Networking
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For your Home
Networking
- For your Business
Networking - for your home
We offer the following services:
1. Broadband configuration on Cable/DSL or ADSL (uses existing telephone cabling).
2.
Internet or file sharing at home, wired or
wireless.
3. Wireless print server, Network Security - stop intruders
from accessing your network.
4. Network upgrades from
100base to 1000gb which will speed up network performance.
5. Data cabling.
6. Network Attached Storage Device for the advanced home user (see more
details below)
Network attached Storage
(NAS)
Computer Support
(Nottingham) Ltd - PC Doctor
can
offer a network storage device,
which is suitable for the home. The device
means you can share a large or small amount of digital data on your home
network. Features include:
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Gigabit Ethernet.
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Two or more internal Serial ATA mirrored hard drives.
NAS system has two or more
hard drives that use RAID. This means that the date is spanned
across all the drives. If one should fail, the data is still safe.
By replacing the failed drive(s) the data is then re built across all
drives.
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Capacity is dependant on your requirement however, one terabyte is a
normal size.
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SATA gives greater data transfer speeds, at an affordable price.
Reasons for having such a Device -
Since the advent
of digital cameras and MP3 players people are taking more photos and
downloading more music onto their computers and there they stay as most
do not backup. If the computer crashes all those valuable photos
and music could be lost forever, we have seen it happen so many times here at
Computer Support (Nottingham)
Ltd. With a NAS you can store your photos
and music and it will be backed up regularly. This also
applies to all your other valuable documents such as:
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Address book
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Emails
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Word documents
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Spreadsheet
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Database files.
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Children school
work
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University course work
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Household accounts
Networking - for your business
Small to Medium sized Business Servers
Computer Support
(Nottingham) Ltd - PC Doctor
can offer a Business Server to meet your needs. The Servers
are based on Intel Pentium processors.
New Servers have the software pre-installed,
configured and tested at our workshop. We normally test for 5 to 10
days before the server is installed. At this point we can also install any
other software applications that you may have.
Our
servers are based on Duel or single Intel e.g. Xeon or AMD processors
The
server has built in redundancy, the hard drives are mirrored, or RAID should one
fail you can keep working. The failed drive is replaced and the array rebuilds its self keeping down time to a minimum.
Dual power supplies or the addition of uninterruptible power supply.
Should you have a power cut the ups will kick in giving you an audible
warning will also keeping the server running for an amount of time
allowing for data to be saved before you shut down the server safely.
Operating system:
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Standard or
Premium Editions
(5 User Licence).
Microsoft
Extra licences are available in packs of 5
if required. Other versions are available..
Antivirus:
Server based protection
which is continually updating and protects server and client computers
on the network - if you use MS Exchange add on or different version may
be required.
AVG Network addition
Symantec (Norton) SBS
Products
McAfee
SBS
F-Secure
Critical
Data Backup:
These
days data is extremely important to any business therefore, backup is
essential and we recommend that this should be carried out daily.
We recommend: if
you use MS Exchange add on or different version may be required.
Veritas Exec 10d
SBS
CA Britestore
Dantz Retrospect
Backups
can be done on various media storage types. These include:
CD
DVD -
using 2 external Hard drives
Seagate
Travan tape drive using daily cassette tapes
external
"Network
Attached Storage" (NAS) system.
The system you chose depends on the amount of
data your company creates.
Network upgrades: from
100base to 1000gb. this will speed up network performance
Network attached Storage
(NAS)
There are many reasons for having simple, cost effective central
storage. Loss of critical data can bring a company to a standstill. If
your computer fails it’s no problem because your data and working files
are safe on the NAS.
All you need to do is use one of the other computers on the network and
access the NAS
and your working again. An office-based NAS can
be quickly installed allowing use as a document library, print server,
backup device, ‘shared’ drive etc. You can set individual User Accounts
with passwords, so that users data and backups are kept secure, you can
create groups with access rights, The device can be added to an existing
server based network giving greater capacity for data storage.
On-site Installation:
This will be carried out by one of our
Microsoft Certified engineer and will usually consist of:
New
Company Network - Installation of all cabling - hardware and
software e.g. Server and Computer configuration, printers - Internet
etc. Training will also be given to users of the network.
Network security (User access)
Existing Networks
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Installation will cover attaching the server to your existing
network, the migration of existing company data and software from old
to new server.
Configuring existing computers and printers to work with the new
server and testing. We
are happy to install at a time to minimise disruption to your
business, for example, at a weekend .
Your
existing workstation/server will run in tandem until we are happy, then we will move over to the new server. We will do our best to
maintain essential business services at all times.
Other Services include:
Remote
server management: This would
allow Computer Support (Nottingham)
Ltd to
access the server from our workshop. We can:
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Perform software updates
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Add remove
users and alter permissions
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Monitor daily backups, anti virus and general
performance of the server.
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If
you have a problem on your network all you need to do is call us.
This
can minimise down time and cost of engineer call
out. This is only done with your permission and is a
secure connection.
Disaster Recovery:
Computer Support (Nottingham) Ltd - PC Doctor backs up your Server on a regular
basis, 6 monthly or quarterly. This along with daily backups should ensure that,
should it fail, your server can be back in service as quickly as possible.
Just call us for a quote or more information.
You can also call in at our workshop.
Click here for details
of how to contact us.
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