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On the eve of the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) and the British Educational Training and Technology (BETT) show, two of the world’s leading education technology events, Lenovo is confirming its commitment to technology leadership in education for students and education institutions by announcing updates to its notebook offerings. Today’s students are more technology-aware...

Security, staff retention, and training will continue to plague IT leaders, but the convergence of disruptive technologies such as IoT, the cloud, and AI brings a new set of worries. There is a palpable feeling of uncertainty within central IT departments. Digital disruption is sparing no industry, and IT is still adapting to its more...

A quartet of framework successes and major wins demonstrates SCC’s growing desire to deliver value for money and exceptional Managed Print Service performance to the Public Sector. Since revitalising their Public Sector strategy and announcing a dedicated division to serve this market, Andy Mappin, SCC’s MPS Public Sector Sales Director has commented on their progress:...

ABI Research has forecast that global shipments of wearable devices will increase from nearly 202 million in 2016 to more than 501 million by 2021. While roughly 17% of shipments in 2016 were attributed to the enterprise market this year, a 35% CAGR in this segment will see a massive surge in use of wearables...

Europe’s largest independent IT solutions provider, SCC, has achieved Platinum status in IBM’s new PartnerWorld programme redesigned for the Cognitive era. Earning the highest tier within the PartnerWorld programme, Platinum Business Partners consistently demonstrate proven capabilities and expertise in IBM technologies to help their clients succeed in their digital transformation. John Bland, Director of UK...

NfPs lose financially from slow loading webpages The speed of page loading is vital to the success of many organisation’s websites, but it’s especially true for those in the charity sector. A recent survey showed that 47% of consumers expect a web page to load in two seconds or less while 40% of people abandon...

By Jeremy Keefe, Area Sales Vice President – UK, Ireland and Benelux, Polycom  You are a modern day worker who enjoys being mobile so you can work from different locations and believe in flexible working as it allows you to be productive. Yet every time you manage to secure yourself a meeting room often it...

In this exclusive webinar our experts uncover the challenges and issues organisations face in preparing for the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which come into force in May 2018.  View this webinar, in which we will show you:

Charities hit hard by cyber crime £1.65 billion per year is lost across 842 UK registered charities due to fraud according to a report by the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth and accountancy firm BDO. With more public information online than ever before, there’s been a steady increase in fraudsters...

Why Not for Profits need a device-agnostic operating system 33% of all online donations are made via crowdfunding, and the majority of crowdfunding donations come from an organisation’s existing network and marketing channels1while 17% of crowdfunding happens on a mobile device.2Further examples show how widespread the rise in mobile usage is: 55% of people open emails through...

Enterprises will shift from building IT to consuming IT over the next three years, according to McKinsey’s IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) Cloud and Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure survey. It says organisations are planning to transition IT workloads to hybrid cloud, with off-premise seeing the greatest growth. While 77% of organisations used traditionally-built IT infrastructure as the primary environment for at least one workload...

The latest State of IT report from the information network firm, Spiceworks, reveals that IT professionals planned to spend 21% of their 2016 hardware budgets on desktops. They will spend 19% on servers, 16% on laptops and 10% on networking. The report also identifies end-of life of a product (67%) as the top incentive to purchase, closely...