The Background As a leading provider of building, design and specialist engineering services, Clugston has an annual turnover of over £100 million, and employs 500 people across the UK. The Challenge Clugston needed to improve its services, in particular hosting and WAN, to ensure that essential network connectivity was maintained in a constantly changing business environment – and do so at a controlled cost. Head of IT Alf Spencer explains further: “We employ six people in IT, so we simply couldn’t provide the level of resource and technical skills we wanted in-house. We knew we couldn’t retain all the systems and resources needed – from redundant power supply to security, backup, and so on. We couldn’t create a data centre at the level we wanted and would end up spending too mu

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