Meet Mark O’Neill – Green IT Expert
MEET THE EXPERT – MARK O’NEILL We meet up with leading Green IT expert, Mark O’Neill, author of “Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice” and ask why going green is relevant to small and medium sized business. What is Green IT? The term is quite subjective and can mean different things to different people. However, […]
Leading the way with Green IT
Leading the way with Green IT Here we look at three Organisations that have managed to achieve significant reductions in their CO2 emissions. Whilst also making cost savings on their utility bills, leading the way with Green IT. Server Virtualisation delivers savings – Leading the way with Green IT A large regional law firm with four […]
Green Clouds
Green Clouds Green Clouds – Cloud computing has arrived big time. Research company Forrester estimates that global spending on ‘cloud computing’ services will be $160 billion in 2020. A 22% annual growth rate. Businesses are increasingly substituting internal resources to outsourced, cloud-based services. This is to exploit the wide range of benefits offered such as […]
How clean is your keyboard and mouse?
How clean is your keyboard and mouse? Did you know that an average office keyboard and mouse can contain as much as 400 times more germs and bacteria than a toilet seat? That’s pretty disgusting, especially when you start to imagine opening a bag of crisps and eating them – after having typed that email! […]
Amshire and QA Apprenticeships
Amshire and QA team up again Amshire have again teamed up with QA Apprenticeships to find a further IT Help Desk Engineer. We have already taken on 2 IT Apprentices with QA over the last 2 years and this is something that we are looking to do so again. We are looking for local and […]
Top 10 tips for a Greener Business
Top 10 tips for a Greener Business Global warming resulting from carbon emissions is increasingly being recognised as an issue that everyone needs to help address. By doing so, reap bottom line benefits. Businesses both large and small that utilise IT systems need to play a major role to tackle this growing threat to the […]
How addictive is Twitter and LinkedIn
How addictive is Twitter and LinkedIn Social media channels such as Twitter and LinkedIn are part of everyday life for many of us. Both personally and in business. How we reach our friends and business partners has changed massively over the past few years. Twitter I truly did not want to use Twitter and remember […]
Do you know how to protect your business data when employees leave?
Do you know how to protect your business data when employees leave? How many of you think that employee data theft doesn’t apply to your type of business? Perhaps you should think again. It has been known that some employees who quit, or are fired take confidential business data with them. Protect your business. How many […]
Meet Glenn Woolaghan, SMB and Distribution Director for Microsoft UK
Glenn Woolaghan, SMB and Distribution Director for Microsoft UK In this interview with Glenn Woolaghan, SMB and Distribution Director, we ask some searching questions that are relevant to small and medium sized businesses. What are the key trends in IT that are going to make a different to the average SMB over the next few […]
Where did the name Amshire come from?
Where did the name Amshire come from? Author: Trevor M Taylor (Chairman) This is something that people often ask me. There is a bit of a story behind this and an amount of logic too. When I was setting up Amshire in the mid 90’s I used to get very frustrated and still do with funny […]