SERVICES ABOUT US INSIGHTS CONTACT US BY James Hannaford WED 22 SEPTEMBER 2021 Are you testing your Disaster Recovery plan? It is imperative that businesses have a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan in place to identify risks and to ensure systems and data are heavily protected. After all, this is the backbone of business continuity in the modern age. An effective DR plan will have these things in place: A comprehensive process which details procedure should... READ MORE TUE 9 MARCH 2021 Blue Chip & Service Express: Multi-vendor market leaders Bringing joy to the UK There have been two big announcements recently that have brought joy to many people in the UK. The first of these announcements being the Prime Minister’s plan to emerge out of lockdown, which I am sure many would say is the best thing to come out of 2021. The days... READ MORE MON 26 OCTOBER 2020 We know a thing or two about legacy systems Twilio – a cloud communications platform – conducted an online survey on how COVID-19 has accelerated businesses towards their digital transformation, and they came back with some interesting results from the UK respondents. 96% of UK decision makers said that the recent pandemic has sped up their company’s plans to digitally transform. As many businesses... READ MORE FRI 18 SEPTEMBER 2020 What makes us the UK’s leading IBM experts? We’ve handled IBM systems since 1987 You’re probably thinking ‘what gives Blue Chip the right to call themselves IBM experts?’ and so you should. Any business that describes themselves as experts should be able to prove how they acquired this title. IBM was founded in 1911, and through the last century, completely revolutionised computing. From... READ MORE THU 30 APRIL 2020 In complete control of our software-defined data centre Every aspect of our lives has been affected by conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are many key players in the business landscape, working hard to maintain essential services. Preserving critical supply chains has been a challenge for many Managed Service Providers (MSPs), yet for Blue Chip there’s no issue. We have a Software-Defined Data... READ MORE FRI 20 MARCH 2020 IBM’s biggest ever storage announcement and how it influences Blue Chip Credit: Bob Graczyk, IBM Spectrum Storage Social Media Advocate The most significant storage announcement in almost five years was made last month by IBM. They will be eliminating two of its primary non-mainframe IT storage lines – Storwize and FlashSystem A9000 – to be replaced with a unified IBM FlashSystem family. Many storage vendors use... READ MORE RECENT WORKS RECENT COMMENTS TAG CLOUD APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME BACKUP AND RECOVERY BLUE CHIP CLOUD CAREERS CERTIFICATIONS CONNECTIVITY CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS DATA CENTRE HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DATA CENTRE SERVICES EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FIVE REASONS TO CHOOSE BLUE CHIP HARDWARE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS CONSULTANCY IBM I SECURITY COMPLIANCE IBM POWER SOLUTIONS AND UPGRADES INSIGHTS INTEL X86 SOLUTIONS AND UPGRADES ITHEON IT MANAGED SERVICES IT RELOCATION SERVICES JOB VACANCIES LEGACY SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE MAINFRAME ZOS ZLINUX OPERATIONS NETWORK MAINTENANCE OS MANAGED SERVICES PARTNERS REFURBISHED IBM HARDWARE SECURITY SERVICES SERVER MAINTENANCE SOFTWARE AND SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE STORAGE STORAGE MAINTENANCE SUSTAINABILITY WHO WE ARE WORK FOR US Services IT Managed Services Hardware, Software Solutions & Consultancy Data Centre Hardware Maintenance Blue Chip Bribery Policy Certifications Cookies & Privacy Customer privacy notice Customer testimonials Blog and news Work for us Modern Slavery statement Privacy Policy Job applicant privacy notice Terms & Conditions Contact Tel: +44 (0)1234 224400 Fax: +44 (0)1234 831580 info_UK@serviceexpress.com Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd Franklin Court Priory Business Park Bedford MK44 3JZ © 2021 Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd, All rights reserved.