You may have customers who are potentially looking at Colocation as a possible solution to host their vital data, particularly if any of those customers currently store their data on their own premises. We often face a range of questions from our partners in regards to the infrastructure choices of their customers so we thought...
The Government’s £67m Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) has been so successful that there is now less than a third of the pot available for eligable users. The scheme, which offers up to £2,500 to help businesses and homes gain access to a 1Gbps connection, has little over £20m remaining and will certainly run out...
If you’re a Telecoms or an IT Provider, you will have likely been faced with a decision at some point on what solution is the best choice for your customer. By working closely with our partners, this is something we get asked all the time. Should you be offering Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) or a...
What is VoIP? Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a way of simplifying phone networks by routing phone calls over the internet instead of over telephone lines. Other than the extra features and added functionality, using a VoIP phone is just like using a normal phone. How can VoIP benefit your customers? Multi-functionality: Modern systems...
Wholesale communications specialist Stratus Technologies have today announced their latest product offering – Veeam Cloud Connect. Working with data backup experts Veeam, Stratus will be offering their partners a range of data backup, disaster recovery and intelligent data management solutions for virtual, physical and multi-cloud infrastructures. The launch of this solution comes off the back...
General consensus says that the traditional approach to backing up data leaves a lot to be desired. Most on-premises solutions are often costly, require a lot of maintenance, reduce efficiency and put businesses at risk of data loss. Backup as a Service (BaaS) is a modern alternative to these traditional backup solutions. With this, businesses...
In a time where almost all of our lives exist online, most of us have, or know someone that has lost data. While most of these are probably individuals on their personal devices, we can only imagine the number of businesses that are subject to loss of hardware each year. A recent survey found that...
A leased line (also known as managed internet, MIA, private circuit and more) is a high-speed communications link that is dedicated to one business customer and can be flexibly configured to offer various voice and data services including high-speed internet access. It consists of a dedicated fibre optic (or copper) cable that physically links two...
Stratus Technologies have announced the handover of its daily running from the current Managing Director, Gavin Scotchbrook to two former trainees, Steven Cox and Dale Waring. The three have worked together at Stratus since 2016. Stratus forms part of the technology division of Unity Tech Group, which services large and medium-sized organisations across the UK....
The dreaded 4-letter word – GDPR. Okay, technically an acronym, but we’re all sick of hearing about it, right? Regardless of whether we are sick of hearing about it, we respect our data and all businesses must comply. At Stratus Technologies, we are getting ourselves ready for it in a number of ways. 1. Unsubscribe...
