Data Science Use Cases: Manufacturing [Guide]
Unlock the value of your data by harnessing the power of data science… The manufacturing industry is undergoing a huge transformation to Industry 4.0. To help with this, leading manufacturers like can use data science to ingest and integrate vast volumes of data to improve production output, reduce costs, improve safety and optimise your supply...
Read more >Bringing back-office staff to the forefront in retail [Blog]
As retail customers return to stores, your back-office and warehouse teams need to be as empowered and nurtured as their frontline colleagues. Agile technology will be vital to achieving this, and to creating the joined-up, ultra-responsive experience customers now routinely expect across channels. If you’ve read our first blog in this series, Retail? It’s a...
Read more >Retail? It’s A New World! [Blog]
As in-store retail stages a comeback, agile technology will be vital for engaging both customers and staff. The retail sector’s struggle with COVID-19 is a tale of triumph amid disaster. Despite high-profile insolvencies and almost 190K job losses1, the sector has weathered the storm and emerged more-or-less intact, yet at the same time fundamentally changed....
Read more >OnlineUC Gamma for Microsoft Teams [Guide]
Bringing voice to Microsoft Teams with one simple application. OnlineUC Gamma for Microsoft Teams enables your business to use the Microsoft Teams application as an OnlineUC Gamma end point to make and receive telephone calls. CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD GUIDE
Read more >Data Protection In The Public Cloud: Disaster Recovery Isn’t As Automatic As You Might Think… [Article]
Even after data has been migrated and sent soaring to the public cloud, organisations need to remember to take stock every once in a while. Lifting, shifting and placing unwavering trust in the protection of critical information may be the desired goal of many businesses looking to capitalise on the wealth of public cloud benefits....
Read more >Cloud Networking: The Vital Part of the Equation for Universities and Colleges [Article]
Andy Riley, Sales Director at Daisy explores the benefits of cloud networking for this new generation of hybrid learning… Eyes to the front, reader. It’s March 2020 and in a quite literal overnight transformation, UK colleges and universities have made the switch to online teaching and learning. For some it’s an entirely new ball game,...
Read more >Re-Engineering the Customer Experience for Growth and Innovation [E-book]
As consumer expectations keep evolving, so must the ways business leaders need to respond. This guide will benefit anyone involved in the retail sector. From adding experience to the shopfloor, putting back-of-house at the forefront and helping managers to take control of their working day.
Read more >Five Reasons Hybrid Cloud Might Be Your Best Business Choice [Blog]
What does “cloud-first” really mean and why do most companies never commit fully to the public cloud? Up until recently, “cloud first” not only meant “cloud only”, it also meant “public cloud only”. Everything was as-a-service and server rooms were being transformed into extra meeting spaces. Fast forward to today, and we know that while...
Read more >Four Signs That It’s Time For A Server Upgrade – And What To Look For
We break down four of the most common signs you need a server upgrade, and what to look for in the perfect set-up Maintaining your IT infrastructure (and getting the most out of it) can be complex, time-consuming and expensive—especially if you’re not working with the right servers.
Read more >Daisy SD-WAN and Enabling Shopping That Doesn’t Drop [Comic Series]
Part of a comic series, our fourth issue encounters a retailer needing to set up and seamlessly connect multiple branches A large retailer operating from an online store and multiple branches wants to develop a presence in a new location. Realising the shortcomings of its existing IT network and also seeing opportunity to completely overhaul...
Read more >What Senior Executives Need to Know About Cloud Networking [Video Series]
Support your business case for cloud-based networking to stakeholders in a way that resonates with their priorities. Cloud networking offers the kind of benefits that just can’t be found in traditional network management systems. Its unmatched flexibility and scalability make it a perfect fit for organisations of all shapes and sizes. As an experienced IT...
Read more >What Senior Executives Need to Know About Cyber Breach Management [Guide]
Colin Jeffs, Head of BCM Consultancy at Daisy Corporate Services, explains the difference having an overall strategy for resilience, sponsored at board level, can make. Senior executives are justifiably concerned about cyber risks and the need to recover quickly and safely if their organisation is hit by a breach. But, what involvement should they have...
