Concise become a Google Security & Compliance Reseller

Concise IT are proud to announce that we have become the very first Google Security and Compliance Authorised Reseller through the distribution channel in the UK for the following:

Google Message Security

Google Message Discovery

As a Google Security and Compliance Authorised Reseller, Concise IT can now sell the Google Message Security and Google Message Discovery managed services together with Support and Installation from our fully trained, accredited Technical Consultants.

What is Google Message Security and Google Message Discovery?

Google have responded to companies demanding a low cost E-mail Message Security managed service with Unlimited Archiving that can be delivered quickly - with minimal disruption and without requirements for hardware maintenance.

Software as a Service (SaaS) Email Message Security / Archiving Managed Service is making a massive impact on cost savings for businesses of all sizes and verticals.

It is predicted that by 2012, 60% of businesses will use a SaaS solution to protect their email infrastructure. Analysts are now recommending that companies switch to a managed service to reduce costs, administration and hardware.

Did you Know? Google Message Security protects:

• 17 million users worldwide


• in 50,000+ businesses


• 3 Billion messages per day (more messages than any other service)


• Google have a 97% Retention rate for Security customers

What are the benefits of Google Message Security?

Google's Message security is secure, proven, reliable, with a guaranteed SLA. The main benefits are:

• Google delivers the lowest cost solution worldwide (from just £6 per user per year!)*


• No fuss - immediate rollout on all mailboxes, all divisions and all email


• Fully scalable - for Companies of all sizes and in any sector


• Choose unlimited archiving


• Up to 10 years retention of service (if required) for your peace of mind and security


• Fixed price per user


• No hardware needs to be purchased - therefore no associated hardware maintenance


• You can do more with less expenditure


• Industry leading Service Level Agreements (SLA's)

Call our Customer service team for more information on the Google Message Security and Google Message Discovery managed services on freephone:

0800 083 3160

* Please note that Google Message Security / Google Message Discovery managed services cannot be purchased without a charge for qualified installation and annual support by an authorised reseller.

Concise IT Limited, Annouce Acquisition of Takeda Technology Limited

Concise IT Limited, Announce the Acquisition of Takeda Technology Limited.

IT Support, Consultancy and Services Company, Concise IT have acquired the Telecommunications Company, Takeda Technology Limited, also known as Takeda Telecom, forming Concise Telecoms Limited.

Concise IT has announced that the new group company of Concise IT and Concise Telecoms is called Concise Technology Group Limited.
As part of the acquisition agreement all the employees of Takeda Technology Limited have transferred to Concise Telecoms in order to ensure continuity of service to their clients.

Takeda Telecom have 30 years experience of supplying business telephone systems and tailored voice/data solutions. The acquisition by Concise IT means they can offer a broad range of expertise and services from one supplier and makes them one of the leading technology groups to the business market in the North West.

“Concise Technologies Group can now offer a total solution for all of your IT Network and Telecoms requirements from one supplier who support and maintain over 1000 customers across the UK and Eire.”

The convergence of voice and data communications is becoming ever more important to today’s businesses. Our strength in the convergence marketplace comes from the combination of 20 years expertise in IT Network Support, IT consultancy, Security, Services and Solutions from Concise IT with 30 years of expertise in Business Telephony, Call Centre Solutions, Least Cost Routing (LCR) and Data Cabling from Takeda Telecom.

David Southern, Managing Director of Concise Technologies Group Limited commented on the acquisition, “Businesses today are extremely technology dependent. The acquisition of Takeda Telecom allows us to offer the complete range of business technology solutions that deliver improved efficiencies and lower total cost of ownership to our clients at a time when business costs are rising”.

As a result, an extensive range of IT & Telecoms products and services are offered:

• IT Support (Servicedesk, Remote & Onsite Support)
• 24/7 Proactive Network Monitoring & Management
• Network Security (Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Anti-Spyware)
• Network Consultancy (Audits, WAN Optimisation, Project Management, Software Migration,)
• Network Solutions (Virtualisation, Storage Management, Mobility, Hardware/Software Provision
• Business Telephone System design, installation & maintenance
• Voice over IP (VoIP) Telephony
• Call Centre Solutions
• Mobile, Voice and Data
• Call Cost Saving (Least Cost Routing - LCR)
• Data network cabling design, installation and testing

Products / Partners (IT)

Microsoft, HP, VMware, Cisco, Sophos, Sonicwall, Exinda, Google Enterprise, Sony Mitel, Inter-Tel, Panasonic, Aastra, O2, Vodaphone, Orange and Blackberry

Products / Partners (Telecoms)

Mitel, Inter-Tel, Panasonic, Aastra, O2, Vodaphone, Orange and Blackberry

To find out more about Concise IT and the business solutions they provide visit www.conciseit.co.uk or call Freephone 0800 083 3160.

Concise Telecoms is Born!

We are delighted to announce the exciting news that enables us to provide you with a total solution for all your IT and Telecommunications requirements.

Last week we acquired Takeda Technology Limited (trading as Takeda Telecom) and created a new company - Concise Telecoms Limited.

Between Concise IT and Concise Telecoms (collectively called Concise Technologies Group); we are now able to offer the complete range of business technology solutions to our clients.

