Zones

31/12/2025

Happy new year!

Thank you to everyone who worked with us throughout 2025. Your support, partnership, and shared ambition made this a standout year.

We’re excited for the opportunities ahead and look forward to helping you achieve even more with your IT and digital transformation goals in 2026.

Here’s to a healthy, successful, and inspiring year ahead.

30/12/2025

According to Gartner, the top technology trends for 2026 reflect a world that is hyperconnected, AI-native, and security-first:

- AI Supercomputing Platforms — combining CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, and other architectures to handle massively complex workloads.
- Confidential Computing — protecting sensitive data even while it’s in use, using hardware-enforced secure environments.
- Physical AI — embedding AI intelligence in robots, smart machines, and devices that sense and act in the real world.
- Preemptive Cybersecurity — proactive threat detection powered by AI to stop attacks before they happen.
- Digital Provenance — ensuring the origin, integrity, and trustworthiness of data, software, and AI-generated content.

Read our blog to find out more about tech trends in 2026: https://uk.zones.com/tech-trends-to-watch-in-2026/

25/12/2025

As we conclude another busy year, we would like to express our gratitude to our customers, partners, and colleagues for their continued trust and collaboration.

We hope everyone enjoys a well-deserved break. Wishing you a wonderful festive season from all of the team at Zones

23/12/2025

Retailers handle high volumes of sensitive customer, payment, and inventory data every day, all of which must be kept secure and accessible.

Robust data protection, cloud backup, and disaster recovery solutions are essential to maintain customer trust, protect revenue streams, and keep operations running smoothly in the face of cyber threats, system outages, or unexpected disruption.

Zones is a trusted partner to retail organisations, delivering secure cloud backup, strong disaster recovery, and seamless business continuity solutions. Our goal is to keep your business resilient through every peak, trend, and market shift.

Find out more at https://uk.zones.com/abm-retail-data-protection/

18/12/2025

Zones Christmas Opening Hours

We’re here to support you throughout the festive season, and will be open all days except those listed below:

Christmas Day – 25 December
Boxing Day – 26 December
New Year’s Day – 1 January

Wishing you a safe and happy festive season!

16/12/2025

Explore Surface Laptop for Business with Zones.

This portable, touchscreen laptop, powered by the Snapdragon® X Plus processor, delivers performance, all-day battery life, and chip-to-cloud security for productivity anywhere.

Whether you're in the office or on the road, Surface Laptop with AI-powered features unlocks more experiences to deliver greater productivity and creativity, supported with industry-leading security.

11/12/2025

When your financial institution expands, relocates or refreshes technology infrastructure, robust and secure deployment is essential.

At Zones, we deliver comprehensive IT roll-out services designed to meet the exacting standards of banks, insurers, asset-managers and other regulated financial organisations.

Our team supports technology refresh programmes, replacing legacy systems across offices and trading floors while keeping disruption to an absolute minimum. Every rollout is planned around operational demands to ensure business continuity and user readiness.

See how we've helped our customers in the finance industry: https://uk.zones.com/abm-finance-it-rollout/

09/12/2025

With millions of new devices coming online each year, identity is now the foundation of trust. As connections rise, so do identity-based threats, meaning success depends on governing every identity: human, device, workload, and API.

A unified, zero-trust, policy-driven approach is no longer optional. It’s essential.

By securing every identity and automating trust at scale, Zones empowers organisations to build resilient, compliant, and future-ready IoT environments. Read our blog to find out more: https://uk.zones.com/managing-identity-and-access-across-an-iot-driven-world/

04/12/2025

Race toward AI leadership with Surface Copilot+ PCs.

44% of business leaders say their employees lack the expertise to act on their AI goals. See how the AI features of Surface Copilot+ PCs are designed to amplify your top performers’ agility, creativity, and productivity.

Download Microsoft's Building a Foundation for AI Success: A Leader’s Guide, at: https://uk.zones.com/microsoft/ai-era

02/12/2025

Gartner says the age of GenAI is shifting cybersecurity from reactive defence to preemptive protection.

- By 2030, preemptive security will represent 50%+ of all IT security spend.
-Traditional “detect and respond” can’t keep pace with AI-powered threats.
-New capabilities, such as predictive intelligence, automated deception, and self-healing systems will define modern defence.
-Gartner highlights the rise of the Autonomous Cyber Immune System, designed to neutralise attacks before they happen.
-As vulnerabilities surge and attack surfaces expand, organisations need to move from reacting to preventing.

Looking to strengthen cyber resilience and adopt AI-driven, proactive protection for your organisation? Speak to Zones.

27/11/2025

We’re proud to partner with Druva, the cloud-native data protection platform helping organisations safeguard business-critical information across SaaS, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Watch the short video to see how Druva simplifies backup, recovery, and compliance for modern businesses, with no hardware, no maintenance, and no compromise on security.

From ransomware protection to unified visibility across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and more, Druva delivers resilience that’s ready for anything.

Discover how Zones and Druva can strengthen your data strategy: https://youtu.be/V1RY5PHiqek

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25/11/2025

When it comes to retiring IT assets, don’t leave it to chance. Certified IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) ensures your data is securely erased, hardware is responsibly recycled, and your compliance is bulletproof.

Why it matters:

✅ NAID AAA: Tamper-evident destruction and audit-ready processes
✅ R2/e-Stewards: Ethical recycling and responsible remarketing
✅ ISO 27001 & SOC 2: Robust data security and operational controls
✅ ISO 14001 & 9001: Environmental and quality management excellence

Integrating certified ITAD into your IT Asset Management (ITAM) workflow transforms policy into practice, streamlining audits and reducing procurement risk. Find out more in our latest Zones Blog: https://uk.zones.com/itad-certification-standards-and-benefits/