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That was then The power of mobile is often taken for granted by many people today, so it’s worth a brief look at how far mobile technology has come in the past few decades. Back in 1969, the Apollo 11 moon expedition utilised all the cutting edge technology of the day to set Neil Armstrong...

Running a big rail network is a huge undertaking – and so it was for Virgin Trains. Just a few years ago the train operator was a byword for platform chaos, delays and last minute route changes, often all happening at once with little or no co-ordination. The IT and customer services teams had no...

SCC is proud to announce our position on the Jisc framework to supply Cisco, HPE/Aruba and Fortinet products and services to UK Universities and Colleges. Modern networks are the backbone of all campuses. Most users take their IT networks for granted and just expect them to work, but user experience is only as good as...

Rigby Group (RG) plc, the parent company for a portfolio of family-owned and highly successful businesses operating across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, has achieved another record set of results for the financial year ending March 31st, 2019. The Group comprises six core divisions: technology, airports, hotels, aviation, real estate and finance, and has...

SCC is the opening event sponsor of Birmingham Tech Week, taking place from the 7th to 13th October 2019 which is kicking off at Millenium Point. A number of speakers will be covering an exciting and vast range of topics: • 5G • Diversity in Health Tech • Artificial Intelligence • Tech for Good •...

A slow response to cyber attacks is leaving UK organisations with critical vulnerabilities, resulting in catastrophic breaches, reputational damage and fines by the Information Commissioner’s Office for non compliance. Recent statistics published have unearthed a catalogue of errors and indecisions by IT teams that often result in breaches going unnoticed for 14 days, while attack...

SCC’s data centre capabilities and our successful working partnership with Secure Trust Bank are discussed in the August/September edition of Birmingham Business Magazine. Click here to view the article

SCC are amongst a host of resellers who have won a place on a coveted £400m public sector framework. The Data Centres, Maintenance, Cloud Hosting and Security framework is run by Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), which supplies 19,000 customers in public sector institutions including schools, local authorities and the emergency services. The procurement vehicle is...

When people ask me about data centre modernisation, I often tell them the story of my favourite steak restaurant. Bear with me on this one… Every so often I go out to a local restaurant that serves my favourite medium rare sirloin steak. The meal costs about £50, the experience is hassle free and everything...

Managing Director of AV Services Graham Fry discusses the business requirements influencing the trends in the collaboration market. Collaboration is all anyone speaks about at the moment and leadership teams across the world are searching for answers to: “How do we enable our people to work collaboratively?” Businesses are under pressure to outperform competitors and...

The Comms National Awards are independently judged by a panel of experts to recognise vendors and resellers. Past hosts include Patrick Kielty, Rufus Hound, Hugh Dennis, Stephen K Amos, Michael McIntyre, Marcus Brigstocke, Vernon Kay, Gabby Logan, Stephen Mangan and James Nesbitt. The Comms National Awards is taking place at The Hilton on Park Lane...