When hosting your own data and information in your offices, often you will also be paying for a backup or off-premise service. This can be very expensive and is a duplication of effort and cost.

Solution
Moving your data to securely managed data centres means services are highly available from the off, and are archived and replicated for you. This gives you one predictable cost that is much lower than the sum of those activities.

One problem faced by all businesses, now more than ever, is a tight budget. Whilst demand for the latest IT services continues to increase, it’s becoming ever more difficult to get CapEx sign off for IT projects.

Solution
Cloud storage enables you to 'pay as you go', giving you a low monthly cost to setup and then competitive pricing as you business grows. There is no need to buy machines or software.

Businesses of all sizes are increasingly looking to enable remote workers, both those on the road and those wanting to work from home for some or all of their working week. This can present serious challenges to IT teams, who have to provide the platform to make this possible.

Solution
Having your files centrally accesible means that people in and outside the office can be given access to your company documents, quickly and safely.

A problem for many businesses housing their data in their office is security. Equipment is easily stolen or damaged, which could hurt any business where the data is critical to the operation.

Solution
Having your data stored in Tier 3 & 4 secure data centres means that your information is stored securely, isolated and replicated to other ThinkGrid data centres in the same country to ensure continuity of data.

If your file server or office storage device needs to be replaced, it can be a costly and time consuming exercise .

Solution
The ThinkGrid Cloud Storage platform features secure online file storage, file sharing and advanced collaboration, content tagging and true anytime, anywhere access. Whether from our native Windows desktop, rich Web 2.0 browser, or via native BlackBerry®, iPhone® and Windows Mobile® clients, ThinkGrid’s online file storage capabilities give your clients the access to files they demand.

Outside of IT-specific businesses, most start-ups will have little or no IT expertise and probably equally little desire to acquire it. With the myriad other issues that need attending to in order to get a business up and running, IT headaches are the last thing most entrepreneurs want to deal with.

Solution
ThinkGrid services are very easy to use and ensure even an IT novice has the same capabilities as a much larger organisation. ThinkGrid also has a network of partners who are able to provide additional help and expertise where required.

Approximately 80% of businesses that suffer a severe IT failure close within 18 months and, even without such a catastrophe, any unplanned downtime can have a huge financial impact. However, whilst this creates an obvious need for business continuity provisions, building truly resilient, n+1 IT solutions is often prohibitively expensive.

Solution
With data being located in multiple Tier 3 & 4 data centres, your information is always safe. Many of the collaboration services include archiving and data restore in case you delete items or need to keep them for long periods of time. Using cloud computing, data is located safely on a highly available infrastructure, which gives you 99.99% access any day of the week.