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Active security assessment for Active Directory
  • Posted on 8th June 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Guido Grillenmeier , Principal Technologist EMEA at identity security pioneer, Semperis, discusses the reasons why Microsoft Active Directory can be particularly vulnerable to security breaches, and explains how its free Purple Knight AD Security Assessment tool helps end users to discover and understand these vulnerabilities, and helps with remediation, alongside other Semperis security solutions. For more information, please visit: <a href="https://www.purple-knight.com/?utm_medium=press&utm_source=digitalisation&utm_campaign=digitalisation-world" target="_blank">https://www.purple-knight.com/</a>

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Refurbished IT makes environmental and economic sense

Nick Stapleton, Managing Director at ETB Technologies, explains how refurbished IT has a significant role to play in helping organisations meet’s their sustainability goals, whilst also providing the kind of cost-savings which can mean the difference between an IT project getting the greenlight or being written off as too expensive to provision.

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Regional clouds gather in Europe?
  • Posted on 28th May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jurg van Vliet, CEO of Aknostic, discusses the emergence of regional clouds within Europe, based on open source software and Kubernetes in particular, as an alternative to the large public cloud offerings. Trial projects are in progress to demonstrate the economic, environmental and societal benefits that such regional clouds can provide.

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Award-winning RMM solution highlights NinjaOne’s MSP expertise

David Protzmann, NinjaOne’s Senior Director of Marketing EMEA, explains how the company’s Unified IT platform provided major benefits to customer Focus IT Managed Services, before detailing the technology solutions and comprehensive support programme that NinjaOne provides all of its MSP customers.

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Customer before code – digital transformation in the retail sector
  • Posted on 24th May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

John Godwin, VP of Retail UK at Intellias, shares some fantastic insights as to the key challenges and opportunities when it comes to implementing digital transformation strategies and solutions in the retail industry.

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Data as the catalyst for improving student engagement
  • Posted on 22nd May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Rachel Maxwell, Principal Advisor (Academic, Research and Community) at Solutionpath, outlines her career to date, explaining how she came to take on her current role at the company and how the Student Engagement Analytics Platform is helping universities and other academic organisations to enhance and optimise the use of their student data. Many of the insights she shares are equally applicable to the business world.

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Customer experience key to Agilitas’s growth strategy

John Hayes-Warren, Agilitas’s Chief Revenue Officer, outlines the company’s plans to make Fiscal Year 2024 a ‘defining year’, with the focus very much on customer experience transformation, underpinned by the three core competencies of inventory assurance, professional services and smart logistics.

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Master Data Management – the essentials

Vincent Harmsen, SVP & Head of Europe at Reltio, explains the benefits of a cloud-native, SaaS Master Data Management solution, details the company’s recently introduced Velocity Packs, and offers some valuable advice to end users considering their Master Data Management options.

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The perfect partner delivers digital transformation success
  • Posted on 15th May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Franck Morales, Vice President, Evolution Platform, Orange Business, discusses the importance of finding the right partner as a system integrator for digital transformation – outlining the knowledge and experience they provide to the end user, explaining why a successful digital transformation project starts with infrastructure, and shares some real-world examples of how the company has helped its customers with SASE and other technology solutions.

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Women in IT – Ann Schlemer, CEO of Percona

In the latest interview in our Women in IT series, Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona, explains how she moved from a career in banking, through some time away from work to concentrate on family life, and then returned to the workplace, joining the IT industry and the open source community. She has a wealth of experience and valuable insights to share when it comes to both equality and diversity.

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Women in the data centre industry – the BCS perspective

Jim Hart, CEO and Fay Visaya, Consultant, both at BCS, discuss the reasons behind the lack of women in the data centre industry at the current time and ways in which this inequality can be addressed - with both optimistic that the younger workforce generation is committed to creating a fully diverse workplace in the near future.

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White label, managed IT services for MSPs
  • Posted on 3rd May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Alkesh Soneji, Sales Director at Infrassist, discusses the company’s technology portfolio, which covers Professional Services – IT automation, security and RMM – and Support Services, such as NOCs and helpdesks. He shares some great example of how Infrassist has helped MSP customers address various technology challenges.

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Spotlight on Women in IT: Bindu Upadhyay, Lead Service Designer at Mendix

Women working in the IT industry share their experiences – covering the opportunities they have had, the challenges they have had to overcome during their careers to date, and offering plenty of constructive thoughts and observations as to what improvements still need to be made when it comes to improving diversity within the workplace. Bindu Upadhyay, Lead Service Designer and founder of Gender Equity at Mendix (GEM)

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Managing the migration to managed services
  • Posted on 14th April 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Rakesh Parbhoo, CTO at Westcon-Comstor, discusses the challenges and opportunities for VARs as they seek to move more towards a subscription/recurring revenue model, outlined in the company’s recent Navigating the Shift report, and explains how the right distributor can help not just to manage this process, but also to add significant value to channel businesses and their customers along the way.

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Upskilling helps to address the growing technology skills gap

Mark Onisk shares the findings of the company’s recent Lean into Learning report, explaining how upskilling can play a major role in helping companies who are working towards digital transformation but find themselves short of the necessary technology experts.

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