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The last few years have been some of the most challenging for the financial services industry in recent memory. That’s because there have been so many headwinds to deal with simultaneously: the lingering impact of the pandemic, rising inflation and interest rates, slowing economies and much more. All this is putting ever more pressure on...

The pace of technological change means that all good digital transformation strategies have to factor in readiness for continuous evolution. Businesses that lag behind their competitors in adopting technological advancements find it harder and harder to catch up. To overcome this challenge, they must completely rethink their approach and consider strategy and planning in tandem....

Moving to Windows 11 now, rather than waiting reduces risk – the step change between Windows 10 today and Windows 11 is relatively small, but as features are added to Windows 11, that gap is likely to increase dramatically turning a simple, easily planned step-up today into a major upgrade headache in the future, and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a major rethink within business communication. All around the world, organisations came to realise just how important smooth and easy comms are to operations and collaboration. And as hybrid working has emerged as a long-term solution, the businesses that have invested in digital transformation and online means of communication have...

It wasn’t so long ago that artificial intelligence and machine learning were considered trendy buzzwords with limited relevance to most businesses. But times have changed quickly, and AI has become essential in many use cases. Among them are customer service (cited by 56% of respondents to the Forbes Advisor survey) and cybersecurity (51%). The rush...

Businesses all over the world are having to deal with an unprecedented amount of data – and it’s growing all the time. This is down to increased digitisation and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) that has expanded the range of data collection points. While there’s a natural tendency to deal with this...

Ransomware attacks may have been around a while, but they’re still just as damaging – becoming increasingly sophisticated, and unfortunately, increasingly common. Further Education institutions are worryingly over-exposed to ransomware attacks. Although heavily reliant on data, including employee and student information, payment details and even course material, stretched budgets and a focus on student safety...

Ransomware has emerged in recent years as one of the most common forms of cybercrime – and one of the most dangerous. More than ever before, businesses and organisations are finding themselves locked out of their most important databases and systems, where cybercriminals are holding their data and access hostage in exchange for their demands....

IBM Instana Observability is a fully automated enterprise observability platform that delivers the context needed to take intelligent actions and ensure optimum application performance. IBM Instana ingests all metrics, traces every request, and profiles every process in cloud-native, hybrid, and on-prem environments. It correlates and analyses the data for the DevOps teams to optimise their...

Colocation from SCC enables you to reduce costs, mitigate risk and minimise your environmental impact. Unlike many others we’re not a property company. We are proud to be Europe’s largest independent IT company. We continue to invest in the specialist skills and expertise which are essential to operating and maintaining data centres, as well as...

Assure app performance with smarter resource management. Increasingly, complex applications run your business. And they can run your teams ragged trying to stay ahead of dynamic demand. When application performance drops, you may overprovision resource allocations, making costly estimates that often don’t always pay off. With IBM® Turbonomic® Application Resource Management (ARM), you can automate...