As part of the festivities for Bradford City’s first home match of the 2022-23 season, Ben Gregg, Sales Director at Complete IT Systems will join the popular City Vent podcast!
Taking place on Saturday 30th July, the podcast will feature news and views from the first game of the season!
See you there!
With the explosion in data centre apps, APIs have taken on an even more prominent role in enabling their integration.
Read this whitepaper from Tintri to understand why the right APIs are vital for cloud success.
As a Tintri Partner, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.
To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.
The office environment is continuously changing and the demand for a printer that can be relied on is growing from homeworkers or hybrid workers.
Brother’s Professional wireless A3 all-in-one inkjet printers allow you to customise how your users can print, with flexible, professional devices that are built to last and meet the needs of any small office or business.
With Wi-Fi connection to multiple devices, faster print speeds and the option to deliver documents in larger paper sizes, your users can get everything they need from Brother’s refreshed A3 business inkjet devices.
This modern range enables users to intelligently capture and optimise the contents of their documents and easily collaborate with colleagues, from home or in the office. Whether it’s 2-sided A4, business cards, receipts or batch scanning multi-page documents, you can be confident that this range will support you with all your business scanning needs.
More details on the datasheets for four of the top-selling devices:
For more information on how Complete IT Systems and Brother can help your business click here or call 01274 396 213 or email .
Spear phishing remains a huge threat to British firms – yet many remain inadequately protected.
Tap into this report – “Spear phishing: Top threats and trends” – from Barracuda to:
As Barracuda Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.
To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.
Spear phishing remains a constant threat to British firms, with attacks becoming all-the-more creative.
Tap into this report – “Spear phishing: Top threats and trends” – from Barracuda to:
As Barracuda Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.
To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.
Along with many of our customers, all the team at Complete IT Systems are celebrating Bradford’s successful bid to be UK City of Culture 2025.
As the bid’s official website states;
“Culture promotes us to the world and connects us to our roots. A rich history, a truly international community, and a young, forward-looking population makes Bradford the most compelling candidate to be the UK City of Culture for 2025. This is our time to celebrate our diverse district and it’s extraordinary people.”
With our prominent role in the local community, we’ll be doing all we can to promote our city’s status.
Check back for further updates #Bradford2025 #CityofCulture2025
As the world returns to normal, staff need to look the part in business meetings and be able to comfortably commute or travel. Whether your users are working from home, in the office, on a customer site, or even on the stationary bike, they expect to have the tools for the job.
With the comprehensive accessories ranges available from many manufacturers, knowing where to start can be a challenge for IT or managers. On this page, we have selected a 6-pack starter bundle with some of the most popular Lenovo accessories to help you get up and running efficiently. The pack includes:
The range of Lenovo accessories and monitors provide everything you need for users to create effective conditions to work productively!
Getting out and about for a customer meeting, office day or even working from a cafe is back! Or for some users, it can be as simple as packing up the home office to move it from the kitchen table to be stored away for the weekend. Either way, a practical, stylish bag is a great place to start.
This is a lightweight professional backpack, smartly designed to store a PC as well as work, personal, and travel essentials.
The ThinkVision P27u-10 monitor has a black and concise appearance with a full function ergonomic stand. It offers a crystal clear Near-Edgeless IPS display of 3840×2160 resolution and multiple color space (99.5% AdobeRGB, 145.7% sRGB, 97.9% DCI-P3, 99.5% BT.709), providing professional level accurate images from a wide viewing angle. You can select preferred color space to satisfy your demanding color critical work. Each P27u-10 monitor has also been pre-calibrated to obtain an accurate and consistent color with a factory calibration report.
With built-in power and the rich connectivity of 2HDMI, DP, USB Type-C, P27u-10 satisfies diverse connection demand. All these latest digital connectors enable you to use single cable for UHD resolution. Moreover, equipped with USB Type-C connector, P27u-10 can display, transit data and charge the compatible USB Type-C device with only 1 USB Type-C cable. No more cable cluster on your desk. P27u-10 also has 4 USB3.0 ports, including 1 with BC1.2, which offers quick charge to your USB devices. Its full function stand supports lift, tilt, pivot and swivel, which are all for your ease of use.
ThinkVision P27u-10 is also certified by TUV Eye Comfort certification, which ensures the best care for your health when viewing a monitor. The ThinkVision P27u-10 continues the idea of energy saving and environmental protection of Lenovo. It has green features including white LED backlights, and is Energy-Star 7.0, EPEAT Gold, CEL tier 2, and RoHS compliant.
A USB Video Class (UVC) compliant video camera designed for teleconferencing applications on desktop or laptop. It’s a reliable digital video device to transfer video data with HD quality through a high-speed USB interface in Full HD mode.
It’s easy to operate, and functional mechanical mechanism creates an excellent user experience. It feeds or streams its image in real-time through a computer to a computer network, and also delivers fast and secure facial recognition for Windows Hello.
