At IFB we understand that as a business or organisation having reliable, flexible and affordable data connectivity is an operational basic. 

When it comes to connectivity, IFB have been at the forefront of delivering on our customer needs for more than 27 years. We do this by listening to our customers so we can understand their pains and problems and working together to solve them. Better, more affordable Gigabit broadband connectivity is on many businesses' agendas right now and IFB is meeting that challenge.

Flexible and hybrid working models brought plenty of advantages for organisations of all sizes and their employees. However, at the same time, working from anywhere and anytime has led to a set of IT problems that would have normally been managed from office locations. As a leading Managed IT Service provider, HQ’d in Aberdeen, IFB have been solving these and other digital workplace problems for over 27 years.

Backing up your business data is one of those critical tasks that has always been hidden away, taken for granted and a lot of the time, well … seen as boring. We all know it needs done and we all assume it works but what if that critical information hasn’t backed up correctly or has suffered data corruption! Or what if that data isn’t backed up in the way you think it is, many users assume that all Office 365 data will be backed up by Microsoft but that really isn’t the case.

 In our strive for a greener world, which needs to, and will, mean an energy transition from consumption of energy and producs from hydrocarbons to a less polluting form that allows us to keep doing what we need to do – you might think using a data centre as part of your business operations is not very – well … green.    

Our data centres, and our partners’ data centres, certainly use a lot of power – Megawatts of the stuff, and as an individual business, you need to have a huge IT demand and compelling business reasons to own and operate your own data centre.   

You might have read and heard about the terrible cyber-attacks that have happened to many organisations and businesses in Scotland over the last very few years – Maersk Group, SEPA, SAMH – have all suffered devastating attacks against them.

There are and will be many more – sadly when it comes to cyber security we are up against a crime based industry worth $1.3Tr and climbing.

At IFB we have been building in security from the start in everything we do. This does not mean we are 100% secure – no one is – but it does mean as a business we approach, manage and de-risk cyber threats in the same way as we do health and safety issues or any other risk to the business.

With businesses redefining the future of work and continuing to use home working and hybrid working models, the discussion about cyber security is more relevant than ever as businesses look to ensure they are protected as best they can be with a more disperse workforce.

Connectivity, cyber security and data hosting and management specialist IFB, has invested £500,000 to accelerate its expansion plans which includes a new partnership with Scotland’s leading hybrid cloud managed service provider, Brightsolid.