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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 [...]
Windows 8.1, the long awaited update to Microsoft’s flagship operating system, is now available. Pro Drive clients running Windows 8 can obtain this new release which is available as a managed update from us as [...]
It is great for the productivity of your business when you are able to invest in new equipment, and many organisations now appreciate that a regular upgrade programme will more than repay the investment. However [...]
Windows XP and Office 2003 have been around for a long time – over 12 years in fact. That is an immensely long life span for computer software and is a reflection on the success [...]
Pro Drive have expanded their partnership with ORBiT Software Group to provide support services for Ultrabac disaster recovery software. The partnership agreement also provides access for ORBiT clients to Pro Drive’s range of managed and [...]
Cloud file storage and sharing has long been popular for personal use with services such as Dropbox becoming established favourites for sharing information with friends and family and for synchronisation across devices such as PCs, [...]
Over the coming weeks and months Pro Drive will be providing a series of useful how to guides, tips and tricks on our new You Tube channel. Please subscribe to be notified of new content [...]
