When AWS and Azure Go Down: How Your Business Can Stay Online with Alternate Strategies
Another month, another major outage at a major technology company affecting the day-to-day operations of businesses worldwide. When we started writing this blog in the middle of November 2025, the big news regarding cloud resilience and business continuity was focused on the major (and separate) outages suffered in October by AWS and Azure, two of […]
Avoiding Single-Provider Cloud Risks: A Guide to Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Solutions
The dust has largely settled on the major October 2025 outages at two of the world’s three big cloud providers. Those outages showed it’s a case of when another outage will occur rather than if it will occur. Given the spiderweb-like nature of cloud provider influences on business operations, attention is now firmly on resilience. […]
Accessplc: The “Ray Donovan” of Software Development
To kick this blog off, we’re going to do something we’ve never done before and that most other technology companies probably haven’t done either – we’re going to quote from the film and television review-aggregation website, Rotten Tomatoes. Specifically, the opening description of the television series, Ray Donovan. “Ray Donovan is a ‘fixer’ for Hollywood’s […]
Breaking Free from Cloud Provider Lock-In: How to Build Resilient Infrastructure Beyond AWS & Azure
October 2025 saw two of the world’s biggest cloud service providers suffer major outages – Azure from Microsoft and Amazon’s AWS. Given the extensive footprint of these two behemoths of the cloud computing world, the impact was widespread and significant. The outages also brought into even sharper focus an issue that has been creeping up […]
Case Study: Large Enterprise Migrates 80k Users to Windows 11 in 60 Days
Introduction Large-scale migration projects are large in scale for a number of reasons. They typically involve tens of thousands of users and devices, and the impact on those users and devices can be significant. The potential benefits are also large in scale, but so are the risks. Those risks include: This case study demonstrates how […]
The Recruitment & Retention Benefits of a Scalable Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Strategy
Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is becoming more and more of a focus in large enterprise organisations. There are various reasons for this growing emphasis on DEX, including the fact that technology is essential for productivity, competitiveness, and profitability. Companies also have an increasing number of employees who are digital natives, i.e., employees who have lived […]
How Self-Healing Endpoints Enable Better Utilisation of Your Technical Resources
IT ticketing is essential for productivity in your organisation, but it doesn’t add any value and delivers minimal improvements. It also takes up the time, focus, and energies of the skilled technical resources that you have invested so much in recruiting and retaining. You may even have a contract with a third-party company to help […]
Supporting an Accessplc Client’s Efforts to Reduce IT Helpdesk Tickets
The reaction of regular recruitment consultants to a client struggling to cope with the level of support tickets being submitted would be something along the lines of: “Hey, we’ll help you recruit more IT helpdesk staff”. But Accessplc is not a regular recruitment consultant. We are technology recruitment specialists, but we are also IT consultancy […]
How Social Media Has Affected the Jobs Market
Social media has impacted just about every aspect of life, from the way politics is conducted to news dissemination and consumption to the everyday business tasks of finding and engaging with potential new customers. The jobs market is not immune to the impact of social media. Social media has affected the jobs market in a […]
The Importance of Personalised and Bespoke Services
Accessplc is a technology company as well as a specialist technology-focused recruitment consultancy. As a result, the use of advanced technologies (e.g., chatbots, automation, AI, etc.) is in our DNA. Heck, we even offer automation products and solutions, including through our sister company, Access IT Automation. In this blog, however, we are going to make […]
