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Is Your School’s Data Truly Secure This Academic Year?

According to recent government data, 73% of UK secondary schools and 49% of primary schools reported experiencing a cyber security breach or attack in the past twelve months1. Educational institutions remain highly targeted, with phishing attempts involved in 89% of secondary school incidents.2 

With cloud services now central to how schools operate, protecting the data they contain has never been more important. Yet many schools remain exposed because key areas of backup and recovery sit outside the cloud provider’s responsibility. 

 

The Shared Responsibility Gap  

It is a common misconception that cloud platforms are inherently fully backed up and secure. In reality, cloud providers manage infrastructure uptime, but ultimate accountability remains with the school. Native environments do not fully protect configuration data, policies, or user assignments from accidental or malicious deletion.  

It’s a challenge we hear about regularly from school IT teams. If your team is balancing strict budget pressures and resource constraints, this shared responsibility gap creates a significant risk.  

 

What Happens When Risks Aren’t Addressed   

When security risks are not addressed, the impact is immediate and damaging to the learning environment: 

  • Teaching Disruption: A lost mailbox or deleted files can lead to missing curriculum resources and costly downtime.  
  • Data Exposure: Identity systems are prime targets for malicious actors. A compromised account can lead to unauthorised access to student information and financial records.  

 

Get Round-The-Clock Security with XMA and Barracuda 

XMA provides integrated email security and backup solutions tailored specifically for the education sector. Partnering with Barracuda, XMA delivers the end-to-end technical expertise required to support your deployment and manage your operational risk.  

Barracuda utilises cloud-native backup engines and AI-powered threat detection to block sophisticated attacks before they reach user inboxes, ensuring fast, reliable recovery if data is ever lost.  

To help your IT team build complete cyber resilience this term, download our brand-new guide that details Five Steps to Reducing Cloud Workspace Risk This Academic Year. 

 

If you’re ready to evaluate your current security posture, XMA and Barracuda are offering a free 14-day trial of our unified email and data protection solution. Book a meeting with our cyber security expert, Rhys Gansen-Jones, to find out more today.  

 

 

Footnotes:  

  1. Cyber security breaches survey 2025/2026: education institutions findings – GOV.UK
  2. Rising Cybersecurity Threat to Schools – Government Events

Cyber Essentials: The Basics Still Matter, Like They Do in Some of Our Favourite Movies

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Charlotte King

XMA Group’s Head of IT Security & Compliance

Most Hollywood movie plots only exist because someone neglected the basics. In Jurassic Park, a perimeter failure lets the raptors out (classic firewall breakdown!). In WarGames, a default password almost triggers World War III, an access control nightmare.  

In the real world, the threat dynamic is identical. While cyber-attacks often look complex, organisations are rarely compromised by sophisticated, nation-state threats. More often, it’s a failure of fundamental controls.  

Regulations like the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, alongside requirements across public sector procurement, UK GDPR, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS, all point to one objective: know your assets, secure your devices, control access, patch vulnerabilities, and protect your data.  

In short: execute the basics properly.  

That is what Cyber Essentials addresses. While it doesn’t cover backups, recovery testing, or incident response playbooks, it enforces five preventative controls required to operate a secure organisation (Highlighted by these box office hits!):  

  • Jurassic Park: Perimeter controls fail and containment drops. That’s a firewall problem.  
  • WarGames: Weak credentials and poor configuration nearly cause a global crisis. That’s access control gone wrong.  
  • Mission: Impossible: The never-ending franchise centres on controlling sensitive data access. That’s identity and access management, Tom Cruise style.  
  • The Matrix: Get’s a bit convoluted, but the plot features a focus on patching the program that is our reality. 
  • Independence Day (A guilty pleasure of mine): Humanity is saved by a computer virus. A bit unrealistic, but it highlights the importance of malware protection.  

Ignoring fundamental controls leads to predictable operational failures.  

At XMA, we recognise the value of Cyber Essentials across our organisation and supply chain. However, Cyber Essentials is not our security Endgame. (Yes, that was an Avengers reference.)  

We build layered security strategies and combine multiple platforms to identify, contain, and remove threats with deliberate redundancy. If one control misses a threat, another catches it.  

XMA also integrates AI into our security tooling and team workflows. AI speeds up threat detection, automates routine responses, and improves visibility across our infrastructure. Unlike many films, where AI tends to become self-aware and threaten humanity, we’re using it for rather less dramatic purposes. Although in terms of AI in movies, Ex Machina remains a personal favourite. 

