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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...

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...

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...

IBM Instana Observability is a fully automated enterprise observability platform that delivers the context needed to take intelligent actions and ensure optimum application performance. IBM Instana ingests all metrics, traces every request, and profiles every process in cloud-native, hybrid, and on-prem environments. It correlates and analyses the data for the DevOps teams to optimise their...

Assure app performance with smarter resource management. Increasingly, complex applications run your business. And they can run your teams ragged trying to stay ahead of dynamic demand. When application performance drops, you may overprovision resource allocations, making costly estimates that often don’t always pay off. With IBM® Turbonomic® Application Resource Management (ARM), you can automate...

Giving on-premise environments all the advantages of cloud As multi-cloud becomes the norm, organisations are finding that the number and size of their workloads are increasing all the time. On-premise data centres are often preferable for running these workloads, for a number of different reasons, including budgets, bandwidth, latency, data privacy, technical complexity and regulatory...

Welcome to Innovation Island During their 2023 annual voyage, Innovation Island was discovered by SCC with the help of its open-source partner, Red Hat. Here SCC and Red Hat found a home for three of their products; Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Come and discover the endless...

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...

While sustainability was previously a ‘nice to have’ addition to a business, it is now absolutely essential – and in many cases, a legal requirement. IBM’s Sustainability Software portfolio includes Envizi for ESG reporting and performance management. While sustainability was previously a ‘nice to have’ addition to a business, it is now absolutely essential –...

Why organisations must go beyond data backup in a hybrid working world Performing data backups will be a regular occurrence for most IT teams, ensuring crucial data is safe and can be called upon in an emergency. But from here, you may feel like you’ve done your bit to minimise the risk of business disruption,...