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Last month, we hosted an Observability event in Dublin with our Ireland customers. Held at the world-renowned Teeling Whiskey Distillery, which proved a great backdrop for sharing engaging content and entertaining conversation, we explored the importance of observability. For those who were unable to attend, or are unfamiliar with the term 'Observability', we have provided you with our 5 Key Takeaways from the event, and how digital-first enterprises can address the increased complexity brought by modern IT architectures. 

Birmingham City University ensures seamless student and staff services with scalable cloud-based clearing solution backed by a managed service portfolio from Logicalis.

As a long standing UCISA corporate member, Logicalis is delighted to be supporting this year’s UCISA23 Leadership Conference, in Liverpool, 21st – 22nd March 2023. With many valued customers across the UK Higher Education community, we look forward to seeing you all face-to-face and welcoming you to Stand 59 & 60.

CIOs have stepped into the role of digital evangelist and strategic advisor, according to the 2023 Global CIO Survey from Logicalis, a global technology service provider. The study questioned 1000 technology leaders and explores how the role of the CIO is evolving. This year’s survey, The Meteoric Rise of the CIO, demonstrates a monumental shift in the role of the CIO from tech implementor to business leader.

So unless you have been hiding in a cave or living under a large rock, you will have heard of ChatGPT - the revolutionary AI that has taken the world by storm. In its first five days, it managed to amass 1M users and looking ahead it is projected to be able to achieve revenues of $1B by the end of 2024. That is seriously impressive - and technology like this doesn’t come along very often. But what is going to be the impact on the world of this new AI and have we opened a modern-day Pandora’s Box?

At Logicalis, as we look forward to yet another busy and challenging year for the IT industry, we've put together the strategic technology trends for 2023 that can help IT leaders see through the current economic and market challenges and deliver sustainable business outcomes that matter.

Traditional SIEM solutions were deployed on premises, needing competency in sizing, scoping and considerable resources to run. Next generation SIEM solutions are Software as a Service (SaaS) based in the cloud, taking out a lot of the upfront pain at the design stage and allowing for ‘scale up’ of the platform, as the enterprise grows.

Overcome the challenges to achieve SIEM success.

Get to grips with remediation and understand what it means in a business context.

An EDR solution may offer remediation actions as part of its set of capabilities. But to what extent? Which teams are involved in the delivery and management of that, and where do you go if you still have questions or need advice to progress your journey towards an increased security posture?

Are you still running Windows Server 2008 R2? With Windows Server 2008 R2 reaching the end of its Extended Security Update on January 10th, it is highly recommended that you take the time to assess your current infrastructure to ensure that your organisation can continue to operate securely and efficiently.

London, United Kingdom – 19 December 2022: Logicalis, a global technology service provider, today announces its commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Corporate Net Zero Standard - the world's first framework for corporate net zero target setting in line with climate science.

With sustainability top of mind for everyone, organisations are demanding transparency and clarity from suppliers and partners around ESG goals today. It’s clear that businesses expect the organisations they engage with to do more to offset their environmental impact. For example, data from 2018 showed that 62 per cent of consumers wanted companies to take a stand on issues including sustainability, transparency, and fair employment; in 2022, that number has grown to 72 per cent.

So it has been 2 weeks since I attended VMware Explore in Barcelona and looking back there were a number of key announcements that were made at the event. Firstly, it was great to see so many people at an event after the last few years and also being from the rainy north of England, it was great to enjoy a little Spanish sunshine whilst taking in the learnings from the three days.

With the current economic slowdown, it looks like another recession could be on the cards in 2023. This usually heralds a period of consolidation within IT and the closing of the purse strings with regards to planned investments. In previous decades this was standard practice, but now that we’re in a digital age, many businesses can’t afford to slow down their digital transformations if they want to survive.

