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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has the noble ambition of empowering EU citizens to control their personal data in response to new advances in technology and data capabilities. What that means in practice has been far from simple, and in the last 12 months, businesses have been in denial, reluctant acceptance of the legislation...

The word ‘investment’ is often put next to IT spending and budgets in order to make the costs sound palatable. Organisations want a ‘return on investment’, many try to measure it and some even succeed. But not many. Perhaps IT could be thought of as something to consume, not own? The problem is that like...

Lenovo has announced that SCC has been awarded Platinum Plus partner status as part of its newly launched partner programme. SCC is one of only four partners in Europe to achieve this prestigious level of partnership, which is awarded to key strategic, global partners in recognition of outstanding revenue performance, achieving the highest level of...

SCC has won the UKI 2017 “Enable Digital” Award for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) at this year’s HPE Global Partner Summit in Las Vegas. The HPE Partner of the Year Awards recognise the outstanding performance and accomplishments of HPE business partners, which raise the standard for business excellence and customer satisfaction. Winners are chosen for...

Shadow IT reports for HPE customers -Offering Shadow IT reports for public sector HPE customers -Delivering clear report with an up-front assessment looking at who is accessing what services, in what volumes and how often. Value – One customer we worked with found that they had 7,000 applications being used 62,000 a week at the...

Cyber-attacks pose a significant threat to universities, every hour of every day. An attack can dramatically impact your organisation by causing disruption and compromising data, reducing and even shutting down normal service. It’s vital to protect what’s most important to you, for example sensitive data, intellectual property and research data. How sure are you that you’re protecting...

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...

At SCC, we provide IT solutions to some of the biggest organisations across both the public and private sectors. We provide the technology that enables people to do business. What we do needs to be underpinned by the best technology. Technology which supports and encourages innovation and boosts business efficiencies. We use the Microsoft Surface...

“We were really pleased with the solution, it was far more than we expected. We couldn’t ask for any more in terms of performance.” – Martin Crouch, Technology Services Manager AmicusHorizon is a housing association which provides property and support to over 60,000 residents in the UK. Some of their infrastructure components were coming to...

From 1st January 2017 Microsoft will increase the price of its enterprise licensing for software and cloud. Microsoft has announced the following British Pound price increases to harmonise costs for enterprise software and cloud services within the EU/EFTA region. These are as follows: On-premises enterprise software will increase by 13% Enterprise cloud will increase by 22% Affected agreements...

SCC has been named HPE UK&I Solution Partner of the Year 2016. CEO of HPE Meg Whitman traveled to London in person to present CEO of SCC, James Rigby and company founder Sir Peter Rigby with the award. “Hewlett Packard Enterprise is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 HPE Partner of the Year...

SCC has been helping organisations achieve best practice in regard to protecting  the confidential data stored on their IT assets when recycling and disposing of them. Do you know what happens to your equipment when it leaves your premises? Did you know there are ways of retrieving confidential data, even after a factory reset? So the important question: is your...