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Cut costs on your IT provisions

The cost of IT usually comes down to a business' size, its industry sector and its reliance on internet technology to run systems such as databases or ecommerce solutions.

Whilst IT infrastructure is entirely necessary in running a business today, many find the costs very large. In the current economic climate, most businesses would be pleased to eliminate some of the costs incurred in IT solutions.

For businesses looking to cut costs on their IT provisions it's important not to cut corners as this can be detrimental to your business.

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Save your business money, time and resources

Can you afford downtime? Of course not. But did you realise that more than 80 per cent of businesses suffer some unplanned downtime and it costs them 3.6 per cent of their annual revenue.

Furthermore, recent research has shown it costs $6.6 million on average when an organization suffers a data breach, and more than $200 per compromised record (the Ponemon Institute). Most of the cost of a security breach comes down to loss of business, which averages at nearly $4.6 million per organisation. The TJX data breach, for example, compromised 41 million credit cards and could reportedly cost the international company billions over many years.

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Business growth through scalable server farming

Server farms are also known as clusters and computer farms, but in essence the term refers to a group of networked servers, which operate as a single entity and are housed in a single location. Server farms fulfil a number of requirements but in the majority of cases they are used in the scaling of a business solution as the organisation grows.

The clusters allow for the distribution of workloads between the farm's variable components. This streamlines internal processes because applications are powered by the unified potential of multiple servers.

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Cloud Computing

The phrase 'Cloud Computing' is creating quite a buzz in the IT sector at the moment but what is it? Well, it could be the next big thing in IT networking as it potentially offers enterprise scale computing power and advanced security to any computer in an organisation's network without the need for local instillation. Download this whitepaper to get a detailed view of what Cloud Computing is all about and what it could mean for your business.

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Benefits of green credentials

Whatever the industry, these days green credentials are important. All consumers now expect to have a green option available to them and so all businesses need to be thinking, implementing and marketing their own green initiatives. This white paper discusses the ways in which the energy intensive hosting industry can become greener and how to best market these environmentally friendly credentials.

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The importance of server security

Seventy percent of websites are at serious and immediate risk of being hacked and e-crime now equates to 7% of all crime against businesses. As the internet now accounts for such a large and growing portion of all commerce, industries cannot afford to leave their servers and networks open to attack.

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