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Europe’s largest independent IT services business has been heavily investing in the Birmingham area. SCC, which is owned by the Rigby Group, has largely invested in charity partner The Prince’s Trust, allowing for a brand new hub in Birmingham City Centre. The Rigby Foundation Charitable Trust invests in causes relating to lifelong learning, health and...

Hosting data in-house can be a costly experience. It’s a bit like owning your own car; you have all the responsibility of upkeep and repairs, and just when you think everything is plain sailing, a whopping unexpected bill lands on your doormat. With this in mind, many are now thinking of ‘leasing their car’ instead,...

Companies who have deployed cloud are said to be gaining competitive advantage over their rivals, according to a new study conducted by IBM. The study of 800 cloud decision-makers looked at the business outcomes of organisations using cloud and how their results are being achieved. The results indicated that those who have deployed cloud are...

Unreliable and non-responsive IT systems are a no-no in healthcare. As technology weaves its way into every aspect of the practitioner-patient relationship, one IT-blow could literally mean life or death. Healthcare’s technological infrastructure cannot afford to be delicate. Yet worryingly, the sector is a prime target for cyber criminals. According to IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence...

Data migration should be well planned and well executed. If not, it could seriously hinder your organisation. We have all witnessed the catastrophic effects of what can go wrong when migrating from legacy systems. The banking industry is a particular example; thanks to the large volumes of data they house, a general lack of data...

A modern business needs a modern data centre. Yet, many enterprises are still quibbling over making the decision to co-locate. Over the years, organisations have capitalised heavily into specific network, storage and computing capabilities, creating a data centre unique to them, in which to manage and host their applications. Hardware and software aren’t the only...

In the last decade, converged systems have revolutionised the world of data centre management. They have transformed the now-defined ‘traditional approach’, which sees a huge amount of business time poured into choosing storage, servers and networking software, to then spend even more time testing and deploying it. Plus, when support is needed, multiple vendors need...

A business moves to a cloud based solution for many reasons. Scalability is one, as is connectivity. Increased security usually wins the list of requirements, alongside greater resilience, redundancy and guaranteed uptime. Then there is the plethora of ‘as a service’ style software solutions, all of which have to be built, configured, and populated with...