Today's business environment demands that small businesses do more with less. The majority of small businesses have limited IT resources, employees, and time. Now, there's help.

Designed with your small business needs in mind, Windows Small Business Server 2003 is a complete and affordable network solution. With Windows Small Business Server 2003, you can have confidence that your data is secure, untap new productivity from your desktops, empower your employees to do more, and connect to your customers like never before.

Windows Small Business Server 2003 provides many of the networking features used by large companies, without the complexity typically associated with server technology. Windows Small Business Server 2003 delivers a complete business server solution for small businesses with up to 75 workstations.

The IBM System x3400 is an excellent low-cost solution for growing businesses or branch offices that rely on 24x7 availability and mission-critical applications. Optional features let you configure a server customized for your needs - from basic file-and-print to a robust, mission-critical application server, saving you time and money.

The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) family delivers simple, affordable, industry-leading technology to provide superior storage performance and enhance investment protection. These robust solutions offer the best price-performance features for direct attach environments, small clusters, and entry-level and mid-range SAN environments. Designed to maximize transfer rates, reduce management costs and drive a rapid return on investment, each solution supports flexible platforms and advanced data protection features. The MSA family offers reliable, cost-effective storage solutions to tackle your most demanding storage needs.

Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches are a new family of fixed-configuration standalone devices that provide desktop Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, enabling enhanced LAN services for entry-level enterprise, mid-market, and branch office networks. The Catalyst 2960 Series offers integrated security, including network admission control (NAC), advanced quality of service (QoS), and resiliency to deliver intelligent services for the network edge.

Highlights of the Cisco Catalyst 24-Port Gigabit Ether

• Ease of use and deployment
• Superior manageability
• Cisco Express Setup simplifies initial configuration of a switch through a web browser
• Superior redundancy for fault backup
• Integrated Cisco IOS software features for bandwidth optimization
• Advanced QoS
• Granular rate limiting
• Networkwide security

Information technology professionals rely on HP quality to ensure maximum productivity. As the power of applications, processors, memory adapters and storage devices increases, high-end computer users are seeking ways to optimize their system performance. HP provides leading solutions, adding new levels of performance, availability, flexibility, and management.

Double the pixel density and resolution in a plasma display. The highest resolution you can get in a 50-inch flat screen - in fact, it's a world-first. The PDP-5000EX has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and is capable of displaying the entire range of High Definition sources, including 720p, 1080i and 1080p - this is the first plasma display capable of 1080p.

What this means is that you get the ultimate in High Definition image detail, color accuracy and fast moving image clarity - made possible by the displays higher pixel count and faster refresh rate (of 720p). Again, the best you'll find in a 50-inch flat screen. The PDP-5000EX accepts both standard and high definition sources and will automatically "smart" convert these to give you the highest resolution picture possible.

This sleek media system and its three JVC innovations - Network Media Player, Front Surround Technology and hi-fi audio - redefine your living-room entertainment. You can enjoy them with high-quality audio/video at the same time.

Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco provides the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses, or around the world. Cisco solutions ensure that networks both public and private operate with maximum performance, security, and flexibility.

Working in conjunction with ProCurve radio ports, the ProCurve Wireless Edge Services xl Module provides centralized wireless LAN configuration and management of advanced wireless services, enabling a resilient, highly secure, mobile multi-service network. With the addition of the module, the ProCurve Switch 5300xl series enables network administrators to centrally manage a unified wired and wireless network using ProCurve's network management products, including ProCurve Identity Driven Manager. This centralized approach to wired and wireless management streamlines device configuration and administration of security and role-based user policies that are enforced at the edge of the network, regardless of how or where the user connects.

Brace yourself for the newest 2P half-height blade that provides power-efficient compute power, integrated iLO-2 management, expanded memory and I/O. Make a difference in your data center with HP ProLiant BL460c, which is optimized for space constrained deployments of high performance systems installations. What's more, the BL460c steps up the fault tolerant in a dense platform with mirrored-memory, online spare memory, memory interleaving, embedded RAID capability, and enhanced remote Lights-Out management.