Concise Telecoms provides:

• Mitel, Avaya, Inter-Tel, Aastra & Panasonic business telephone systems
• Telecoms System Design, Installation and Support to ISO 9001 certification
• Call routing for lower line and call charges (Least Cost Routing - LCR)
• Mobile phones (Orange / O2 / Vodaphone) & PDA provision, including Blackberry
• Data network cabling design, installation and testing
• 30 years of telecommunications experience

This move further strengthens our position in this dynamic market and provides services that many of our clients have been asking us to supply for sometime now.

The Group has almost 50 full time staff, all of whom are committed to providing high quality service delivery. Our respected track record and combined experience means that we are now one of the leading technology groups in the North of England.

Call Concise Telecoms on 0845 491 8860 for more information.

Credit Crunch?...What Credit Crunch?

no worries…no interest!

You cannot escape the doom and gloom surrounding the recent credit crunch.
Higher interest rates, soaring inflation, increased fuel costs…the list seems endless.

So, to give you a break from all the bad news, we wanted to offer you something more positive instead like saving your business money.

Until the 31st October 2008, Concise IT are offering 0% interest lease options* on the complete range of HP Products including:

ProLiant Servers
PDA’s
Desktops
Monitors
Notebooks
Printers
Thin Clients
Carepacks

If you are planning to replace or upgrade your network with HP hardware, now would be the best time to do it, as you can spread the cost over 24 months – totally interest free!

Example. Spend £3000 on new hardware.
Spread the cost interest free over 24 months = £125 per month.

To find out more please call our customer services team on 0800 0833160.

* Minimum transaction £1000. Subject to credit approval. 0% lease applies to HP Hardware & Carepacks only.

Concise IT acheive the top 5 Microsoft Network Competencies

Microsoft Gold Partner - top 5 competencies and counting!

Microsoft confirmed that Concise IT have now passed the top 5 Network competencies from Microsoft.

They are:

Advanced Infrastructure Solutions
Networking Infrastructure Solutions
Information Worker Solutions
Mobility Solutions
AND Unified Communications Solutions (We have too many competencies to fit on the Microsoft Gold Partner Logo - see below)

Virtualisation - a better way to manage your IT infrastructure

Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that organisations manage their infrastructure.

Basically, it lets you transform hardware into software and can benefit anyone who uses a computer. It enables you to virtualise the hardware resources of an x86-based computer - including the CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller - to create a fully functional virtual machine that can run its own operating system and applications just like a “real” computer. However, virtualising a single physical computer is just the beginning.

Multiple virtual machines share hardware resources without interfering with each other so that you can safely run several operating systems and applications at the same time on a single computer.

The VMware approach to virtualisation inserts a thin layer of software directly on the computer hardware or on a host operating system.

This software layer creates virtual machines so that multiple operating systems can run concurrently on a single physical computer.

VMware offers a robust virtualisation platform that can scale across hundreds of interconnected physical computers and storage devices to form an entire virtual infrastructure.

How virtualisation can help disaster recovery

Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning are critical to managing risks in a successful business. According to the Definitive handbook for Business Management, between 60-90% of companies that do not have a proactive disaster plan find themselves out of business within 24 months of experiencing a major disaster.

However, implementation of a reliable recovery strategy with fast time to recovery is expensive largely because it involves maintaining recovery equipment that mirrors the equipment in the primary data centre. Virtualisation can overcome this problem and help your Business Continuity and DR plans in a number of ways:

Built-in continuous availability - provides inherent high availability at several levels
Hardware Independence - virtual machines encapsulate the complete environment, so applications can be restored to any hardware with a virtualisation platform without concern for the differences in underlying hardware

Hardware Consolidation - failover servers can also enjoy the consolidation benefits enjoyed by your live servers, usually with twice the ratio

Find out more

We believe that virtualisation is the way forward and are keen to introduce the benefits of this technology to as many organisations as possible. To this end we are running a series of free-of-chrage breakfast briefings during 2008 at which you can find out more.

We except demand for these events to be high, so to reserve your place, click here.

Business Continuity Service

Reasons why Business Continuity is becoming the must have service from Concise IT.

A recent survey by Aveco revealed the frightening statistic that 43% of organisations who experience a flood or fire will never reopen, and of the remainder 80% will fail within 13 months of the event.

Statutory regulations, such as those governing companies regulated by the FSA are now starting to place demands on businesses to ensure that they can continue to function and meet regulatory obligations in the event of an unforeseen interruption.

Traditionally Disaster Recovery (DR) has been the start and finish of organisational strategy for dealing with an unplanned event. This would ensure that IT systems and data can be restored after unscheduled downtime.

But over the last few years the growth of Business Continuity has meant a shift in focus to the prevention of such events, rather than the cure of DR.

Business Continuity Management (BCM) covers the whole lifecycle of disaster prevention and recovery. It embraces the entire organisation and provides a planned and controlled method of anticipating and responding to events that are likely to interrupt key business activities.

To cater for the huge demands for a Business Continuity Service, Concise IT has invested in a dedicated 12-seat Business Continuity Suite for small to medium sized companies, that also compliments our Disaster Recovery (DR) Service.

The Business Continuity Suite is based at our new offices at Gadbrook Park, Northwich, which has great links to the A556 and M6, just 10 minutes from Chester and 20 minutes from Manchester and Liverpool.

Call Aiden Wilkinson or Leigh Lockwood for further information on the Business Continuity Service on 0800 083 3160.