The summer holidays might be edging closer, but for anyone responsible for a school's IT infrastructure, September has a habit of arriving even quicker.

New students, new staff, updated systems and a fresh wave of devices all landing at once can be a lot to manage. And with cyber threats against the education sector on the rise, getting your technology in order before the new academic year begins is no longer something you can leave until the last minute.

At OX IT Solutions, we appreciate this is a busy time of year for school ICT and network teams. We work with organisations across the UK to make sure their IT is secure, well-managed and ready to perform when it matters. Here is what every school should be thinking about before the start of term.

A server goes offline. Within minutes, staff can’t get to their files, orders stop moving and the phone starts ringing with questions nobody can answer. What looks like an IT problem becomes everybody’s problem, fast.

Most businesses think about downtime in hours. What they don’t account for is everything underneath — the lost revenue, the compliance headaches, the customer who quietly goes elsewhere and never says why.

Data Protection and Backup: Getting the Basics Right…

Data sits at the heart of every organisation. Customer records, financial information, internal communications, intellectual property. Lose any of it and you feel it immediately. And yet, most businesses don’t think seriously about protecting their data until something goes wrong.