Business Focused Innovation.

• Data Centre Consolidation
• Infrastructure Optimisation
• Enterprise Storage
• Data Management
• Unified Communications

Solutions

Disaster Recovery

A proactive approach to disaster recovery.

" You can't always prevent disasters, but you can certainly plan for contingencies. That's our approach.

"Contingency planning can include:-

• Automated regular backup
• Server Replication/Failover - real-time data replication on site, off site or managed at our site
• A very cost effective subscription service that replicates changed data across a broadband tunnel, stored remotely

Preventing IT disasters from becoming business disasters

We can review your current IT systems and suggest areas or procedures which would lessen your exposure to risk. By identifying these issues and implementing solutions we can ensure that your business is ready to face the challenges and uncertainty of our modern world.

• There never seems to be enough time or resources when you’re running a small business. Here’s where server technology can help.
• Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS 2003 R2) is an advanced IT solution designed to help you protect your data, do more with less, and connect with customers like never before.
• SBS 2003 R2 provides small businesses with many of the features used by large companies – e-mail, Internet connection, internal Web sites, remote access, support for mobile devices, file and printer sharing, backup and restore – all in one affordable, integrated solution.
• We can supply and install all the necessary hardware, software and network infrastructure to implement SBS 2003 R2 in your office environment today.
• Small Business Specialists (SBSC) are local Microsoft partners who specialise in helping start up and small to medium businesses tackle their business challenges with the best use of IT.
• As specialists in this product, we have over 35 client installations running this award winning network operating system. Our own office network uses SBS 2003 R2 and we are more than happy to demonstrate its capabilities to potential clients.

Connectivity

• What's the use of Information Technology if it doesn't communicate? 
• Whether it's connecting a single site to the outside world, connecting multiple sites to a central data centre, or complex communications across a virtual office, we can deliver. Everything from communication lines to routers and firewalls for protection, all implemented in a balanced way to ensure secure, robust business advantage.
• We start by looking at your business communications requirements, examine your existing infrastructure and we design exactly the right mix for your current and your growing needs....
• What's more, we remove the hassle; and let's face it the communications world is fraught with complexities. We can negotiate with hardware and software suppliers, test and commission your network.

Remote Working

Improved productivity and contented staff

Flexible working has become one of the dominant management topics for UK employers.

Managers are recognising the business benefits of gaining higher productivity, coupled with improved staff retention and recruitment. The government is embodying the right to a flexible working environment into legislation.

Staff  are demanding a better work-life balance.
NVT is a specialist in the provision of agile, secure, balanced networks necessary for flexible working. Our solutions are built around Microsoft Terminal Services, Windows Mobile 5.0 and VOiP technology. Tested, proven and trusted.

A better work-life balance all round

• flexibility - log-on in the evening or the weekend for an hour or two, to get jobs finished while things are quiet
• reduce the stress of commuting to the office each day
• no more having to stay over in the evening, when an important task needs completing

• VoIP Telecoms
• Convergence is the latest IT buzz word. It basically means the merging of voice, video, and data on a single network, integrating telecommunications and computer technologies.
• The most common implementation is voice and data over an internal network or as it is commonly known VoIP.  
• To increase efficiencies, reduce costs and optimize interactions among co-workers and with customers in today's highly competitive environments, organizations need to extract every possible advantage from technology—especially in their communication activities.
• If you would like to discuss your business telecoms requirements, please email our sales team to find out more about how the benefits of a VoIP Telephone system may suit your needs.

Increasing Productivity and Efficiencies

There are never going be enough hours in the day, so the only way to drive your business forward is to get smarter and work faster. It’s easy to say but harder to achieve and even more difficult to measure sometimes.

We think it all depends on the type of business you’re in. For example, if yours is a knowledge based services business then you are more likely to get results by improving how your people discuss, develop and decide.

If you’re a transactional based business then you’re better off focusing on how you can improve and manage your processes more effectively.

Whatever your business environment is, it’s highly likely that we’ve worked with similar organisations and have seen how technology can make a difference.

Project Management

• We are often asked by existing and prospective clients to manage one-off projects or to get involved in bespoke work. This has always been part of the fabric at NVT.
• Please feel free to contact us to discuss your exact requirements, however obscure they may appear. Here at NVT we relish the challenge and are well versed in bringing together various disciplines, from removals to telecoms, in order to get results.

Office Relocation

• If you are planning an office move one aspect which certainly will require specialist consideration is the movement of your IT equipment.
• The relocating of systems can generate a number of unexpected problems; unfortunately it is not always a case of turning the system off and turning it on in the new location. NVT can help you to avoid these kinds of issues and ensure that your new office is functional from day one.
• A smooth transition
  ­­­­­we have been providing this service to our clients for a number of years, using proven methodologies, project management skills and first hand experience. Our key concern is that your business experiences as little downtime as possible.

Virtualisation and Consolidation

The 1980’s movement towards distributed computing shattered the chains of centralised control and put the power to change back in the hands of the business.

Unfortunately it spawned a new challenge—how to manage infrastructure sprawl.

It’s all well and good to empower business to change quickly and develop its own applications, but this can place a massive burden on the infrastructure that supports the change, resulting in greater complexity, increased risk and higher costs.

In our experience there are a lot of people in the same boat. Their Infrastructure has grown and developed in a piecemeal fashion. Every new application gets a dedicated server or multiple servers; every new tool or upgrade needs more space, power, cooling, storage, protection, bandwidth and sometimes a new client device too.

But it’s not all bad news. Thanks to great new (or reinvented) technologies such as server virtualisation it is possible to build an infrastructure that gives you the best of both worlds. The flexibility to respond to change quickly and the controlled, efficient use of resources that you need to run a tight ship.

Server virtualisation isn’t a nirvana though. Have you thought about the other parts of your infrastructure that grow with your server estate?

What about LAN and WAN or storage? You may still have local attached, network attached and SAN attached storage. And you probably have multiple applications that do the same thing supported by many databases on many different platforms.

We’ve learned that the best way to approach virtualisation is to firstly take a step back and think about the bigger picture—consolidation. Not just consolidating your servers, but also consolidating you applications, operating systems, storage and the other supporting infrastructures that make your business tick.

By looking at the bigger picture you can save more, reduce complexity and move at your own pace towards a utility computing mode.

One of our UK defence customers looked at the bigger picture and didn’t just consolidate their servers. They also reduced their applications dramatically, consolidated their networks, and improved their storage and protection capabilities.

Another good example of consolidation is provided by one of our telecommunication customers. They wanted to reduce the downtime of a mission critical system and provide a less complex and easier to manage environment.

We’ve been helping our customers consolidate and virtualizes their infrastructures for years and have world class experts with real life experience that can make the process just that little bit easier for you.