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It’s a huge challenge and there is unlikely to be any straightforward strategies, but the National Health Service (NHS) still has quite a way to go until it has been fully digitally transformed. The NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world; according to the NHS Confederation, it deals with more than one million patients...

Europe’s largest independent IT group SCC has announced record earnings for the fifth consecutive year driven by customer demand for digital services and cloud strategies.   The SCC EMEA Group’s full year results for the financial year ending 31 March 2018 showed revenues reaching a record £1.8bn and EBIT of £27.7m – a 10% growth...

Fay Gleeson has been awarded Greater Birmingham’s PA of the Year at the prestigious Birmingham PA Awards event hosted at Resorts World Birmingham.   The award was presented to recognise Fay’s contribution as an incredible Executive Personal Assistant over 19+ years at SCC, currently supporting James Rigby, Chief Executive of SCC and previously Tracy Westall,...

Edge computing will signal a move from what is traditionally understood to be the cloud – but what exactly is it, what’s it good for, and who are the main players? Edge computing has provided an impressive alternative over these past few years within the technology landscape, and seems to be proving that it has...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to create more jobs than it erases over the next two decades according to a new report. The report, by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), claims that AI will create an estimated 7.2 millions jobs in the UK between 2017 and 2037. It is estimated to replace seven million others. The multinational professional...

It’s just typical, isn’t it? The one time you really need to contact a company for technical support is when it’s out-of-hours. Then, when you call back the next day during peak time, you end up listening to cheesy pop songs whilst waiting on-hold in a queue of dozens of people. We’re living faster than...

Would you be shocked if cartoon penguins suddenly started dropping onto your desktop?   Don’t worry – you are still reading an article on SIEM. In fact, this is an example of what happened to someone who hadn’t protected his computer.   But thankfully, these penguins were just harmless animations, however, this lack of security...

Public cloud adoption is set to continue to grow but companies have concerns over how to handle cloud migration challenges, according to the latest study by VIAVI Solutions.   The IT and network testing provider, in its most recent State of the Network Global Study, polled more than 600 IT professionals and found more than...

Malicious software – dubbed malware – is any software that goes against the interest of the computer user. Ransomware is a type of malware and it’s particularly nasty. It takes your data hostage, encrypting it and thus making it inaccessible. The only way to access your data again is by entering the magic password. Unfortunately...

According to a news report by New Statesman Tech, SCC won the biggest public sector tech deal last week when compared to other IT firms.   SCC will be implementing a framework for the supply of Core IT services at University of Nottingham. The contract, valued at £90m, will include the provision of hardware, software...

Legacy IT systems can provide a whole host of problems for you and your business.   Holding onto out-of-date IT for as long as possible just to avoid the hassle of moving data from one platform to another, having to provide further staff training, and paying out for a costly upgrade, could actually end up...

The UK government is trying to gain an understanding of how people feel on certain topics on social media by using artificial intelligence (AI).   The government is using the ‘Artificial emotional intelligence’ service by web science firm FlyingBinary, in partnership with emotional AI recognition company Emrays B.V. It has been released to the government’s...