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F5 has confirmed that a sophisticated cyber attack led to unauthorised access within its corporate network. According to the company’s official statement (https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000154696), a threat actor gained entry to F5’s internal development environment and accessed portions of source code relating to BIG-IP and F5OS products. F5 has stated that there is no evidence of compromise...

The reality check: resilience is an operating goal, not a shopping list If you’re waiting for magic genie or a blank cheque to fix security, you’ll wait forever. Resilience isn’t the absence of incidents; it’s the ability to keep operating when systems fail or attackers get through. The good news: you don’t need a genie...

Move from monitoring to fixing Dashboards don’t fix outages  –  people do. And unless observability changes that equation, you’re not building resilience, you’re just watching failure in high definition. The point of observability isn’t to see more, it’s to fix more. Observability has to become an operational discipline, connecting telemetry to outcomes, fixing faster, smarter...

Rethinking IT Asset Management as a Strategic Growth Driver IT Asset Management (ITAM) is often misunderstood. To many, it’s a back-office function – an exercise in counting laptops and tracking software licenses. But for high-growth companies, ITAM is a secret weapon. When done right, it unlocks efficiencies, ensures compliance, and aligns IT with broader business...

In today’s fast-moving digital landscape, the lines between software delivery and cybersecurity are blurring – and that’s a good thing. For years, businesses treated these disciplines as separate tracks: software was about speed and features, while security was something to bolt on later. But that approach is no longer sustainable. As threats grow more sophisticated...

Microsoft has just redrawn the commercial landscape with its Online Services Pricing Consistency update – a bold move that shifts the focus from bulk buying to strategic cloud engagement. The old playbook of volume-based discounts? It’s officially retired. In its place, a new reality: value-driven pricing where adoption, consumption, and alignment with Microsoft’s ecosystem are the new currency. Effective...

European technology solutions and services provider SCC today announced a strategic partnership with Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH), a leading provider of modern customer and employee engagement software. This partnership brings together SCC’s trusted enterprise delivery capabilities and Freshworks’ intuitive IT Service Management (ITSM) and Enterprise Service Management (ESM) solutions to support digital transformation initiatives across...

Is your VMware renewal just around the corner? Don’t wait until the last minute to get your environment in order. Whether you’re managing a complex virtual infrastructure or just trying to stay compliant, being prepared is key to a smooth and cost-effective renewal process. That’s why we’ve created the VMware Renewal Readiness Assessment Framework—a free,...

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...

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...

Managing the ever-increasing volumes of IT within a business is a bigger challenge now than it’s ever been before. It’s no surprise, therefore, that so many organisations are turning to automation for more repetitive tasks, and to lighten the load in terms of time and resources. According to All Tech Magazine, 35% of IT leaders...

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...