Sustainability is imperative to all our futures and is directly impacted by every device we use that consumes power. This includes the on-premises and cloud infrastructures that power our digital work lives. To be as sustainable as possible we need to ensure that we are consuming the least amount of infrastructure to host our workloads and services, without impacting their availability, performance or governance.

This status means Logicalis is the only global gold partner who can deliver a managed SASE service to customers anywhere in the world!

Upgrade today to maintain support and subscription services Article by Gareth Headley, VCIX – DCV, vExpert, VMware Infrastructure Specialist at Q Associates, a Logicalis company.

Today’s CIOs face key challenges around futureproofing, innovating, and the perennial skills shortage. As businesses increasingly adopt a digital-first approach, CIOs need to deliver solutions and services that are future-ready, not stuck in the past, to mitigate the risks of these challenges. For many businesses, this means it’s time to invest in products and partners that align with your vision for what’s next, and that are able and willing to help futureproof your organisation.

In partnership with IBM, Logicalis is delighted to announce a series of academic price promotions, covering a range of IBM rack servers and storage systems.

In partnership with IBM, Logicalis is delighted to announce a series of price promotions, covering a range of IBM rack servers and storage systems.

Cisco Partner Summit 2022 - [Las Vegas, NV – Thursday 3rd November 2022] – Logicalis, a global technology service provider, today announced that it has been recognised as the Global Enterprise Networking and Meraki Partner of the Year at Cisco’s annual Partner Summit. The Cisco Partner awards recognise business success, innovation, and best-in-class sales and service. Selected by executives within the Cisco Global Partner Sales and Routes to Market organisation, recipients of Cisco Partner Awards are top-performing partners that have introduced innovative processes, seized new opportunities, and adopted sales approaches that achieve substantial business outcomes for customers.

Dublin/London, 3^rd November 2022 – Logicalis UK&I, an IT solutions and managed servic

As new cyberattack threats continue to emerge, organisations need to think differently about how they are securing their vital data, systems, and infrastructure.

As hybrid cloud becomes the IT architecture of choice, it is tempting to think the days of the single-vendor vertical stack are numbered.

Before cloud, on-premise IT architectures tended to follow a DIY approach, piecing together best of breed offerings from different vendors - database from Oracle, storage from Netapp, compute from IBM, and so on.

Top Announcements in Microsoft Hybrid Cloud and Security.

I had the great pleasure last week attending and speaking at our joint Logicalis and IBM Business Intelligence & Analytics event in London, alongside some of IBM’s data and AI experts, Matthew Robinson and Louis Regan. From hearing about IBM’s future technology roadmap and how IBM tooling can deliver greater insights, it was the open conversations between customers and Logicalis and IBM experts that was truly insightful. Here are the key takeaways I learnt from the event:

More and more climate-conscious travellers are opting to take the train instead of flying. With this in mind, and a business meeting coming up in Cologne, I decided to take the 580km trip by train.

Logicalis UK&I, an IT solutions and managed service provider, today announces it has been recognised as one of the UK's Best Workplaces™ in Tech, 2022. The list was launched this morning by Great Place to Work® UK, ranking Logicalis UK&I 59 out of 67 medium-sized organisations.

At a time when agility, security and resilience have never been more important, Logicalis has developed several expert service offerings that enable customers to automate cloud resource optimisation and maximise their Microsoft investment across their IT environments.

Logicalis UK, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, has been listed as a supplier on the G-Cloud 13 Cloud Services and Solutions Framework.

It goes without saying that the pandemic permanently changed the way people work and how organisations operate. Hybrid working has become the norm and employee expectations have evolved – and will continue to do so – as people balance professional and personal responsibilities in a way that works for them.

Business leaders need to redefine workstyles and empower people using the digital workplace as we move forward. Equipping people with optimised spaces, streamlined processes and cutting-edge technologies will support collaboration, innovation and productivity.

The workplace of today is hybrid in many ways. Physical office space remains but is combined with remote working capabilities and virtual communications. There are those who work from home full-time and there are those who split their time across different locations. The hours people work vary greatly, as do the locations they work in.

Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, today announced it has acquired Q Associates, one of the UK's leading providers of IT consultancy and advisory services around data management, data protection, compliance and information security. 

Oracle users of Database version 12.1 will move from Extended Support to Sustaining Support at the end of July 2022, ending access to new security patches and bug fixes, which would inevitably leave the database less secure, and potentially at risk of tax, legal and regulatory non-compliance.

Logicalis UK&I, an IT solutions and managed service provider, today announces it has been recognised as one of the 2022 UK's Best Workplaces™ for Women. The list was launched this morning by Great Place to Work® UK, ranking Logicalis UK&I 85th out of 96 UK-ranked medium-sized organisations.

Business Process Management (BPM) has had something of a chequered history in the enterprise space. While Lean, Six Sigma and other quality methodologies have led some organisations to embrace formal process management as part of their DNA, others have not achieved the same level of traction.

Chatbots are all around us. Visit any eCommerce website today and the chances are it’ll instantly present you with a ‘How can I help you today?’ pop-up. The global market for intelligent virtual assistants is expected to grow at a CAGR of 28.5% from 2021 to 2028, and social media is full of amusing stories of parrots and small children wreaking havoc via Alexa.

Effective Business Process Management (BPM) is an essential foundation for any successful business digitalisation and automation strategy. In summary, you can’t successfully automate a process unless you understand it fully, and BPM provides this understanding.

There are plenty of statistics around the staggering amount of data being created and consumed globally every day. 2.5 quintillion (million million million) bytes created daily by internet users, a 5000% increase in data interactions between 2010 and 2020, and so on.

Data is a valuable business asset, yet many organizations are still not managing it with the same rigour they apply to physical assets.

Recent Logicalis UKI eBooks and articles have focused on the critical role of data in digital business, from unstructured data and the role of Information Lifecycle Management to the importance of robust, business-driven data storage strategy.

As data becomes an increasingly valuable asset, organisations have to adapt, to manage and protect their data to ensure it delivers maximum value to the business.

There are plenty of informative and valuable articles on the web about trends in data storage technology, discussing everything from reducing last byte latency to the wonders of consumption-based pricing. Data and storage are hot topics, unsurprisingly in an age where, as Mckinsey puts it, ‘“digital” and “data” have become the talk of the town.’

Heritage technologies - mainframe, Unix and magnetic tape in particular – have long been a rich source for the ‘is x technology dead?’ debate. Technical pundits fill the web with head scratching over why they haven’t disappeared, or defences for their survival.

In challenging economic times, organisations naturally look to cut back or defer non-essential investment. IT spend has traditionally been one of the areas businesses look to first when the need arises to cut budgets or delay projects, sometimes creating a ‘good enough IT’ mindset, where any IT asset that is doing the job reasonably effectively today is maintained beyond the last responsible moment for replacement.

"Unix is dead, long live Unix" – a headline that is still as topical today as it was in 2009, when a blog with that title was published to mark Unix’s 40th birthday.

In its broadest sense, virtualisation can be seen as the progressive freeing up of any computing function – compute, storage, network – from the constraints of its physical infrastructure. So far, virtualisation has been a continuous evolution, from the first virtual machines (VMs) to the world of hybrid cloud, and there is no sign yet of this evolution losing momentum.

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No day goes by without hearing in the news about the challenges that the NHS face an

“It’s not about reinventing the wheel, but about working with the tool as it’s supplied, inc

“It’s not about reinventing the wheel, but about working with the tool as it’s supplied, inc

“Pulse translates the survey results into an adoption status for each team.

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“Pulse translates the survey results into an adoption status for each team.

“Instead of replacing our ITSM solution, we’re now working closely with Logicalis SMC on som

No day goes by without hearing in the news about the challenges that the NHS face and what

Using data to drive people performance and create an empowered workforce

Using data to drive people performance and create an empowered workforce

Attribution modelling: What’s the value of a piece of marketing content?

