Steve Bent

Background

About Steve Bent

Specialising in complete outsourced IT planning, procurement, installation and support services to small to medium sized organisations utilising the following technologies : Server technologies: NT4, 2003, 2008, 2012, SBS 2003, SBS 2008, SBS 2011 & 2012 Essentials. Video / Web conference system design, supply and installation. CAD Workstations and associated hardware. Distributed 3D render farm installation, configuration and support. Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 & 2013. Office 365 migrations. Desktop technologies: XP, Vista, 7, 8 and common user applications. AutoCAD infrastructure and application support. VoIP / Asterisk phone system planning, supply and installation. In place hardware upgrades and migrations. Exchange swing migrations and upgrades. SBS2003 to SBS 2008 migrations and SBS2003 to Server 2008 and Exchange transitions. Cold cloning / VMware virtualisations (including legacy NT4 virtualisations) Online and offline complex P2V Hyper-V migrations. LAN / WAN design, build and implementation. Active Directory design, implementation and fault finding. Sizing and specifying NAS/SAN/Library/Autoloaders requirements and configuration thereafter. Backup system installation, configuration and maintenance. Disaster Recovery planning, proofing and testing. Router / Firewall / VPN implementation. Sizing and specifying server hardware, configuring and fault resolution – primarily Dell and HP. Comprehensive understanding of IT fundamentals obtained over many years dating back to the days of NT4 server. Entire site recovery / restoration and implementation of workarounds wherever required.