Connectivity, cyber security and IT Service provider IFB, has recently been awarded a 300k contract to deliver and support a full fibre network and high-capacity hardware to nearly 50 key Aberdeen City Council (ACC) education locations.

The agreement – in partnership with leading Cloud, IT, and network services provider EXPO.e – means ACC now have access to multi-gigabit speeds between key locations allowing them to future-proof the delivery of critical services across schools and educational resources across the city.

IFB, has made 4 new appointments as it continues to invest in customer-focused services and growth.

Derek Watson – takes on the role of Finance Manager, Kevin Reid joins as a Senior Network Engineer, Jessica Newton as Business Support Administrator and Kieran Jamieson as 1st Line Support Engineer.

Graeme Gordon, IFB CEO, commented: “I am delighted to welcome this new pool of talent onboard, they are joining our existing highly experienced team which means that we continue to be best placed to support businesses and organisations of any size.

Aberdeen-based business IT Services provider, IFB, is proud to announce its acceptance to the Trusted Partner scheme established by the Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland.

This recognition, also endorsed by Police Scotland, reinforces IFB's commitment to providing the highest standards of Cyber Security services which they deliver and support for businesses and organisations.

IFB’s CEO Graeme Gordon commented. “We work with organisations and businesses to deliver the benefits of improved security and where needed achieving certification, IFB believes that no organisation is too small to do this.

There is a lot of change in the comms market right now, with analogue line services being switched off in 2025 gathering a lot of attention – hence in part a lot of investment in Fullfibre services – IFB do these too...
 
However, there is a more pending and major change happening in the mobile market that you might not be aware of - and that’s the switch off of 3G networks starting in February 2023. The impact this is going to have when it comes to continuity of service, costs and security is massive for many companies who use these services.

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.