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Jan
07
2010

What happens to your profits when transport chaos hits?

Can your staff work from home? Unless you work for a large company, chances are you have no facility to login to the office when the weather creates transport chaos. The good news is that most other companies are stuck in the same situation. So, how can you stay ahead of the competition?

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The AWIC Desktop service lets you securely hold all of your business IT in our state-of-the art data centres.

• Keep your data safe from fire, flood or theft

• Securely access your computer anytime, anywhere

• Say goodbye to hardware maintenance and depreciation

• Reduce the energy you use

• Free yourself from the headache of software upgrades

About AWIC Desktop

AWIC Desktop is a reliable, accessible subscription-based computing service that saves you money. It is one of a suite of products offered by Tunbridge Wells-based AWIC Technical Advisory — dedicated to clear, practical advice on IT for small and medium businesses.

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Jan
06
2010

Calling all startups! Tell us what you need in your IT.

Do you run a startup or small business? We’d love to hear about how you use IT and what works for you.

If you can spare 2 minutes, please share your views by taking our short survey.

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Dec
11
2009

If all you need is the milk, why buy the cow?

AWIC Technical Advisory announces the launch of AWIC Desktop, the first subscription-based IT service aimed at offering local, Tunbridge Wells companies the chance to have big-business IT at a small business price, with no upfront costs for hardware or software licenses.

97% of businesses in Tunbridge Wells have less than 50 employees, which means that very few will have a dedicated IT management team. AWIC Desktop offers these companies a professional, complete IT solution, which is maintained 24/7 by our qualified engineers in a secure data centre and accessed via the internet. This means staff no longer need to spend time on software upgrades or costly hardware replacements, leaving them free to concentrate on their core business.

Subscribers to the AWIC Desktop service pay a fixed monthly fee for access to a standard Microsoft hosted desktop and professional options such as Microsoft Exchange with Blackberry connectivity.  The service is an easy and cost-effective way of solving most common small office IT problems with one complete package.

Key benefits to AWIC Desktop subscribers:

  • Work from anywhere
  • Simplify your IT
  • Protect your data from fire, flood or theft
  • Secure and virus-free
  • Plan your annual IT budget with a fixed subscription
  • Add/remove staff quickly and easily
  • Reduce costly on-site maintenance
  • Lower your electricity bill

    • About AWIC Desktop

    AWIC Desktop is a reliable, accessible subscription-based computing service that saves you money. It is one of a suite of products offered by Tunbridge Wells-based AWIC Technical Advisory — dedicated to clear, practical advice on IT for small and medium businesses.

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    Oct
    21
    2009

    Why the entertainment industry should care about PC-over-IP

    by Amanda Dahl, Director at AWIC

    What on earth is PC-over-IP (better known as PCOIP) and why should anyone in the creative industries care about it?

    A new technology is now available that allows you to instantly share dailies in full HD, work with remote studios or work from home – while keeping your movies secure.

    The technology has been available for a while which allows companies to centralise their desktop IT, removing the computers from under people’s desks and replacing them with an energy efficient, small, quiet box called a “thin client”. A thin client is basically a screen directly connected to the internet.

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    Oct
    18
    2009

    IT challenges for the film/tv industry: a mobile workforce

    by Amanda Dahl, Director at AWIC

    The film and television industry has one of the most mobile workforces in the country.

    There are around 400 ‘permanent’ (i.e. registered) companies in the UK film industry. This figure varies depending on the number of productions being worked on at any one time. Of the companies existing today, we can say approximately 43% are production, 13% are distribution and the remaining 44% are exhibition companies. (Source: Skillset)

    In a survey of workers in the film/tv industry by Skillset, almost all (91%) of the sample were freelance; just under half (48%) of the survey sample had been employed on a fixed-term contract i.e. for a fixed number of hours, days or weeks, over one in five (22%) had an open-ended weekly contract and a further 9% had been employed as dailies. The remaining 9% were permanent employees. (Source: http://publications.skillset.org/index.php?id=9&page=10)

    The transient and mobile nature of the work force in film and television means that production companies have challenges when it comes to providing IT for staff that’s only around for a few weeks or months at a time.

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    Oct
    09
    2009

    4 reasons why thin clients make sense

    by Amanda Dahl, Director at AWIC

    Over the past 18 months, IT budgets have shrunk dramatically, meaning that most companies have shelved the idea of replacing old kit. But as the economy starts to pick up, many companies are opening up to the idea that now is a good time for a hardware refresh.

    The average lifetime of a pc is 3 years.  How old are your company’s computers? Are they ready for the scrap heap?

    If so, do you really need to replace your traditional desktops with more of the same? What about the alternatives?

    Have you considered the switch to thin client technology?

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    Oct
    05
    2009

    The PPT Rule for Follow-the-Sun Support

    by Amanda Dahl, Director at AWIC

    Many enterprise infrastructure groups consider follow-the-sun support to be the holy grail of the IT operations service. The aim is to provide customers with a seamless, and truly global, support service. Simply dial a single number or create a single support ticket, and the request will be handled in a timely manner, no matter where in the world the user is located.

    But how is this implemented when you currently have silo’d regional support teams?

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