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With organisations around the globe forced into enabling widespread remote working at short notice due to the Covid-19 pandemic, SCC is working in partnership with Cisco to ensure its customers minimise disruption by enabling worldwide remote communication and collaboration tools. In both the public and private sectors, across all industry verticals, organisations faced the challenge...

The education sector is increasingly the target of cyber threats. With sensitive personal information to safeguard, intellectual property to protect, and campuses to secure, the stakes are high. Staying on top of the evolving education environment takes a lot of work. But educators are a passionate group motivated by a deeper mission to equip all...

Following disruption caused to the education sector by Covid-19, SCC and Cisco are working with universities to connect classrooms and campuses affected by the pandemic. Many organisations are transitioning to virtual course delivery, with some accelerating plans to make remote digital learning a permanent replacement. In many respects, this suits modern day students who typically...

Each year, tens of thousands of college students enter Clearing, a system that operates between July and September and offers a second chance to achieve a place at university for students who have declined an offer, received no offers, missed the deadline, or missed the grades. Last year, more than 60,000 students were accepted through...

Security challenges in higher education are uniquely different due to the diverse user groups that require various network access privileges and one of the highest rates of people bringing their own device onto the network. Therefore, universities require a comprehensive approach to security, particularly with so much sensitive, personal and financial data at risk. With...

In this unprecedented time of change where companies have rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies, your users must do everything they can do from their new working environment, in order for your organisation to remain stable, productive, and competitive. Which means, your employees will expect to have access to critical business systems and data in order...

In this unprecedented time of change where companies have rolled out mandatory work-from-home policies, your users must do everything they can do from their new working environment, in order for your organisation to remain stable, productive, and competitive. Which means, your employees will expect to have access to critical business systems and data in order...

The challenges that hold organisations back from improving user experiences and productivity seem obvious – and the best way to address them is to take a similarly straight-forward approach. Making sure that the user experience is as good as it possibly can be is vital to achieving the highest levels of productivity and return on...

Taking a bolder approach to flexible working and providing more hot-desking or co-working spaces within central office locations, could save organisations a lot of money. Aside from personnel, the biggest cost for most organisations is office premises. And while mobile working and the idea of ‘hot desking’ are by no means new, results from a...

Networking and cybersecurity solution provider Cisco has awarded SCC its UK&I Partner of the Year Award in Security. With strong growth this year SCC was presented with Cisco’s prestigious UK&I Partner of the Year for Security award at this year’s Cisco Partner Summit in Las Vegas. An award given for demonstrating innovation in its security...

Everything in business is now more complex than ever. Customers are more demanding, competition is growing and new regulation — such as the GDPR — is complicating things further. This added complexity has made it increasingly difficult to manage businesses effectively, and managing an enterprise’s network is no exception. Enterprise networks have grown in complexity...

SCC walked away with a prestigious trophy at the Cisco Do Good Awards 2019 on Thursday 21st February. Taking place at Cisco’s UK Partner Forum in Liverpool, the awards aim to celebrate the contributions and achievements of individuals and businesses for their incredible work within the community. SCC’s charitable work in France, as part of the...