Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. As one of the most critical parts of your IT estate, determining how and where your underlying infrastructure is best deployed to meet the needs of your data, applications and your users plays a crucial role in your success. While public cloud is the best fit in some instances, some...

Businesses are becoming increasingly switched-on to the importance of sustainability as part of their overall business strategy. While sustainability is far from a new concept, the wider operational, commercial and reputational benefits are becoming more apparent. The secret is finding the best way to realise those benefits as part of your strategy. This is perhaps where the biggest shift in...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. Keeping your workforce productive is never far from the top of the agenda for business leaders, and getting the most from your device estate is central to achieving this. In an ideal world your users would always enjoy access to the latest devices and OS platforms, consistently...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. Since the emergence of cloud, businesses have become increasingly accustomed to the idea of consumption-based, as-a-Service IT models. Already prevalent in our personal lives, with car financing, mobile phone contracts, and entertainment subscriptions, the idea that businesses can...

For many, 2020 will be remembered as a year of unexpected and unprecedented change. As individuals, families, governments and businesses have wrestled with the onset of a global pandemic, we’ve all had to make significant changes to different aspects of our lives. That has included a dramatic shift in how we view and use technology. Everything from weekly Zoom quizzes with extended family,...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. Only a few years ago the concept of virtual reality may have sounded more like something out of a science fiction film than a valuable workplace tool, but recent innovations in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology are creating new possibilities for businesses that are...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. We’re told that we’re in a cloud-first world, and despite the rhetoric we’d tend to agree. The result is, every man and his dog seems to be migrating workloads to the cloud in some form or another. We love the cloud as much as the next person, but it’s not enough just to jump on the...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. We’re huge advocates for hyperconverged infrastructure, and for very good reason. It’s everything you could ever want for your datacentre wrapped up in a single, neat, compact stack that radically improves the management, speed, and footprint of your technology without you barely...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. Last month, I was once again fortunate enough to attend Microsoft’s biggest partner and customer event of the year in the UK – Microsoft Future Decoded. Hosted at ExCel London, tens of thousands joined me in hearing Microsoft’s thoughts and predictions about how the future of our...