When hosting your own data and information in your offices, often you will also be paying for tape backup or off-premise logistics service. This can be very expensive and is a duplication of effort and cost.

Solution
Moving your data to securely managed data centres means services are highly available from the off, and are kept secure and replicated. This gives you one predictable cost that is much lower than the sum of those activities.

One problem faced by all businesses, now more than ever, is a tight budget. Whilst demand for the latest IT services continues to increase, it’s becoming ever more difficult to get CapEx sign off for IT projects.

Solution
Cloud backup enables you to 'pay as you go', giving you a low monthly cost to setup and then competitive pricing as you business grows. There is no need to buy machines or software.

Businesses of all sizes are increasingly looking to enable remote workers, both those on the road and those wanting to work from home for some or all of their working week. This can present serious challenges to IT teams, who have to provide the platform to make this possible.

Solution
Making sure that your remote worker's devices are centrally backed up and secure from an easy interface becomes easier with cloud backup. So you can keep your work force running even in the event of a disaster.

A problem for many businesses housing their data in their office is security. Equipment is easily stolen or damaged, which could hurt any business where the data is critical to the operation.

Solution
Having your data stored in Tier 3 & 4 secure data centres means that your information is stored securely, isolated and replicated to other ThinkGrid data centres in the same country to ensure continuity of data.

Outside of IT-specific businesses, most start-ups will have little or no IT expertise and probably equally little desire to acquire it. With the myriad other issues that need attending to in order to get a business up and running, IT headaches are the last thing most entrepreneurs want to deal with.

Solution
ThinkGrid's services as well as our implementation partners make the solution very straight forward and easy to get going. ThinkGrid also has a network of partners who are able to provide additional help and expertise where required.

Approximately 80% of businesses that suffer a severe IT failure close within 18 months and, even without such a catastrophe, any unplanned downtime can have a huge financial impact. However, whilst this creates an obvious need for business continuity provisions, building truly resilient, n+1 IT solutions is often prohibitively expensive.

Solution
With data being located in multiple Tier 3 & 4 data centres, your information is always safe. Many of the collaboration services include archiving and data restore in case you delete items or need to keep them for long periods of time. Using cloud computing, data is located safely on a highly available infrastructure, which gives you 99.99% access any day of the week.