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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Seric win IBM Centre of Technical Excellence (CoTE) Award
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 28 January
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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By Increasingly more we are hearing the words cyber crime in the news but what are cyber crimes? The easiest way to describe cyber crimes is a crime committed over the internet, please see link below for more details and types of cyber crimes. We have all heard about someone we know bank account being emptied [...]
Information Commissioner’s Office – ACS:Law has serious questions to answer…
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 30 September
ACS:Law could face £500,000 fine for porn list leak. Yup a porn leak – £500k porn solicitors – ad lib anyone? Well I’ll personally be gobsmacked if there is a fine of any consequence. That siad it is good to see the ICO appearing to take a harder line on Companies appearing to play a [...]
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We at Seric Towers are committed to local enterprise and giving back to the charity that got us started in the first place. Which is why we have again (for 3rd successive year) put our money in close proximity to our mouth. September will see “Somebody” in the word of Lord Sugar get the Award [...]
Just picked this out on over ComputerWeekly.com Wow – If that isn't a sore enough one for everyone involved in it… read down to see MS still able to recoup £50m from unlicensed software proliferation, and that is before they have been upset by an early contract cancellation. Those EA true-ups don't half cost. Project [...]
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