• The rise of the interim CIO

    According to cio.co.uk, there’s been an increase in the use of interim CIO’s. These IT leaders are often brought in to a company on a temporary basis to solve complex IT problems, at moments of change, review current ways of…

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  • Acora adds Zscaler to its portfolio

    Acora has added Zscaler to its service portfolio, as part of its efforts to stay aligned to the best technology products on the market. Built 100% in the cloud, the Zscaler global cloud delivers the entire gateway security stack as…

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  • What does digital transformation actually mean?

    Digital transformation is a term that’s being used quite a lot. There’s not a lot of information out there about what it actually means.Ultimately, it’s a broad term that references the changes required to compete and win in the digital…

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  • IT teams need to adapt to support the waves of Microsoft’s updates

    There’s no doubt that Microsoft has a lot of good products, a lot of quality development teams and a lot of marketing people. Mix that with evergreen subscription models and you get a lot of news on a regular basis…

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  • Save money & get more by working with a managed service provider

    It may seem strange to say up front, but we think that having a singular objective of reducing costs when engaging a managed service provider is a mistake. An internal full-time IT support resource will cost in the region of…

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  • Webinar with Microsoft: Is Windows 7 ‘end of life’ your trigger for digital transformation?

    Earlier this month we ran a webinar with our friends from Microsoft titled: “Is Windows 7 end of life your trigger for digital transformation?” We began by talking about the common themes we hear from IT leaders, including the need…

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  • Cost optimised IT

    A couple of years ago Gartner was talking a lot about cost optimised IT, they even shared a “Top 10” list of cost optimisation ideas including: Create a shared-service organisation, for some or all IT services. Centralise, consolidate, modernise, integrate…

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  • Operational IT vs. Strategic IT

    Not new terms, but worth considering for a moment. If operational IT is managing the day-to-day (keeping things running), then strategic IT is the time you spend looking to the future, adding business value, digitally transforming and supporting business growth….

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  • Sophos, we’re just better than the competition

    Event: Sophos Discover 2019 Sophos provides an award-winning endpoint protection service with artificial intelligence and EDR. Giving its customers expert protection against malware, exploits and ransomware. At their partner event in Manchester the message I got from them was all…

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