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Tier Three Solution Brief20241120094535

Tier Three Solution Brief

All the data archiving performance you need, without the extras you don’t Making data earn its keep In today’s bustling digital economy, moving ...
VDIPOD: Elevating the AEC industry evolution20241115114116

VDIPOD: Elevating the AEC industry evolution

Constructive collaboration Success in the AEC industry takes farsighted strategies. Getting to market sooner, with standout innovation. Ensuring proje...
How Often do you Backup your Data?20241025112234

How Often do you Backup your Data?

Regular backups are a vital part of maintaining business resilience. But if you haven’t backed up your data for a while when disaster strikes, your or...
3 Benefits of Building an Intentional Remote Working Strategy20241022152817

3 Benefits of Building an Intentional Remote Working Strategy

Changing Expectations A majority of companies (69 percent) worldwide have an ad-hoc telecommuting policy. Most organisations likely adopted these proc...
Storage-as-a-Service FAQs20241017155745

Storage-as-a-Service FAQs

Essential questions to ask when choosing a solution and provider Is your storage reaching end of life or becoming obsolete? Maybe you’re simply lookin...
Medical Grade VDI Emerges as Key Healthcare Enabler20240926114557

Medical Grade VDI Emerges as Key Healthcare Enabler

Mobility has never been more important Digital transformation has been accelerated across the healthcare sector and the NHS is among many organisation...
10 Reasons to Choose Medical Grade VDI20240926110436

10 Reasons to Choose Medical Grade VDI

Purpose-built for graphics-heavy medical applications and high definition clinical imaging, VDIPOD is a transformative digital infrastructure that mak...
Debunking VDI Myths20240925113544

Debunking VDI Myths

Complexity, unplanned costs, security risks, frustrated users and stretched IT resources have become common pitfalls as organisations adopt VDI in the...
Why Choose Storage-as-a-Service?20240925103032

Why Choose Storage-as-a-Service?

Aware of all the options for cloud storage? Remember, not all clouds or cloud service providers are the same. Public Large datacentres owned by hypers...
Six Reasons to Choose Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service20240419152822

Six Reasons to Choose Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

A robust disaster recovery (DR) strategy is the only way to ensure swift recovery and minimise downtime, disruption and data loss. But implementing an...
The Smart IT Choice to Stay Ahead in ESG20240419142719

The Smart IT Choice to Stay Ahead in ESG

With rising environmental concerns, there’s mounting pressure on firms to provide clear evidence of the benefits of their environmental, social and go...
Using IaaS to Address ESG Challenges20240419114014

Using IaaS to Address ESG Challenges

IaaS is another key area that can address some of the ESG challenges businesses face. Crucially, when AEC firms move to an IaaS model the responsibili...
Using Virtualisation Via Desktop as a Service to Address ESG Challenges20240419112640

Using Virtualisation Via Desktop as a Service to Address ESG Challenges

One of the ways to address the ESG challenges outlined in our white paper is adopting virtualisation via desktop as a service. Creative ITC has been p...
A Background to AEC Greenwashing20240419110528

A Background to AEC Greenwashing

A sobering look at why it’s time up for greenwashing AEC companies still using power hungry workstations to design sustainable buildings, whilst hidin...
How the AEC sector can improve ESG performance20240315091802

How the AEC sector can improve ESG performance

The impact of the built environment on climate change is widely acknowledged, driving industry-wide adoption of sustainable design and build practices...
How VDI supports ESG goals20240315091359

How VDI supports ESG goals

With architecture, engineering and construction businesses facing mounting pressure to reduce their environmental impact, this article explains how vi...
How the IT sector can improve ESG performance20231120101452

How the IT sector can improve ESG performance

In joining the race to net zero, the counter-impact of powering data centres, manufacturing and maintaining machines, and coping with mushrooming data...
How ransomware spreads and what you can do about it20231113115534

How ransomware spreads and what you can do about it

Ransomware has become big business with average payouts nearly doubling to £1.2 million over the last 12 months. Equally concerning, 67% of attacks ha...
What malware means and how to identify an attack20231113114530

What malware means and how to identify an attack

With more than one billion known malware programmes in circulation and over half-a-million new ones detected daily, organisations are only ever a clic...
Preserving the past: The art and science of data restoration20231113111835

Preserving the past: The art and science of data restoration

The nature of disaster recovery is changing. The increased risk of cyberattack, hybrid working and dispersed platforms are altering how organisations ...
Cloud storage security: Why it’s crucial for your business20231113111039

Cloud storage security: Why it’s crucial for your business

With the upsurge in ransomware, 57% of technical leaders and decision makers see cloud – and cloud storage in particular – as their second largest are...
How Smart IT Choices Can Accelerate Your Businesses ESG Goals20230920102131

