Massive investment in our IT

As of late 2005, we have upgraded the servers in our in-house datacentre to quad Intel Pentium Xeon processors; each having a minimum of 2GB of memory.

Our servers all run RAID5 for performance and security and are all on hot-swappable drives to reduce downtime when making changes. Each server has three redundant power supplies as well as UPS and tape backup. The network that these servers power is a fully integrated Active Directory, based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the .NET Framework. Core applications servers include:

• Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (Intranet & extranets)
• Project Server 2003 (Centralised project and resource management)
• CRM (Customer Relationship Management and workflow)
• Exchange Server 2003 (Internal, Web and Mobile mail and scheduling)
• Visual SourceSafe & Adobe Version Cue (Version control and document workflow)
• IIS 6.0 (Development, Staging and Live web servers)