The Electronic HP Care Pack Services (e-Care Pack) capability allows you to order, receive, update, and activate a wide range of valuable HP Care Pack Services over the Internet. Administered through the HP Services Network (CSN), it is a fast and simple process that enables immediate registration and service activation.

Increase equipment availability and productivity with high-quality onsite and remote support for your HP hardware, as well as selected multivendor equipment. This flexible HP Care Pack packaged service covers desktops, workstations, servers, notebooks and laptops, network equipment, and printing.

Choose 4-Hour 24x7 Same Day Hardware Support when you need to extend your hardware warranty coverage with prompt, anytime service for key systems and devices; obtain easy-to-buy, easy-to-use onsite services; improve hardware performance and uptime; increase the return on your HP and multivendor hardware investments; enjoy consistent service coverage across geographically dispersed sites.

The Electronic HP Care Pack Services (e-Care Pack) capability allows you to order, receive, update, and activate a wide range of valuable HP Care Pack Services over the Internet. Administered through the HP Services Network (CSN), it is a fast and simple process that enables immediate registration and service activation.

Increase equipment availability and productivity with high-quality onsite and remote support for your HP hardware, as well as selected multivendor equipment. This flexible HP Care Pack packaged service covers desktops, workstations, servers, notebooks and laptops, network equipment, and printing.

Choose Next Business Day Hardware Support when you need to: extend your hardware warranty coverage for key systems and devices; obtain easy-to-buy, easy-to-use onsite services; improve hardware performance and uptime; increase the return on your HP and multivendor hardware investments; enjoy consistent service coverage across geographically dispersed sites.

The D-Link xStack DXS-3326GSR is designed to meet the most demanding high port density fiber requirements. Each unit provides 24 Gigabit fiber slots, including (4) 10/100/1000 ports, and switching capacity of 128Gbps. D-Link xStack Switches can stack up to 12 units in a stack, providing up to 336 Gigabit ports, and up to 40Gbps of shared stacking bandwidth in a ring topology or 20Gbps of dedicated stacking bandwidth in a "star" topology. The DXS-3326GSR stacks with the other xStack Switches including the DGS-3324SR, DGS-3324SRi, DXS-3350SR, and DES-3352SR, providing unprecedented flexibility in a switch stack environment.

Highlights of the D-Link xStack DXS-3326GSR 26-Port L3 Switch

• High availability
• Network management
• Advanced enterprise features

AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials

This course is designed for new AutoCAD Mechanical users who require comprehensive training in AutoCAD Mechanical. It incorporates the features, commands, and techniques for creating and editing mechanical designs with AutoCAD Mechanical. This course focuses on features, tools, and techniques that make delegates productive with AutoCAD Mechanical in the shortest possible time. Hands-on exercises throughout the course enable delegates to practice creating mechanical engineering production drawings.

Course Duration: 4 days

Objectives

The primary objective of this course is to teach delegates the basic commands necessary for professional 2D mechanical drawing, design, and drafting using AutoCAD Mechanical. After completing this course, delegates will be able to, identify and use the key components of the AutoCAD Mechanical user interface, use the fundamental features of AutoCAD Mechanical, and the precision drafting tools to develop accurate technical engineering drawings, and demonstrate a high level of comfort and confidence with AutoCAD Mechanical through handson practice.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for new users of AutoCAD Mechanical.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that delegates have a working knowledge of AutoCAD, drafting, design, or engineering experience is a plus. Experience of Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP is essential.

