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Asset Management Asset management is now a critical element of managing your IT estate and indeed the estate that falls out of IT’s remit! With the rise of GDPR, the new Data Protection Act proposed by the government and cyber security knowing where all of your assets are and how data is accessed and stored...

Are you agile for Change? Microsoft revealed a while ago that Windows 10 would be their final client operating system release.  This doesn’t preclude the additional versions of Windows 10 being continued. Typically the client operating systems in the past have had long support periods for versions, the most notable one was Windows XP which...

Microsoft have been heavily investing in their cloud services capabilities as well as the breadth of products primarily through their Azure platform which was led initially with Office 365. Because of this popularity and the market moving from a device base to a more flexible, mobile user centric we have seen Microsoft expand the Office...

Since the inception of SAM, its initial purpose from ITIL v3 was always around the process and governance of the management of software.  Furthermore, within the ITIL documentation this is the management and control of SAM throughout the software lifecycle – from requirement to retirement. What transpired over the past decade has certainly been the...

The key is context around software as its development and functionality is designed and licensed by vendors for usage in any organisation throughout the globe.  Naturally every vertical, country and business is going to be different and utilising and optimising this is critical. We often hear the following phrases from customers or within discussions in...

As new security issues are revealed they have new names and sometimes keeping up and understanding this is a challenge! Here is SCC’s high level Jargon Buster to help you navigate the waters (plenty more fish references below).  If you need specific help, contact [email protected]. Jargon Buster Cybercrime: Definition: “criminal activities carried out by means...

XenApp and XenDesktop v6.5 was released in 2012 and since then, significant improvements on initially the products as well as the wider bundled functionality in later suites and versions. Later functionality now includes better enhancements that span the wider product sets that include XenMobile, SD-WAN (software defined WAN enhancing connectivity and network bandwidth optimisation) as...

Is your mobile enterprise protected effectively? Cyberattacks have evolved beyond the enterprise perimeter, breaching mobile environments; yet only one percent of enterprises have deployed mobile security technologies. The integration of Check Point SandBlast Mobile, the market-leading mobile threat defence (MTD) solution, with Microsoft’s Intune enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform, provides businesses with a comprehensive approach...

2017 THE WORST YEAR FOR RANSOMWARE SCAMS WITH SOME EXPERTS PUTTING IT AT $4BN GLOBAL IMPACT Cyber risk modelling firm Cyence estimates the potential costs from the hack at $4 billion, while other groups predict losses would be in the hundreds of millions. The attack is likely to make 2017 the worst year for ransomware...

We are excited to announce the public preview of Disaster Recovery (DR) for Azure VMs using Azure Site Recovery (ASR). This has been one of the most asked features from customers running production workloads on Azure. Given the increase in the willingness of customers to host mission critical production workloads on Azure in the recent...

Security has now become a top priority for you. To ensure the highest levels of security with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft are adding new high-availability certificate authorities. For the majority of customers, this change will be seamless and will not have any impact on your Azure applications. This change will only affect those currently using public...

With our relationship with key vendors, SCC are pleased to start a series of updates that detail certain roadmaps for key strategic vendors our customers are usually reliant on to run a proportion of their IT systems. Quick Q&A: Vendor Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Year End June Key Products Cloud: Azure, Office 365 Other: Windows,...