How Smart IT Choices Can Accelerate Your Businesses ESG Goals

What Does ESG Stand For? ESG stands for environmental, social & governance, they’re essentially a set of standards monitored by the businesses fol...
2023’s AEC Technology Trends and Innovation: An Overview20230808114720

2023’s AEC Technology Trends and Innovation: An Overview

Recurring challenges like talent retention, cost reduction and improving project profitability are business as usual for AEC firms. But now the indust...
How VDI Can Benefit Your Business: A Watertight Case for Remote Working20230726100717

How VDI Can Benefit Your Business: A Watertight Case for Remote Working

This no-nonsense guide takes you through the key points you’ll need to consider when you’re looking into investing in an effective, sustainable, and s...
Enhancing Customer Satisfaction: The Power of Support as a Service20230725135613

Enhancing Customer Satisfaction: The Power of Support as a Service

A significant proportion of the business world has become a gig economy of independent contractors, freelancers, and other temporary workers. They’re ...
10 Benefits of VDI For Healthcare20230721094606

10 Benefits of VDI For Healthcare

Purpose-built for graphics-heavy medical applications and high-definition clinical imaging, VDIPOD is a transformative digital infrastructure that mak...
Self-Managed VDI VS DaaS: Which One Do I Need?20230719163538

Self-Managed VDI VS DaaS: Which One Do I Need?

Many businesses have looked to virtual desktop infrastructure to boost workforce mobility and productivity. However, some IT teams have struggled to g...
Monitoring as a Service: The Key Benefits for Businesses20230719094054

Monitoring as a Service: The Key Benefits for Businesses

One of the most formidable challenges with infrastructure management is lack of visibility across the full IT estate – the elusive single pane of glas...
6 Common VDI Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them20230718155449

6 Common VDI Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Many healthcare organisations have struggled to roll out VDI successfully, discovering off-the-shelf platforms weren’t designed for medical profession...
Cybersecurity Checklist: Ensuring Business Protection20230718112336

Cybersecurity Checklist: Ensuring Business Protection

Every year new cybersecurity technologies, vendors and solutions emerge — yet breaches continue to hit the headlines. Organisations have scrambled to ...
Cybercrime: The Facts20230717153025

Cybercrime: The Facts

How Common Is Cybercrime? In a survey conducted by Arctic Wolf with over 500 IT and security professionals involved, these are the results. 2 in 5 bus...
The Most Popular Questions about Storage as A Service20230619143245

The Most Popular Questions about Storage as A Service

Is your storage going bad or getting old-fashioned? Perhaps you’re just considering your alternatives while you revaluate your data storage cost...
STaaS: Myths vs Facts20230619100412

STaaS: Myths vs Facts

Whether your company has already started moving to the cloud or not, it’s a good idea to gather information before taking any further action. St...
Boosting Business Performance: How Cloud Services Pave the Future of Business Success20230524101845

Boosting Business Performance: How Cloud Services Pave the Future of Business Success

What Is a Cloud Service Any service or resource that is made available online by a cloud computing provider is referred to as a cloud service. Without...
Benefits of Backing Up Your Data20230517155639

Benefits of Backing Up Your Data

Why Should You Back Up Your Data Backing up your data is essential for several important reasons. Data loss can occur due to hardware failure, softwar...
Office 365 Best Security Practices20230517145535

Office 365 Best Security Practices

Is Office 365 Secure? Microsoft created Office 365, a cloud-based productivity suite with several tools and services for both people and organisations...
IaaS vs PaaS20230418101620

IaaS vs PaaS

Which is better IaaS or PaaS? Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are two well-liked delivery strategies for cloud com...
What Is Ransomware On A Computer?20230417163243

What Is Ransomware On A Computer?

Attacks utilising ransomware have increased in recent years, harming both individuals and corporations financially and reputationally. A form of malwa...
What Is Cloud Storage?20230417122410

What Is Cloud Storage?

The use of cloud storage has grown in popularity in recent years. But what is cloud storage really, and how does it operate? We’ll examine the f...
What Does Cloud Enablement Mean?20230414165645

What Does Cloud Enablement Mean?

What Does Cloud Enabled Mean?The phrase "cloud-enabled" has received a lot of attention recently, especially in the software and technology industries...
A Guide To DaaS20230120164941

A Guide To DaaS

What is Daas?DaaS stands for desktop as a service.DaaS is a form of  virtual computing that provides users who work remotely with cloud workspaces. Us...
The Rise OF AEC Technology20221221125727

The Rise OF AEC Technology

The extent and pace at which AEC firms innovate determines their competitive strength.Emerging technologies are driving greater efficiency in construc...
A Guide To: Security Operations Centre As A Service20221221114937

A Guide To: Security Operations Centre As A Service

It’s time to stop adding tools and complexity and start building operations with cybersecurity experts truly empowered to lead the response.We provide...
How To Protect Your Company From Ransomware20221021162852

How To Protect Your Company From Ransomware

Ransomware is a type of malware that is designed with the purpose to block user access to files on their computer. Ransomware does this by encrypting ...
What Are All Flash Data Centres?20221021150352

What Are All Flash Data Centres?