Course Outline

AutoCAD Mechanical Design Concepts

• Concepts
• Key Functionality

User Interface

• Interacting with the User Interface
• Common Drawing Setup

Mechanical Layers and Layer Control

• Layers
• Layer Control

Tools for Creating Key Geometry

• Power Snaps
• Core Design Tools
• Centrelines
• Construction Lines
• Designing with Lines
• Adding Standard Feature Data for Holes and Slots

Tools for Manipulating Geometry

• Editing Tools
• Power Commands

Mechanical Part Generators

• Standard Parts
• Springs
• Chain/Belt
• Shaft Generator
• Shaft Standard Parts

Creating Drawing Sheets

• Model Space Views in Layouts
• Title Blocks and Drawing Borders
• Creating Detail Views in Model Space

Dimensioning and Annotating Your Drawings

• Creating Dimensions
• Manipulating Dimensions
• Annotation Symbols
• Revision Lists

Bill of Materials, Parts Lists and Balloons

• Bill of Materials
• Inserting Parts Lists
• Balloons

Design Calculations

• Design Calculations
• Bean calculations
• Pulleys and Chains
• Bolted Connections
• Shaft Calculator

Working with Mechanical Structure

• Structuring Data in Drawings
• Reusing and Editing Structured Data
• Structure and Other Tools

Mechanical Options For the CAD Manager

• AM: Standards
• AM: Structure
• AM: Drawing
• AM: Standard Parts
• AM: Shaft
• AM: Calculations
• AM: Preferences

The more delegates that take the course the lower price is

1st Delegate, £270.00 per day

2nd Delegate, £245.00 per day 3rd Delegate, £220.00 per day 4th Delegate, £195.00 per day

Call our sales team to discuss your business requirements 0870 429 3010

The affordable HP Designjet 130 printer series is a six-color, multi-format printing system that produces fade-resistant, photo-quality images with stunning results. Save time and money by publishing color prints in-house. With an 18 x 24 in tray and automatic roll-feed capability (standard on the 130nr model, optional on the 130 model) up to 24 inches, you can print postcard-size images, full-color pages, or banner-size images. Print speeds up to 4mpp for B size in Normal mode help get the job done. Color technologies from HP deliver reliable and accurate color. Automatic Closed Loop Color (CLC) calibration ensures consistency, while automatic Pantone calibration, offset emulations, and CMYKplus support, available via an optional RIP, provide accurate and predictable color. HP Color Layering technology produces a range of colors and smooth tonal transitions. Six printheads and individual ink cartridges mean fewer ink changes and no waste. Drivers with special graphic options are optimized to support both Mac and Windows printing.

Highlights of the HP DesignJet 130gp - large-format printer - colour - ink-jet

• Produce highly durable images with HP's specially formulated dye-based inks. Get eye-catching images at 2400 dpi with the 4-picoliter ink drop size ensuring you brilliant life-like colours, realistic detail, higher contrast and smooth tonal transitions. Achieve the finest results with HP Premium Plus Photo and Proofing Gloss Paper for rich colour depth, minimal dot visibility and uniform gloss. Reproduce consistent colours in all your prints with HP internal colour sensor technology.
• Enjoy the flexibility to print on a range of sizes and weights: the standard tray holds up to 100 sheets (up to A2+ size). The front bypass slot takes A1+ size cut-sheet media up to 625 mm wide. Feed heavy and rigid HP media of weights up to 300 g/m' via the rear bypass slot. Use the automatic roll feed [k1] to print on media up to 625 mm wide and 15.24 m long.
• Get high-quality results quickly at up to 4 mpp for A3 size in Normal mode. Optimise your ink usage with the modular ink delivery system. Easily control the level of fidelity in your colour workflow with optimised drivers that are Apple ColorSync compatible and support RGB ICC profiles for Mac and Microsoft® Windows® applications. Enjoy enhanced colour management and greater accuracy with an optional HP software RIP which gives you automatic PANTONE® calibration, CMYKplus and offset emulation.
• [k1] Legs and bin available as accessory

Wasp QuickStore bundle includes everything you need to start a point of sale system. Includes "show", pole display, receipt printer, cash drawer, CCD LR scanner and autosense stand. QuickStore Bundle Professional Edition includes all hardware in base edition, plus QuickStore Professional Edition Software.

