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  Simplex Services awarded ‘Player of the Year’ by Vuzion   APRIL 14, 2021     TEAM SIMPLEX Last month, Simplex Services made a splash at the first ever  Vuzion Cloud Awards  winning the ‘ Player of the Year ’ award. Vuzion  is an innovative cloud aggregator, born from Cobweb, one of the UK’s leading managed cloud solutions providers. The company has kicked off these awards, in affiliation with the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), to promote the work of their partners and to ensure wider recognition of their successes and achievements. Some of our highlighted work was in the domain of remote working and mobile device management. Our nominated individual for the category was  Ravi Kambam . Ravi is a solution architect and has been working with us for the last six years. He is a certified MCSE (Cloud Platform and Infrastructure & Azure Administrator Associate) and a highly skilled technical consultant who is always ready to go that extra mile to delight our customers. Being our go-to per

  Creating a positive workplace culture in an organisation   MAY 11, 2021     TEAM SIMPLEX At Simplex , we understand that taking culture seriously is vital for creating a thriving business. Workplace culture is an essential aspect of business strategy and key to creating an inclusive, progressive environment which supports employees and recognises their achievements. A 2018 research revealed that poor company culture cost the UK economy more than £23.6 billion. Here are a few practical steps for small businesses to develop a positive workplace culture. These steps will provide a robust foundation for future development and should shape the objectives behind an investment in cultural development. Where are you today? Start with basic metrics like employee absences, retention and turnover. What patterns can you see in the data, how do different business functions and teams compare? How do they compare to your industry norms? What additional insights have you gathered from exit or return

  Microsoft recently introduced the all-new Azure Virtual Desktop – with a change of name (from Windows Virtual Desktop), logo, capabilities, as well as pricing. Azure Virtual Desktop is a flexible cloud  virtual desktop infrastructure  (VDI) platform that securely delivers virtual desktops and remote apps with maximum control. The interest in Azure Virtual Desktop will only continue to grow in the coming months as businesses plan what the future of the workplace looks like, and for many this will be a hybrid work model. AVD fits perfectly into this model as it allows users to access everything they need to work, regardless of where they are located or what device they are using. Through the use of a Virtual Desktop, it also increases security, which has been a constant issue throughout the last year and a half of remote work. As the Virtual Desktops can be managed from a single point, this makes it easier for IT administrators to deploy new Virtual Desktops, as well as update and patc

  When hosting Simplex Services in a public cloud, all organisations want their data to be protected in the event of any disaster. Hosting all the applications with a single cloud service provider (CSP) may invite trouble even if distinct data centres, availability zones or regions are chosen to host these applications with a specific CSP. Hence, multicloud. In case of a central component failure within a CSP infrastructure, it will affect all or most of the regions. This will lead to a major disaster for an organisation which has hosted its applications with that single CSP. There are also some use cases of regulatory compliance as well which may prohibit companies from hosting services in a specific geography or region. They would hence prefer to host their applications with a different CSP. My colleague, Mohit, has previously  written about the key criteria to adopt multicloud . How to choose a cloud service provider? Hosting all production applications with one CSP Hosting non-pro

According to   a recent McKinsey survey   of 100 executives across industries and geographies, nine out of ten organisations will be combining remote and on-site working in the post-pandemic future. The survey confirms that productivity and customer satisfaction have increased during the pandemic. However, despite the embrace of a hybrid model, most organizations have only begun to think through and articulate the specifics of how to work it out. One of the primary requirements to prepare to embrace and benefit from the new workplace dynamic is investing in a technology stack that solves for remote collaboration and workflow. In the last edition of  #SimpleXConnect  on June 24, 2021, we discussed how the hybrid work model is no longer a theory, but a strategic move, with our panel of experts including Collins Daniel : Head – Workplace Technology, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Jason Kemsley : Technical Director, Uptime Solutions Mark Lyddon : Director & Infrastructure Regional Lead,