Read more >How to Graduate to a First Class Smart Campus [Infographic]
Daisy and Extreme Networks can help you graduate to a smart campus and improve learning outcomes Having instant access to everything is now the standard expectation for today’s students. Be it accessing course materials, submitting a piece of work or supporting external visitors, if they can’t connect to a reliable network, your campus connectivity needs...
Read more >The Future of Collaboration & Productivity [Whitepaper]
The last 12 months have seen more businesses than ever adopt technology to stay operational. Digital transformation has been driving this change, with applications like Microsoft Teams keeping us connected and productive, wherever we happen to be working from. In this report, we will explore how collaboration and communication is key to productivity, and what...
Read more >Daisy Corporate Services Presents Cloud Networking with ExtremeCloud™ IQ Webinar
Daisy and Extreme Networks host a webinar about the benefits of cloud networking for the public sector. All public sector organisations operate differently and have different networking needs. But with innovative solutions from Daisy and our partner Extreme Networks, you can deploy and consume cloud networking in whatever way suits you best, while enjoying the benefits it brings...
Read more >Protecting and Monitoring Student Safety [Video]
Daisy and Extreme Networks make security in education easier to achieve by minimising or mitigating any potential risks Today’s education networks face unique challenges, from having a secure infrastructure capable of supporting modern classroom technology to limited or no visibility of network usage. Additionally, these challenges can create risks for both student and staff safety....
Read more >Getting Cloud Smart Doesn’t Have To Be A Stormy Experience For NHS Trusts
Andy Riley, Director of Sales discusses how NHS Trusts can successfully move to the public cloud. The last year has forced organisations worldwide to adapt how they deliver services to employees and customers. Driven by the ongoing digital transformation of the healthcare sector and supercharged by what we’ve seen during the pandemic, NHS England recently...
Read more >Daisy Direct2 for Microsoft Teams Rooms Delivers the Best Teams Experience for Your Meeting Space [Video]
Microsoft Teams Rooms empowers your workforce to thrive in the hybrid work world. As employees spend most of their time collaborating and wanting flexible remote work options to stay, 66% of leaders say their company is considering redesigning office space for hybrid work.* Daisy Direct2 for Microsoft Teams Rooms delivers the best Teams experience in...
Read more >PhoneLine+ a Future-Proof Voice Solution [Video]
As of 2025, the traditional UK PSTN lines will be shut off completely as part of a major step towards the UK’s mass IP-network migration, with VoIP networks set to replace all the legacy PSTN services, so you need to take action now. PhoneLine+ has been specifically designed to replace your traditional landline service using...
Read more >Retail Staff: Expendables or Incredibles?
Major Account Manager Kendal Stacey talks about retail’s most powerful assets – employees. As they fight for survival in the era of online shopping, more and more brick-and-mortar retailers are turning to an age-old strategy: cutting expenditures on workers. It’s understandable that brick-and-mortar retailers treat labour as an expendable, variable cost; labour is the second-largest expense...
Read more >Cyber Security Library [Resource Pack]
Our library of cyber security information provides useful guides, insightful articles, and a self-evaluation tool to help you identify and address gaps or weak points in your security posture. Cyber Security is a central concern for every organisation and the steep rise of cloud adoption and remote working has pushed it to the top of...
Read more >Pass the Remote: The Role of SD-WAN in the Year of Homeworking [Guide]
Learn how SD-WAN enables today’s remote workforce in this must-read guide The global outbreak of COVID-19 sees businesses facing unparalleled challenges. IT departments are having to think on their feet – particularly those where part of the workforce works remotely, and the other part are back in the office. Some organisations struggle to adopt an...
Read more >5 Steps to Protect Your Business From Ransomware [Guide]
Ransomware is one of the worst threats facing IT leaders and CISOs, and any investment of time and resource into prevention is well spent. Post-breach is the worst time for organisations to try to get on top of things; the attacker is in the driving seat, IT staff are stretched managing the breach and all...
Read more >Leveraging your investment: 3 BIG ways cloud-managed networks will improve your business [Blog]
Head of Connectivity Mark Hall discusses how to leverage your investment after switching to cloud-managed networks As we’ve pointed out in previous blogs, network management technology is headed in one clear direction: the cloud. There are several compelling reasons why, and it’s also why our partner Extreme Networks is the fastest-growing vendor in a snowballing...