You need power and bulletproof performance. But you also crave ease-of-use features like user-replaceable lenses for your team and color-coded connections for your users. The InFocus LP 860 gives you both. This professional-grade installation projector has all the performance details you need - including four optional lenses and 3500 lumens - and it boasts more flexibility than most meeting-room projectors. It's not only fully equipped with features like power zoom, focus, and lens shift. It's also wireless-ready and compatible with innovative projection solutions like ProjectorNet, which allows you to network all your projectors from a single PC, and ProjectorManager, which turns a PC into an advanced projector remote control. And here's the best part: The extra value of all these features translates into maximum ROI for your company - so you get all the rewards that come from making a really smart company purchase.

The t Series with XGA resolution has prioritized ultra-high brightness and guarantees outstanding image quality thanks to its Brilliant Color technology and NCE4 chip. In addition, Toshiba focused on connection versatility when designing the newcomers, adding features including an additional DVI input.

With brightness 4,000 ANSI lumens, the t420 projector offers a host of features including outstanding brightness for its class. Plentiful connection options enable a wide range of data sources to be used. In addition to RGB, component and composite signals, S-Video and audio, the Toshiba projector includes a DVI connector for digital image transmission.

Highlights of the Toshiba TDPT420 XGA Projector - 4000 Ansi Lumens

• 4,000 ANSI-lumens
• High security by password-function and panel lock
• Brilliant Color and NCE4

The XL2550U XGA Projector is a very versatile projector that is ideal for many types of projector needs. With its ultra bright 4000 lumen rating, it is very capable of engaging your audience attention even in environments with ambient lighting. Additionally it also includes support for an optional short, long and tele-zoom lenses to give the flexibility to project in any just about any room configuration.

Out in the field or down in the dirt, the durable Panasonic Toughbook 30 is built to take a beating. This brawny workhorse is encased in magnesium alloy, with durability designed into every seal, hinge and connector. Plus, as the industry's fastest fully rugged mobile PC, it's built for lightening-quick processing and wireless connectivity. Communicate in real time from remote areas, access databases online and run sophisticated software applications even in the harshest environments. The Toughbook 30 is vibration and drop-shock resistant.

The HP ProLiant ML350 G5 server, the best selling tower server in the world, is all new for its fifth generation with remarkable improvements to reliability, expandability, environmental, and performance features.

Kingston is the world's largest independent memory manufacturer. In today's performance-driven environment, memory upgrades provide an easy, economical alternative to increase system performance. Every memory product Kingston offers is designed to help you get maximum performance at the best price to you.

This memory is designed for the following systems:

Dell Precision Workstation 450, 650.

This is it - HP's lightning-fast laser printer with print speeds up to 62 ppm. Combine that with productivity tools, security features, easy management, networking and paper handling options, and you've got one flexible, high-performance laser printer.

Highlights of the HP LaserJet P4515n - printer - B/W - laser

• Lightning-fast laser printer speeds - up to 62 ppm - with consistent results, using toner technology
• Time to completion of a typical office print job can be nearly twice as fast with instant-on technology
• Process complex documents quickly and save time with 540 MHz processor
• Share with large groups via gigabit networking and access 3rd party solutions with host USB 2.0-like ports
• Avoid workgroup downtime with a reliable, workhorse printer that is consistently up and running
• Experience fast, secure data performance across an IP network with advanced IPsec encryption
• Prevent unauthorized access with device authentication and control LAN environments with 802.1X
• Protect printer with password and user authentication management tools using HP Web Jetadmin
• Print more, load less, with 500-sheet paper tray and capacity up to 3,600 pages
• Print on a variety of media types, up to legal size, to meet your specific needs
• Get more value from an efficient, high-capacity HP cartridge
• Improve performance by expanding memory and storage capacity with DIMM slot
• Simplify fleet management, deployment, security, reporting and optimization with HP Web Jetadmin
• Easily manage supplies and save time with intelligent original HP print cartridges
• Provide easy, familiar and consistent printing across your network with HP universal print driver
• Keep up to 15 HP LaserJet printers operating smoothly with HP Easy Printer Care Software

