Case Study Derry City and Strabane District Council provides essential public services for around 150,000 people and more than 5,000 businesses across the Derry City and the Strabane District area of Northern Ireland. Many of those services rely on the council’s technology infrastructure in one way or another so keeping the council’s network up and running is a vital task, explained Paul Jackson, Digital Services Manager. “Our network is really important,” he explained. “It needs to be up 24/7. If it’s not, then people can’t work and services suffer, which is bad for the community and bad for the council’s reputation. In addition to this we do our own payroll, so if the network is down, we can’t pay people or our suppliers.” How Derry and Strabane District Council secured

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