About Bruce Penson

Managing Director of Pro Drive IT

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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The end is looming for Windows XP and Office 2003

2017-08-08T15:34:08+01:00October 8th, 2013|Technology News|

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 of the original product. However all good things must come to an end and in fact today there are many [...]

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Pro Drive expands partnership with ORBiT software

2017-08-08T15:17:55+01:00October 7th, 2013|Company News|

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 professional services around industry standard infrastructure solutions. ORBiT Software are a specialist provider of corporate data management and storage solutions [...]

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Cloud file storage – are you ready?

2017-09-15T13:08:27+01:00September 26th, 2013|Technology News|

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, phones and tablets. More recently however these services are becoming more popular amongst business users, driven by the proliferation of [...]

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