New staff – new equipment

If you’re growing your team you’ll also need to grow your IT system to accommodate new staff.  They’ll need a computer, workstation, or laptop, appropriate work space, a phone (and maybe a mobile), an email address and access to the internet. It can be tempting to...

Cracking the Code

If you talk to an IT professional you’ll hear a whole host of jargon – and, whilst it’s tempting to tune it out, it’s just as well if you know roughly what they’re talking about. Here are a few terms that you’ll hear when your IT people are talking about your website....

Are you an expert?

If you’re in business you’re probably an expert in your core business. that’s how most small businesses start – the business owner leaves their employer and sets up their own business doing something they really enjoy doing. For us that’s...

What is cloud computing?

A few years ago files hosted on an offsite server were referred to as ‘being in the cloud’, but things have moved on and now Cloud Computing is about having many servers working together to support your computing activity. This means that your server is...

Virtual business – real location

These days more and more people work virtually using high speed internet connections and sophisticated telecommunications to allow them to operate from virtually anywhere, from a back bedroom to a yacht on the Mediterranean! As long as the job gets done on time and to...