About Bruce Penson

Managing Director of Pro Drive IT

Cloud keeps Pro Drive out of stormy weather

2017-08-07T16:10:54+01:00January 15th, 2014|Business Continuity, Company News, Technology News|

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 [...]

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Is it backup or Business Continuity?

2017-08-08T12:03:34+01:00December 18th, 2013|Business Continuity, Company News|

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 [...]

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Writing a business continuity plan

2017-08-07T15:53:12+01:00December 17th, 2013|Business Continuity, Company News|

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 [...]

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Making your personal passwords more secure

2017-07-19T15:58:53+01:00December 13th, 2013|Security and Threats|

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 [...]

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Evolutionary Hosted Unified Communications

2017-08-08T15:01:40+01:00November 27th, 2013|Technology News|

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 [...]

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Is your business data leaking through personal devices?

2017-08-08T12:10:51+01:00November 15th, 2013|Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

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 [...]

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Top storage challenges for Oil and Gas businesses – white paper

2018-08-03T15:05:47+01:00October 20th, 2013|Company News, Technology News|

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 constant challenge for Geoscientists and Oil and Gas CIOs. Read our white paper on the top 5 storage challenges for [...]

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Windows 8.1 set for release

2017-08-08T15:40:53+01:00October 18th, 2013|Technology News|

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 of today. The release was launched to address some of the standard user concerns noticed on the original version of [...]

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Disposing of your old IT equipment – are you compliant?

2017-08-07T16:16:04+01:00October 11th, 2013|Security and Threats, Tips and Advice|

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 have you considered what happens to your old equipment and what your responsibilities are? Do you have internal operating procedures [...]

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