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What Is a Network?

Networks provide a link between people, information, and devices. They allow users to share resources such as data, applications, and peripherals easily and efficiently.
Networks make it easy for your employees to:

Share files with each other
Systematically back up data on a regular basis
Share peripherals such as printers and modems
Communicate via email
Access the Internet simultaneously


These features enable networks to provide three key benefits for your business:

Help Improve Productivity

Networks help ensure that critical files and applications can be shared by your users at all times, helping to increase accuracy and efficiency. And because networks can offer a high-speed connection to the Internet, users won't waste time waiting for pages to download or print. In addition, networks enable email communication, which helps ensure that employees, whether they're in the next office or on another continent, can communicate with each other quickly and easily.

Reduce Costs

Networks can greatly reduce the cost of peripherals such as modems and printers by centralising usage and sharing them among users. Printers, for example, can be very expensive if every desktop is equipped with one. In addition, you can reduce the cost of maintaining multiple modems, dial-out lines, and Internet accounts by allowing all of your users to connect to the Internet over a single high-speed connection, such as an ISDN line or cable/DSL.

Protect Your Data

Data is one of your most important company assets. Networks can centralise the data backup for your organisation, making the regular protection of data a systematic routine task. Storing data on a single server can allow for increased accessibility as well as data protection.

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Support & Servicing Schemes

Specifically tailored around your company needs Support is probably the most important ingredient in the smooth running of any I.T infrastructure.

Our Support agreements range from support for single computer systems to malt user networks running various software packages connecting to remote sites.

With response times down to as little as one hour, we guarantee to give you, the customer, peace of mind. If a problem arises it can be resolved quickly and efficiently, either on site, remotely or simply on the telephone. Supporting you when you need it.

As technology improves and advances, so do the options for supporting and monitoring networks. Now it is possible to monitor, maintain and support multiple computers inside a corporate network from a remote location.

Many of our clients on support contracts have taken advantage of remote support services where we are able to remotely monitor all systems including individual user desktop computers. This allows for unsurpassed flexibility and near real-time problem determination and solving.

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Backups

75% of companies that suffer a major data loss go out of business within 18 months. - Department of Trade and Industry

Ask yourself these questions:

When did you last do a proper backup of your business critical data?

Imagine how you would be feeling right now if you had just lost all of your data?

Which is more valuable to you; your computers or the information about your business and its customers that sits on the computers?

If you could insure that data for as little as 30p per day would you do it?

We have just become a reseller for Bunker Backup and we would be delighted to show you how this superb online data backup system could ensure you never have to worry about data loss ever again. It is totally secure, automatic - so involves no hassle for you whatsoever and is very reasonably priced. If you would like to hear more about this innovative new service Computerworld is providing please contact us.

Total peace of mind for 30p per day.


If there is one 'first rule of computing' then it is ensuring that you perform routine backups. Many users do not backup their files as often as they should.

As business owners you will have a fairly shrewd idea of what constitutes a valuable asset. But one valuable asset that is regularly ignored is data. Just stop and consider all the information that you enter into your system on a daily basis. Now imagine what it would feel like to lose all this data, having to start from scratch.

By the very nature of your business, computers undergo rigorous use, which can result in wear and tear over time. This may cause catastrophic computer crashes, which may corrupt or damage data stored on the machine. The other main cause of data loss occurs as a result of fire damage, robbery and virus. How will you recover this data then? The key to protecting data is to backup regularly.

How Often Should I Backup?

Imagine what it would feel like if you walked into your office tomorrow to find that all the information that you have stored on your computer had vanished. Contemplate on the months of data that you would have to re-enter, the time and cost involved in employing someone to input this data, the inconvenience of having your system tied up by a data entry person and the negative perceptions this may evoke on your business when you cannot retrieve important client information or print valued documentation. In other words, you should be backing up daily.

Our research shows that the main reasons that our customers do not backup daily is the time that it takes and the inconvenience involved. We have evidence to dispute this. The backup solutions that we provide today can be set up to run automatically giving you more time to concentrate on other issues and providing all important peace of mind.

How to Store Backup Tapes:

Backup tapes should be stored in their cases, rotated regularly and placed in a fireproof safe or taken off-site. If you have other important software on your system e.g. an accounts package, it is advisable to include this in your daily backup. That way, you can positively ensure that if the worst should happen, you can recover your valuable business asset in next to no time.

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Anti Virus

Following many recent problems with computer virus’s throughout the UK within many sectors both in business and home, Computer World have issued the following advice sheet for your information. I hope that it is of some assistance to you.

Always ensure you have Anti-virus software installed on your systems we would recommend Network Associate products which includes McAfee.
Ensure the software is installed correctly, making sure you only have one antivirus programme installed. Incorrectly installed software is one of the most common mistakes - result - virus.
Ensure once installed the software is set up to update automatically on a regular basis - i.e. daily. Manual updates are really not good enough as often this can mean they are not done on a regular basis, sometimes even forgotten - result - virus!
Always ensure you have correct backup procedures in place. If your system does get infected viruses can delete important files and documents.
And finally' remember a virus on your computer system can infect your customers computers which of course reflects badly on you.

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Workstations & Servers

Workstations & Servers

Servers and PCs are both computers. They have similar processors and run similar software. What distinguishes servers from PCs is how they perform. Servers handle jobs for more than one computer, which allows multiple users to share network resources, such as printers and a variety of software applications. Because anything that slows down or interrupts a server can impact numerous users. Servers are normally built with the following considerations:

Performance

Servers are more likely to perform multiple tasks simultaneously than an individual PC. That's why Computer World servers are maximised for performance with fast data transfer through more processing power and memory than are generally available on PCs.

Scalability

As your network grows, so can our servers. You can add much more memory and hard disk capacity to our servers than to a PC. And if you need additional processing capacity over time, you can add processors as needed.

Reliability

If a server goes down, it can dramatically impact your productivity and increase costs. That's why our servers offer a variety of reliability features like redundant power supplies and fans that help keep your business up and running when a desktop PC would have failed.

Your specific needs for performance, scalability, and reliability determine which server platform you should buy and how you should customise it.

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Domain, Email & Web Hosting

We offer a wide range of internet service's which include the following:

Broadband Internet connections
Domain hosting
E-mail hosting (pop3 boxes)
Domain name registration
Web hosting

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Finance

We can offer the following finance packages to suite all your company's needs.

Commercial Funding solutions for you Business
Turn Around Finance
Refinancing

Bridging Facilities

Leasing

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