After every home game one Try Card is signed by the Saints scorers, before being framed and labelled to commemorate the relevant match. The winner is then presented with the Try Card during the half-time interval of the subsequent match. So whoever’s name is drawn out of the hat this time will receive a card signed by the game’s scorers. Entering the draw is FREE and could not be simpler! Just visit www.mirus-it.co.uk/trycard and fill in your details. You only have to enter once; your details will be kept on file for the rest of the season.

‘I’m delighted to be able to work with the industry community to develop a standard which businesses can use as a real benchmarking standard.  We hope that this will enable customers to feel increasingly confident in the businesses they choose to partner with for IT related services.’ added Paul.

CompTIA are hoping to make the standard available to the channel from May 2012 and Mirus are hoping to be one of the first in the UK to achieve the standard.

Foe more information on this and Mirus IT Solutions please call 01908 257352 or email sales@mirus-it.com

The exams are set in place to test the skills of the Mirus account managers to ensure they know the best way to advise a customer on how to license their software. As a trusted advisor, a Mirus Account Manager possesses a plethora of skills including licensing, making them a great hub of knowledge to the Mirus customer base.

Below are just some of the programmes which we are experts in:

• Microsoft Recommended Programmes:
• School Agreement
• Subscription Enrolment for Schools – UK Pilot
• Student and Teacher Licences

Other Programmes:

• Open Licences
• Full Packaged Products

If you are looking at reviewing your licensing or would like to explore ways to expand on your software, please contact a member of our team on 01908 257350.

The aim of the series is to follow real organisations, understand their structure and processes and working with the ‘Service Desk Inspector’ who is an experienced ITSM consultant, to tackle any service delivery challenges that are highlighted and work with the company to address these over a 6 month period.  Working with Mirus will be Barclay Rae, who has experience of delivering over 300 service improvement projects.

Paul Tomlinson, Managing Director at Mirus IT adds ‘We are delighted to be involved in this process.  We want to provide all of our customers will an exceptional level of service.  We saw this as a fantastic opportunity to open our doors to some experienced service desk management consultants to help us build on what we feel is already an excellent team.  With this additional advice and guidance we hope to enhance our service offering even further giving us a platform for future growth and expansion.’

For more information on the Service Desk Institute please see www.sdi-europe.com or to speak to a consultant at Mirus IT Solutions please call 01908 257352.

VMware virtualisation solutions enable businesses to simplify their IT, leveraging investments that have already been made and enabling the business to respond much faster to the changing needs of their customers.

Mirus are now authorised to provide customers with VMware technical support and virtualisation solutions. The VMware Enterprise Partner accreditation recognises that Mirus technical consultants have been highly trained and certified with the ability to help customers define, size and deploy solutions based on VMware products and services.

Ben Quelch, Operations Manager at Mirus, commented ‘We are delighted that Mirus has achieved the Enterprise partnership with VMware.  We have invested very heavily in the technical training of our team enabling us to offer the very best solutions to our clients.  They can rest assured that when working with us they are working with a company knowledgeable in the solutions available in the marketplace.

If you would like to discuss server virtualisation or find out more about Mirus IT Solutions then please call 01908 257352 or email sales@mirus-it.com

We now have a Smart Car which the team use for getting around town and visiting clients. With low emissions and an economical engine it will help us to play our part in saving the planet. It’s also has the Mirus branding so be sure to look out for it!

There were lots of fun activities and brilliant questions in the quiz, but overall there was a winning team consisting of Tom Williams, John Green & Peter Hack. Well done to that team and we are all looking forward to the next quiz night.

The team at Mirus usually send an annual Xmas card with a photo of the team in a fancy dress theme. This year we wanted to do something a little different.

To help raise money for AYME (Association of Young People with ME http://www.ayme.org.uk) Mirus decided to shoot a Xmas video and donate money to the charity that we would have normally spent on Xmas cards.

The video was great fun to make and truly shows that although providing IT support can be hard work, we still have fun. The people at Mirus are the most valuable asset and having happy staff results in better customer service.

Please take a look at our video, we hope you enjoy it!

We hope everyone has a great Xmas and a fantastic New Year.

Having been selected out of the hundreds of companies that partner with Zen is clearly a great achievement for Mirus and highlights the best of breed advice and solutions that we are able to offer to our clients.

Ben Quelch, Operations Manager at Mirus IT, added ‘Zen are a great partner to Mirus, enabling us to offer a wide range of connectivity solutions to our clients.  We have found them to be a reliable and trustworthy partner.  We look forward to greater successes together in the future’

The UK Channel Community was formed earlier this year, following CompTIA’s acquisition of the TCA, and offers a platform for resellers, distributors and vendors to focus on developing best practice, business education and resources for companies involved in the IT industry.

Chairing the executive council is Richard Tubb, who has worked in the IT industry for more than 15 years, and vice chair Lee Evans, owner of IT business Vital Network Solutions.

Other new members of the council include Paul Tomlinson, managing director of Mirus IT, and Mark Williams, managing director of Pensar IT Management.

Computer 2000 marketing director Andy Dow and Les Billing, non-exec director of HMD Electronics, represent the distribution membership. Representing the vendors are Jim Harrower, UK and Ireland sales manager at GFI Max, and Gavin Whitaker, software technical channel manager of EMEA at Hitachi Data Systems.

William Linard, senior manager of member engagement at CompTIA UK, said: “We are pleased to welcome top-level executives from across the full spectrum of the UK IT channel to take on the challenges that are unique to the IT market.”

We are delighted that Mirus are able to part of this organisation helping shape the IT community for the future.