At Smart IT, each employee is given one day’s paid leave a year where they can volunteer for a local charity of their choice, known as charity days. It’s a great opportunity for the team to invest in their local community whilst being compensated and rewarded for their efforts by Smart IT. This week, saw…
Taking just minutes to implement, our Cloud Email Security Solution requires no hardware to buy and no software to install. With a simple change of your domain(s) MX records, your mail is routed through our servers, filtered, and the good messages are then passed on to your network. The entire filtering process typically takes less…
Clayton Glass were founded in 1956 making them one of the UK’s longest established glass manufacturers. In 2004, the business became privately owned and since have gone from strength to strength. Fast forward to 2021 and Clayton Glass have grown into a much larger business, operating across four separate UK sites, and employing over 400…
Talk Works was established in 2014 by two psychologists. From their experience they recognised the need to enable employers to provide evidence-based support to their employees. Their clinics are in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, and Stockton servicing the entire North East and further afield too when required. Talk Works offers psychological therapy services,…
Way back in 2015 BT announced they would be phasing out the ISDN and PSTN networks with the goal of deactivating the ISDN Network in 2025. It all seemed a long way off back then, but here we are in 2022 and that target date is ebbing closer. For businesses who haven’t made the switch,…
St Aidan’s Catholic Academy is an all-boys Catholic school based in Sunderland with origins dating back to 1928. In April 2013, the school converted to an Academy. With 900 students, St Aidan’s is now a larger than average-size academy. St Aidan’s still, remains true to its founding principles: They are committed to the care and…
Over the Easter holidays Smart IT have been collecting donations for the “Feeding Families” charity. Feeding Families is a registered charity established in 2018. With 8.4 million people in the UK experiencing food poverty, Feeding Families’ key goal is bringing communities together in these challenging times when some families struggle to make ends meet. There…
Every business uses data daily. If you lost your critical data, what would you do? If you do not have backup, chances are it would destroy your business or if you are lucky, you would gradually work your way back. In fact, 70% of companies go out of business after a major data loss (DTI).…
At Smart IT we love a success story and are delighted to share that Telecom’s Engineer Apprentice Jack Marley has passed his Unified Communications Apprenticeship, achieving his Network Fundamentals MTA certification. Network Fundamentals MTA includes the following modules: How to install and maintain a network Cabling and network infrastructure Security Fundamentals “There is an ever-increasing…
We are all familiar with MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) It has become a part of everyday modern life. Many of our personal accounts now require multiple methods of verifying our identity upon logging in. Everything from accessing online banking to social media accounts requests a second layer of verification. No longer is a username and password…