Maintaining asset visibility, securing personal devices, deploying patches across diverse environments, and keeping up with evolving threat vectors are continuous challenges. Security isn’t a blockbuster movie premiere, it’s the behind-the-scenes work that keeps the doors locked and the dinosaurs inside the fence.  

Cyber Essentials compliance isn’t a once-a-year audit task. It requires continuous monitoring, automation, and governance. Organisations that run controls continuously find audits uneventful – because security is integrated into daily operations rather than treated as a last-minute scramble.  

 

A Cyber Essentials certificate isn’t proof of complete security. It is proof that you execute the baseline controls every organisation requires.  

Because whether in cybersecurity or the movies, most disasters start when somebody ignores the basics. And unlike Hollywood, you don’t always get a sequel when things go wrong.  

Ready to secure your baseline? 

Book a 1-to-1 consultation with an XMA cybersecurity specialist today

Unlocking True Choice: How to Rationalise Virtualisation Costs Without Risking Continuity

The virtualisation landscape has experienced a significant shift. Certain license changes have introduced substantial uncertainty, leaving enterprise platform teams to grapple with unpredictable licensing trajectories and vendor lock-in. A staggering 99% of surveyed IT leaders express concern over the impact of this acquisition1, and 32% are actively considering alternatives.2  

The core challenge isn’t merely about finding an alternative hypervisor, it is about preserving operational continuity while establishing control over infrastructure complexity and spiralling costs.  

 

The Cost of the Status Quo 

For years, certain vendors served as the default enterprise standard. However, shifting market dynamics have turned virtualisation into a disproportionate budget burden. Enterprise IT teams require a strategy that allows them to modernise their infrastructure at their own pace, rather than forced migration timelines dictated by a vendor.  

To break free from vendor lock-in, organisations need a unified approach that bridges existing environments with next-generation open infrastructure.  

 

Replatforming on Your Terms: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials 

XMA provides a clear path forward through HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software. Deployed on HPE ProLiant servers advanced by AMD EPYC™ processors, this unified platform enables organisations to manage existing deployments alongside a modern, embedded hypervisor, allowing you to replatform workloads at your own pace. This software introduces an enterprise-grade, KVM-based stack designed to deliver a cloud operating model directly to your private infrastructure.  

This architecture delivers a balanced transition path through specific core capabilities: 

  • Unified Management Ecosystem: Provision and manage both the embedded HPE Virtual Machine (HVM) hypervisor and existing platforms from a single interface.  
  • Enterprise-Grade Cluster Resilience: The KVM-based HVM hypervisor is hardened to include high availability, live migration, distributed workload placement, and native data protection.  
  • De-risked Migration Pathways: Built-in bulk migration features allow platform teams to systematically transition virtual machines from your existing environments to HVM clusters when ready.  
  • Extensive Partner Integration: The platform fits cleanly into existing environments, leveraging a pluggable abstraction framework to integrate with backup providers like Cohesity, Commvault, and Veeam.  
  • Advanced Networking Security: Integration with the HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 plugin provides hypervisor-agnostic microsegmentation and distributed firewall capabilities across ESXi and HVM environments.  

 

The Power of HPE and AMD EPYC™ Together: Driving Modern Workloads and AI

Software optimisation is only half of the equation. Modernising infrastructure requires co-designed, high-performance hardware underneath. By pairing HPE Morpheus VM Essentials with HPE ProLiant Servers advanced by AMD EPYC™ Server CPUs, XMA delivers an engine capable of handling high-density virtualisation and emerging agentic AI workflows simultaneously.

AMD EPYC™ processors serve as the orchestration foundation for complex data centres, delivering key performance advantages:

  • Unrivalled Core & Thread Density: Featuring up to 192 cores and 384 threads in 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors (and up to 256 cores/512 threads in upcoming 6th Gen architectures), AMD enables massive consolidation. With Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), a single server can seamlessly orchestrate thousands of concurrent virtual machine and AI agent threads.
  • High-Throughput Memory & Fast I/O: 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors feature 12 DDR5-6400 memory channels (up to 600 GB/s bandwidth) and 160 PCIe Gen 5 lanes, eliminating bottlenecks for data retrieval, vector databases, and real-time microservices.
  • Superior Power Efficiency (Performance-per-Watt): AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series processors deliver up to 2.26x higher performance-per-watt on SPECpower benchmarks compared to competing architectures. Dual-socket servers using AMD EPYC™ 9965 CPUs provide 1.6x more performance per system watt than Intel® Xeon® 6980P CPUs, directly reducing data centre footprint and energy overhead.

