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Issue
4: Sept. 2010 |
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Dear Reader
The summer holidays are over but we are determined to keep the sun
shining with a great competition. Enter and win a full 12 months free
network monitoring using System Patrol.
Next, learn how to speed up
your WAN so your emails really "fly" and find out the advantages of alternative sources of finance. Finally, we look
at how the latest gadget from
Apple, the IPAD, is delivering real business benefits to Watson Burton.
Thanks Marc
Event
Update:
Join us for a quick tour of our Workspace Recovery Centre on
Wed 22 Sept more details
Plus Learn how to comply with HMG’s Security Policy Framework – Free Workshop 6 Oct
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Competition
| WAN Optimisation | Financing
| The Watson Burton IPAD Case Study|
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| Win, Win, Win: Free
Monitoring |
| Monitor 2 servers and 10
PCs for 12 months free of charge |
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To win this prize, worth
over
£500, simply contact Marc Seery and you will be put in
the draw on 1 Oct 2010. The lucky winner will have 2 servers and up to
10 PCs covered by System Patrol for free for 12 months (normally this
would cost £15 set up fee and approximately £50 per month monitoring
charges per server).
What
you get: our monitoring service, System Patrol checks
your systems
every single morning before you start
work. Our system sends you a short note ready for when you arrive to
confirm the checks that have been done and their results. The one-page
summary
shows the state of your backup jobs, anti-virus, disk health, exchange
store size, disk volume growth rates, event logs and any hacker
attempts. On top of this there are weekly health reports and
comprehensive monthly client reports that show trends and highlights
any
major issues.
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| Wan
Optimisation |
| Delivering accelerated
email performance |
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Microsoft
Exchange is the standard for emails, calendaring and workforce
productivity so if it starts to slow the consequences are far
reaching. Staff get frustrated, customer service suffers
and productivity declines.
For
IT departments this
can be a major headache and the temptation is to simply add
additional servers, add more bandwith and move servers to branches.
However, through wan optimisation it is possible to address bandwidth
contraints and the combined effects of latency and protocol
conflicts.
This
is done by fine grain data reduction as well as
compression to perform data
streamlining reducing bandwidth utilization
by 60 to 97%. In addition, it addresses the
ineffiencies the MAPI protocol resulting in more than ten times faster
email transmission for sender and recipient in the same branch.
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Alternative Finance for IT Projects |
| Obtaining bank
credit can be difficult but there are other sources |
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In the current credit environment obtaining bank finance can be
difficult and this often impacts ICT budgets. The challenge then is to
look for alternative sources of finance so that the ever increasing
demands on IT can be met.
One area to consider for finance
is using the large providers of IT hardware. For example, IBM has its
own Global Finance Operation. The advantage of using suppliers like
this is they offer highly flexible packages with competitive rates—no
matter what size business or industry.
Importantly,
they also finance non-IBM components, as well as IBM equipment, and can
include any mix of software and services as well as hardware. Finally,
they are experts in technology and solutions finance and focus on this
area exclusively. To find out how easy it is to get competitively
priced finance call ITPS now. |
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For
a Quote tel. 0191 442 8300
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| Watson
Burton achieve IPAD First |
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the IPAD from must have gadget to business tool |
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A collaboration between Watson
Burton LLP and technology experts ITPS has seen the law firm achieve a
first in the northern region. The firm’s in-house IT team worked
alongside ITPS experts to configure Apple’s new lightweight iPad to
access Watson Burton’s servers, giving staff mobile access to emails,
client files, diaries and other back office data via the firm’s LawSoft
practice management system.
Doing so enables staff to work from anywhere with an internet
connection, without having to carry a laptop.
The firm’s mobile workers have previously used a laptop and a Citrix
web gateway to access company information on the move. By downloading
the Citrix receiver software from the app store and configuring an
iPad, the team say they have transformed a gadget that is essentially
aimed at the entertainment market into a technology tool with real
business advantages.
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several users around the business using the iPad ‘live’, and the
feedback so far has been excellent, with comments such as ‘Take away my
laptop, I’m using the iPad from now on."
Jonathan Smith -
Watson Burton’s IT Manager |
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"Because the
corporate network is based around a Citrix solution and all
the information is centrally stored, it is still fully secure, even if
an iPAD should be stolen or lost."
Kris
Curran - Consultant ITPS
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For further information
and any comments please contact Marc by clicking
here or call 0191 442 8300 |
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