Get prints at 35 ppm color and black-and-white, with your first black-and-white page in under 6 seconds. Behind the scenes a 1 GHz PowerPC processor, full gigabyte of RAM, and Gigabit Ethernet interface pipeline multiple jobs for non-stop productivity.

5-bits/pixel contone technology delivers 19.200 x 600 dpi-class quality with 256 smooth gradations. Advanced image processing and edge enhancement mode ensure fine lines and small-point text are sharp, clear, and complete. And the magicolor 8650DN's enhanced Automatic Density Control (eAIDC) means color reproduction stability from first print to last.

The magicolor 8650DN supports media from postcard to 12.25" x 47.24", including 12" x 18" for full-bleed tabloid proofs complete with cropmarks. Every input source handles stocks up to a heavy 256 g/m2 (94 lb. cover equivalent), and up to 271 g/m2 via the multipurpose tray for extra versatility. Load trays with different media to manage all your business and creative applications.

Create professional documents in-house that project your best image. The magicolor 8650DN has a 3-way, 1150-sheet paper input system expandable to 3650 sheets for high-volume production. A built-in automatic duplexer delivers two-sided documents while using 50% less paper. Add staple, hole-punch, fold, and mailbin finishing options for ready-to-deliver documents.

The Cisco T1/E1 Multiflex Voice/WAN Interface Card ("Multiflex VWIC") supports voice, and data applications in Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700, and 3800 multiservice routers. The Multiflex VWIC combines WAN Interface Card (WIC) and Voice Interface Card (VIC) functionality to provide unparalleled flexibility, versatility and investment protection through its many uses. Customers who choose to integrate voice and data in multiple steps preserve their investment in a T1/E1 WAN interface since the Multiflex VWIC can be reused in packet voice applications.

The HP ProLiant DL385 G2, the world's largest selling AMD server, delivers on its history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way, dual core AMD Opteron performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

Christie is the pioneer of projection technology, it continues to lead the way in the design and the development of emerging technologies and applications. Offering Christie's customers tomorrow's technology - today.

Wasp MobileAsset is the asset tracking solution for small to medium-sized businesses. Wasp has perfected an all in one solution to solve the asset management needs of government and educational agencies, healthcare, and small to large companies across the globe. This asset tracking solution is capable of meeting the high demands of your business while still remaining simple enough to master right out of the box!

MobileAsset keeps the locations of your valuable assets at your fingertips, preventing you from having to search for misplaced, unreturned, or lost assets. In addition, detailed information on each asset, including what site, location and even department it is currently in, who checked it in or out, the cost of the asset, when the warranty period expires, and even when maintenance is due on the asset is all captured by the system. MobileAsset also stores the transaction history of an asset, so you know where it has been, how many times it has been broken or serviced, and who was the last person to check it out and for how long. MobileAsset even gives you the power to easily audit your assets to ensure 100% accuracy.

If you're currently using a spreadsheet, pen and paper, or are currently unhappy with your existing asset tracking package, MobileAsset will help your organization save time and money while better utilizing company equipment.

MobileAsset is the perfect asset management solution when you need the flexibility and freedom of a mobile device. Often, managing company assets while sitting in front of a computer is not possible or efficient. With a mobile device, you can take MobileAsset to remote locations, whether there in a different room, different building, or out in the field.

LTO Drives "powered by HP" are ideal for server environments with high capacity and performance requirements, larger application servers, such as large databases and e-mail servers. Freecom LTO-drives are based on leading HP Technology and offer One-Button-Disaster-Recovery and Tape-Alert.