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Nine ways to secure and enhance your digital architecture

You wouldn’t leave your front door open for the day, would you? That’s just common sense. This kind of security sense applies to a business’s digital assets too, however it may not be enforced as diligently. When it comes to protecting digital data, it all starts with being aware. If you are making API services
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Why are UK small businesses turning to cloud solutions?

More than three quarters (76 per cent) of small businesses and entrepreneurs are looking to cloud solutions to increase their business efficiency according to research of nearly 200 businesses and entrepreneurs by Smith & Williamson, the accountancy, investment management and tax group. ‘Businesses, particularly smaller and scale-up ones, are noticing the vast potential that working
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Five things small businesses can do to catch up with the digital shift

Expressly have partnered with the Save the High Street movement and together they aim to help independent high street businesses embrace digital tools so that they remain competitive in the years to come. The movement is pledging independent high street businesses to both catch up and grow with the digital shift. Many independent businesses on
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Can we run out of Internet?

As little as ten years ago, you couldn’t discover news things like you can today and whether you consider this to be a curse or a blessing, the content available on the Internet has changed dramatically over the last few years. Back in the ‘Mad Men’ era of content, in the 1950’s and 60’s, content
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Why managing the Internet of Things is important for small businesses

The way we work has changed with a growing number of businesses adopting a far more flexible approach to working practices. Business tech has supported that change, with employees no longer restricted to a desktop computer. The average employee now uses three or more different IT devices every day, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, thanks
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Maximising data Innovation with business intelligence

The amount of data now being used and stored everyday would have been incomprehensible only 10 years ago. The name aptly given to this large amount of data that is both structured and unstructured is big data. As we are now operating in environment centered around big data, the amount of information flowing round and
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The evolution of anti-virus: How small businesses can stay protected

Virus protection software has undergone significant change since it came to market 30 years ago. As threats have evolved, so have the tools and software businesses need to put in place to protect themselves. But is anti-virus still an adequate means of defence? Recent events such as the high profile ‘Wannacry’ ransomware attack, which apparently
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The data deluge – sink or swim?

Today’s data challenges are not purely the domain of large organisations. Any business, of any size, is well aware that the way it handles data has an increasing bearing on overall business success – yet, at the same time, it is continuing to grow in complexity as well as volume. Here, Mike Richardson, managing director
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GDPR – Digital transformation opportunities for SMEs

With now less than a year to comply with the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), there are worrying signs that organisations are beginning to panic. Coming into force on May 25th 2018, GDPR is designed to empower individuals, putting the customer effectively in charge of his or her information. From strict retention and destruction
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