 

Quantifiable Efficiency Gains 

Transitioning to this agile infrastructure model yields measurable improvements across the enterprise: 

Metric 

Business Benefit 

Workload Cost Reduction 

Up to 90% savings for migrated workloads. 

Total Cost of Ownership 

Up to 48% lower TCO over 5 years compared to legacy software-based solutions.4  

Infrastructure Consolidation 

Achieve a 7:1 consolidation ratio, reducing annual power costs by up to 65%.5  

 

A Stable Foundation with Global Backing 

Migrating core enterprise workloads requires absolute confidence in the underlying technology. By combining the strategic synergy of HPE enterprise infrastructure with AMD EPYC™ processor performance, efficiency, and security features,, XMA delivers a future-ready foundation for enterprise IT. This solution combines the flexibility of an open architecture with secure hardware enclaves, predictive AI operations, and global support.  

Organisations no longer have to accept escalating virtualisation premiums. Partnering with XMA gives you the strategic expertise, HPE software tools, and AMD hardware innovation required to simplify your hybrid cloud modernisation, maximise your compute budget, and retain total operational control.

Contact your XMA Account Manager today or talk to us at enquiries@xma.co.uk to discuss your options with our experts 

 

  1. “High Levels of Customer Unease Around VMware-Broadcom Deal: 
    Report,” Redmond Channel Partner, June 2024. 
  2. “VMware Under Broadcom: Challenges, customer impacts and choices,” ITAA, June 2024. 
  3. Based on internal analysis of the cost of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials licensing versus available market data on cost of existing virtualization licensing (VMware vSphere® Foundation). Savings do not include discounts and subject to change without notice. 
  4. Based on internal analysis of the cost of a 10-rack configuration using HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 versus available market data on cost of existing software-based networking features (VMware NSX®) over a 5 year period; and scaling of HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 with ~800G Firewall compared to ~ 80G Firewall from a leading vendor. 
  5. SPEC and the names SPECrate are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results [SPECrate2017_int_base: #20893] are published as of 01-01-2025, see spec.org, and compared against a 48-core estimated Gen12 system. All rights reserved. 

How Ivy Learning Trust Built a Cloud-First Future

For nearly a decade, educational institutions have faced a balancing act: how to modernise classrooms while managing tightening budgets. Ivy Learning Trust decided to change the narrative across their 17 schools.

Long before remote and hybrid learning became an immediate necessity, the Trust worked with XMA to transition to a cloud-based infrastructure. By deploying Chromebooks powered by Google for Education, alongside cloud-first operating systems and modern collaboration tools, they established an agile environment that kept pupils learning and staff teaching while other institutions scrambled to adapt.

The most significant financial impact came from an innovative sustainability strategy. Instead of purchasing expensive new devices, XMA revitalised the Trust’s existing, ageing hardware using lightweight cloud operating software. This single initiative saved Ivy Learning Trust over £100,000, reducing electronic waste and maximising their return on investment.

Today, this infrastructure fully integrates advanced classroom management platforms, fundamentally changing how teachers deliver lessons and how students collaborate. And the deployment isn’t standing still. XMA is currently guiding the Trust into the next phase of educational technology, integrating advanced AI assistants to reduce administrative burdens on staff.

Watch the full video case study below to see how we delivered these outcomes.

Want to replicate these budget savings in your own institution?  Contact your XMA account manger today or talk to us at enquiries@xma.co.uk.

Why Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus Certifications are No Longer Optional for UK Organisations

In the current UK IT market, cybersecurity has transitioned from a technical checkbox to a board-level strategic priority. As digital transformation accelerates, the attack surface for every organisation expands, making robust security a non-discretionary requirement for business continuity.

The Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus scheme is the UK government-backed standard designed to protect your organisation against the most common and preventable cyber threats. However, simply “having” the certification is no longer enough; the standard is becoming more robust and is increasingly expected across all supply chains.