Read more >Hyper-flexible deployment of cloud-managed networks… why should you care? [Blog]
Head of Connectivity Mark Hall explains why complete deployment flexibility of cloud-managed networks is so important for multiple business sectors and scenarios If you’ve read our recent blog on the transformative potential of cloud-managed networking (“Why Should You Care?”), you’ll know that flexibility of deployment is one of several compelling reasons why all kinds of...
Read more >Cloud-managed networks: why should you care? [Blog]
Head of Connectivity Mark Hall explores the powerful reasons why companies in all sectors are waking up to the benefits of cloud-based management Cloud-managed networks: why should you care? One answer goes like this: because even if you don’t care yet, the chances are you’ll soon have to. Given the way network technology is developing, companies...
Read more >The Resurgence of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) [Whitepaper]
Securely delivering Windows applications and desktops to any device, anywhere and any time – without complexity. Desktop virtualisation has become an irresistible option for businesses looking to optimise resources, provide home and mobile working solutions and deliver a secure and consistent user experience. Neil Hall, Strategy Consultant at Daisy Corporate Services, provides a great introduction...
Read more >Windows 2008 R2 End of Support – Now What?
Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 End of Support: Discover your options On January 14, 2020, support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 came to an end. End of support or end of life refers to the date when Microsoft no longer provides automatic fixes, security updates, or online technical assistance. As a result,...
Read more >Business Continuity Checklist for Future Pandemic Preparedness [Article]
Pandemics are likely to remain an existential threat. Award-winning continuity and resilience consultant Petra Morrison, has produced a checklist guide for business continuity professionals and business leaders. Read on or click here for a printer-friendly version. In light of COVID-19, have you learned from experience, reinforced your strategy and updated your plans? Maybe you have...
Read more >Business Resilience Checklist for IT Managers [Guide]
Recommended reading for IT leaders: award-winning continuity and resilience consultant David Davies has produced a must-read checklist so that you can be confident in your recovery from a business disruption. Business Resilience Checklist for IT Managers Organisations will often make assumptions and have expectations about what IT departments will do in a business incident –...
Read more >Three Key Steps to Getting the Most from Microsoft 365 [Article]
Cloud Solution Delivery Manager Michael Wilson reviews some of the “best bits” of Microsoft 365 and how to leverage some key benefits. Remote working and online collaboration tools have become key for many organisations during the pandemic. With so many of us working from home, we’ve relied on technology to keep us connected with colleagues...
Read more >How Can Cloud Networking Drive Digital Transformation in the NHS?
Director of Sales Andy Riley highlights how cloud networking can improve the healthcare experience. We have seen over the past year that the healthcare sector can transform at pace when it needs to. For instance, NHS Digital temporarily updated Summary Care Records with additional information on patients that health and care professionals could access to...
Read more >11 Best Practices for Mobile Device Management [Guide]
With many IT and security leaders concerned with the security vulnerabilities of homeworking, the challenge of provisioning, managing and securing mobile devices while employees are currently out of their corporate environment can be a challenge. Download our guide designed to help you work out the approach you can take to manage remote devices with these...
Read more >OnlineUC Mitel (Guide)
Work smarter with the built-in capabilities of MiCollab to foster real-time collaboration using voice, video, IM, document sharing and more - all from a single, unified application that moves seamlessly between desktops and mobile devices leveraging Google Cloud.
Read more >Daisy Mobile Solutions
Meet the ever-increasing mobile demands of modern business. Capitalise on our success in securing the most competitive commercials in the marketplace today. Thanks to our unique agreements with the networks, we are able to provide the best tariffs across Vodafone and 02. Not only are we are a supplier of devices, smartphones and accessories with...
Read more >SD-WAN FAQs
We answer some of the most frequently asked questions about SD-WAN The buzz around SD-WAN has been around for a while. But with COVID-19 driving many UK businesses to evaluate and improve network agility, there are still understandably a lot of questions about the technology. Whether your company already uses SD-WAN or you are just...
