With the proliferation of cloud based products available direct to SMEs across the UK, we are often asked what benefits there are to using a specialist IT company when the customer could go direct to the software supplier.

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Office 365 is one of the cloud based products offered by Microsoft and is one of their key offerings for business users, both for start-ups and those that are more established. We’ve outlined some of the key product features below:

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With the advance of both cloud computing and big data, they are often seen as a perfect match. Big data needs a flexible computer environment that can be scaled up quickly and automatically to support the large amounts of data. Cloud based infrastructure provides exactly that. But whenever cloud computing is being discussed and given the many recently publicised data breaches, the question is often asked:

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Many of our clients have long established onsite mailservers and one of their major concerns when considering an online hosted exchange server is the potential for data loss.

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For those of you who are unfamiliar with hosted desktops, here is an overview of how they work.

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The web currently uses IPv4 as its addressing system and this allows approximately 4.3 billion addresses. Currently almost all of these are used so BT and many others are looking to switch over to IPv6.

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One of our key activities is supporting software developers who need a reliable cloud platform to sell their service from. Here are a few tips on what you should be considering if you want to set up a SAAS model for your business.

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In case you haven’t heard and you are running Windows Server 2003, formal support will end this month, in 2 weeks time.

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