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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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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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 [...]

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Seric were today informed that they have won an IBM Centre of Technical Excellence (CoTE) for Business Partner Award. In April 2009 IBM implemented the Business Partner Technical Vitality scorecard, providing a set of clear, visible and objective measures that can demonstrate the overall breadth and IBM product depth of a partner’s skills in Sales, [...]

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Little bit late on this post but a recent trip down to Bedfont with IBM has given a clear statement of where IBM is going with its partner community.   IBM it seems is changing much of its business partner model to more industry focused solutions.  Personally I see this as a great move as [...]

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Well,  I’m just back from the Netapp 2010 conference in Prague and what an event it was! For those of you that don’t know, the IBM Nseries storage device is the result of a partnership of Netapp and IBM and I was kindly flown across on an all expenses paid trip by Netapp, due to [...]

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The Seric Technical Team are proud to announce an introduction to virtualisation for small businesses.  Come along to get a demo on how to run multiple operating systems on a single server.   See how quickly and easily you can start to reduce your costs.  This isn’t one of those slick online canned demos – we’ll [...]

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Yours truly has been investigating and I just can't think of a reason not to complete a case study if A) Everything has gone swimmingly for a client B) Enough time has elapsed to prove (A) is indeed the case C) Nothing being implemented is of a particularly sensitive nature We've done quite a few [...]

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…and they look not bad.  Not seen the commerical propositions yet so they may be pricey… some of the Tivoli stuff just is – in my opion. Anyway – check this out – we are waiting on a trial unit and commercials here at Seric Towers…  Will report back once the demo has been … [...]

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