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Aston University has renamed its flagship digital research institute in honour of Sir Peter Rigby, one of the UK’s most respected and successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

As organisations strive to reduce their environmental footprint, they must also ensure their technology investments remain cost-effective while meeting the needs of the business. Whether that focus is controlling cloud spend, reducing carbon output, or mitigating license compliance risks. GreenOps can help to optimise existing IT operations and infrastructures, both from a cost and environment...

SCC named a Rising Star in the ISG Provider Lens™ Future of Work Services 2024 Quadrant Report for its Managed End-user Technology Services – Local Specialists. Information Services Group (ISG) is a global technology research and advisory firm that provides market intelligence, advisory services, and technology insights to help clients achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The...

SCC has unveiled a new partnership with cybersecurity specialist Prodaft in response to the rising threat of cybercrime. Set against a backdrop which this summer saw essential NHS services crippled, and patient care severely disrupted, following a ransomware attack by a notorious Russian based cyber hacking group, the game-changing new partnership will immediately target solutions...

The world of work has changed so much in the last few years that the standard workplace technology we use daily is now very different. As hybrid and flexible work has become the norm in organisations all over the world, collaboration tools that connect office-based and home-based employees, such as Microsoft Teams Rooms are now...

SCC excited to continue its partnership and deep expertise as 4me becomes Xurrent 4me has announced its official rebrand to Xurrent (pronounced Zurrent), with a refreshed look and updated identity as it continues its global expansion. For SCC customers, this means no change to the excellent service levels you’ve come to expect. Customers will continue...

Navigating Windows 11 Migration: Financial and Sustainable Hardware strategies for IT Leaders Transition to Windows 11: With Windows 10 support ending on October 14th, 2025, and the average Windows 11 migrations taking approximately 14 months the time to act is now but without a commercially flexible financial plan for your Windows 11 and hardware refresh...

We are delighted to announce that Andy Dunbar has joined SCC as UK General Manager, Software. Andy joins us from SoftwareOne, where he served as the Software & Cloud Services Director for EMEA West & Africa, with the responsibility for the services business and near-shore deliver centres for the region. With 20 years of experience...

Windows 11 is just an upgrade on Windows 10, needing only a simple set of software upgrades, right? Think again. Many organisations are well underway with their migrations towards Windows 11 (and with Windows 10 going out-of-support in October 2025, yours should be too if it isn’t already). We’ve found that as organisations have dived...

The world of work has changed a great deal in recent years, and this has had a huge impact on the workloads that IT teams, administrators and security teams have had to deal with. According to Samsung, some large organisations have one IT staff member for every 600 end-users within their estate, underlining the strain...

Most people are now aware that Windows 10 support will end on October 14 2025. And yet it’s estimated by Microsoft that as many as 17.1 million devices in the UK alone that are currently running Windows 10 will be affected by this change, from laptops to devices for Teams rooms. This deadline is starting...

Leading European IT services and solutions provider SCC has retained its Advanced Customer Experience Specialisation accreditation with Cisco, renewing its status as one of eight UK Partners to hold highest tier of accreditation within Cisco’s Customer Experience Specialisation. Cisco’s Customer Experience Specialisation enables partners to be recognised as trusted providers, guiding customers as they increasingly...