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How Chorley Council Strengthened Cyber Resilience and Recovery Confidence with HybrIT With more than 2,400* suspected data breaches reported across UK councils in a single year, local government organisations face mounting pressure to protect critical services, safeguard sensitive resident data and ensure they can recover quickly when disruption occurs. While cyber security remains a top priority, many councils now recognise that resilience is defined not only by preventing a

At HybrIT, we love welcoming customers, partners and visitors to The Park. Whether you're joining us for a meeting, attending an event, or simply dropping in for a coffee and a conversation, your visit can have a positive impact beyond the business agenda. View our visitor guide here. As part of our HybrIT Hope initiative, we're encouraging visitors to support two causes that are close to our hearts: the HybrIT Hope Toy Box and the HybrIT Hope Food Bank. Your Visit Can Change

Expectations for meeting room experiences have evolved. People now walk into a meeting room expecting it to just work, instantly, intuitively, and without friction. Whether they are in the room or joining remotely should no longer matter. Yet many organisations are still designing meeting rooms around devices and layouts, rather than the experience they want to create. That’s where Microsoft Teams Rooms steps in. It changes the focus from hardware to experience. With one touc

The way we work and use IT is always evolving. Hybrid models, distributed teams, and growing security demands mean organisations need more than traditional desktop environments to stay productive and competitive. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and more broadly Desktop as a Service, is no longer just an IT solution. It is becoming a key driver of how modern workplaces operate. Moving Beyond Physical Devices For years, IT strategies have focused on managing laptops, desk

Bringing Visibility, Control and Speed to Modern Cyber Security Cyber threats are no longer isolated events. Today’s attacks move laterally across identities, endpoints, email and cloud applications, often slipping through the gaps between disconnected security tools. For many organisations, the challenge is not a lack of security technology. It is a lack of visibility, coordination and speed. Microsoft Defender XDR has been designed to address exactly this. A New Approach to

Microsoft just made Entra-Only identities for Azure Files SMB generally available, removing a long-standing infrastructure dependency for Azure Virtual Desktop deployments. Azure Files now authenticates SMB clients directly using cloud-only Entra ID identities—no domain controllers, no sync jobs, no managed domains. For AVD environments, FSLogix profiles can now be stored on Azure Files and accessed using pure Entra identities with Entra-joined session hosts.

Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 are often discussed as if they’re interchangeable, but they solve very different problems. One is a highly flexible platform designed for scale and cost efficiency; the other is a managed Cloud PC service built for simplicity and predictable costs. Understanding where each fits and when to use both is key to getting virtual desktops right.

Microsoft has recently announced a notable reduction in pricing for its cloud desktop offering, signalling a continued push towards cloud first end user computing. These changes are already influencing how organisations think about desktop delivery, cost control and long term IT strategy.

Microsoft are rolling new capabilities into existing Microsoft 365 SKUs across the Business, Office 365, and Enterprise tiers, and adjusting commercial pricing to go along with them.

Co-managed IT allows organisations to keep their internal IT expertise while gaining additional capacity and specialist support from a managed service provider. This collaborative approach helps internal teams manage growing infrastructure demands, improve security, and focus on strategic initiatives without losing control of their technology environment.

Hybrid cloud has become the default model for most organisations because it balances innovation with control. This blog explores the pros and cons of public, private and hybrid cloud, the workloads each suits best, and the key considerations when choosing.