axon are are really please to have been tasked by a national heavy building materials company to centralise and consolidated their SQL database requirements due to uncontrolled growth and fragmentation of business databases.

We have proposed a mixed blade and virtual server solution to meet future growth and to meet centralisation and consolidation requirements.

As a by-product there will be reduced maintenance costs, reduced capitals cost, reduced power consumption and reduced data centre rack space used.

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axon get involved in office moves, relocations and refurbishments and understand that it can be a nightmare organising people to complete work on an arranged day to a set time scale.  There is a lot to consider from Carpets, Furniture, Builders, Electricians and oh yes those IT people! 

Most people don't consider IT until they have bought the desks and drawn up the final office floor plan.  axon would prefer to get involved at the beginning of projects like these to offer guidance and advice as to what should be considered before spending your money.

In our experience some of the problems we have come across

• Not enough power/sockets to run all the PC/Desktops
• Heath and Safety problems due to running cables on the floor
• Not enough CAT5* points for that extra new shiny new printer/desktop
• Wireless could have been installed into the meeting rooms to get round limited CAT5 points
• Ergonomic desks with no cable management or modesty plates to hide cables behind
• ADSL (Broadband) needs to be relocated because all communication equipment has been moved to an air conditioned office on a different floor.
• Not thought about how much space the Server and Telephone system require
• Server needs to be moved to a secure office that is cool enough - not under the stairs!

In a lot of these cases a quick review of the plans would have stopped these things happening and would have saved our customers time and money trying to fix things and to portray the initial image that they were trying to achieve which is a clean, efficient and professional organisation.

* What is a CAT5 Point 

CAT5 point is your network point - often located in the wall or floor.  It looks like a phone point, and shares the same location in most offices. It normally has a coloured cable running from the network point to the back of the PC. 

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axon IT have been providing IT Account Management to our existing customers over the last 3 years and have found this improves business relationships as and when problems occur.  Meeting people face to face on a regular basis you get a good understanding of how their business works and the types of day to day issues that they are faced with. 

Within the meetings I like to know if our customers are happy with our services, the staff and attitude, the way we deal with any IT problems and what their plans for the purchasing of hardware or software for those never ending company moves and changes. 

The reason why I am interested in plans for purchasing of IT Equipment is that you can very easily get caught up in buying equipment that you don't need.  There could be an alternative solution that could do the job better or your existing software may already have that feature and functionality already built in and waiting to be used.

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Axon IT and Triangle Infotech have been tasked by REPIC Ltd to implement the infrastructure to support a large scale web based application to be hosted in one of Manchester's major datacentres.

REPIC Ltd is a not for profit company formed and owned by over 60 of the major producers of electrical and electronic equipment in the UK and is expected to be the UK’s largest WEEE Producer compliance scheme.

The work is the result of two Microsoft Certified Partners Axon IT & Triangle Infotech working together to provide a consolidated and robust solution.

Triangle have developed a high specification database driven web application to meet REPIC's exact needs, where as Axon IT are providing the design & implementation of the infrastructure to support the application.

Both companies using their considerable knowledge and experience across a broad spectrum of Microsoft products will deliver continual monitoring and maintenance to provide maximum uptime of the system and the database solution.

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