Allow your users to hear and be heard like never before with X1 ANC HEADPHONES. ThinkPad X1 headphones provide rich, first-class listening and calling in any noise environment.
Lenovo has partnered with Synaptics AudioSmart® to create industry-leading headphones with Hybrid ANC and advanced ENC noise cancellation, adjustable on-the-fly. Voice assistant support, and a foldable lightweight construction complement the audio experience – in a package that screams luxury.
With them, your users can enjoy world-class call quality delivered via six boomless mics with environmental noise cancellation (ENC) technology that reduces irritating background noise. Achieve undisturbed focus, anytime, with active noise-canceling technology that intelligently mirrors and mutes noises and distractions around you. The battery time is about 14 hours playback (ANC off) after a fully charge under Bluetooth connection. With quick charge, 15 minutes charging gets up to 2 hours playback.
Alternatively they can use the coming 1.3m cord to be able to use the headphones at the same time while charging – without any interruption. Multi-Layered memory foam leather ear cups are make for comfortable long time use. Connect and synchronise to notebook and mobile phone at the same time via Dual Bluetooth connectivity. Never miss any call and enjoy the music at the same time. It comes with 1.3m braided USB cord and compact travel carring case that fits everywhere and conveys luxury.
Lenovo understands that modern business depends on a wide variety of PC’s and even brands to meet their business needs. To make this easier Lenovo USB-C dock is compatible with Lenovo notebooks as well as notebooks from HP and Dell.
As Lenovo Platinum PC Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on how the devices and solutions and could be effectively deployed in your business.
To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.
Cyber insurance policy rates have skyrocketed due to the increase in frequency and cost of ransomware cases over the past year. But due to the rising rates of cyber attacks in the UK, taking no policy is not an option either, which creates a dilemma.
How costly is costly, exactly? According to the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021, Ransomware attacks cost businesses an average of $4.62 million – and that doesn’t even include the cost of the actual ransom.
To combat the threat of such attacks, many organisations are turning to cyber insurance. This trend is more acute because many traditional insurance products exclude cyber security risks.
Watch this webinar from the Bitdefender Managed Detection & Response (MDR) team to learn the basics of cyber insurance, its history, types of cyber insurance offerings, what it takes to qualify, and finally, how the cyber insurance market is evolving and what it means for you.
As Bitdefender Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.
To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.
You may have read that Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 will become ‘end-of-life’ on 23 October 2023 – from that date, Microsoft will be ending its extended support on the server operating system. The vendor announced its notice period in 2018, which means that the five-year ‘extended support’ period will elapse next year.
Although this may seem like a long way off, it is worth considering your plan as next autumn will be here faster than we think!
Post-October 2023, organisations using Microsoft Server 2012 R2 will not be able to access patch updates, security updates or bug fixes. The result is that with hackers looking to pounce on all kinds of vulnerabilities, data on the server will be more vulnerable to cyber threats.
It’s essential to take a proactive approach to migrating your server operating system – and by starting now you will have plenty of time to work with.
In simple terms, after October 2023, Microsoft will move on and wash their hands of Windows Server 2012 – this means it will offer no support or ongoing protection for the product.
Unsupported servers leave the door open to hackers, potentially creating a threat to data on that server but also the entire organisation’s network.
Although it may seem early days, it is wise to think about your plan for upgrading to the latest IT infrastructure. As well as fending off potential security threats, modernising your environment can also create cost savings and efficiency gains.
Assessing the age of your current servers is a good start for preparing your migration plan. If you are running outdated servers or applications, a complete audit may be wise.
Our skilled team of experts can work with you to design a roadmap to migrate from Windows Server 2012 R2, and to assess your infrastructure against your business requirements.
Read more about our professional services here, or about our infrastructure provision here.
Ensuring comprehensive backups is a key ingredient of any successful business resilience programme. To do this, it is essential to use a best-in-class backup platform – but also to adopt sound policies.
To prevent backup failure, it is first vital to understand what causes it.
Check your media is up to standard
Not to blame your tools, but ensuring your media is up to scratch is essential to ensuring successful backups. Tape and disk backups need to be regulaly maintained, and reliability should be tested. You can also follow the 3-2-1 backup rule to ensure copies of critical data are kept online and offline.
The human factor
You need to make your team experts in your chosen backup environment to avoid the potential for human error. Automated measures also allow you to limit the potential for human error.
Updates status
Ensure your backup software has any necessary updates in place, and to ensure all security configurations are optimised.
Cyber security
Cloud-based backups with two-factor authentication and protection of in-transit data. Isolated backup credentials also help to ensure backups are separated from other programmes.
Infrastructure failures
Smart backup systems regularly saves copies of your data files to the cloud. It can also help avoid infrastructure redundancies by switching to unused capacity in the event of failure.
