Are you happy with your current IT Support Provider?

January 20th, 2010 Jason Fitzgerald No comments

Do you currently use a 3rd party maintenance provider for all or some of your IT equipment’s hardware maintenance requirements?

If YES: We can provide you with a free, no obligations competitive quotation.

Whether you’re satisfied with current arrangements or not, Gardner Systems can provide you with a fully comprehensive comparison that will outline not only what you will pay, but precisely the level of support you can expect. Find out how Gardners can assist you in achieving business goals as well as reducing IT costs.

If NO: We may be able to assist you in reaching business goals through enhanced efficiency of your IT giving you savings against your existing maintenance expenditure.

Either way, you have nothing to lose!!

Why not contact Gardner Systems and find out exactly how we can help you save money compared to your existing support costs.

Find out more here

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New Prices Announced for Microsoft BPOS

November 6th, 2009 Frank Coward No comments

Over the last few years we have seen demand for hosted software applications rapidly increase. Due to the success of Microsoft’s online services (Business Productivity Online Suite) they have decided to reduce the price in order to continue to deliver a competitive and compelling offer that will help to drive continued customer adoption. In addition mailbox storage has now been increased from 5B to 25GB.
From 3 November 2009 the new price structure for Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite is as follows:

Offer

Original List Price

New UK Price

BPO Standard Suite

£10.04

£6.71

Exchange Online Standard

£6.69

£3.35

SharePoint Online Standard

£4.85

£3.52

Office Communications Online Standard

£1.67

£1.34

Live Meeting Standard

£3.01

£3.02

You can visit the BPOS Official Website here

Opportunity for Your Business

1.

The market is rapidly changing – IDC research forecasts +30% YOY growth, 2007-2011 for hosted applications. We believe that 50% of email seats in the small to medium size business segment and 20% in the enterprise market will be delivered via hosted email within five years.

2.

We continue to offer rich cross and up sell opportunities with associated service opportunities. Our Software-plus-Services strategy means you can mix and match our products to deliver the perfect solution to your customers.

3.

Selling Online solutions delivers increased sales margins for partners and provides annuity revenues. Microsoft Online Services deliver a 18% fee in the first year and 6% every recurring year.

4.

You can earn revenues from implementing, integrating and managing a solution for your customers. A survey of 300 partners found that on average, for every £1 spent on licences, partners made more than £6 in service attach revenue and also benefited from shorter sales and delivery cycles.

5.

You can deliver a secure and reliable service to your customers, providing a streamlined communications and collaboration experience, while leveraging economies of scale for infrastructure and utilities costs.
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Training for the Latest Microsoft Products

November 2nd, 2009 Jason Fitzgerald No comments

As we have already announced, we are pleased to have SkillsGen on-site with us at our Wavertree offices.  Skills-Gen is a Microsoft Gold partner and one of the leading training companies in the North-West.  Gardner has an agreed bespoke and also an off-the-shelf training programme for all users. We cater for users who wish to do anything from just familiarising themselves with the new Microsoft technologies up to obtaining professional certified qualifications.  We can jointly agree work “coaching” and enterprise-wide certification.

Following our latest series of Microsoft events covering Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Server 2008 R2 we are pleased to announce that we can now offer training on these subjects.

For a detailed response to your own specific requirements, just call our technical sales team on 0151 220 5552 or email us at info@gardsys.co.uk.

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NetApp Announce Huge Prices drops

September 16th, 2009 Jason Fitzgerald No comments

Following a meeting with our local NetApp TPA earlier on this month, we at Gardners were quite excited about some of the pricing models announced for SMB’s.

We wanted to find out how good the price changes where, in short…fantastic! for example a FAS 2020 (NetApp entry level model) with 12 x 500Gb SATA drives is now less that £9,000, that’s about 1/2 the price they had been previously!

We think this brings NetApp’s outstanding and versatile technology right into the reach of  Small to Medium businesses, who want to see their business data more effectively managed.

 These pricing changes are on the FAS2000 series and announced by NetApp in the following Press Report.

 

“NetApp Expands Offering for Midsize Enterprise Customers with New Entry-Level Storage System and Aggressive New Entry Price Points

New FAS2040 Adds Increased Capacity and Performance to Award-Winning Family; FAS2020, with Its Reduced Price, Is Now More Attractive to Smaller IT Organizations

SUNNYVALE, Calif.—September 15, 2009— Showing its commitment to Midsize Enterprise and distributed enterprise customers, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced the new FAS2040 storage system, providing customers with increased performance and capacity to handle demanding Microsoft® Windows® consolidation and virtualization workloads all on the same system. NetApp also announced significant price reductions for its FAS2020 systems and associated software, which are now preconfigured with high-capacity drives and include all protocols. These systems provide excellent value for midsize customers while enabling channel partners to sell into a broader customer base.”

Good move NetApp.

 

The Full Official NetApp Press Release

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