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 AVG® AntiVirus – Protect your PCs and network 

Award-winning antivirus protection detects, blocks, and removes viruses and malware from your company’s PCs and servers. Stay informed in real time with reports sent straight to your inbox showing the threats that have been identified and removed from your business network.

 AVG® Content Filtering – Manage access to distracting sites

Why not let your IT Provider manage distracting websites to keep your employees focused on business-related tasks no matter where they may be. Stay informed with activity reports sent straight to your inbox.

 AVG® Remote IT – Resolve your problems quickly

Our remote management tool helps you be more proactive and productive when managing your network and devices. Stay informed with in-depth event logs. Options to easily install or remove software, offer support, and solve problems with no interruptions to your employees.

 AVG® Email Security Services – Keep emails safer and spam-free

Email security services help keep your business communications more efficient, secure, and spam-free. We can deploy, monitor, and update all anti-spam, archive, and encryption services anytime, with no need for investing in any additional hardware or third-party software.

At Friend Computers we offer a wide range of IT services to businesses all over the country.

Whatever your requirements from supply of equipment to ongoing daily network support, we can help.

We specialise in finding the most cost effective, sensible solutions to your business IT needs.

• Carefully selected Computer Equipment at great prices
• Cost-effective Network Installation and Support
• Tailored Data Backup Solutions
• Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Services
• Ad-hoc and Contract Technical Support with guaranteed service levels

Many of our customers have been using us for almost 20 years and a high proportion have come to us by recommendation.

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FCL uses the 'Perfect Backup' hosted backup solution as our supplier of choice, with whom we are an official partner. Their pricing remains competitive, and they have a reassuringly excellent level of service. We also can advise how to combine off-site backup with local backup for the best disaster recovery setup.

The PerfectBackup offsite backup software runs a daily fully automated offsite and online backup of your important files and data. This allows you to dedicate your valuable time to your business instead of your daily data backup.

After the simple installation of the software you select the files and/or directories with important data. You'll only have to do this the first time, but it's possible to change the selection later on when needed.

The first time a full online backup will be made from the selected files. After encryption and compression these are sent to the PerfectBackup offsite servers for safe storage through a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection.

From that moment on, a daily (incremental) backup will be made of all new and changed files. This on a time of the day determined by yourself, allowing full flexibility on when your back-ups are run.

As a business professional you’re under pressure to cut costs, streamline your business, become more productive and efficient, whilst making yourself more available to clients and colleagues. So when the time comes to move to Hosted Exchange, make sure you choose a platform that guarantees you a safe and secure, quality environment with complete peace of mind from a partner you can trust.

• Reduced IT infrastructure costs
• Exchange 2010
• Instant deployment
• Massive 25GB per mailbox
• Enhanced security
• Mobile email ‘push’ technology
• No upgrades or repairs
• Shared calendars and contacts
• Easy mailbox control
• Public folders and subfolders
• Instant scalability
• Redundant networks
• Workforce mobility
• Award-winning Anti-Spam

Improve your communications
Hosted Exchange gives you the opportunity to build on your customer service and business efficiency by enabling you to contact, collaborate and share wherever you are and whenever you need to.

Secure and backed-up service
Industry leading cloud-based security and segmentation ensures your data is safe and secure. Data is also backed-up each day on a 60 day retention period.

Award-winning Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus

All inbound email is first passed through an award-winning Email Security system, providing you with outstanding protection of your mailboxes – as standard.

 Outstanding service

Dual hosted 
All Hosted Exchange services are dual-hosted. Multilayered systems are located across geographically distributed locations so, in the event of an outage, traffic is switched to a redundant data-centre and services are resumed.

99.9% Availability SLA
Ensuring you get the best service, the Hosted Exchange platform will be available at least 99.9% of the time.

Exceptional Support
We understand how important it is to provide you with support when you need it. You get the back-up of our highly-skilled support team who will help, advise and guide you through the installation and running of your Hosted Exchange services.

Communicate better
Now, more than ever, your business needs cost-effective and flexible communication tools. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.

Instant email
Email becomes instant with Exchange Server 2010, be it on your desktop using Outlook, or from any web browser through the outstanding Outlook Web Access. Instant email communication extends to your mobile phone too, with synchronised access to your email from most Smart Phones.

Work together
With Exchange Server, you get to share calendars, contacts and can share documents using public folders across desktop, web and mobile platforms. When people work together, your business runs smoother.

Control your costs
Moving your Exchange environment into the Cloud means you get all the advantages of on-site collaboration, whilst reducing the IT overhead of running on-site Exchange or Small Business Server.

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We have a range of competitively priced Business Desktop PC's in stock. Make sure that you check out this page on a regular basis to see our latest offers.

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  • Intel Core i3-3240 CPU
  • 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • 500GB Hard Disk
  • DVD/RW
  • Integrated LAN 10/100/1000
  • 6 x USB 2.0 Ports
  • Keyboard and Mouse
  • Intel HD Graphics
  • VGA and DVI Output
  • Windows 7 Pro / 8 Pro

For home users we carry out repairs and services to PCs, Printers, Laptops and Tablets. We visit homes to configure internet access, wireless networks and security. We have a shop open 6 days a week that sell's a range of computer systems and accessories.

We also aim to complete repairs the same day.

Whatever you need, give us a call (01803 663338) or if you just need help and advice, please call in and see how we can help.

• Computer and laptop sales, repairs & upgrades
• Data Transfer and home setup available
• Free estimates (subject to conditions)
• Same day repair
• Replacement Laptop screens
• Original Replacement laptop chargers
• Laptop power socket repairs
• Wide range of computer & broadband accessories
• Established since 1987
• Free customer parking