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A key member of staff at a leading managed service provider is celebrating ten years with the business, and a journey that has seen the company grow from 10 to over 140 staff, creating job opportunities across the region. Mark Wilkinson joined razorblue in September 2012 in a technical projects role, being promoted to management…

Technology is a business necessity, and its role has been fundamental to grow industry by scaling trade and commerce. Using technology in businesses has provided a more efficient and convenient way to improve performance. Reliance on technology, however, represents a risk due to its increasing vulnerability to cyber-attacks. The main cyber risks involve privacy risk,…

Dan Kitchen, CEO of award-winning managed IT service provider, razorblue has been named as a One To Watch in The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders programme for 2022.   The programme, which is supported by The Times and now in its fifth year, celebrates those entrepreneurs that are growing the UK’s most successful and…

It’s been planned for the last couple of years, now Microsoft is finally disabling basic authentication for its clients. The switch, originally postponed from October 2020, is due to be carried out imminently – and will improve security significantly for Office 365 users. From October 1st, Microsoft will start turning off basic authentication at random…

Queen Elizabeth II was a revolutionary ruler, from being the first British Monarch to send an email way back in 1976 to posting tweets and Instagram photos, she embraced technological, scientific, and social change across her 70-year reign on the throne. She was a pioneer and set a lot of firsts for the royal family,…

North-East headquartered Managed Service Provider, razorblue has announced that it is upgrading the storage platform that backs its private cloud solution with new, next-generation technology. Through a new partnership with Hitachi Vantara, razorblue will be deploying its Virtual Storage Platform series NVMe-backed (non-volatile memory express) storage arrays in its cloud regions. The new technology implemented…