may be a few blog posts around on customer contact from a sales and marketing point of view, but not so many on the other points of contact a company has with their customers, which can be overlooked. Not everyone who deals with customers has a voice to talk about what they do – … Read more
It’s not unusual to be sitting at your desk at Red Gate and hear a cheer erupt from a post-lunch game of foosball that has been played with the momentum of an Olympic match, or indeed, the rhythmic patter of a table tennis ball going from one opponent to the next. But the sound of … Read more
Imagine waking up with the knowledge that the day ahead will be one to remember, but not being entirely sure what to expect. This was certainly the case for the Marketing team who looked forward to their day-out on 15th October 2009. Each of the teams here at Red Gate have the opportunity to take … Read more
Many of us are cautious before applying for a job, especially in an office. When I was fresh out of University, my only experience of a workplace had been the Coffee House where I’d worked as a waitress serving people their afternoon tea. I wasn’t the only one to worry that I would now find … Read more
It’s not every day at work that you are serenaded by Santa Claus* playing a ukulele. It’s not every company in which you find yourself in a jester’s cap being shouted at by the Mad Hatter to swap places with the person sixteen places along from you at a huge, crazy tea party and then … Read more
We don’t generally design splash screens for Early Access Builds. But, with our Memory Profiler coming out as an Early Access Build, one of my developers unleashed his pent-up artistic energy on the ANTS Performance Profiler splash screen in order to create a temporary splash screen for the new Memory Profiler. After some desultory scribbling … Read more
Our expert team of conference-goers recently returned from PASS, and laughed in the face of jet-lag to fill us in on a varied taste of what went on during these last few non-stop days in Seattle. I’ll open to floor to the lovely Claire, who reminisces about the good times… The SQL Server Central party, complete … Read more
Being a Community Marketeer can be a tough road some days, but I think the highlight of my career arrived in my inbox today. We like to show love for our friends … and this friend returned the passion in spades, and permanent spades at that! Rodney Landrum, you truly are Red Gate’s first blood … Read more
And I should know… I was a g’rilla back in 2006 and it was beyond brilliant. I even got a medal for it. So when it came to 2008, I was already getting itchy elbows to become a g’rilla again. There’s nothing quite like that feeling of fur against skin, internal thermal irregularities and the … Read more
