History of hard work and technical excellence

When founder Paul Tomlinson created Mirus IT at its humble base in Milton Keynes back in 2002, aged 25, he’d already headed up a small IT firm and had been working as an engineer since he was 16 years old.

As things started to take off, Paul focused his efforts on bringing in new business, leaving much of the technical matters to his new team. 

He was rewarded with several business wins and, with the help of referrals from clients such as HSBC, Mirus was soon expanding further and even acquiring other companies. 

Not long after that, Paul had a new vision – to become one of the most trusted managed services providers around. And it wasn’t long until the company was being named in the top 25% of Global Managed Service Providers by MSPmentor, one of the most distinguished lists in the industry.

Since then, Mirus – and Paul – have won countless awards, employ over 100 people, and are helping more than 250 leading organisations and educational establishments take their technology to the next level.

At Mirus IT, your success is our success, and that’s why we are delighted to have joined the IT Lab group of companies alongside Perspective Risk and Content and Code.

IT Lab delivers 24/7 IT managed services, cloud solutions and cyber security services to its managed service clients, as well as technical advisory, transition and transformational services across the Microsoft 3 Clouds. IT Lab employs 550+ staff, across multiple locations and service 850+ client organisations and tens of thousands of end users.

In today’s fast-changing technology landscape, the IT Lab group has the breadth of services, the ability to scale resources and people, and can learn and adapt to the speed of changes coming from companies, such as Microsoft, that enables it to provide the level of service that customers now expect.

Paul Tomlinson, CEO of Mirus: “In early 2019 we reviewed our long-term strategy and felt our clients’ needs and the industry were changing rapidly. After thorough review we felt that the right way to address this was to join a larger organisation who had the range of additional skills our clients needed and of course the same approach to providing an exceptional experience when delivering service.

During the 17 years I have been running Mirus, I have kept a close track of other technology providers and IT Lab are a provider I have always respected and paid close attention to their journey. I’m incredibly pleased and excited to be joining such an amazing organisation that shares a very similar culture to our own.

We believe the breadth of skills within the IT Lab group will allow us to address our clients changing needs and provide exciting long-term career opportunities for myself and our people.”

Contact the team to find out how you can gain the benefits of both Mirus’ and IT Lab’s history and award-winning IT solutions. 

You can even take a tour of our office - have a walk around!