Read more >Data and IT Protection: 8 Things You Need to Get Right [Guide]
Two of our top consultants took a breather from helping customers design and plan for greater resilience, to consider what overarching advice they could share with IT Managers everywhere – faced with common challenges and constraints around managing data. With homeworking set to continue for a significant percentage of the UK workforce, issues around security...
Read more >Getting to Grips with NIST, Time to Focus on Discovery, Prevention and Response of Cyber Threats
The National Institute of Standards & Technology’s (NIST) cybersecurity framework is seen by many as a global gold standard when it comes to keeping businesses safe from cyber threats. In many ways it’s the cyber security ‘bible’, so while it contains a huge amount of useful information, it’s all too easy to get lost in...
Read more >Hiding in Plain Sight – Why IT Complexity is a Hacker’s Dream
By Steve Burden, Head of Security at Daisy Corporate Services The saying ‘can’t see the wood for the trees’ is an apt one when it comes to cybersecurity. Complex IT environments are a cybercriminal’s dream, as they are typically harder to monitor, more difficult to secure and as a result, easier to breach. The last...
Read more >Networking: Trust Issues, Insecurity and How to Fix It All [Blog]
Product Manager Steve Burden gives practical, straightforward ways on how to keep your networks, your employees and your relationships with both on track. 67% of all cyber breaches involve credential theft, phishing, social engineering, or business email compromise[1]. Users are often the weak link in an otherwise secure environment; the unpredictable bull in the china...
Read more >PSTN Switch-off: A Step-by-Step Planning Tool [Guide]
In this guide, we will provide information to help you audit your current communications (and other business-critical technologies) and determine whether (and how) you need to act in each case. The clock is ticking towards the demise of the PSTN. If you don’t have an alternative fully in place by December 2025, your phones will...
Read more >Your Customers Want Solutions
In our guest blog written by Shep Hyken, Forbes, we explore top tips to boost your customer engagement. Here’s an interesting job title: Consumer Engagement Specialist. What does someone with that title do? I had a chance to interview Lou Gallagher, who holds that title at Mitel, a business communications and collaboration company focused on creating...
Read more >Microsoft 365 Backup | 6 Critical Reasons for Microsoft 365 Backup [eGuide]
Why do organisations need to backup Microsoft 365 data? Organisations need an Microsoft 365 backup and recovery solution, because Microsoft does not backup this business critical data. This means organisations need Sharepoint online backup, Exchange Online backup (Microsoft 365 email backup), and OneDrive backup. Read our helpful Microsoft 365 backup eGuide –> But I thought...
Read more >Daisy SD-WAN and the Building of a Future-Proof Business [Comic Series]
Part of a comic series, our third issue encounters a construction company that builds today’s infrastructure on tomorrow’s technology. If costly, spotty, low-bandwidth connectivity fails to meet the demands and affect the delivery of complex and schedule-driven construction projects, you’ve got a big problem – and that’s exactly what happens in the latest issue of...
Read more >Cyber Security Evaluation: Check Your Security Posture [Self-evaluation]
Our comprehensive evaluation is designed for you to download and use to assess your current cyber security posture against a set of critical questions. Why “take the test”? This evaluation will allow you to review your current coverage of essential cyber security elements and identify areas that need attention. Along the way, it gives you...
Read more >Q&A: Cisco DNA Centre States Its Intent
In this quick-fire Q&A, Daisy’s Connectivity experts Richard Beeston and Mark Hall give their view of what intent-based networking means for businesses going forward… The way we work is changing, and network automation and remote management tools have become essential to effective operations. Intent-based networking (IBN), a term coined by Gartner, has been touted as...
Read more >Future Workplace Essentials Toolkit
The way we work is changing quickly but, where are things headed? What will the workplace look like 5 years, or even 6 months from now? To answer these questions, we’ve put together a future workplace toolkit to keep you in the loop with where we’ve been, what’s going on now, and where workplace technology...
Read more >A Network That Thinks Like You… [Whitepaper]
Product Director Richard Beeston explains the transformative power of intent-based networking and reveals why Cisco DNA Centre is a powerful blueprint for making an intent-based network a reality. Traditional network models simply can’t keep up with the demands of modern businesses. The result? Serious stress on your infrastructure and people, which is why we need...
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