Attribution modelling: What’s the value of a piece of marketing content?

When Lorraine Tomlinson-Hall was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Lincoln College Group, Trovus’ C

When Lorraine Tomlinson-Hall was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Lincoln College Group, Trovus’ C

Cisco has been driving some fundamental changes to

Put yourself in the shoes of Network Rail.

Put yourself in the shoes of Network Rail.

Cisco has been driving some fundamental changes to

BLP has been going through some significant changes over the last couple of years.

BLP has been going through some significant changes over the last couple of years.

How EY is harnessing data analytics to help build a better working world

Richard Turner explains how ana

How EY is harnessing data analytics to help build a better working world

Richard Turner explains how ana

Consultative Approach Transforms Business Intelligence for Nisa Retail

Consultative Approach Transforms Business Intelligence for Nisa Retail

When companies grow rapidly – especially if much of their growth comes through acquisitions – their financial systems

When companies grow rapidly – especially if much of their growth comes through acquisitions – their financial systems

Kettle Foods chips away at reporting time with Logicalis and IBM Cognos Express

Kettle Foods chips away at reporting time with Logicalis and IBM Cognos Express

Logicalis helps Capita IB Solutions upgrade its infrastructure to support mission-critical NHS systems.

Logicalis helps Capita IB Solutions upgrade its infrastructure to support mission-critical NHS systems.

Document and content management solution for secure archiving and saving of storage.

Document and content management solution for secure archiving and saving of storage.

Logicalis Managed Service streamlines Hounslow’s communication with residents

Logicalis Managed Service streamlines Hounslow’s communication with residents

Verna Group Ltd maintains a healthy business environment with Business Analytics.

Verna Group Ltd maintains a healthy business environment with Business Analytics.

Logicalis has become the first commercial supplier to connect directly into Janet at the nuts and bolts level, of

Logicalis has become the first commercial supplier to connect directly into Janet at the nuts and bolts level, of

Logicalis High Density Data Centre helps Lewisham cut costs and carbon footprint.

Logicalis High Density Data Centre helps Lewisham cut costs and carbon footprint.

A new hybrid cloud solution implemented at Loughborough University mitigates massive cost of data centre rebuild,

A new hybrid cloud solution implemented at Loughborough University mitigates massive cost of data centre rebuild,

Welsh Video Network’s shared services improve teaching while cutting costs and energy use.

Welsh Video Network’s shared services improve teaching while cutting costs and energy use.

Logicalis helps Ryder Europe move to an almost paperless environment.

Logicalis helps Ryder Europe move to an almost paperless environment.

John Lewis Partnership customer database migrates onto the Logicalis Cloud platform

John Lewis Partnership customer database migrates onto the Logicalis Cloud platform

The Met Office produces accurate and timely forecasts with Business Analytics.

The Met Office produces accurate and timely forecasts with Business Analytics.

Top players in IBM Cognos BI value integration.

Top players in IBM Cognos BI value integration.

"Blokker users are very enthusiastic about the power and flexibility of ServiceNow."

"ServiceNow enables Brink's to organise its Change Management perfectly."

- Roy

"With ServiceNow, PwC has a future-proof application in house, which the organisation uses t

"Blokker users are very enthusiastic about the power and flexibility of ServiceNow."

"ServiceNow enables Brink's to organise its Change Management perfectly."

- Roy

"Logicalis SMC was selected as implementation partner particularly because of its extensive

"With ServiceNow, NXP has a flexible and scalable tool that it can easily configure itself.

"Logicalis SMC had a good story to tell, with a particular focus on quality.

"With ServiceNow, PwC has a future-proof application in house, which the organisation uses t

"Logicalis SMC was selected as implementation partner particularly because of its extensive

"Logicalis SMC had a good story to tell, with a particular focus on quality.

"With ServiceNow, NXP has a flexible and scalable tool that it can easily configure itself.