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Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider and Leader 2022 in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Hybrid Cloud and Network Mobility, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) today announced a collaboration to help manage and support Defra’s core network infrastructure used to host and run their critical services, benefiting
Continue reading Defra turns to Kyndryl to support its critical services for UK citizens
David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks
The public sector continues to promote and undergo digital transformation. The drivers for it range from a need to digitalise operations, to increase innovation and agility or encourage and permit easier collaboration across different Government departments and public sector organisations.
There is also a need for
Continue reading SD-WANs: Are They Enough for Modern Government Enterprises?
Julian Panter
The number of active social care work placements have reached an all-time high, with average pay rates on the rise in an effort from businesses and councils to attract more candidates into vital roles, according to data from market-leading workforce technology and services platform Matrix.
Despite the rising need for
Continue reading Pay rates on the rise amid social care worker exodus, finds Matrix data
Barley Laing, UK Managing Director at Melissa
With precious budgets under significant pressure due to high inflation and belt-tightening post-pandemic, it has never been more important to ensure funds are efficiently spent.
One important way is to gain insight, a single citizen view (SCV), of those on your database. This will facilitate the
Continue reading Deliver a single citizen view (SCV) to ensure under pressure budgets are efficiently spent By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa
By Kevin Dobson, product manager, Epson UK
This month marks three-years since the government first gave the order for people to work from home, wherever possible, at the start of the COVID19 pandemic.
Nobody at the time would have predicted that this simple order – enforced to slow the spread of a deadly disease –
Continue reading From paper to pixels: Secure scanning in public sector digitalisation
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek, SolarWinds
The task facing government departments and agencies as they progress towards their digital transformation objectives cannot be underestimated. For the IT professionals involved, it requires modernising their operations, applications, and databases while leveraging hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. And all of this must be done while supporting existing traditional workloads
Continue reading How observability is crucial to tackling tool sprawl
By Casey Ellis, CTO and Founder of Bugcrowd Cyber experts levelling the playing field and disrupting threat actors
In technology circles, it’s a well-known and often lamented fact that technology and cybersecurity have a habit of moving at a much faster pace than policy. “Hackers on the Hill” (HotH) is a program that works to
Continue reading Hackers in the White House
By Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™
When it comes to digital transformation, one area of investment trumps all others. It’s not hardware. It’s not software. It’s not even the latest development in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
It’s people. And if public sector organizations want to deliver data-rich government services, they need to
Continue reading Investing in people always pays dividends
By Claire Harris – Head of regional business Vodafone UK
When is your next bus due? How full are your local litter bins? How clean is the air where you live? How many parking spaces are available in this part of town right now? If a council can measure something, it can improve it with
Continue reading Vodafone: Helping local government make the most of the digital future
Sascha Giese
Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™
The recent spike in energy prices has once again drawn attention to the costs associated with powering IT infrastructure, and high-density technologies such as data centres aren’t the only things under the spotlight.
The energy consumption of technology across departments and agencies within the government—including PCs,
Continue reading Public sector ICT switches to greater energy efficiency
Barley Laing
By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa
Evolving technology is driving efficiencies in processes and reducing costs across most sectors. The significant impact of this trend is quite apparent in the public sector, where budgets have fallen dramatically, or are being scrutinised. Whatever the reason – continued government borrowing,
Continue reading How new technology is resolving the costly data quality issues afflicting the public sector
Sascha Giese
By Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™
When protecting computer systems and networks, the “biggest cyber risk is complacency, not hackers.” That’s according to John Edwards, the UK’s Information Commissioner who warned that companies are leaving themselves open to cyberattacks by ignoring crucial measures such as updating software and training staff.
Continue reading Legacy systems and security will continue to dominate the agenda for public sector IT professionals
IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, recently announced that it is a major technology partner supporting the annual Crisis for Christmas campaign to help the homeless – the 12th year it has helped the charity.
Since 1967, Crisis has supported the most disadvantaged in society at
Continue reading Crisis moves apps & data to the cloud to streamline the operation of its annual Christmas campaign to support the homeless
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
With citizens looking for convenience wherever they can—from responsive mobile apps to joined-up services—public sector organisations are under increasing pressure to develop and deliver the IT solutions needed to facilitate such services.
It was something laid out in June when the U.K. Government published its 2022 – 2025
Continue reading Managing digital expectations as pressure mounts for public sector transformation
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
When it comes to IT, much is made of the differences between public and private sector projects. People are quick to point out the world’s most successful go-getting companies use technology to gain a competitive advantage, while the public sector is motivated by the delivery of services to
Continue reading Removing departmental siloes is vital for Governments under fire from state-sponsored salvos
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
Trust underpins the foundations of modern and legitimate democracies. From civil safety and national security to upholding the rule of law, trust is vital if we’re to function as a society.
Get it right, and public trust can
Continue reading The importance of trust in delivering public services
Europe’s leader in mobile messaging, LINK Mobility, has been accepted on to the UK Government’s G-Cloud 13 Framework of approved supplier services.
Under the agreement, all government bodies from local and central government, through NHS, social housing, to policy and emergency services, will be able to use the G-Cloud’s Digital Marketplace to directly buy LINK
Continue reading LINK Mobility accepted on to the UK Government’s G-Cloud Framework
Eilon Elhadad
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued practical steps to help tackle the significant increase in the number of cyberattacks resulting from supply chain vulnerabilities. To support this initiative, companies should minimise the complexity of the process, choose as few security vendors as possible, and build adoption programs, explains Eilon
Continue reading Mitigating supply chain attacks: protecting the software development cycle
New Advanced Data Inventory Solution to Support Privacy Teams with GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and Other Global Privacy Regulations
Exterro, Inc., the industry’s first provider of Legal GRC software, which unifies e-discovery, digital forensics and data privacy to drive successful, defensible outcomes for in-house legal, IT teams, privacy and
Continue reading Exterro Bolsters Market Leading Privacy Portfolio with Launch of Exterro Smart Data Inventory Solution
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
For many people, the pandemic—and the global response to this once-in-a-lifetime event—was a game-changer. The enforced and rapid move to the cloud meant carefully prepared plans for phased IT migration were thrown out the window.
Instead, the explosion of hybrid office environments left public sector IT workers forced to
Continue reading Greater Observability Helps Manage Hybrid IT Complexity Across the Public Sector
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