 

What’s Changing: Higher Standards, Strict Deadlines

Following the updates that took effect on 27 April 2026, the requirements for achieving and maintaining certification have become significantly more stringent. These changes focus on proactive risk mitigation rather than reactive fixes:

  • Vulnerability Management: Organisations must now resolve any high or critical vulnerabilities within 14 days of release to remain compliant.
  • Access Control: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and passwordless logins are now mandatory components of the assessment.
  • Auditor Scrutiny: For those pursuing Cyber Essentials Plus, auditors now select test devices with only three days’ notice, requiring your infrastructure to be audit-ready at all times.

 

The Risk of Non-Compliance

Falling short during an assessment leads to more than just administrative delays. For the Public Sector, where over £7 billion in IT contracts are awarded to providers annually, Cyber Essentials is often a mandatory requirement for framework eligibility. In the private sector, a failed audit can lead to a loss of client trust, potential contract terminations, and increased vulnerability to ransomware attacks that could sink your cash flow.

 

How XMA Secures Your Certification

XMA acts as your Strategic Technology Partner, moving beyond the transactional sale of security software to provide a framework for long-term resilience. Forget about treating this as a tick-box, we build a secure environment that supports your organisation’s strategic objectives.

Our approach focuses on:

  • Audit-Ready Infrastructure: We provide the managed IT services and security foundations (utilising technology from partners like Microsoft, HP, and Intel) to ensure your systems meet the 14-day remediation window.
  • Strategic Alignment: We help IT Directors demonstrate the ROI of security investments to the board, ensuring that compliance initiatives drive business value.
  • Predictable Reliability: For SMBs, we provide enterprise-grade security for a predictable cost, removing the “headache” of IT management so you can focus on growth.

Whether your Cyber Essentials Certification is up for renewal, or if you need the perfect place to get started, book a free consultation with me today:

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Rhys Gansen-Jones

Rhys is XMA's Cybersecurity Specialist. He specialises in bridging the gap between technology and business — aligning IT strategy with client needs and internal capabilities to drive measurable outcomes.

Beyond the Inbox: How We Resolved Internal Communication Bottlenecks Across Multiple Sites

Relying entirely on email and intranet updates to keep a distributed workforce aligned is a significant operational risk. Critical updates get buried, frontline teams miss time-sensitive corporate announcements, and deskside notifications frequently go unread.  

When your business expands across multiple regional hubs, how do you ensure that vital regulatory, sales, or operational updates reach the right people at the exact right moment?  

This was the exact challenge faced by our internal communications team at XMA. With three primary offices and dozens of distinct divisions spread across them, distributing targeted messaging manually was an inefficient, time-consuming process.  

To solve this, we deployed a centralised media distribution solution powered by Acer Chromeboxes running a cloud-managed operating system. By pairing these robust units with centralised management software, we completely overhauled our workplace signage network. 

For corporations, you can easily drill down into custom playlists for sales floors, receptions, and canteens. In the education space, you can tweak playlists for separate departments, staffrooms, and more!  

For both education and corporate, it can all be controlled from a single screen – no hassle, no fuss. 

Curious about how easily this media engine integrates into an existing corporate framework? Watch below to find out. 

Interested if how your company could use this technology? Contact your XMA account manager today, or talk to us at enquiries@xma.co.uk 

Migrating to Cloud MIS? Test Next-Gen Hardware with the Acer Chromebook Plus Evaluation Program

Schools, colleges, and universities across the UK are shifting away from traditional network infrastructure. As institutions migrate to cloud-based Management Information Systems (MIS) like Arbor, Bromcom, or Juniper, their hardware needs to keep pace. Relying on underpowered, older devices often leads to “tab-lag”, slowing down data entry and interrupting classroom learning.  

To help education leaders navigate this transition safely, XMA is offering a risk-free way to test modern hardware directly in your classrooms.  

 

What is Chromebook Plus? 

Chromebook Plus represents a significant step up from standard ChromeOS devices, delivering twice the speed, memory, and storage. Designed for modern cloud-first school environments, these machines meet strict hardware baselines to handle demanding workflows effortlessly:  

  • Standardised 8GB RAM: Eliminates lag when loading complex spreadsheets or switching between multiple browser tabs.  
  • Upgraded Processing Power: Fast Intel Core or AMD Ryzen processors process data entry with ease.  
  • Built-in AI Capabilities: Advanced processors open up structural teaching features, including automated noise cancellation for hybrid lessons and assistive writing tools.  

 

Introducing the Acer Chromebook Plus 14-Day Evaluation Program 

Delivering effective digital transformation requires careful budget management, meaning procurement teams cannot afford to buy unproven technology.  

