Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. There’s a good chance you’ve heard about HPE GreenLake as a disruptive new service hitting the data centre. It’s critical to HPE’s ambitions as it charts its course towards being a consumption-driven business, which it believes it will achieve within 3 years. Following their largest...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. The task of securing the modern network is a continuing challenge for IT teams, especially as users increasingly look to work remotely using a multitude of mobile devices. But much as empowering your users to work the way they like and from wherever they like delivers so much reward,...

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. Since its initial release in 2011, many businesses have looked to take advantage of Microsoft’s subscription-based Office 365 offering. In fact, recent estimates suggest that more than 214 million users have subscribed to the cloud-based service – more than the number of subscribers...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. The Internet of Things (IoT), has quickly moved from concept to reality. Like many technology trends, we’ve seen the impact in our personal lives ahead of our professional lives. Smart speakers especially have become common place in the home with new devices like connected doorbells...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. Sheffield is a city that’s widely known for its contribution to music, having given birth to iconic industry pioneers such as the Arctic Monkeys, The Human League, and Def Leppard to name but a few. Over more recent years, it’s also become the home of a new and exciting...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. Earlier this month I was delighted to once again attend the incredible Dell Technologies World, the industry giant’s annual conference. An event that attracts an audience on a global scale, it was somewhat fitting that it should be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, a city famed for its...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. In recent times, we’ve seen a change in the way our customers are working. They’re extending beyond the boundaries of traditional infrastructure, with an influx of IoT-ready and mobile devices creating a huge increase in the number of access points at the far reaches of their network...

Please note: This post was written by Highlander prior to their rebrand to FluidOne Business IT - Sheffield. Last month I was fortunate enough to travel to sunny San Diego, California, home of many of the world’s most esteemed technology vendors, for a major cloud summit. It was a privilege to represent Highlander, one of only three UK partners in attendance, and gain some incredible...

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...