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An Essential Network is "Always On", is yours? EssentialNET is a "Specialist Optimisation Practice" "Specialist" Specialists are a luxury that fewer and fewer IT departments can afford. EssentialNET invest the time and effort needed to learn about the problems and issues that befall modern IT infrastructure, and the new innovative technologies that have been developed to address these issues, so that you don't have to. "Optimisation" Optimisation is about improving the performance of your existing infrastructure rather than continually buying new and additional hardware and software. EssentialNET select only those technologies that can cut costs and reduce expenditure at the same time as improving performance and increasing productivity. "Practice" Practice implies a consulting organisation. Every member of the EssentialNET team has a background in consultancy so that problems and issues can be properly explored and ideas can be well explained.

Who are we? A small nimble team of Essential technical specialists EssentialNET was formed almost 15 years ago, originally to provide specialist network services, and is made up of a small group of highly skilled and experienced individuals. The focus is on getting the job done for the client, rather than on job titles or bureaucratic processes and this engenders a multi-discipline, multi-purpose, team ethic. The main customer facing functions of the business are the Consultancy Team, the Implementation Team and the Support Team, who are all bound together by the Admin Team. The Principals in the business have a wealth of experience, working in and working with, multi-national corporations as well as small businesses. This hard earned knowledge, combined with the commitment and dedication of the close knit team, makes EssentialNET your ideal partner. If your team could benefit from some "virtual team members" who's sole purpose in life is to find, qualify, implement and support the very best optmisation technologies - then call EssentialNET today. What do we do? Optimise the Essential elements of your network "If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting the results you've always had" EssentialNET's leading edge approach to network services and optimisation forged some very long standing relationships with multi-national organisations in a range of industries. It soon became clear however that the need to optimise a network is inevitably driven by inefficiencies and poor performance in other aspects of the infrastructure. EssentialNET went on a quest to find optimisation technologies for other areas of the IT topology and, since then, the portfolio has grown. We believe that the ideal network should be Flexible, Safe, Fast and, wherever possible, "Always On". This not a pipe dream - we have a range of targeted technologies that turn this seemingly unattainable ideal into a reality. If you'd like more information on our collection of complimentary optimisation technologies, explore the pages of this website, then give us a call. Where are we? It is Essential to support remote sites as well as the HQ Although the Head Office is on the outskirts of West London, EssentialNET have team members working on the South Coast and in the North. With clients in Aberdeen and Cornwall, Cardiff and Kent, our coverage of the UK is complete. By their very nature, optimisation deployments, particularly WAN optimisation, are multi-site. Regardless of where the main site, or Data Centre is located, there will always be other appliances or products in other locations. EssentialNET manage some very large deployments around the world, most with Headquarters in the UK, but some with UK-based Regional Headquarters which need to integrate seamlessly with global management processes. We also manage remote staff working as part of small but very mobile organisations. Specialising in new technologies, our clients tend to be among the very earliest adopters of optimisation products and EssentialNET provide support for many installations - worldwide. At any given time, EssentialNET will be providing support for technologies anywhere in the world. If we mapped only those locations where permanent installations are being supported, it would look something like this map. EssentialNET have also deployed technologies on many offshore Oil Rigs as well as their corresponding land-based facilities. EssentialNET have also deployed technologies onto Yachts and Ships for the optimisation of Map and Chart updating. These vessels could be anywhere in the world at any given time. So, if you have remote sites in hard to reach, hard to support places, then you can be assured that EssentialNET can provide the global anywhere, anytime support your staff need and deserve. Want to join us? Could you be an Essential part of our team? EssentialNET is not the kind of organisation that wants to grow simply by adding staff. Having said that, if you believe you can add value to our business through your knowledge, experience and skills then we'd love to hear from you. Skills associated with the following roles would be of particular interest:- *  Internal Sales/Lead Generation *  Field-based Sales *  Installation Engineering So, if you'd like to tell us about yourself, please send your CV with a covering letter to careers@essential-net.co.uk Need a Partner? Is expansion into the UK and beyond Essential to your growth? For the last 10 years, EssentialNET has sought out the most innovative and effective optimisation technologies available. Having identified the potential of the product itself, and qualified that it will improve performance AND save money at the same time, EssentialNET has then brought those products to market in the UK and beyond. Here are some of the leading edge products that EssentialNET has worked with. In each case, EssentialNet has proactively sold one of the first of these technologies in the UK, as well as investing in training to be able to deploy and support them independently:- *  Riverbed WAN Optimisation Appliances *  FilesX Active Replication Software *  Virtual Iron Server Virtualisation Hypervisor *  Kaviza Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) *  InMage Replication & Recovery Software *  Talari WAN Aggregation Appliances *  Veloxum intelligent Performance Tuning So, if you have a new product that optimises IT infrastructure, and you are looking for the ideal Partner to help you bring your technology to the UK market and beyond, then give us a call and add your name to the growing list below.