An all-flash data centre or All-Flash Array (AFA) is a still a storage infrastructure, however it uses flash memory drives instead of using spinning-d...
The Benefits Of VDI For The AEC Sector20220927193330

The Benefits Of VDI For The AEC Sector

More architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) practices are running virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology than ever before. It wasn...
The Ultimate Guide To StaaS20220926141234

The Ultimate Guide To StaaS

STaaS is a fully managed service on an OpEx subscription model. StaaS allows you to pay for only the storage you require enabling you to quickly scale...
A Guide To IaaS20220926140333

A Guide To IaaS

What Does IaaS provide?Infrastructure as a Service, or IaaS, is one of the main three fundamental service delivery methods for cloud computing.It allo...
What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure?20220720094128

What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure?

When compared to traditional architecture, Hyperconverged Infrastructure merges data centre hardware to part of a single platform where storage, compu...
The Benefits of Building An International Remote Working Strategy20220720092238

The Benefits of Building An International Remote Working Strategy

The Benefits of Building An International Remote Working StrategyBuilding an international remote working strategy offers numerous advantages for orga...
Understanding the Real Cost of Network Downtime20220719180514

Understanding the Real Cost of Network Downtime

Organisations (large, medium, and small) are starting to recognise the hefty costs they are paying for network management tools. No doubt the tools ha...
Key Signs your Business is Ready for a VDI20220719165542

Key Signs your Business is Ready for a VDI

The traditional workplace has changed beyond recognition, with more employees working remotely – a growing trend. To make the most of your workspaces ...
Why AEC Companies are Adopting As-a-Service Models For IT Infrastructures20220719155444

Why AEC Companies are Adopting As-a-Service Models For IT Infrastructures

Mastering disruptive technologies has become a dominant force for business success.Nowhere is this more apparent than in Architecture, Engineering and...
Disaster Recovery Checklist20220526160618

Disaster Recovery Checklist

DR health check at-a-glanceThe harsh lessons of 2020 revealed many businesses' previously trusted IT resilience strategies simply weren't fit for purp...
5 pitfalls when seeking investment in remote working technology (and how to avoid them)20210819103230

5 pitfalls when seeking investment in remote working technology (and how to avoid them)

The surge in VDI adoption as IT teams rushed to enable business continuity shows no sign of slowing as organisations transition to long-term remote an...
VDIPOD for Healthcare20200910131838

VDIPOD for Healthcare

Discover how VDIPOD for Healthcare is helping doctors, nurses and specialists to contribute and share knowledge like never before!Read More...
How And Why You Need Scalable Virtual Desktop Pricing20200820125516

How And Why You Need Scalable Virtual Desktop Pricing

Unlike normal VDI approaches based on fixed hardware or cloud solutions that just aren’t flexible, you pay per user, per month, per profile. In return...
CloudHealth by VMware20200813145953

CloudHealth by VMware

Analyse and manage cloud cost, usage, governance, and security under a single managed service.Read More...
VDI hosted vs. on-prem20190710161229

VDI hosted vs. on-prem

There’s a cast-iron case for boosting collaboration and productivity with VDI. But, which is the best route? On-prem or hosted? Check out this handy g...
Rethinking the Risk of IT Outsourcing – New Paper20190606100711

Rethinking the Risk of IT Outsourcing – New Paper

Creative ITC and FSTech brought together a group of senior IT executives from across the financial services sector to discuss the most pressing issue...
VDI: Hosted vs On-prem20190314103157

VDI: Hosted vs On-prem

Wondering whether to go for an on-prem or hosted VDI solution? Have a look at our recent benefit and pricing comparison....
Leading Architectural Practice Moves to a Proactive Cloud Security Model to Protect and Underpin Global Expansion20190123090315

Leading Architectural Practice Moves to a Proactive Cloud Security Model to Protect and Underpin Global Expansion

Find out how we helped award-winning architectural practice Aukett Swanke move to a proactive cloud security model to protect and underpin global exp...
Starting, or continuing your VDI journey in 2019?20190115121228

Starting, or continuing your VDI journey in 2019?

If you're working in the AEC sector then grab a copy of our essential paper on how to get it right with our Best Practise Guide....
Moving Office in 2019?20190102121841

Moving Office in 2019?

Dreading the 2019 office move and all the headaches it can bring? Find out how we’ve helped Centrica with a complex office move with our IT-Relocation...
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