Welcome to No-Problem Technologies,
Comprehensive IT Solutions for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses in London UK

Transform your Business with Virtualisation

Virtualisation dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organisation. Internal resources are underutilized under the old “one server, one application” model and IT admins spend too much time managing servers rather than innovating. VMware delivers resources, applications—even servers—when and where they’re needed, and by using VMware you can usually save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware Infrastructure.

What is it and how does it work?

Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful computer hardware was designed to run a single operating system and a single application which, with the power of modern machines, leaves most servers vastly underutilised. Virtualisation lets you run multiple instances of an operating system (virtual machines) on a single physical machine, each sharing the resources of that single computer. Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer. The VMware technology is production-proven and the market leader, used by more than 130,000 customers, including 100% of the Fortune 100.

Why Virtualise?

Virtualising your IT infrastructure lets you reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization, and flexibility of your existing hardware. Around the world, companies of every size benefit from VMware virtualization. Thousands of organizations—including all of the Fortune 100—use VMware virtualization solutions. See how building a virtual datacenter will benefit your organization.

Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualisation

1. Get more out of your existing resources
2. Reduce electricity & cooling costs
3. Increase availability of hardware and applications
4. Gain operational flexibility
5. Improve desktop manageability and security

Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning

Unplanned events can have a devastating effect on small businesses. Crises such as fire, damage to stock, illness of key staff or IT system failure could all make it difficult or even impossible to carry out your normal day-to-day activities.

At worst, this could see you losing important customers or even going out of business altogether. However, with good planning you can take steps to minimise the potential impact of a disaster and even prevent it happening in the first place.

The risks of using IT

It is vital to recognise the risks associated with using IT in a business environment. These can range from accidental damage caused by employees to deliberate attempts from outsiders to illegally access data held by your business. There are many ways in which your business can be compromised if you don't undertake careful analysis of your business practices and security systems.

The important of BCP for IT

Business continuity is a process developed to counteract systems failure. It is a management issue, not something that should just be considered by the IT department. If your IT systems fail or are unavailable, it is likely to have a significant impact on your whole business. Therefore you should take an active interest in establishing business continuity plans for your IT systems.

A business continuity plan for your IT systems should include arrangements for providing:

• facilities and services to enable the business to continue to function
• the critical IT applications and infrastructure necessary to support the recovery of business processes

The important of BCP for IT

Risk Assessments for IT Business Continuity

The first step in business continuity planning is to do a risk assessment. This helps you to decide which business threats to concentrate on. It involves:

• identifying the range of potential threats your business faces
• assessing their potential impact on the business
• assessing the likelihood of each threat occurring

This is where NPIT can help, by looking at your current systems and procedures for IT BCP and providing a report to highlight areas and actions to improve the speed and efficiency of restoration in the event of a full systems failure.

Overview

Attix 5 Backup Professional is an online solution that allows you to easily, securely and automatically backup your critical data to two separate and secure off-site locations, while also ensuring that the method by which the data is protected meets governance obligations (The Combined Code, Turnbull Report and Higgs Report). The service also allows backed up data to be retrieved and restored to the original Desktop, Laptop or Server, or to a replacement machine, anywhere in the world with separate versions of all data held for 30 days.

Secure protection

Attix 5 provides protection for data on Desktop PCs, Laptops and Servers. In many instances, data on these devices is unprotected and liable to loss through hardware and software failure, misadventure, theft and human error. Protection is achieved by enabling data to be backed up securely over the Internet to a disk-based storage facility within separate data centres that synchronise the data they hold every 15 minutes. These data centres are housed in highly secure disaster recovery buildings, owned and managed by IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services.

Reasons for using Attix 5

1) Why Should I use an Online Backup Service?

1. Data is valuable
2. PCs frequently not backed up correctly
3. Traditional methods flawed and onerous e.g. tape
4. Need for simple, secure solution
5. Small businesses can secure their data just as effectively as a corporate
6. You can specify the exact files and folders to protect

2) Statistics

1. 60% of business-critical data is held on laptops
2. 51% of businesses who lose their data fail within 2 years
3. 43% of businesses who lose their data don 't reopen

3) Other Benefits

1. Data never written to disk in readable format - always encrypted using 448 bit Blowfish encryption
2. Data compression on transmission - reduces time on-line / network load
3. Effective over dial up connections - designed for low speed links