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Quite often organisations believe that doing nothing for their IT investments is the most cost effective thing to do during challenging times. The answer is, it’s not – and here’s what really happens: If this sounds familiar, know that there’s a better way forward… Digital transformation is an area that countless businesses and public-sector organisations...

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...

Data is now the lifeblood of almost every type of business you can think of, helping to improve efficiency, enhance customer experiences, guide better decision-making, or support stronger employee productivity. No wonder, then, that the global big data analytics market is set to be worth more than $105 billion by 2027.  But despite the importance...

Analytics is proving increasingly instrumental to modern business, because of the competitive advantage it can help generate. By replacing guesswork with hard, data-driven facts, businesses can develop more informed strategies, connect with customers better, improve their productivity, and find efficiencies that save time and reduce costs.  Realising these benefits requires high data literacy, but many...

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...

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...

Global businesses compete to develop the most innovative and reliable applications to meet growing customer needs and decrease time to market. Business-critical workloads must operate in the most optimal, future ready IT environment, which often means migrating to the cloud to improve agility, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerate innovation using cloud-native development...