Before cloud, on-premise IT architectures tended to follow a DIY approach, piecing together best of breed offerings from different vendors - database from Oracle, storage from Netapp, compute from IBM, and so on.

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I had the great pleasure last week attending and speaking at our joint Logicalis and IBM Business Intelligence & Analytics event in London, alongside some of IBM’s data and AI experts, Matthew Robinson and Louis Regan. From hearing about IBM’s future technology roadmap and how IBM tooling can deliver greater insights, it was the open conversations between customers and Logicalis and IBM experts that was truly insightful. Here are the key takeaways I learnt from the event:

More and more climate-conscious travellers are opting to take the train instead of flying. With this in mind, and a business meeting coming up in Cologne, I decided to take the 580km trip by train.

Logicalis UK&I, an IT solutions and managed service provider, today announces it has been recognised as one of the UK's Best Workplaces™ in Tech, 2022. The list was launched this morning by Great Place to Work® UK, ranking Logicalis UK&I 59 out of 67 medium-sized organisations.

Business conditions have never been more volatile due to the cost-of-living crisis and subsequent economic shocks. How do businesses stay healthy amid inflationary worries, supply chain constraints, increasing security threats and skills shortages? The Logicalis 2021 CIO Survey found businesses are thinking outside the box. Technology decision-makers are planning to innovate their way through changing times over the next 12 months.

At a time when agility, security and resilience have never been more important, Logicalis has developed several expert service offerings that enable customers to automate cloud resource optimisation and maximise their Microsoft investment across their IT environments.

Logicalis UK, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, has been listed as a supplier on the G-Cloud 13 Cloud Services and Solutions Framework.

Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, today announced it has acquired Q Associates, one of the UK's leading providers of IT consultancy and advisory services around data management, data protection, compliance and information security.