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By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds The pace of digital transformation across the public sector has accelerated significantly in recent years, and with Covid-19 prompting a near-overnight shift to online services, the process has come a long way already. Services once requiring pages of paperwork now are fully digitised—renewing your passport or driver’s license Continue reading Can ‘One Login for Government’ Deliver Digital Success for the U.K. Public Sector?
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds Like many countries around the world, the U.K. is familiar with following trends that originally emerged in the U.S. It’s a long-standing idea, amplified in recent years by increasing globalisation and the impact of digital transformation on society. Take cybersecurity, for example, where the U.S. has been at Continue reading Why the U.K. Public Sector Should Monitor U.S. Cybersecurity Trends
By Charles Damerell, Senior Director UKI at SolarWinds In responding to the demand for better digital capabilities, defence organisations are among many across the public sector to have seen significant recent changes in their technology strategies and investment choices. This has delivered a wide range of benefits, such as enabling the sector to cope with Continue reading Understanding the Future of IT in Defence
By Charles Damerell, Senior Director, UKI at SolarWinds Malicious threat actors are now targeting software vendors and IT vendors in a bid to hide zero-day vulnerabilities in legitimate software updates. Since today’s digital supply chains are becoming ever more complex and intertwined, these supply chain attacks now pose a significant threat. By tampering with back-end Continue reading Countering Cyberthreats: Becoming Secure by Design
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds For years, it has been broadly accepted that the profile of open-source software as ‘higher risk’ goes against the principles of public sector technology procurement. Being free, not reputedly as safe, and via smaller vendors than the big players, has blinkered this industry to finding solutions which could Continue reading Open-Source Database Revolution in the Public Sector
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds 2021 has been another year of challenges for us all, and for the IT sector, the changes needed, time invested, and adjustments made to public sector systems and processes are set to shape the future for good. While private sector Continue reading Weathering the Storm: Why IT Professionals Are Unsung Public Sector Heroes
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds As organisations throughout the public sector have turned to remote working solutions over the past year and a half during the global pandemic, technology has solved countless problems—but it’s created challenges, too. The tried and tested “business as usual” processes were disrupted, and organisations were forced to rely Continue reading Public Sector IT: How Monitoring Could Be The Answer
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021: Building a Secure Future examines how technology professionals perceive the evolving state of risk in today’s business environment following internal impact of COVID-19 IT policies and exposure to external breaches SolarWinds introduces Secure by Design program as a guide for industry-wide approach to help prevent
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds IT teams across the public sector are under pressure to migrate technology infrastructure, services, and data to the cloud. Whether the objective is to deliver cost savings, performance improvements, better reliability, or a combination of benefits, the trend is well established. Increasingly, the emphasis is shifting away from Continue reading How to Deliver on the Potential of Public Sector Cloud Migration
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds Public sector organisations across the country are looking closely at the way they can improve services and performance by optimising their use of data. Indeed, many are focusing on it as a key asset and a driving force behind their wider technology strategy to build a ‘data-centric’ approach. Continue reading How Public Sector Database Teams Can Become ‘Data Centric’
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds Recent research in the U.K. public sector shows a combination of cloud and local infrastructure will continue to be used over the course of this year, with up to 53% of services confirming they use hybrid infrastructure. In essence, hybrid IT is the integration of on-premises IT services Continue reading How to Maximise the Advantages of Hybrid IT
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds As our cities continue to grow in population density, the need for positive environmental action on a domestic and global scale grows more urgent. However, the sheer complexity of contemporary urban living means city planners need more actionable insight into the factors affecting issues such as air quality Continue reading How a Business IT Mindset Can Help Smart Cities Maintain Cleaner Air
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds The U.K. public sector has never been more digital than it is now, and an increasing use of applications—both within organisations and for use by the general public—have allowed the sector to work more efficiently and provide better services. But, the more Continue reading Keeping Apps on Track: The Business Case for Application Performance Management
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds As the second half of the year gets well underway, and lockdown restrictions generally continue to ease, one of the main topics of concern is a “second wave” of COVID-19 potentially hitting the U.K. in the coming weeks or months. With some Continue reading Weathering the Storm: Prepare Your IT to Ride the “Second Wave”
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds While cybersecurity isn’t an immediate casualty of increased complexity, the more digitally transformed public sector organisations become, the more vulnerabilities they face. Similarly, as global workforces have recently moved to their homes, IT teams across every industry have been faced with a Continue reading In an Age of Digital Transformation, Security Is Now a Core Competency for IT Professionals
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds Imagine being able to design a digital version of just about anything in the real world, infuse it with data, and use the knowledge it provides to create or improve its real-life physical entity. This is the concept behind “digital twins,” which Continue reading How Digital Twins Can Transform Government and Society
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2020: The Universal Language of IT examines the evolving role of technology in business and the breakdown of traditional IT siloes Less than 25% of budgets dedicated to emerging tech, instead prioritise cloud and hybrid IT Tech pros cite need to upskill across security, APM, and non-technical and interpersonal skills Continue reading SolarWinds Study Shows Converged Roles and Contracting Budgets Increase Need for Qualified U.K. Public Sector Tech Pros Across Hybrid IT Environments
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds Modernisation is a constant process and shouldn’t have a clear finishing point, whether it’s for the network, data centre, cloud, or IT management tools. This is necessary to ensure all systems and devices are up-to-date, functioning at the highest level and, particularly Continue reading Don’t Get Your Network in Knots: A 5-Step Plan for Government Modernisation
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