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Learn how the benefits of remote work can power your future. Even before the COVID-19 coronavirus, 86% of employees who had the option to “work from anywhere” utilised this opportunity. Today, the global pandemic has transformed working remotely from an acceptable option to the new normal. Now that most businesses are past the point of reaction (when...

Veeam Hyper-Availability Solutions, as used by 75% of the Fortune 500, provide a smooth journey to Intelligent Data Management with features for behaviour-driven orchestration of data across large-scale multi-cloud infrastructures. Veeam® Software, today unveiled its vision for the Hyper-Available Enterprise and its strategy to guide enterprise customers on their journey to Intelligent Data Management at...

Gartner names Nutanix a leader in the “2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure”   Nutanix have been recognised by Gartner as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Hyperconvergence is making inroads in enterprises, as major system vendors acquire startups or bundle servers with HC software offerings. I&O leaders should focus on the...

Microsoft’s annual customer facing technology event is about to come to its conclusion; this event looks to promote new software and service offerings as well as detail technical roadmaps of the next generation releases planned or upcoming.   What did we find out? Microsoft are, like many others progressing the machine learning, cognitive and artificial...

SCC are driven by customer outcomes and ensuring that technology investment delivers expected value to your organisation as well as return on investment.  As a platinum partner, SCC can assist you with our Red Hat Insights service. The Red Hat lnsights assessment is a free process with predictive risk analytics for organisations to measure and...

Veeam have announced that effective January 1st, 2018, there will be an increase our annual maintenance renewal pricing for perpetual licenses and hosting perpetual customers by 10%: From 20% to 22% for basic support From 25% to 27% for production (24/7) support From 24% to 27% for Hosting perpetual This price adjustment will not affect...

As was revealed in last month’s Microsoft update, SQL Server 2017 has now been released.  One of the main changes to the functionality is the fact they have a specific version for Linux.  Clearly Microsoft historically have also wanted their SQL Server product deployed on their own underlying operating system, but with the database market...

In our article in July we discussed SCC’s stance of what Software Asset Management or SAM is.  It isn’t a compliance report, but a set of processes and governance that can dramatically improve the management and efficiency of your software through its lifecycle. For more, click the link: https://www.sccnewsbyte.co.uk/software/sam-compliance-report/ Now, it may seem strange that...

Everywhere you turn these days, the Cloud is being talked about. This ambiguous term seems to encompass almost everything from personal email or file sharing solutions to corporately packaged enterprise services. While the Cloud is just a datacenter’s IT services invariably delivered on someone else’s hardware, cloud computing is what people are talking about these days....

Cloud services offer great way to be agile, scale up and down and offer cutting edge services that are being added to and augmented almost on a weekly basis. But as data migrates to a public cloud service, the sovereignty and protection over some of the data being utilised in the cloud does need a...

Few would disagree that cyberattacks are increasing in frequency and in intensity, and most organisations confirm they have now suffered at least one cyber incident. Let’s take for example the recent incident involving Equifax, one of three major credit reporting agencies.  They revealed that highly sensitive personal and financial information for around 143 million consumers was...

Traditional on-premise security solutions that include firewalls, endpoint protection and other end to end encryption have demonstrated value to the market.  The trouble is what and how does this translate into cloud services? How can you replicate the security controls where you don’t own the infrastructure? The overall answer is to understand the solution as...