IT Support Sheffield, yorkshire

WHAT IS HOSTING?

Application Support Provision (also known as "ASP" and "Hosting") is a very important emerging technology. It is not a new thing, but until only recently it has been prohibitively expensive for the Small / Medium Business to make realistic, economical use of.

ASP allows you to have all your applications (Word, Excel, etc.) and your information, stored at a remote site on a Windows Terminal Server. It does not even matter if you're not running Windows XP; some of our clients run Windows 98SE and when they click on the "Remote Desktop" icon, the Desktop changes to their XP Desktop, and all their Hosted Application Icons. NOTHING needs to be stored on the local machine, apart from a single icon to launch the Hosted Service.

BENEFITS OF APPLICATION HOSTING

• Data Security; because the information is not stored on the local PC, it is much safer. Because the data is not stored on the laptop itself, all a thief would get is the Hardware, not your information.

• Portability; your data is available anywhere (as long as there is an internet connection).

• Because the data is warehoused, the backup plans and physical security measures taken are far in advance of those usually taken by the Small Business. Data Centres typically have robotic tape drive facilities costing upwards of £7,000, and online network hard drives starting from upwards of £35,000.

• It is easy to work - anywhere. Because the data is not stored at ANY one site, each of your key locations has equal billing when it comes to access, and because the data is centrally administered, it is easy to make changes to the whole business via the one location.

There are many other advantages, too; to find out more, please contact us and we will be happy to discuss the options available to you via Nemark Application Hosting!