Provided in partnership with Google for Education, the Acer Chromebook Plus Evaluation Program allows you to test devices in your actual school environment before committing to capital expenditure. This program is completely free, carries no obligation to buy, and provides devices that are fully managed via the Chrome Education Upgrade (CEU).  

 

Key Benefits of the Program 

  • Remove Procurement Risk: Testing hardware on-site removes the guesswork from public sector procurement. Your IT teams can evaluate the equipment against your specific network security and compliance requirements without spending a penny.  
  • Experience True Performance Gains: Don’t rely on specification sheets alone. Compare these devices directly against your existing fleet to witness how 8GB of standard memory improves daily tasks. 
  • Test Real Classroom Suitability: Evaluate how the hardware handles daily teaching and learning environments. You can place devices directly with teachers, administrators, or students to gather authentic usability feedback.  
  • Accelerate Digital Transformation: Upgrading hardware is a vital pillar of modernisation. This trial helps you establish a clear roadmap for replacing legacy systems with secure, cloud-first technology. 
  • Access Secure, Managed Hardware: See how simple centralised fleet management can be. The trial units allow your IT leads to test remote policy deployment, device lockdown, and student safety controls across your entire campus.  

 

Which Device Fits Your Institution? 

XMA offers specific trial configurations tailored to different roles within your institution:  

Device Model 

Ideal For 

Key Features 

Chromebook Plus 515  

Static Teaching & Administration  

Large 15.6″ Full HD Display, Intel Core i5, Full Numeric Keypad for data entry.  

Chromebook Plus 514  

Mobile Educators  

14″ WUXGA Display, AMD Ryzen Processor, Compact & Lightweight design.  

Spin 514 (2-in-1)  

Interactive Lessons  

14″ Touchscreen, 360° Convertible Hinge, Intel Core i5.  

CBE794-1T  

Senior Leadership & IT Leads  

Premium 14″ Touch Display, Wi-Fi 7 Ready, Military-Grade Durability, QHD 1080p Webcam.  

 

Why Choose an XMA Solution with Acer and Google? 

XMA combines reliable hardware from Acer with the secure platform of Google for Education. Our long-term success in the education sector ensures that your trial is backed by deployment experts who understand public framework compliance and school budget limits.  

Through this program, we combine physical durability with centralised cloud management, giving your school a highly scalable path to a stable digital ecosystem.  

 

Request Your Free Evaluation Unit 

Ready to see how next-generation ChromeOS devices perform in your classrooms? Fill out our quick registration form, and an XMA education specialist will contact you to arrange your 14-day trial.  

A New Supply Chain Shortage Is Here, Let’s Talk About Helium

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Andrew Downes

With broad expertise of both Corporate and Public Sector challenges, Andrew specialises in translating complex technology concepts—from Datacentre and Cloud to Cyber Security and AI—into clear, services-led solutions that differentiate the business and deliver genuine value to the customer.

The global IT channel is facing a new supply chain bottleneck, and it might be from an unexpected place. We’re talking about a shortage of helium.  

Recent geopolitical events in the Middle East have severely disrupted operations at Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, a facility responsible for roughly one-third of the global helium supply. Compounding this, the closure of commercial shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz has forced specialised cryogenic transport ships to take much longer routes, causing liquid helium to boil off and degrade during transit.  

While helium is known to most as a lighter-than-air gas, it is critical to the IT channel and global technology infrastructure. Here is why this shortage matters to public and private sector organisations.  

 

The Role of Helium in IT Hardware 

Helium has properties that make it irreplaceable in two key areas of technology manufacturing:  

  1. Semiconductor Fabrication: The production of advanced processors—particularly the high-performance components required for intensive workloads—relies heavily on helium for wafer cooling and photolithography. Without an adequate supply, fabrication plants must ration their use, leading to an immediate slowdown in output.  
  1. High-Capacity Storage: Enterprise-grade hard disk drives (HDDs) of 10TB and above are hermetically sealed with helium. Because helium is significantly less dense than air, it reduces internal turbulence, allowing manufacturers to fit more platters into a single drive. This lowers power consumption and operating temperatures in data centres.  

 

Impact on the Channel and Customers 

With major manufacturing hubs drawing down their reserves, the IT channel is preparing for extended lead times. As production slows, the market is expecting pricing volatility and constrained availability for high-capacity storage drives and advanced computing components. For organisations planning data centre expansions or large-scale device deployments, these upstream constraints will translate into longer project timelines.  

