Recently a number of customers have told E-tec Computer Services they have received a phone call from Microsoft stating that they have a problem with their computer and they can help. Don’t get caught out.

Criminals often use the names of well-known companies, like Microsoft, BT, TalkTalk etc in their scams. They use the company names to convince you to give them money or your personal information. While traditionally they have used email to trick you, they are now using the telephone more and more to try and get your details.

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e-tec computer services safeguards precious video assets for Standby Productions

Company: Standby Productions

Location: 24 School Lane, Didsbury, M20 6RG

Industry: Video Production Manchester

Official Website: http://www.standbyproductions.co.uk/

Challenges:

“As a Video Production company we deal with large files all day every day that eat hard drives like there’s no tomorrow, so we set e-tec computer services quite a challenge by asking them to fit a system that not only stored such large files but also streamed them and backed them up quickly and effectively. We also needed the files to be available to more than one machine, again at high speed, so that there was no ‘stuttering’ when playing any High Definition footage.”

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