DPS Mission Statement:
DPS delivers our core products/services to the highest possible standard, at a competitive price, on time.

DPS provide the following Data Centre Services:

Power Infrastructure Services

Design and Specification – to a standard that will maximise power operating efficiency, minimise cost, and maximise resilience/redundancy, customised to the size of the project.

Hardware Procurement – we achieve competitive prices and short lead times by negotiating best possible terms from our regular suppliers.

Installation – our experienced crew of civil, electrical and mechanical engineers can deal with every aspect of what is a complex, and potentially dangerous undertaking. DPS engineers can deal with all aspects of a Data Centre’s power infrastructure, including transformer installation, switch gear design, build and installation, generators installation, UPS installation, and all cabling.

Maintenance – DPS has developed web based, remote, automatic monitoring systems to automate management of critical variables in the Data Centre process, providing early warnings of hardware problems that can be fixed before a breakdown occurs.

Data Infrastructure Services

Design – design optimum layout on a room/floor/building basis, to maximise rack capacity, incorporating a cooling system designed to reduce power cost, reduce capital outlay, and reduce the carbon footprint as compared to traditional, outdated, legacy air-conditioning systems that are expensive, dirty and create an unhealthy working environment for staff and customers of 1st generation data centres

Procurement – we achieve competitive prices and short lead times by negotiating best possible terms from our regular suppliers. In addition, we can often negotiate favourable terms with carriers as regards connection to the Internet, and the costs of data transit.

Installation – All data equipment installation and connection, as per the design, undertaken by our experienced IT engineers.

Management – our remote monitoring systems allow automated facility management to reduce costs and improve service levels.

For more info on Data Centre Design.

Our laws have been devised to help employees, but they have gone to far, to the extent that this good intention has backfired and led to hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost that might otherwise have been saved.

How has this happened.?  As a result of draconian laws whereby small firms are faced with ruinous payments to make long serving employees redundant.

Long serving employees hold their employers to ransom, they never resign to move jobs, as they want to cash in on the “equity” in “their” jobs.  The longer serving, and often higher paid employees see a tax free windfall-payout as their right, and they are financially motivated not to resign, but to hold-out for a pay-off.

In the meantime, the hard-ppressed business need to cut costs to survive, but cannot afford to pay the redundancy costs to cut back on staff.  The preverse reult is that the business is forced into formal insolvency, i.e. for a Company, Liquidation or Administration, or for a sole trader, Personal Bankruptcy.

If the business could have cut back on some staff, the remaining jobs would have been saved.

Once the company is in liquidation, the employees can claim compensation for their statutory entitlements from the National Insurance fund, as managed by the Redundancy Payment Service, a department of the Insolvency Service, part of BERR (formerly known as the DTi).

The employees get their money, with the experienced, skilled staff often moving onto new jobs straightaway, while the shorter serving employees, get less money and often struggle to get a decent new job with training and prospects like the one they just lost.

As usual the system favours older people in many ways, a bit like the pension system and the health service, all biased to favour older generations, while younger people are left in debt, untrained, and long term unemployed.

The scaremongering about Employees being abused is misconceived.  Running a small business is a nightmare as soon as you have employees, what with Employment Law and Health and Safety , it is not worth the bother, and is a significant discouragement to individuals starting a business in the first place.

My staff are well paid, trained and given 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays.  I don’t force them to work here, they do so willingly.  If I can no longer afford to pay them, or no longer require their services, why should I have to pay them compensation, as if I have done something wrong?

The whole system was set up in the early seventies when the world was a different place, and small companies did not play such an important part in our economy, and when their was a distinct  divide between owners and workers.

Those days have gone, and small businesses are not capable of supporting the current employment law system, which is outdated and causing job losses every day.  It is a disgrace and a scandal and policy makers on the left  should wake up the fact that their out-dated dogma is hurting the poorest in society, the very people these out-dated laws were inteneded to protect.

Perhaps if our politicians, particularly those on the left, had ever run their own business, and appreciate the difficulties and pressures, they might adjust their anti-business, anti-enterprise policies, and seek to re-balance our laws to provide more support for business owners.

Without a thriving small business sector, our economy is in deep trouble, and the individuals who have ideas, ambition and drive are the ones who need our support the most.

Alisdair Findlay – Chartered Accountant, Licensed Insolvency Practitioner in Cheltenham, Business Owner

Visit Insolvency Direct for liquidation advice.

Not only will we ensure that you maximise the return on your investment by providing you with a good rental income for the duration of your let we will provide you with the services necessary to protect your property.

We offer “No Let – No Fee”, what have you got to lose… Call us today 0845 459 0132

Having established a successful data centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the company has formed a joint venture with veteran property entrepreneur, David Pearl, to be known as Safehosts London.

The JV’s first centre, a high spec Tier 3 facility, is located in a 20,000-sq ft building in Great Dover Street, London SE1 – close to the City but not too close – offers excellent access to public transport links and, importantly, power. The new London Data Centre has a premium low latency and reliable network.

Sales director, Dave Cartwright, comments: “Everything is in place and the racks are ready to be filled. We can offer reliability and security because, unusually, we own our building and all our kit. Being independent, we can offer bespoke solutions as well as competitive prices.”

Safehosts London plans mainly to target service providers, carriers and large organisations with the offer of providing secure UK colocation hosting, connectivity, dedicated server hosting, vps hosting, data storage and backup solutions.

Technical support will be provided by a dedicated in-house team.

