Hybrid Cloud Security: How to secure your Hybrid Cloud For businesses moving their systems to the cloud, they need to overcome one major challenge: securing them in their new environment. The merging of public and private clouds into a hybrid cloud...
Becoming technology enabled with cloud In our previous blog, we looked at the tensions between ‘keeping the lights on’ and ‘enablement’, where IT budgets are still largely given over to ensuring business as usual as opposed to...
Becoming technology enabled On the journey to digital transformation, there is a world of difference between organisations that are technology-dependent and those that are technology enabled. Where an organisation is heavily...
8 benefits of using a cloud service provider Cloud enables you to meet the dynamic needs of your organisation, allowing you to scale resources whilst giving you a known and controlled spend. You need your resources and systems to be reliable,...
What is a managed service provider? A managed service provider (MSP) is a company that manages a range of IT services and infrastructure on behalf of an organisation. These services typically include network, cloud, security and...
5 tips to manage hybrid cloud for success If you are using cloud computing, the chances are that your solution is made up of a hybrid or multi-cloud approach. Hybrid cloud is one of the leading approaches used by many enterprise organisations...
Aligning your cloud strategy with your business objectives The organisational advantages of cloud are clear through its inherent scalability, resilience and security. However, some organisations are at risk of not achieving the full potential and value of...
Remote working tips for keeping a connected workforce It’s fair to say that Covid-19 is probably the biggest stressor to hit business and society in peacetime. But whereas a decade ago the widespread call to work from home would have resulted in...
Public cloud connectivity – securing access to AWS and Azure We can say that the time for “moving to the cloud” has now passed with 88% of UK businesses using public cloud services in 2018, but yet security still remains as a major worry. With such a large...
Top 10 benefits of using managed IT services Businesses can benefit from using managed IT services. Our tips look at a few of these benefits. 1. Future proof services, using best-of-breed technology Leading Managed Service Providers...
Shared vs dedicated IaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provides the ability to run many customer servers on the same physical server hardware through the use of server virtualisation. The concept is a repeat of the...
Common problems with onsite data backup Many companies are still using traditional backup methods which can cause issues and be ineffective in comparison to online data backup solutions. We look at common issues come with traditional onsite...
How public sector organisations can move to the cloud Legacy environments, ageing hardware and heavily integrate systems are creating a drive for more government departments and public sector bodies to transition to a Cloud-based future to leverage...
Cloud first policy Back in May 2013, the then coalition government formally introduced the ‘Cloud First’ policy that has done so much subsequently to drive and shape IT procurement and deployment across the public...
What is hybrid cloud? Hybrid Cloud is starting to influence many an enterprise IT strategy so we take a quick run-through of some of the key things you need to know about IT’s latest trending topic. What is Hybrid...
What is cloud collaboration? When Cloud collaboration happens in an unregulated environment that can’t be audited, where intellectual property can’t be protected, and where data and network security can’t be guaranteed,...
What is IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is best visualised as sitting at the base of a three-tier Cloud computing pyramid that also comprises PaaS (Platform as a Service) in the middle and SaaS (Software...
What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)? Platform as a Service (PaaS) is best visualised as sitting in the middle of a three-tier Cloud computing pyramid that also comprises IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a...
Top tips for creating a unified communications strategy Have a Vision Before you even get to define your business case, proactively engage with your end users to understand how they work today, find out what’s important and how the introduction of a...
Top 10 tips when considering cloud services For well over a decade, outsourcing tried to take a foot hold, but only over the last two to three years, things have matured, most notably with providers presenting us with stronger, more compelling...
Top 10 tips for disaster recovery planning Essentially, the key to Disaster Recovery success is having a realistic and well understood set of objectives that are based on the business needs. This involves planning and preparation, from the...
Top 10 tips for data recovery planning What would happen to your business if you experienced a catastrophic data loss? Would your business survive? The statistics are alarming, 43% of businesses never re-open after a major disaster. A well...
Top 10 tips for data archiving Given the rate of data growth along with the increasing importance of business information, a cost effective, offsite data archiving service can deliver significant business benefits. A good data...
Orchestrating cloud transformation These are interesting times for public sector ICT teams. On the one hand, you have Government progressively moving the narrative towards ‘Cloud Native’ – an aspiration for ‘born in the...
Top 10 tips for choosing a data backup service Data backup is required by all businesses. With legal requirements tightening and data volumes growing out of control, traditional tape backup is no longer a reliable or cost effective means of...
Tuning up for devops As DevOps moves from early adopter territory into the mainstream, there is the inevitable evolution in how it is described. As with Agile before it, ask twenty people to define DevOps and you’ll get...
Digitising the NHS and connecting to AWS In 2016 Redcentric announced that it was offering connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which was a logical move given customer demand for AWS requiring N3 connectivity and cloud services. We...
Cloud contingency planning – head to the middle of the road Another week and another cloud service provider bites the dust. OK, so I am being a little dramatic, it’s been a few months since the last high profile closure. But whether it’s one day or 100...
ISDN30 or SIP: is service being sacrificed to revenue? There’s no doubt that the advantages of SIP trunking over ISDN30 are being recognised but anecdotal evidence from our customers suggests that many network providers are reluctant to actively sell...
How a disaster recovery plan could save retailers Over the past decade no other industry has been disrupted by technology quite as much as retail; so much so, consumers now consider retailers without up-to-date technology to be untrustworthy....
From virtual to reality: what you need to know about persistent and non persistent virtual desktops According to market analyst company, The 451 Group, the market for virtualised desktop environments (VDI) is estimated to reach $5.6billion by next year. With the ability to provide high performance...
Citrix on Azure ‘a powerful combination’ Twenty years ago many organisations were looking at the Microsoft and Citrix combination to help them engineer a server back-end that could simplify and streamline sysadmin, extend the life of ageing...
Things to consider when migrating unified communications into the cloud Unified Communications (UC) solutions are moving into the cloud, at pace, and this year, with particular focus on collaboration as a UC adjunct, will function as the tipping point for this migration....
Infrastructure transformation across the NHS Combining LDRS, STPS and the Nhs Five Year Forward View As the NHS continues its program of digital transformation, technology strategies also have to change and mould in order to adhere to the...