 

How XMA is Responding 

At XMA, we are actively monitoring the situation to protect our customers’ project delivery schedules. Our managed IT services and infrastructure solutions use hardware from our global technology partners, and our supply chain teams are working daily with these vendors to secure allocations. 

Instead of leaving our public and private sector customers exposed to unpredictable market shifts, we are adapting our procurement strategies. If you have significant hardware refreshes or data centre updates planned for 2026, we advise engaging with your XMA account manager early to forecast your requirements and secure the necessary inventory. 

Smarter Lifecycle Thinking: How Education IT Can Identify Hidden Budget

Educational institutions are currently caught between shrinking IT budgets and rising hardware costs. Traditionally, this leads to delayed investments, leaving staff and students with aging, unreliable technology. At XMA, we believe that education organisations do not need to wait for a budget increase to modernise. Instead, you need a connected approach to funding and lifecycle management.  

 

Turn Old Tech into New Budget 

Lenovo ConnectEd offers a smarter way to refresh your classroom technology by turning your old equipment into a financial asset. 

How it works: 

  • Trade in any brand: You don’t need to be trading in old Lenovo kit. We accept qualifying devices from any manufacturer. 
  • Get up to £150 back: For every qualifying new Lenovo device you purchase, you can receive up to £150 from your old trade-ins. 
  • Move to Lenovo: Use the value you’ve recovered to upgrade to Lenovo hardware – the brand favoured by educators for its durability and classroom performance. 
  • Flexible payments: Use Lenovo Financial Services to spread the remaining cost, making your budget work harder and go further. 

And we’re making it even more rewarding to upgrade your institution’s IT infrastructure. For a limited time, enjoy a bonus 10% Cashback when you choose AMD accelerated devices bundled with Microsoft Shape the Future discounted Windows 11 licenses. Lenovo’s Display Boost adds to the savings, with £10 – £25 cashback when purchased with a qualifying product. The same goes for accessories, and save up to a massive £500 when you purchase qualifying servers.

 

Security and Sustainability, Simplified

Managing the end of a device’s life can be a headache, but we’ve made it simple. It delivers peace of mind as well as value for money:

  • Certified Data Security: Ensure your legacy technology is completely wiped. We employ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) fully accredited Blancco secure data erasure to meet your strict data protection compliance requirements.
  • Responsible Sustainability: XMA and Lenovo handle the complete Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) hardware collection and recycling process. We repurpose or recycle your old kit responsibly, resulting in millions of kilograms of CO2e saved and 0% waste sent to landfill. This helps your school hit environmental targets without additional administrative work
  • Predictable Cycles: By recovering the value of your assets now, you can plan your next refresh with confidence rather than waiting for a budget windfall.

 

Ready to see how much your legacy estate is worth? Explore the full terms at https://lenovoconnected.com/ or contact your XMA account manager to discuss a joined-up strategy for your school. You can also contact us at enquiries@xma.co.uk

Growing Our Impact: XMA and the National Forest

We understand that the business of creating, providing and maintaining technology all has a footprint. At XMA, we are committed to making that footprint a positive one. That’s why we’re taking our sustainability efforts back to the roots – literally!  

 

A New Grove for the Future 

We are proud to announce our partnership with the National Forest to plant a dedicated grove of trees. This initiative is a core part of our goal to support the environment while we provide the IT infrastructure that keeps the UK running. 

 

Spin to Plant: Interactive Sustainability 

You won’t just hear about our trees – you’ll help us plant them! Throughout the year, we’ll be taking this initiative on the road to various events. If you visit an XMA stand, you’ll find our Sustainability Wheel.  

Here’s how it works: 

  • Spin the Wheel: Give it a whirl to determine exactly how many trees XMA will plant on your behalf.  
  • Choose Your Tree: You’ll receive tokens to vote for the species you’d like to see in our grove.  
  • The Options: Pick between a variety of tress including Oak, Silver Birch, or Hazel.  

 

Why We’re Doing This 

Our aim for the year is simple: to plant as many trees as possible. By integrating this into our events, we turn sustainability into a shared goal with our customers and partners. We provide the solutions that keep your organisation resilient, and together, we help make the UK a little bit greener.  

Come find us at our next event and take a spin! 

If you’re interested in XMA’s ESG goals and how we can help you achieve yours, visit our ESG page

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