Dave Cartwright continues: “Our long term vision is for our UK data centres to be carbon neutral. We are investing in green technologies such as a cooling system that uses 90% less power than traditional air-con. Less power means less carbon, as well as less cost for our clients. Our PUE rating is one of the lowest in the UK.”

For London Data Centre Enquiries contact Dave Cartwright dave@safehosts.co.uk or visit http://safehosts.co.uk/

At Airtherm, we only use products of the highest quality and experienced engineers with excellence in their field. We aim to provide specifiers and contractors with complete confidence in our service by managing projects closely, adhering to strict safety guidelines, demanding the highest quality workmanship and we continue to strengthen our business by listening to our customers.

Whatever the application, whatever its demands – we can provide the ideal solution.

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If Business Network members liked each others Facebook pages, we would all benefit.

Safehosts’ offers a choice of colocation pricing models to suit your specific business needs. We believe buying server rack space in the traditional way fails to give you enough flexibility.

Safehosts London is a data centre in a prime location in the heart of London, just a few yards from Borough tube station (Northern Line), and just a short walk from London Bridge Railway station.

A centrally located, secure building with 30,000 ft2 spread across 4 data floors with an 880 server rack capacity. You can reserve rackspace today with up to 32 amps per rack.

For more information about Safehosts’ new London Site at 190 Great Dover Street call 01242 234567.

Create and build networks online for your business success.

Create networks of customers (for client care), business contacts (to generate new leads), employees (to help manage the business), and all other stakeholders relevant to your business.

Online Networking to specific groups of people is simply a way to communicate, that is cheap, easy and powerful.

Social Networking websites like facebook have been popular because it makes it easy to connect with new and existing friends and to stay in touch –  if you post a photograph, all your friends can see it.  Simples.

On BusinessNetwork.co.uk  the networking is not social, it’s strictly business.

You don’t post pictures of your big night out or holiday, but you could say, post an offer to all your customers, or advertise a seminar to your contacts, or a message to just one of them.  Your internal company network can be used as a management tool to manage systems and projects internally, providing staff with a system to highlight problems, offer solutions, communication top down, bottom up and any which way you like basically.

And of course you can join existing networks in BusinessNetwork created by existing members.  When you sign up to a network, you don’t just connect to the person who created that network, but to all the members already registered with that network.  In this way, you and your business can benefit from the power of business Networking, internet style.  Inter-NetWorking if you like.

Networking on Business Network is free to all members, no subscriptions, and at the moment anyway, no advertising.  That is the remarkable thing about this, it’s Free!  But, as a business ourselves, we have to make money to survice and earn a profit.  So where’s the catch you might be thinking, wait for it, here it comes, there is bound to be a sting in the tail.  Not really, actually more of a potential pot of gold at the end of a software rainbow.

You see, Business Network generates revenue through our web software service,  Opus Business, a web based, as in “cloud” business management software application, that works in your browser, and that can be accessed online from anywhere at anytime.

Your data is safely stored in our purpose built, state of the art secure data centre at our head office in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.  As opus is web based, you don’t need to buy any new hardware.  All you need is to be able to get online, log in and your good.

Opus Business has been designed to help small and start-up companies succeed in business.  It is a management system to assist the board of directors manage the company’s business, in a simple, low cost but powerful way.

As I said, it requires no new technology, and will work on your pc, laptop or smartphone, connecting your desktop, website and mobile phone to offer small companies fantastic technology with no capital outlay for a flat fee of £50 a month.

This pay as you go subscription payment model makes it affordable to everybody, and the cost savings that can be achieved by using web and mobile technology to avoid costs such as payroll, rent, travelling expenses, etc, are likely to make it worthwhile, never mind the web marketing tools that are included in the suite of applications that make up Opus Business.

Opus connects your desktop, web site and mobile devices in real time using email, text and web access from anywhere.  The convergence of these technologies offers the opportunity to create new business models, with innovative operating approaches, and lower financial risk.

We recognise that Business Network is made valuable by its members participation in our Networks, and by paying to use our Opus Business application.  It is only fair therefore that our members should benefit in some of the value, which we achieve by sharing Opus subscription revenues with members based on our commission network, which calculates commission due to our network of Business Network Agents on our golden rule formula.  For more details please see the pages on the commission network.

There is no question that in the competitive business environment we all face in today’s turbulent economic conditions, small businesses have to adapt to deal with the challenges, and take advantage of the opportunities.  The internet represents both.

We hope that networking on BusinessNetwork, and possibly taking advantage of the powerful features of Opus Business will help your business survive and thrive, and will help you get the most out of life as well as your business.

To find out more about Opus, please look on the relevant web pages, fill out a call back request or call now on 0845 200 7000.

Thank you for your kind attention.

The challenge we are all faced with is how to adapt – this is the survival of the fittest, a period of intense evolution, akin to the railroads, electrification and the internal combustion engine.

The winners will be those who understand the technology, its implications as regards their particular market, the losers will fail to recognise the opportunities and threats and become instinct – Kodak is the classic example, killed by smartphones, it used to have 95% of the film market, but it failed to adapt.

The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Kodak became a dinosaur, size is no protection from natural selection. In the technological revolution we are living through, large companies are terrified that some genius will come from nowhere and destroy their market. Look at Google, compared to Kodak!

In the year of convergence between the TV and the Web, small businesses can innovate and create new business models using technology to lower costs and increase quality, which is a win win in anyone’s book.