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Note-taking software has come a long way since the humble Notepad first appeared nearly 30 years ago with Windows 1.0. The advent of cloud and mobile computing has seen software in this market evolve substantially [...]
Until not that long ago choosing a mobile device for your business was simple – it would be a Blackberry. Their messaging ability and more importantly the ability to deploy, manage and secure them in [...]
You will no doubt have read about the Heartbleed bug affecting some web based systems which was widely reported in the national press last week. There is a significant amount of confusing and often conflicting [...]
#1 Beware of pop ups advertising free antivirus scans or software updates Rogue security software or “scare ware” is employed by criminal gangs attempting to lure people into fraudulent transactions. Initially on PCs, it has [...]
In our last article we discussed the types of web based security threats and how they might affect your business. Whilst the consequences of a web based attack can be severe there is fortunately a [...]
The exponential increase in the number of security threats from traditional web browsing has been well publicised in recent years and is a risk to all of us both personally and to our businesses. The [...]
Pro Drive are very proud to announce that they have been incorporated on the MSPmentor 501 global ranking 2014, a distinguished list identifying the world’s top 501 IT Managed Service Providers (MSPs), for the first [...]
This article is not trying to get you to shift your whole business to the cloud. The real question right now for businesses is “how can I use the incremental benefits of opex based services [...]
Have you ever considered how many IT assets your business has? You might have an idea; you may even keep a spreadsheet. But what do you track? PCs perhaps, mobiles even. But what about servers? [...]
How frustrating is it when your laptop or PC fails? You suspect that it is under warranty but you have long since filed or thrown away the paperwork. Would it not be great if there [...]
No doubt most of us have now seen Office 365 advertised on the TV, radio and of course the web and many of us are probably wondering what exactly it is? After all a ‘complete [...]
For many months now articles have been produced across the IT media about what will happen after the retirement of Windows XP in April 2014. Previous articles have suggested a fairly bleak outlook after the [...]
There seems to be little let up in the winter storms and most of the country has suffered at some point. Disruption to travel and services can be particularly bad news for business, at worst [...]
Over the past few years, technology has really come a long way. Tape and disk backup used to be the best option for SME’s to back up their data. Then came offsite storage of data, [...]
All businesses fear a major disaster and rightly so as many companies involved in one cannot continue to trade. With IT being such a core function to any modern company an IT disaster recovery plan [...]
These days we have accounts everywhere, and with every account you must remember you username (which is usually your email address) and of course your passwords. How many do you have to remember? No doubt [...]
Many organisations are facing a dilemma as to how to give mobile workers a professional client facing voice system they can incrementally add to the office telecommunications system without the need to replace it. Microsoft’s [...]
Although Bring Your own Device (BYoD) seems to have been discussed in enterprise organisations for what seems like years, Pro Drive are finding that the reality is that it is the small to medium (SME) [...]
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With the exponential increase in demand for energy comes vast growth in the size of data sets. Managing this thirst for data, and storing and structuring it so that it can be found, remains a [...]