As part of our suite of business solutions, we can provide fully managed IT services. For many businesses, IT is not in their sphere of immediate expertise, and you may not be in a position to deploy an entire in-house support infrastructure.

We’re excited to announce that as part of our new product focus this Spring, we have added security to our product portfolio.

If there’s one area that’s booming right now it’s communications and tech. With all of us now dependent on a variety of apps and networks to keep us functioning during the pandemic, it’s the perfect scenario for innovation.

We thought we’d share this opinion piece written by O2 that feels very topical right now.

If you’re reading this, it’s likely you were working flexibly for a long time before lockdown. It’s just that we’ve now experienced a more extreme version of it.

With the established pattern of flexible home and office working, data security is more of a concern than ever before.

With more businesses in England set to reopen in July, the Federation of Small Business (FSB) put together some handy tips ad advice for employers trying to get their heads around the next steps. The following information covers your questions about managing your employees, looking after their wellbeing and managing health and safety in the workplace.

If you’ve not yet switched to a VoIP telephone system, then you’re definitely missing out! Every business needs to make and receive phone calls. They can either buy an expensive on-premise PBX system that has limited functionality or use a scalable software system that costs less and is much more efficient, i.e. VoIP.

We know the best ideas are often made away from the desk, bringing a whole new meaning to flexible working. Now that flexible working has been put on fast forward for most businesses to be able to continue to operate in recent months, now is the time to firm up the digital workplace environment you have in place and make sure it is fit for building on the positives that we can get from this new flexibility.

Life after lockdown: what will the workplace resemble and what will the long-term impact of remote working be?

Whilst we are all trying to get people working from home as quickly as possible to minimise disruption and damage to our businesses, don’t overlook the importance of data security. In recent issues we’ve spoke at length about data security – here is a recap of the key areas to prioritise for your home workers:

As the majority of us have been thrown in at the deep end trying to manage a new home working routine, we’ve got a few handy hints to make it a bit easier.

As Coronavirus impacts the UK more and more each day, it has become a very real consideration for businesses to look at plans to operate either on a staff rotational reduced workforce or to deploy a full home working set-up. Here we talk you through the considerations and some potential solutions.

We work with Device Cover (who work in partnership with Axa), to offer you extra protection for your new devices. Devicecover gives you peace of mind by getting you back on track with your favourite piece of technology in the case of loss* or theft and repairing or replacing it in the case of accidental damage.

Malicious software (also known as ‘malware’) is software or web content that can harm your organisation, such as the recent WannaCry outbreak. The most well-known form of malware is viruses, which are self-copying programs that infect legitimate software.

Your first step is to identify your essential data – That is, the information that your business couldn’t function without. Normally this will comprise documents, photos, emails, contacts, and calendars, most of which are kept in just a few common folders on your computer, phone, tablet or network