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It’s just typical, isn’t it? The one time you really need to contact a company for technical support is when it’s out-of-hours. Then, when you call back the next day during peak time, you end up listening to cheesy pop songs whilst waiting on-hold in a queue of dozens of people. We’re living faster than...

Would you be shocked if cartoon penguins suddenly started dropping onto your desktop?   Don’t worry – you are still reading an article on SIEM. In fact, this is an example of what happened to someone who hadn’t protected his computer.   But thankfully, these penguins were just harmless animations, however, this lack of security...

Public cloud adoption is set to continue to grow but companies have concerns over how to handle cloud migration challenges, according to the latest study by VIAVI Solutions.   The IT and network testing provider, in its most recent State of the Network Global Study, polled more than 600 IT professionals and found more than...

Malicious software – dubbed malware – is any software that goes against the interest of the computer user. Ransomware is a type of malware and it’s particularly nasty. It takes your data hostage, encrypting it and thus making it inaccessible. The only way to access your data again is by entering the magic password. Unfortunately...

According to a news report by New Statesman Tech, SCC won the biggest public sector tech deal last week when compared to other IT firms.   SCC will be implementing a framework for the supply of Core IT services at University of Nottingham. The contract, valued at £90m, will include the provision of hardware, software...

Legacy IT systems can provide a whole host of problems for you and your business.   Holding onto out-of-date IT for as long as possible just to avoid the hassle of moving data from one platform to another, having to provide further staff training, and paying out for a costly upgrade, could actually end up...

The UK government is trying to gain an understanding of how people feel on certain topics on social media by using artificial intelligence (AI).   The government is using the ‘Artificial emotional intelligence’ service by web science firm FlyingBinary, in partnership with emotional AI recognition company Emrays B.V. It has been released to the government’s...

The Virtual Assistant Referee, also known as VAR, has certainly stolen the limelight at the 2018 World Cup so far. Numerous people would agree it has had a mostly positive effect, leading to fewer red cards per game after each country’s first fixture than at any World Cup for 32 years. Video analytics could soon...

It’s been just over one month since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into practice, but already, some businesses have fallen foul of the new legislation.   Since May 25th, the watchdog that oversees the regulation has received more than 1,300 complaints and businesses have logged 60 breaches of people’s personal data with the watchdog....

A new study by Unisys Corporation, 56% of digital workers at “technology laggard” organisations expressed frustration with their employer, as compared to only 9% of workers at “technology leader” organisations. The study, which explores the importance of deploying current and future digital capabilities in the workplace, also found that workers at technology laggards (14%) were...

SCC has won the HPE UK and Ireland ‘Everything as a Service’ Partner of the Year 2018 award.   The accolade was presented to the SCC team in Las Vegas at HPE’s Global Partner Summit. The award recognises SCC’s fantastic services capability and its partnership with HPE.   SCC was shown to have made a...

Cloud computing has transformed the IT landscape in recent years, so maybe it’s hard to believe that the concept has in fact been around for some time.   Solving a range of issues, including increasing operational agility, enhancing flexibility and scaling bandwidth up and down with ease – cloud is an essential for any successful...