Seric have been highlighted in a recent report as one of the Top 100 businesses funded by PSYBT since it’s inception. The report was funded by RBS and independently verified. At a reception in the Scottish Parliament a number of the businesses in the report met with MSPs and RBS staff to highlight the impact [...]
Stuart Macdonald
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An avid reader, I run an IT Infrastructure business in Scotland, serving the UK. I'm a PSYBTer. My girl and our kids keep me busy. Jags Fan. Enjoying growing the business and my family.
IBM Leadership Alliance Conference – Special Guest
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 13 September
Our very own Alan Hamilton has been invited along to IBM’s Leadership Alliance Conference in Cambridge, MA in October to participate in round table discussions to shape the development of IBM’s market leading software products. We’re all proud of some of the great work Alan has been doing recently to develop our Software Business and [...]
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We are working again with our excellent Physical Security partners King Communications on an IP CCTV and Networked Security Seminar later this month. I’ll be speaking on where the underlying infrastructure is going and some of the key benefits of the component solutions King utilise to deliver real business value for our mutual clients. ==== [...]
No more Hibernation? Maybe… but Faster all round with Lenovo RapidBoot
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 19 August
My last three laptops have spent most of their working life in a dream state. Booted fully only for security updates and otherwise in and out of hibernation but when I get my next one I’m hoping it will be one of these new Rapid Boot Lenovo’s. Video a little knarly/cheesy but makes the point [...]
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Seric win UK&I – IBM N Series – Outstanding Partner Achievement Award from NetApp
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 6 June
NetAppp Partner Awards – Check 1min 40secs Seric were delighted to see off some stiff competition and be crowned NetApp UK&I NSeries Outstanding Partner for 2011. If you look closely our heroes can both be seen grinning like the proverbial Cheshire Cat at around one minute and forty seconds. It was a great night out [...]
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Our man in Florida is Alan Hamilton at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011. Seric were invited to be one of IBM’s 20 key partners worldwide in this area, assisting IBM in developing and shaping the technology to come. Alan is out making Connections and extolling the virtues of employing particular technologies to help [...]
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It’s all too easy for a techie to see dashboards and graphs as a fluffy executive toy but the fact is visualisation is the key to insight for many people. All the old clichés apply a picture speaking a 1,000 words et cetera, etc. For the numerate executive the are the control panel – the [...]
Want more POWERful Oracle? A good time as curtain falls on HP and Itanium.
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 7 May
Oracle dropping their bombshell on HP and Itanium support looks like potentially more guys will be moving over to (or indeed back to) IBM Power Systems platform with their Oracle. Running Oracle on a System p is a great way to maximise your IT investment. Whether you are just ready to migrate or indeed are [...]
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In Mid April Sony discovered their Playstation Network had been hacked and a load of personal detail had been well erm ‘shared’. At that point the number of people with details exposed was reckoned to be 24M. Fast forward to early May and the breach is encompassing more than the PlayStation network at Sony with [...]
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Spent some time talking to the 40th Annual SCDI Forum held in St Andrews on the challenges of starting and growing a business and in particular about the excellent support structures offered by the Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT). It was an interesting session and I found Will Hutton (of The Work Foundation) in [...]