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Moving office? Top tips to ensure a smooth move

08 February 2022 By Terry Gibbs - Director at Restore Harrow Green

Many organisations are looking at how their offices are configured with lots making changes to fit in around new ways of working.
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Global chip shortages aka 'Chipageddon'

16 December 2021 By Joe Holland - Category Buyer for ICT at YPO

The ICT Hardware supply chain has seen a number of problems over the past year or two. The biggest challenge the supply chain has faced is the shortage of semiconductors. The shortage of semiconductors if effecting over 100 different industries, from video game consoles, cars to IT hardware such as laptops and desktop PCs. The shortage has caused production times to increase which has ultimately had a knock-on effect for the end-product being delivered to customers. The lack of these chips has also had some effect on other parts such as screens.
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A guide to data centre maintenance

25 October 2021 By Bailey Walker - Maintenance Support Manager at 2bm

Whether you’re operating a private or colocation facility, taking the appropriate steps to avoid a data centre outage should be amongst the highest priorities for all data centre managers – with maintenance at the very top of the list.
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The ISDN/PSTN switch off – are you ready?

20 August 2021 By Matt Dykes - Chief Operating Officer at Abzorb

From 2023 public sector organisations will be unable to buy ISDN and PSTN telephone systems, and in 2025, they will cease to exist.
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Remember Emma? Home working is having an impact

12 May 2021 By Richard Monk - Commercial Business Manager at Fellowes

Emma Work ‘Colleague of the Future’ was developed by Fellowes - the healthy workspace experts - to show how office workers could look in 20 years’ time if we continue to work with inadequately set-up workstations, poor posture and minimal movement.
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Save Education: Mobile and Unified Communications

20 April 2021 By Matt Dykes - Chief Operating Officer at Abzorb

Although the children are now back at school there will still be thousands who are having to self-isolate if they have tested positive for COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone who has it, and will need to ‘home school’. So, daily disruption in UK schools will sadly be the reality for the foreseeable future and education will be delivered by a hybrid approach of digital learning and face to face in the classroom.
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IT: an enabler to better teaching outcomes

29 March 2021

In 2020 we saw IT playing an increasingly important role in education. Contingency planning for remote education has been a requirement for schools since 22nd October 2020 in response to the covid pandemic.
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Are you getting the benefits of working with SMEs?

11 November 2020 By Robyn Lamport-Rann - Category Manager for ICT at YPO

As a nation we are dependent on technology more than ever, but have you thought about how small or medium sized businesses can help with sourcing this through procurement?
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XaaS: why everything is now a service

05 November 2020

As organisations look towards digitisation to improve their own business processes and their efficiency, services are becoming an increasingly popular way to cost-effectively use and implement IT.
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Top tips for working from home from the ICT team

06 May 2020 By The ICT Team at YPO

Our ICT team have come together to provide a top tips video series to support you whilst adjusting to working from home. Whether it be making the most of the technology you're using or general guidance surrounding how best to adjust to your new working life.
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