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In recent years, the surge in the number of businesses turning to ‘the cloud’ has been substantial. Cloud computing has come to occupy a central role in the modern IT landscape for small businesses and large enterprises alike. Why? It facilitates flexibility, agility and scalability. The latest research from the …

Brands must find a niche and give back to gamers

Microsoft’s UK PC accessories marketing manager Tom Phillips reveals why the firm is embracing gamers again

PCR editor Dominic Sacco shares his views on the latest PC retail survey

By its very nature, the currency market is unstable – but this doesn’t mean your business has to be. As an IT reseller, you’re likely doing a lot of buying and selling across borders, so will have contracts where you have committed to buy at a certain price and then …

The phenomenal growth in cloud based service delivery and managed services is changing essential data centre requirements. For any Managed Services or Software as a Service (SaaS) provider looking for a data centre to support this critical new business model and meet 99.999% customer Service Level Agreements (SLA), issues such …

With budgets still feeling the squeeze it can be tempting to hold onto that old infrastructure when it’s way past its prime – after all, if it ain’t broke, why replace it? But how do you know when it’s time to let go? A computer is a bit like a …

The proliferation of the Internet has fundamentally changed so much about the way we live our daily lives, not least because it has put access to millions of people and things right at our fingertips. From healthcare to commerce, public services and beyond, being connected has enriched our quality of …

PCR editor Dominic Sacco reflects on the growing industry

We all know that we should backup our data, that much is clear. Organisations, regardless of industry, create, alter and utilise data daily, in an ever-increasing number of ways and on a larger scale than ever before. Data is the lifeblood of organisations. It represents countless hours of productivity, transactions, …