With the wide availability of Annex-M technology on the O2 network, new opportunities should be opening up to wholesalers. With bandwidth hungry technologies such as remote backup, database replication and FTP, high upload is a key factor in delivering these services to business. However, reliability is also a key requirement, and for the first time businesses can feel confident in moving their...

Prior to my current post at Fluidata I worked for one of the UK’s leading environmental consultancies. Here I helped companies to assess and reduce their carbon emissions. Because of this I am often asked for advice on how to reduce a company’s carbon footprint and frequently the answer I give is to fully utilise our IT services. The fact of the matter is that we cannot continue to run successful...

In 2005 Ofcom negotiated a deal with BT to set up the Openreach local access division to offer services to other ISPs. LLU (local loop unbundling) allowed ISPs to install their own equipment in BT exchanges and gave network providers the opportunity to innovate and differentiate their product offerings and provide higher bandwidth services as well as improved service levels. Hence, over the...

I have recently been reading in magazines such as Computer Weekly about the importance of remote backup and disaster recovery (DR). According to a recent survey, one in three businesses does not undertake DR and remote backup as they believe it will significantly disrupt their revenue. What is more concerning is that should a disaster strike happen it could mean a loss of £4,300 per hour while...

Fluidata has recently embraced Video Conferencing technology by installing a life size, high definition video presence suite in our London office. The system, which of course runs over Fluidata connectivity lines, offers us the chance to conduct meetings with our various partners and direct clients across the country and beyond, quickly paying for itself in the process as we reduce time and...

DUAL ADVANCE is the latest product innovation from Fluidata, and takes our ADVANCE product range to the next level. Ever thought it would be great to actually use your back up line as opposed to on the odd occasion when your main line fails? Or you need two separate lines for different applications such as voice and data? Well DUAL ADVANCE is your answer. DUAL ADVANCE uses a Cisco 1841 router and...

Effective backup is essential to the operation of any business. Legacy tapes or optical backup are still used by many businesses, but they can be expensive to maintain, ineffective to recover data and require manually taking the media offsite every day. But just how effective is back up if it doesn’t provide any protection against theft, fire or natural disasters like carbonite does?So please...

As more customers move applications into the cloud, it is becoming paramount that their WAN connectivity can handle the increased usage demands it is being subjected to. Equally as important is the resiliency and strength of the underlying circuits. However, not every error can be prevented and we are increasingly seeing issues outside of our network that are affecting your use of our circuits....

Network connectivity has always been our key focus, but with the emergence of a new class of data centres that are better equipped in supporting the very latest advances in technology, there are significant benefits to be had by customers consolidating their hosting and connectivity with one provider. As a result, Fluidata has a new dedicated datacentre in Hemel Hempstead that is brand new,...

We have just launched our “Playroom” at our sales office in London. If you are currently looking to change your services or would like to experience another product then our demo room is the perfect place to start. The idea is to deliver all our products from ADSL2+, SDSL, Advance, PureFluid and even fibre into this room so you can see firsthand how the services perform. You can even bring along...