Cloud Computing

TechQuarters are a team of Cloud Computing Consultants that help you move your IT to the Cloud and support you thereafter.

Over the past year we have consulted with many small to medium sized businesses about moving their IT to the Cloud. The main reason for them to consider it was because they needed to upgrade their existing server or IT infrastructure. Moving to the Cloud was an appealing alternative to paying £1,000’s for the upgrade.

The latest Cloud solutions being offered by Microsoft and Google are replacing conventional server environments. Some of our clients have chosen to move their whole infrastructure to the Cloud, including email, applications and data, whereas some have been selective, remaining in a Hybrid Cloud state.

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The Hybrid Cloud state is a perfect way to step into the Cloud without fully committing the whole of your infrastructure to it. Our solution provides you will the following:-

1. Move your ‘Data’ (word/excel/pdf/general company files) to a new on-site storage device (NAS device).

2. Move your ‘Email’ to either Microsoft Online or Google Apps.

3. Move you Applications to a hosted server or keep it on-site with the NAS device.

4. Implement our TQ Backup service copying your ‘Data’ off site to our secure storage facility.

Therefore you keep much of your data where you can see it and get the benefits of business continuity with your email and the online backup.

This solution saves businesses £1,000′s on upgrading their infrastructure. We estimate this to be in the region of £15,500 over 4 years, for a company who has 10 employees. What is more interesting is that this solution amounts to less than half the cost of upgrading your server(s) and so you can step into the cloud with piece of mind, never have to pay for a server upgrade again, then review your cloud strategy over the coming years as the market evolves.

Your Cloud strategy in 3 simple steps

Microsoft BPOS (Business Productivity Online suite)

Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is a set of Microsoft hosted messaging and collaboration solutions that include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting and Office Communications Online. BPOS is priced a package bundle or you can subscribe to each package individually.

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Google Apps

Google Apps is a suite of software that sits in the Cloud and is hosted on Google’s infrastructure. It provides email, document sharing, collaboration, calendars, contact management and web site development. Most people know the standard version of Google Apps which they use at home (e.g. googlemail). The Premium business edition is already being used worldwide by the likes of Rentokil, Jaguar Land Rover and LAPD. TechQuarters can help your business migrate to Google Apps and make substantial cost savings.

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Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint is a browser based web platform that provides hosting of company intranets, web sites, streaming of data, centralised management of data, office collaboration tools, content management, powerful search tools and business intelligence. It improves businesses’s effectiveness by streamlining the management of their data.

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TQ Backup online

TQ backup gives businesses with their own internal infrastructure, a safe and reliable, encrypted, real time backup solution for all their company data to secure hosted centres. TQ Backup copies files, SQL databases, Exchange and more for circa £1 per Gb, depending on your data levels.

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TQ Email protection and continuity

TechQuarters email gives businesses continuity to your email system. If your email server crashes, don’t worry, you simply switch to a web browser interface and carry on working as if nothing has happened. In the meantime your sever is fixed, comes back on line and users switch back to their email system without any lost data or downtime. TQ Email also protects email from malware, spam and viruses.

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