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Hybrid cloud vs ransomware: why resilience starts with the right data strategy

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Ransomware has become a defining cybersecurity threat, increasing in scale, sophistication, and cost. In the UK alone, recent months have seen a wave of high-profile incidents disrupting everything from retail and logistics to public services – with consequences that reach far beyond the IT department. Take the case of Marks & Spencer. A major breach in April 2025 exposed customer data, triggered widespread operational disruption, and is already slated to have cost the company £300 million – apart from the billion pounds or more the incident has wiped from the retailer’s stock market value. At Co-op, a ransomware-linked outage halted critical systems. The Legal Aid Agency suffered a breach of sensitive legal and financial records. Meanwhile, even Harrods and logistics firm Peter Green Chilled weren’t spared. These are not isolated events - they’re signals of a broader shift. The UK retail industry alone lost over £2.2 billion to shoplifting...
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From presence to purpose in the hybrid era

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support In today’s hybrid workplaces, productivity is often mistaken for busyness. It sounds like clacking keyboards, looks like back-to-back video calls, and pings endlessly with notifications. But most of the time, these are just indications of activity, not achievement, and the pressure to be constantly visible has quietly overtaken the drive to be effective and productive. But real work isn’t always ‘observable’. Some of the most valuable thinking happens away from the keyboard, in deep focus and genuine creative collaboration. If we want to drive better outcomes for both people and businesses, it’s time to shift our benchmark from hours logged to energy invested. This isn’t a call for a new metric to be tracked and reported. It’s a mindset shift. It asks leaders to look inwardly, to examine where their teams’ energy is going and then consider whether it’s moving them forward as a company, or just simply keeping things in motion. The rise of perfo...

How AI is finally erasing the security vs. experience tradeoff that has plagued enterprise IT for decades

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support IT teams know the balancing act all too well. Security teams implement new protocols that generate a flood of user complaints. The IT help desk is overwhelmed with tickets that could have been prevented. Meanwhile, employees bypass carefully designed systems because they're too cumbersome. And today's increasingly distributed workforce only exacerbates this balancing act, creating a larger attack surface across more devices, locations, and applications. While IT management may have accepted this as the inevitable reality, the challenges are only intensifying. AI-powered cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated daily, capable of adapting faster than traditional security measures can respond. The old playbook of treating security, IT operations, and employee experience as separate functions has reached its breaking point. A unified approach is needed, or IT leaders risk not only making their organization at risk for security vulnera...

AI and machine learning projects will fail without good data

Web Hosting & Remote IT Support Generative AI is a headline act in many industries, but the data powering these AI tools plays the lead role backstage. Without clean, curated, and compliant data, even the most ambitious AI and machine learning (ML) initiatives will falter. Today, enterprises are moving quickly to integrate AI into their operations. According to McKinsey, in 2024, 65% of organizations reported regularly using generative AI, marking a twofold increase from 2023. However, the true potential of AI and ML in the enterprise won’t come from surface-level content generation. It will come from deeply embedding models into decision-making systems, workflows, and customer-facing processes where data quality, governance, and trust become central. Additionally, simply incorporating AI and ML features and functionality into foundational applications won’t do an enterprise any good. Organizations must leverage all aspects of their data to create strategic advantages that he...