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Data Centre Opens |
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Bloxham Mill is nearing completion of the construction
of its state-of-the art Data Centre for its IT and Telecoms business, bm-it. bm-it aims to provide high-quality, low-cost colocation and rack space to businesses in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire,
Warwickshire, the
West Midlands,
Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire.
Colin Deamer, Director of bm-it
told us: “Demand for data centres is accelerating due to rapid and
continued growth of e-business. Bloxham Mill is
home to over 47 businesses which range from recruitment companies to an
international gaming design company. They all have one thing in common: a need to ensure their database and computer records are kept in a
completely safe and secure environment. Our decision to extend our
collocation and rack space services to the wider business community has
been received very positively.”
The Bloxham Mill Data Centre will house customer
servers from a variety of business types, up to it's capacity of
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Nearly a quarter of a million pounds has been invested in the construction of the Data Centre and features include:
- 7 independent bespoke air conditioning systems
for resilient air cooling and handling
- FM200 gas fire suppression with intelligent
learning capability
- Gigabit fibre backbone with Dual redundant
Cisco switches to each rack
- Business continuity suite for unplanned
emergencies
- High capacity backup diesel generator
- On site IT team
- IP Bandwidth, leaseline,
private circuits available from 512k to multi-gigabit on fibre
provision.
Colin
continued: “After its employees, a business’s data is probably its most valuable asset, yet many businesses have no
data protection in place whatsoever, let alone a disaster recovery
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We are confident that the Centre will attract significant interest when it opens at the beginning of August and we will be hosting a
number of Open Days and informative business forums to allow
business professionals to see the services at first hand, and to discuss
their individual requirements with our team. For those businesses that
have disaster plans in place, we are offering the facility to actually
test this by utilising the Business Continuity Suite at Bloxham Mill.
If you would like to learn more about the Data Centre please call Ray Avery or Colin Deamer on 01295 722800 or visit www.bm-it.co.uk
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Know your neighbour
In this edition, we are delighted
to profile Sarah Castle, the MD of Think Big Training, an award-winning training company that understands
that sales are the life blood of any business.
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Main Operation
Putting it simply, Think Big specialises in developing
people to be the very best they can be within their roles at work.
If staff are equipped with the correct skills and knowledge,
profitable business will follow. All businesses train their staff
in one way, shape or form. Think Big delivers specialist courses
ranging from one-to-one management training to motivate and
inspire teams, to success and excellence in customer service
courses, which every person within the organisation can attend. We
work with companies such as Sanderson, Dunlop, TNT Express and Brethertons Solicitors.
Business Highlight
In 2004 I was awarded Sales Trainer of The Year at the National
Sales Awards. I was delighted to receive the award which recognised
my positive can do attitude and methodology used when developing
people and designing courses as well as the results achieved.
Total Staff
One perfectly formed employee - me! I personally oversee
every project from the initial meeting, design of the course and I
deliver it. The buck stops with me and that is the way I like it.
Wherever possible, I try to outsource administration
services to skilled professionals, be it the telephone reception
services at Bloxham Mill, my accounts or
the specialist services of the PDQ Partnership, a Marketing and PR
company. I enjoy the flexibility that outsourcing gives me in my
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Best Business
Decision
Change the way courses are delivered. Gone are the three day back-to-back
courses where delegates arrive fresh and eager to learn, but
by day three are suffering from information overload. All Think
Big concept courses are delivered in small workshops which last no
longer than four hours at a time. The delegates respond really well
to this because they learn a little and implement a lot.
Worst Business Decision
Out sourcing work to other trainers! My clients didn’t like
it. I’ve listened to my clients over the years and they tell
me that the reason they use Think Big is because of the way I
deliver the courses that I have designed. It is impossible for
other trainers, no matter how good they are, to replicate someone else’s
style; it can’t be done. Think Big’s
strategy is, and always will be, to offer our clients a
bespoke personal service.
Best Bit of Advice
Attitude is everything... never stop believing in yourself.
Different Job
Sell coconuts of the beach in Fiji
. I believe such a
job would soon develop into the best run sales operation in the
whole of the Pacific region (see above - you have just got
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Sarah Castle
Managing Director,
Think Big Training
SPECIAL
OFFER
To celebrate her move to Bloxham Mill,
Sarah is holding a complimentary
training session on the 22nd September
entitled ‘Selling Brand You’.
For more information or to book a
place call Sarah on 01295 724531
or email: sales@thinkbigtraining.com
Website:
www.thinkbigtraining.com |
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Explorer finds her way to Bloxham!
The second meeting of the b2b club
at Bloxham Mill Business Centre heard from
celebrated explorer Sue Stockdale. Sue is an unusual combination of
business woman, author, international athlete and record-breaking
explorer. Over 60 guests were enthralled to hear about her
expeditions and how they could apply some of the lessons she learned to
their businesses.
The meeting was sponsored by Brethertons Solicitors LLP as part of their launch
of the new online legal services brand www.lawsense.co.uk
. Co-sponsors also included Business Link, Federation of Small
Businesses, and thebestofbanbury.
The next meeting of the b2b club is
on the 24th September; the guest speaker is Tony Baldry MP. To register for this event email: admin@bm-it.co.uk or call 01295
724545.
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Sue Stockdale addressing the b2b
meeting at Bloxham Mill |
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Young Dragons visit Bloxham
Mill |
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Regional Young Enterprise winners Roxsolid from the North Oxfordshire
Academy visited Bloxham Mill as part of the Academy’s drive to
forge links with the local business community and to ensure that students
are made aware of what business is like in the real world.
As part of the Young Enterprise
competition, Roxsolid sourced and distributed a
novel wrist band data storage device. The group of sixth formers were
announced as the Regional winners of the North Oxfordshire Young
Enterprise Competition, beating other schools including
Bloxham School, Chipping
Norton School
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The North Oxfordshire
Academy is a new
school which specialises in media and communication with business
enterprise. Judging by the performance of Roxsolid,
who were a delightful group of young people, the Academy is well on its
way to a successful future.
For more information about the Academy
or to find out how you could help become a business mentor for the Careers Academy visit: www.northoxfordshire-academy.org |
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Bloxham
Mill Business Centre
Barford Road, Bloxham, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 4FF
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+44 (0)1295 722807 | email enquiries@bloxhammill.com
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