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.

Free VMware Seminars in 2008

VMware Seminars 2008 (Free of Charge)

A series of short, free-of-charge Virtualisation briefings have been developed in partnership with VMware and HP to show you the benefits of server consolidation and containment.

By attending you will gain a detailed understanding of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3).
You will also be introduced to HP solutions that, coupled with VMware, will help reduce your infrastructure, power and cooling costs, therefore lowering your carbon footprint.
Book online for one of the following dates in 2008:

Friday 15th February (FULLY BOOKED)
Friday 14th March (FULLY BOOKED)
Friday 18th April (FULLY BOOKED)
Friday 16th May (FULLY BOOKED)
Friday 13th June (FULLY BOOKED)
Friday 19th September
Friday 17th October
Friday 14th November
Friday 12th December

If you cannot make one of these dates, but would like more information and an onsite briefing, please call Leigh Lockwood on freephone 0800 083 3160.

Agenda

9.00 Breakfast, Registration & Welcome
9.30 Introduction to VMware VI3
10.00 VMware VI3 Demonstration / Consolidation & Containment
10.30 HP and VMware; Storage and infrastructure Virtualisation
10.50 Questions & Answers
11.00 Finish

Book online

Concise IT Expansion Reaps Rewards

Concise IT is booming with success after moving to new premises at Gadbrook Park in Cheshire.

We are celebrating doubling our turnover in two years having seen a 50 per cent growth this financial year since moving to a new 4,500 sq ft office at Royal Court.

Apart from Network design, support, and implementation, Concise IT has proven expertise in more specialist areas such as Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Capacity Planning and Virtualisation.

Managing Director David Southern puts the current boom down to the combination of the quality of service that Concise IT provides, and its relocation to the new office.

“We are very proud of what we offer to companies in the local business community and across the UK. We are seen as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ by our clients because we have invested in a dedicated Business Continuity Suite and state-of-the-art seminar room where we regularly hold live demonstrations of the latest business critical technologies from VMware, Microsoft, Cisco, Sophos and HP.

“Now we are supporting and monitoring hundreds of business networks nationwide, with any potential problem being instantly notified, enabling us to alert the client and ensure that system ‘downtime’ is a thing of the past.

“Successful businesses are increasingly reliant on networks and the internet, for one client, every hour a server is down can cost them £60,000, so it is crucial their network is operating 24/7.”

He added: “We believe in ‘Best Practice’, and from experience know that it is better to invest in quality, be it software or hardware, as it is proven to the field to be more stable and secure. That ethos extends throughout our organisation, to the quality of people and premises. The impact our move has had on our business proves the point.”