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Author Steve Smith, Technology & Operations Director – Public Cloud The demand for virtual desktop solutions has understandably boomed in recent years, but from my experience, there’s a lot of users who aren’t getting what they’re looking for. Many Citrix VDI users have found themselves struggling with high licensing costs and high hardware requirements. Meanwhile,...

It won’t have escaped your notice that data volumes worldwide continue to grow – fast, and exponentially! Research from Statista has found that global data is expected to balloon from just over 64 zettabytes in 2020 to as much as 180ZB by 2025. A significant proportion of that data is ‘business data’ and not only...

Programmes around environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns are now common across many industries, to the point of becoming the norm and most responsible organisations have executive targets associated with ESG goals. Governments, citizens and investors alike now expect businesses to take their ESG responsibilities seriously: according to Harvard Law School, a quarter of global...

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...

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...

A business moves to a cloud based solution for many reasons. Scalability is one, as is connectivity. Increased security usually wins the list of requirements, alongside greater resilience, redundancy and guaranteed uptime. Then there is the plethora of ‘as a service’ style software solutions, all of which have to be built, configured, and populated with...

We will soon be living in a post smartphone era, but what will that look like? In the dark recesses of all IT departments in all businesses there will be some It products of yesteryear gathering dust. Fax Machines, Palm Pilots and laptops that were the size of suitcases all reside there now that sun...