Yes, your school can test Vivi in live lessons before spending a penny. The Vivi pilot programme is a free, time-limited trial that puts wireless screen mirroring, digital signage, announcements and emergency alerts into your own classrooms, running alongside whatever you already use. DMS scopes the pilot, checks your network [...]
The 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule is the modern successor to the classic 3-2-1 strategy, and it means this: keep 3 copies of your data, on 2 different types of media, with 1 copy held offsite, 1 copy kept offline, air-gapped or immutable, and 0 errors after automated recovery verification. The two [...]
A back-to-school IT checklist should cover six things before pupils walk through the gates: network and wi-fi capacity, device health and imaging, user accounts and leaver removal, MIS and data readiness, filtering and monitoring compliance, and backup and recovery testing. Work through them in that order where possible, because most [...]
You can move a 50-to-100-person professional services firm to the cloud without losing a single billable hour, provided you migrate in phases rather than all at once. This cloud migration guide sets out the sequence that works audit what you run, classify data against your compliance obligations, move low-risk workloads [...]
Scalable IT infrastructure is capacity planned around your hiring forecast, not around whatever breaks next. Done properly, adding twenty people costs a predictable amount and about an hour of admin per starter — not a weekend migration and an unbudgeted invoice. For a professional services firm moving from 50 towards [...]
DfE has confirmed a cyber attack on its helpdesk and Turing Scheme portal systems, affecting around 607,000 records — names, job titles, emails and phone numbers, with no financial data taken. DfE has referred itself to the ICO and is working with the NCSC and NCA. Schools don’t need to [...]
Most schools enter the new academic year having already committed their IT budget. A significant number spend the first half of term fixing decisions they made in June. The gap between those two groups is rarely a question of funding. It is a question of planning. Whether you are streamlining [...]
If you manage IT infrastructure in a school or multi-academy trust, the phrase DfE Wi-Fi specification has likely landed on your desk more than once recently. And with good reason: according to the DfE’s own data, a significant proportion of schools assessed under the Connect the Classroom programme are found [...]
Your staff and governors are already arriving in electric vehicles. So, increasingly, are your parents. The question is no longer whether your school needs EV charging infrastructure. It’s whether you can afford to wait any longer to find out what it will take to install it. A professional EV charging [...]
If your further education college has recently received a FE college condition allocation as part of the DfE FE college funding round, you’re now facing one of the most consequential planning decisions of the academic year. How you deploy that capital funding will shape your college’s operational resilience, digital capability, [...]
