Brilliant technology, backed by trusted managed services, designed to help your organisation thrive. That’s why with Roc, your digital future is secure.
In a landscape shaped by rising demand, shrinking budgets and intensified scrutiny, Roc brings together new thinking, bold perspectives and practical insights to help CIOs find the opportunity in uncertainty.
Discover what’s possible for your university and experience how technology can reshape living and learning
AI has become the defining force in cybersecurity, not because it’s new, but because it’s everywhere. It’s now threaded through every layer of the threat landscape: attackers use it to accelerate their operations, while defenders rely on it to hold the line.
Technology promises transformation. The reality is far more complicated.
Hosted by Chelsea Chamberlin, Shining Lights is a podcast about the real decisions behind modern technology – where innovation meets budgets, strategy meets delivery, and bold ideas collide with operational reality.
National Highways is responsible for managing England’s motorways and major A roads – the backbone of the nation’s transport network. It keeps vital routes moving for millions of drivers every day, with safety as its top priority.
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Learn how Roc Technologies helped the University of Reading elevate the student experience by delivering seamless connectivity and smarter campus operations as part of their recent digital transformation using Juniper Mist with Marvis – a scalable, Wi-Fi first solution.
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As part of their ‘Smart City Strategy’ Aberdeen City Council has committed to transforming the experiences of 34,000 students and associated staff as they work and learn across 167 sites within the region.
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The City of London is undertaking one of the most ambitious digital transformations in the UK public sector, creating a secure, high-performance foundation that will reshape digital experience.
This Leading London podcast brings together leaders from City of London Corporation, Roc Technologies, HPE Networking, Palo Alto Networks and Vorboss to discuss the strategy behind the programme and the impact it will have for the people who depend on it.
We’re passionate about the security services we provide to our customers. Get an insider’s view of our Managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) and discover how we deliver 24/7/365 threat monitoring, detection and response. Staffed by SC and DV cleared analysts, our SOC combines advanced technology with expert insight to protect critical infrastructure, data and operations—keeping your organisation secure, always.
Connectivity underpins every aspect of business operations. That’s why having a secure, high-performance network is essential. From the physical cabling infrastructure to AI-powered optimisation, Roc ensures your network works harder, smarter and safer.
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Roc brings clarity to cloud modernisation. We help you make sense of your estate, uncover opportunities to simplify, secure and streamline your existing infrastructure, and deliver a roadmap that aligns technology with tangible business outcomes.
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Organisations are often held back by legacy, manual processes and data that is fragmented across multiple systems.
Find out how Roc’s Hyperautomation services can help organisations access the insight they need to make informed decisions.
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Cyber threats are not just relentless, they are continually evolving, exploiting new and unconsidered vulnerabilities.
At Roc, we work in partnership with you, to create strategic solutions which offers your business support and protection where it matters most.
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Benefit from always-on support and rapid response.
From responsive first-line service desk support to expert third and fourth-line engineering and onsite teams, Roc delivers a complete support service.
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Specialist, flexible resourcing options to support your business deployed where and when you need them.
Roc’s Resourcing service provides highly trained, accredited experts across a range of disciplines, from project management to engineering and high-level IT roles.
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In the context of limited investment, socio-economic disruption, and accelerated demands, the CIO mandate it clear: do more, deliver faster, spend less.
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There’s a moment every organisation faces when it has to stop pretending the cracks aren’t there. The systems that don’t quite talk to each other. The processes everyone works around. The decisions that were right once – but no longer are.
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There’s no escaping the squeeze. Demand is rising, budgets are flat, and no one’s in the mood for another “game-changing” announcement. People have heard so many promises of ‘once in a generation’ transformation that hype doesn’t hold much weight anymore.
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We’re always looking for passionate, innovative people to join our team.
At Roc, you’ll work on exciting projects that make a real difference, with the opportunity to grow, learn, and thrive.
Ready to build a smarter, more connected world with us? Explore our careers and apply today.
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Universities are fiercely, proudly distinctive. Their academic character, research strengths, student culture and civic relationships are not peripheral to what they do; they are central to the value they create. That distinctiveness has real weight: for students choosing where to study, for researchers deciding where to work, for employers seeking partners, and for the communities universities serve. In a sector where institutions are increasingly required to compete for students, funding, talent and reputation, protecting their differentiation is a strategic necessity.
The advent of AI has changed everything. AI does not enter a blank organisational canvas; it enters existing workflows, draws on existing data, affects existing decisions and depends on (or bypasses) existing controls. If those foundations are unclear, outdated or plain wrong, AI won’t make them better. It will simply deliver bad outcomes more quickly.
Across every sector, CIOs are being asked to deliver transformation everywhere, all at once. Modernise platforms. Introduce AI. Integrate systems. Reduce costs. Improve experience. Strengthen security.
It’s a long list, and those who try, rarely succeed.
We talk a lot about collaboration, but much of what passes for teamwork today is really noise. Endless threads, half-attended meetings, and long days spent replying digitally instead of deciding. Call me a rebel but perhaps it’s time to regain some space to think, to act, and to work together with intent.
Over the past decade, the role of the university CIO has steadily evolved from infrastructure leader to strategic partner. But as collaboration across the sector becomes more structured and strategically important, that role is expanding again.
Collaboration has long been part of Higher Education’s institutional DNA. Universities share research infrastructure, co-author papers across continents and form networks of expertise that transcend borders. Knowledge has rarely been confined to a single institution.