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VoIP: What is it and can it work for your business?

November 27, 2020

Voice over Internet Protocol, known more commonly as VoIP, is simply a phone service via the internet as opposed to traditional phone lines. With more and more businesses switching to remote or flexible ways of working, your phone systems need to be able to keep up. Here

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2019 Probado Business Growth and Successes

January 5, 2020

2019 has been a fantastic year here at Probado, we have welcomed new faces to the team and continued to grow the business significantly across Yorkshire and Manchester, even being listed in the Digital Enterprise Top 100 for the most innovative, digitally mature and digitally transformational businesses

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Unified Communications – how you can communicate wherever and whenever you want

July 10, 2019

It’s fair to say, digital communication and unified communication has come a long way in the past decade. Virtually all our daily tasks can be done at our fingertips. In late 2015, mobile web traffic skyrocketed and surpassed desktop for the very first time. Since then, mobile

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What to do if you think you’ve been hacked

May 21, 2019

In April 2019 the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published its first UK Cyber Survey which revealed that 42% of Brits expect to lose money to online fraud. Falling victim to hackers can have a devastating effect on your business so it’s important that you and your

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Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team

March 26, 2019
Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team

HVMRT first approached Probado at the end of 2018 to look into problems they had been experiencing in trying to set-up their own VPN (Virtual Private Network) and so needed to call in expert help. After an online search of IT companies HVMRT found Probado whilst searching

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Password security for SMEs – why it’s important they can’t be guessed

March 20, 2019

How many times a day are you asked to input a password online? Your work email, personal email, online banking account, social media, to name just a few, all require a password and it can be tempting to use the same one for everything. But stop right

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Data security in 2019 – the good news and the bad news for business

February 14, 2019

  Keeping on top of your data security means protecting digital information from unauthorised access such as that which occurs in a cyber-attack or a data breach. Here are some tips on the issues that businesses should be aware of in order to protect their data in

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RockShop Wholesale

October 16, 2018
RockShop Wholesale

Probado were asked to quote for a new server for the RockShop to run SAP software (Systems, Applications and Products) provided by FrontLine Consultancy. RockShop Wholesale’s Operations Manager, Debbie Bradley recalls ‘We were looking for IT support having just moved premises and looked online for local IT

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Harold Stock and Co.

March 26, 2016
Harold Stock and Co.

Harold Stock’s Director, Darren McGuinness recalls that ‘before Probado, our IT system wasn’t the best, we ran our own server from our Failsworth office which relied on a WIFI network with a taped back-up. This left us vulnerable, with no reliable means of disaster recovery when complying

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BCB Training

April 2, 2015
BCB Training

Training is delivered from BCB’s training centres at “Moorlands College” and from “Beechurst House”. Probado was commissioned to deliver IT Training suites to both sites. Steve Palmer, Operations Manager, commented “it was important that students could work from both sites, experience the same ‘look and feel’ and

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