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Evaluating IT systems thoroughly helps pinpoint weaknesses, compliance concerns, and opportunities for improvement. This process analyses hardware, software, and network setups against industry standards, identifying areas to optimise. The results guide strategic decisions, allowing organisations to enhance security, streamline operations, and ensure their infrastructure supports future growth.
Planning for unexpected disruptions is vital to maintain critical business functions. Effective recovery strategies cover data backup, system restoration, and operational alternatives, ensuring continuity during crises. These services include regular testing and updates, reducing downtime risks and protecting against financial losses, while preserving customer trust and operational reliability.
Integrating advanced technologies into business operations enables innovation and efficiency. This approach modernises outdated processes through automation, data-driven decision-making, and improved customer engagement. Organisations achieve agility and competitiveness by adopting cloud solutions, analytics, and collaboration tools, ensuring they stay relevant in the evolving digital landscape.
Designing IT systems that align with business goals demands strategic insight and technical expertise. Tailored recommendations address scalability, security, and efficiency, ensuring systems meet current and future needs. By evaluating existing setups and proposing robust frameworks, organisations gain a competitive edge and ensure their technology investments drive measurable success.
Whilst disaster recovery develops a plan of action to deal with situations when a disaster strikes e.g. a Powercut, internet outage, server failure etc. A business continuity plan concentrates on ensuring your business is able to continue whilst critical aspect of the IT infrastructure are being restored in the background e.g. catering for a secondary internet line, making available a second premises for the employees to work from, providing offsite stand-by workstation or laptops in the event where the office is no longer accessible.
Yes that's correct, whether you're a client of ours or not we offer a variety of IT audits ranging from Full IT Infrastructure audit, Cyber Security Audit, Telephony Audit, Network Infrastructure Audit, Electrical Infrastructure Audit and so much more. This always allows you to be aware of the gaps present in your infrastructure along with specific recommendations which are made against each downfall.
Fibre leased lines are spreading very quickly in and around the capital and major cities in the UK. However there are still many areas which have not seen a full coverage for fibre leased lines. In contrtast some business also may find the cost of a leased line too difficult to fit into the annual IT budget. A few providers however have accelerated their coverage in and around London offering reasonably priced contended fibre solutions such as HyperOptic, G-Networks and Virgin.
With the above in mind if fibre in its entirety is not available in your areas you may wish to explore other technologies such as VDSL or WiMax. Be sure to give our account managers a call on 0207 112 8504 where they can guide towards the right directtion.
Almost all audio/video conferencing providers such as Zoom, Webex, Vonage, Microsoft Teams, 8x8 and Google Meet offer a variety of appliances which can otherwise deliver a fully functional hardware solution for your meeting rooms.
With a myriad of options to choose from the right solution will depend upon the wider communication and collaboration solution which your business currently uses.
We're technology agnostic on this front and would only recommend the right solution for your business. Please get in touch with one of our account managers so that we can help you identify the best solution for your needs.
BT announced that from 2020 ISDN networks will no longer be available for sale however they will continue to operate up until 2025 where all ISDN and PSTN circuits will be terminated. This means that well before this date all businesses will need to transition to a VOIP solution. VoIP or Voice over IP is a telephony solution which utilises the internet for calling rather than the public switching network.
In practice you would need to identify a suitable VoIP telephony provider and to migrate your current telephone numbers over to them. Once the telephone numbers have been ported you're then able to utilise a VoIP solution to make and receive phones calls.
Over the past 10 to 15 years many business have already made this move however if your business still is in the very few that require to be migrated to the cloud get in touch with one of our account managers so that we can help you choose the best solution.
This highly depends on the nature of your business, the number of calls you make or receive, office and remote internet connectivity, overall available bandwidth, call quality expectations, whether your employees all work from a single location or multiple locations, whether remote working has been fully implemented, the number of countries you operate within and the various features you may require from a telephony system. Considering the number of elements which can affect the choice we recommend that you give one of our account managers a call on 0207 112 8504 so that they can understand your requirements better and to provide you with suitable advice.
Professional IT services help businesses overcome specific challenges through a dedicated project, such as cloud migration, deployment of new hardware, IT infrastructure audits, disaster recovery and business continuity support, IT system architecture implementation, and more.
Managed IT services help businesses with the day-to-day running, maintenance, and support of IT needs on an on-going basis. They ensure your IT is helping you achieve your business goals at all times. Where managed services is an ongoing support package tailored to fit your organisation’s needs, professional services are short-term engagements to complete a specific project.
Typically fixed-term projects might include things such as a full Microsoft 365 Exchange Migration, a Microsoft Teams Telephony Implementation using Operator Connect or Direct Routing, a Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or Azure VDI migration, a Cyber Security Plus Certification, an ISO27001 Certification, a New Server/Storage Hardware Implementation and Migration. These are all typical projects (which we’ve supported many clients through), that fall under the professional services bracket.
Your appointed account manager and our technology architects typically review your upcoming tech requirement for the following 36 months on an annual basis. This allows them to draft the IT strategy for the following 3 years and to constantly review and update the professional services plan every 12 months.
Over the last eight years they have provided all the needs of our expanding business, here in the UK and as well as in two overseas locations, in a very seamless and professional manner. Many a times they have very professionally and competently dealt with some very complex issues involving our virtual setup, Refinitive and Reuters platforms. We are always impressed by the depth of knowledge of their staff but especially the knowledge and experience of their founding partners whom are always promptly available.
Investment Management
I'd like to thank all at Lyon for your work this year- if you'd told me 12 months ago that the entire office would be working remotely, I don't think I'd have believed it would have been possible, let alone relatively smooth and productive. So thank you for moving so swiftly to get us set up in March, and the support ever since. Please do pass on my thanks to Tom and the rest of the team.
Architectural Firm
We engaged with Lyon at a time when our server had crashed, and our previous IT had thrown in the towel. Unbeknown to them it was a behemoth of a job however they managed to restore everything back to normal within days. Since then we’ve been looked after by them regularly and can’t recommend them enough.
Not for Profit
I've been lucky enough to work with Lyon Managed Services for a few years now. Amin and the team always offer amazing customer service, fast response times and plenty of patience when dealing with whatever kind of query I may have.
Global Stationery Start-up
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