Whilst organisations continue to review the bandwidth of their IT infrastructure they face the challenge that currently there is ‘TOO MUCH’ out there to allow the decision to be a simple one to make. 

One area of significant development is hosting core areas of the back end IT infrastructure and services.  Hosting solutions have been available for over 15 years but required the brand name of ‘Cloud Computing’ to suddenly be considered as a serious subject of discussion.

All of a sudden this brand name has turned into the so called new IT buzz word for 2010.

How long could you manage without your business information if you lost it from your office systems?  If you’re thinking that’s a “how long is a piece of string” type of question, it’s probably because your instinctive response, as the owner or director of a business, is “Not all information is the same”.  You will know that some of your historical business records have to be retained for compliance reasons and you may not look at them from one decade to the next, whereas other information – client and prospect details, cash flow forecasts, stock positions, for example – well, your people need access to those all the time … or you simply don’t have a business. 

The UK’s largest arts, cultural and entertainment PR agency finds the right IT support solution with managed services provider Fifosys -

East London-based PR agency Idea Generation has outsourced its IT management to IT support specialists Fifosys in a contract worth £35,000 a year, achieving the perfect balance of value for money and quality of service. The fully managed outsourced solution provided by Fifosys enables Idea Generation employees to focus on core business activities, reducing hours lost to resolving IT issues by 70%.

YORVIK SELECTS FIFOSYS TO PROVIDE COMPLETE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPORT COMPANY GROWTH

 Boutique debt brokerage business invests in an end-to-end IT solution and a fully managed service from IT outsourcing provider Fifosys -

European debt brokerage company, Yorvik, has outsourced its entire IT infrastructure installation for its Cheapside-based offices to IT support specialists Fifosys in a contract worth in excess of £100,000 over a three year period for the provision of a complete infrastructure and fully managed service. The outsourced solution provided by Fifosys ensures that Yorvik’s IT requirements will be effectively met as the company experiences significant growth.

For most SMEs, if IT hits the board’s agenda, there is a major problem. Over the past decade as IT reliance has increased, the majority of organisations have downgraded IT to a middle management function. As a result of this lack of strategic IT direction, businesses are failing to budget for new IT solutions or to exploit fast emerging technologies. Instead, IT decision-making is reactive, based more often than not on IT failures or vendors withdrawing product support.

Mitesh Patel, managing director of IT managed services provider Fifosys, believes that SME organisations that outsource their IT and, most importantly, their director-level management and reporting, enjoy the luxury of never having to discuss IT issues in the Boardroom.