We’re holding a seminar at The Gherkin about Cloud Technology. We’ll be covering the following; What is it? What are the Pitfalls and Benefits? Will it be right for you? Where 154 – F160 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2DQ When Tuesday 7th February 2012 Time 9.00 am Registration & Breakfast (continental style) 9.30 – 10.30 [...]

Businesses that are serious about finding the right mix of public and private cloud services need to first get to grips with their IT spending, argues silicon.com’s Nick Heath. In the past the CIO was the gatekeeper of all things tech – the master of of the IT universe. Today much has changed: public cloud [...]

The CIO of Jardine Loyd Thompson, Ian choen was interviewed for Silicon.com he says if you are looking to the cloud to save you money – forget it! That has been our experience, flexibility – yes, scaleability -yes, cost savings day one? – no. Good to hear a respected industry professional shares our views. This [...]

The most Backed up man in the world I came across this in one of the industry forums our business particpates in. I thought it was a superb fun video but with a serious message. In recent weeks we have seen serious system failures within the Blackberry network, HSBC cash point failures and today Barclay’s [...]

Was the Blackberry outage last week a wake up call for non IT Executives that have become used to systems that appear to be totally on and feel like a utility? The truth is that the past three years have seen increasing pressure on IT budgets and increasingly internal teams and MSP’s like Twin Systems [...]

Tension between end users and the IT department is not a new phenomenon and, thanks to growing consumerisation of technology coupled with increased pressure for IT staff to do more with less, it’s not one that shows signs of lessening any time soon. CIOs should avoid pushing technology on end users or they may well [...]

HP waited until the markets had closed last night to announce their offer for Autonomy. The bid amounted to £7 billion and is a good indicator of where HP sees the technology world going. Autonomy specialises in software than can search unstructured email and instant messaging and produce results very similiar to the results you [...]

Our managed services platform is a mixture of processes and technology but as far as I am aware it doesn’t have an NI number yet…….Why is this important? Well to a large extent it explains one of the core philosophies of the structure of our contracts, and one of the main tenets of our service [...]

Twin Systems Plc provides a fully managed service to the Harrow Green Group, the leading commercial relocation and business change organisation in the UK. Operating from a number of centres in the UK and and delivering services on a global basis. Twin Systems commenced service in February 2010 and began a swift and effective transition [...]

Matthew Young pictured here on the left of the picture was thrilled to meet Boris Johnson the Mayor of London at City Hall. Matthew is completing a Microsoft apprenticeship with Twin Systems and has already been working on a number of client’s sites under supervision. Q&A Training organised the trip for a group of the [...]