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New power rises in cybersecurity
New power rises in Cybersecurity as Acora and Secrutiny join forces. Acora is delighted to announce the expansion of its group activities to include Secrutiny, the UK’s leading cybersecurity provider. Bringing the two businesses together allows Acora to incorporate security…
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THINKING BIG
Our new Acora ad campaign – the biggest and most ambitious we’ve ever run – went live in the autumn of 2021. As it reaches its midpoint, our Sales & Marketing Director MATT WOOD explains how it came about, its…
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2022: Never the Same Again?
Like most of us, I’d hoped that 2021 would be something more like a ‘normal’ year. But of course, it wasn’t. Likewise, I’d more-or-less assumed I’d now be looking ahead to a bright, shiny ‘post-pandemic’ year in 2022. Doesn’t look…
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15 YEARS OF UNINTERRUPTED PARTNERSHIP WITH PEARSON
As 2021 draws to a close, we’re celebrating going into our 15th year of uninterrupted partnership with Pearson – our longest-standing client within our Flexible Support service offering. Pearson is ‘the world’s leading learning company’, and a name familiar to…
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ACORA EXPANDS WITH LATEST ACQUISITION
We are delighted to confirm our acquisition of M9 Limited – a thriving and forward-looking IT services provider with over 40 staff, and nearly 100 long-term contracted customers. Based in London, M9 also has an established offshore team in Kuala…
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Facebook Outage
As the old saying goes: the bigger they are, the harder they fall. By almost any metric, there are few things in the world today on the scale of Facebook. On 4th October 2021, we watched the drama unfold as…
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TAKING CENTRE STAGE
In today’s IT market, there is a very simple calculus: get big; get niche – or get out. At Acora, we have chosen the second option, focusing on clients either with a high enterprise value relative to their physical corporate…
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DEATH TO THE SLA (as the only measure of IT success)
Whatever our sector or profession, we all have (or should have) ways to gauge how well we’re meeting our customers’ and clients’ needs and expectations. We often gather this feedback by informal, ad hoc means, but many of us also…
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Protecting the Innocent
For us as IT professionals, the deceptively simple term ‘security’ encompasses a vast range of tasks and topics. And after spending all day dealing with firewalls, Web Application Gateways, anti-virus, anti-malware, proxy services, tenancy restrictions, just-in-time admin access, password vaults,…
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