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? Networking hardware? Printers? Warranty? Software? Service Contracts? Subscriptions? And do you get alerted when agreements need renewing? And how does [...]
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 was a simple way of checking whether it is covered by warranty? Well the good news is that with most [...]
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 office in the cloud’ is probably not the most distinct definition for an IT system. To understand what Office 365 [...]
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 final patching date, including articles in the mainstream IT press such as Computerworld. Whereas other sceptics in the in wider [...]
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 affecting productivity, but often with more severe consequences. Pro Drive’s home town of Woking was particularly badly affected over Christmas [...]
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, which had its own limitations but at least it was away from the office, somewhere. The biggest challenge being the [...]
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 should be considered mandatory. Yet whilst many SME organisations are happy to invest in systems to recover their servers and [...]
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 you have your work computer, home computer, work email, personal email, phone, tablet, ebay, facebook, twitter, multiple shopping sites; the [...]
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 unified communications platform, Lync, which can address this, is now available on a cloud platform from as little as £2 [...]
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) clients that really need to balance the flexibility of enabling access to key information or applications like email with the [...]
Pro Drive IT
Export House
5 Henry Plaza
Victoria Way
Woking
GU21 6QX
Phone: 0330 124 3599
Email: hello@prodriveit.co.uk
