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ThinkGrid a leading player in the Cloud Computing industry have been established since 2008 and have a comprehensive portfolio of Cloud Services that they currently deliver to over 10,000 users on a daily basis.

ThinkGrid’s Cloud platform includes services such as Hosted Virtual Desktop, Exchange and Communications, VoIP, Software-as-a-Service, Virtual Server Infrastructure and Cloud Storage.

While the IT industry and landscape is constantly changing it’s imperative that we grow with it and offer our clients these types of services that offer scalability on demand, anywhere access, quick & Easy implementation and disaster recovery.

Our partnership with ThinkGrid will  enable us to deliver these highly available IT Services via the Cloud platform. We believe that Cloud Services can offer real world business advantages to clients as an alternative to traditional infrastructure.

Ben Russell – Director

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Businesses can now dramatically cut costs by embracing virtualization technologies without affecting business output or future growth.

Virtualization dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your business. Typically resources are underutilised in the “one server, one application” model and IT staff spend excessive time managing and configuring servers and resources rather than innovating.

Why Virtualize?

Reduce Infrastructure Costs

Consolidating your servers and related IT hardware means reduced power and cooling requirements and can cut your datacentre costs by as much as 50%.

Business Continuity

Previously, having backup servers was a very expensive but necessary solution. With virtualization, your server can be backup up and functional in the amount of time that it takes to do a file copy.

Increased Hardware Utilization

By decreasing your server hardware and pooling common infrastructure resources utilization can increase by 50-70%.

Reduced Deployment Time

With virtual infrastructure the time taken to deploy new servers and desktops is reduced from days to minutes.

Improve Manageability

Manage, monitor and assign resources to virtual machines with just a few clicks using advanced management tools.

Reduce Capital Costs

By reducing hardware requirements and consolidating your servers you can reduce hardware and software capital costs by 40%.

Could your business benefit from access to information from any location or device?

We can help to enable your company with remote working practices, with little investment in IT and offering tangible, immediate benefits.

We can supply, support and manage all the technologies allowing staff to work effectively and remotely, whether it’s email, telephony or remote applications we can help you embrace the benefits offered by remote working.

At IIT we offer a wide variety of solutions to enable your staff to work and securely in a remote environment.

• Mobile Email. Allows your staff to access their inbox and calendar while on the move, making it easy to communicate, collaborate, and stay connected.
• VPN. Provide your staff with secure access to your office or selected applications using encrypted connections.
• Remote Control. Using remote control software your staff can access their office PC’s while at remote locations giving them the ability to work seamlessly as if they were at their desk.
• Increase productivity
• Reduced overheads & operational costs
• Improve security
• Extend your business locations

Our engineers are qualified in numerous manufacturers product sets and are able to provide comprehensive high quality IT skills to ensure that your business needs are met.

Whether it is network design or office relocation we are able to provide a wealth of expertise in a number of areas to ensure the smooth running of your IT systems.

Service Features

• Network design
• Wireless Networking
• Rollouts & relocation
• Data cabling & telecommunications
• Remote working

Service Benefits

• Maximised return on IT investment
• Increased productivity
• Achieving business goals
• Access to a highly skilled team
• Improving availability of IT services

In the UK 45% of Small Businesses suffered at least one security incident during the last year with the average cost of the worst incident ranging between £10k to £20k.*

The impact of a security breach may be far greater than you would expect. Not only will the loss of sensitive or critical information directly affect your competitiveness and cash flow, it could also damage your reputation. It might take business years to establish its good reputation and image, but a security breach could destroy this in a matter of hours.

We provide a comprehensive range of IT security solutions covering IT Security Audits, Vulnerability & Penetration Testing, Web Monitoring & Filtering.

Security Audit

The key to effective IT security is a good security policy. We provide IT Security audits to identify potential loopholes in your network. Our service provides:

• Testing and of current IT and security policies
• Review of password policy
• Physical security review
• Disaster Recovery Review
• Network topology security review

We will deliver the findings of the audit in a comprehensive and understandable format detailing any risks found and recommendations on how these risks can be eliminated.

Service Benefits

• Minimise security threats & risks
• Reduce potential cost of a serious incident
• Assurance that your data is secure
• Block known threats before they reach the endpoint
• Adopt best practice by conforming to industry standards

Hosted Microsoft Exchange

If you’re looking for a secure, reliable email platform for your business, hosted Microsoft Exchange® presents the perfect solution. Hosted Exchange® lets organisations both large and small reap the benefits of using Exchange in conjunction with Outlook, but without having to invest in costly internal infrastructure.

Microsoft Exchange is the world’s foremost business email system, enabling communication and collaboration for many of the biggest global organisations. Microsoft Exchange enhances company productivity through numerous advanced features, such as real-time-synchronised email, files, calendars and contacts; mobile access on handheld devices; advanced web mail; shared calendars that let employees see colleague availability to schedule meetings, book conference rooms and plan projects; shared task lists that allow ‘to do’ lists to be created and assigned, then shared with team members; synchronised contacts which guarantee your personal address book will never be lost or misplaced, either on your PC or your mobile phone.

Core Features

Aggregateable Storage
Our Exchange mail includes a generous amount storage, which can be pooled amongst your users, enabling you to save more of your critical business correspondence.

Full licensed copy of Microsoft Office Outlook 20 10 or Entourage
Our Premium Mailbox includes a free copy of Outlook 2010 or Entourage 2008 for all mailbox users in your company.

Support For BlackBerry, Windows Mobile ActiveSync
Get your work done anytime, anywhere. Synchronise your email messages, schedules, contact information and task lists with your iPhone, Windows Mobile device or BlackBerry.

Fully functional mailbox available through OWA
Outlook Web Access allows you to connect on the move and have full access to your mailbox, calendar and more from any browser

Aliases, Distribution Lists, External Contacts and more
Enjoy the rich functionality features such as free email aliases, Distribution Lists, Public Folders, External Contacts and Auto-Forwarding.

Spam defence and virus protection
Each Exchange mailbox is protected from the threat of spam and viruses by our integrated security platform. Each mailbox comes with its own, fully configurable online quarantine, to prevent harmful messages reaching your computer whilst ensuring you never miss any important mail.

Remote backup solution
Hosted Exchange can be part of your business’s disaster recovery plan. Because we host your email off-site in a secure location, you can continue to communicate with your clients in the event of a disaster.

Public folders for storing documents and/or emails Public folders are shared company folders that allow staff to collaborate using shared contacts, calendars and task lists to maximise productivity

Add-on features

• Add, change or customise your email accounts either at initial setup or at any time you wish.
• Additional Exchange users
• POP 3 email account users
• Multiple Domains
• Additional mailbox storage
• BlackBerry mobile users
• Company wide disclaimer