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Helping organisations understand the renewals and licensing rules with VMWare/Broadcom With the recent VMWare acquisition by Broadcom, many users have concerns about: Our on-demand briefing webinar outlines: If you didn’t get a opportunity to join the live webinar don’t worry you can still catch up on the updates. Complete the form below to watch the...

Get smarter with Smarter SaaS: The public sector business case for cutting costs   Unused SaaS spend: The untapped potential Industries across the globe have been deeply impacted by the events of recent years, and the UK public sector has been no exception. Rising costs, inflation surges, and subsequent austerity measures are putting pressure on...

PDF documents are commonly used in everyday business. Thanks to the fact they are designed to look and behave exactly the same on any device, they are often considered the perfect format for sharing. But when it comes to editing them, that’s another matter. Although most office software and photo editors allow you to export...

The SQL Server is one of the most high-valued, high-risk applications in the Microsoft stack. Here’s why you need to regularly optimise this business-critical application Software and licensing are likely to be pretty low on your everyday agenda. But would you take more interest if you realised the amount of money you could be saving,...

Data centres have become an integral factor of private and hybrid cloud strategies. As the cloud continues to grow in popularity, as businesses look to take advantage of digital trends, data centres are more in demand – but what are the main drivers? Cloud adoption The shift to the cloud> is no big secret; in fact, according...

Software Asset Management (SAM) consulting practice SAM Charter has profiled manageSMART Practice Lead Stuart Pomfrett on its website. The profile piece sees Stuart talk about his area of specialism, the biggest changes he has seen in SAM over his 13-year career in the area and changes he would make to SAM if he could. Profiler...

With public sector funding tighter than ever, organisations need to get the most out of their workforce. Here, we look at how technology can improve the output of public sector workers UK workers produce less per hour than their equivalents in France, Germany and the US, according to research conducted by the Office of National...

Workplace productivity is declining and has been for the last few years. During the first quarter of 2018, output per hour worked fell by 0.5%, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics. Productivity is the backbone of all businesses, without it; there would be no product to sell. Increasing productivity in your...

In the last decade, converged systems have revolutionised the world of data centre management. They have transformed the now-defined ‘traditional approach’, which sees a huge amount of business time poured into choosing storage, servers and networking software, to then spend even more time testing and deploying it. Plus, when support is needed, multiple vendors need...