Having written my blog from the start of this adventure 14 months ago I was keen to be able to post whilst I was actually out in the Arctic! I wanted to be able to tell the school children following me  just how well the clothing was working, how cold it got, and what adventures we were having!

As you can imagine I have spent hours on the pc trying to find help with sponsorship, fundraising, researching equipment … and looking for IT support. On the whole, I have to say,  it has been my experience in this tough climate, that it is the smaller companies rather than the PLC’s  that have shone through!

One brilliant example of this is Pure Technology. One of many companies I found on the web, and emailed to see if they could provide remote IT support. Most companies don’t even bother to respond … Pure Technology emailed by return!

Rugged Laptop

Pure Technology has been impressively professional, helpful and interested. They are kindly providing me with a rugged laptop and data phone, so that I can continue to update this blog (with the very kind help of David Lakins from Key Multimedia) I will also be given a solar roll, which will be collecting the suns rays whilst strapped to the top of my pulk, to enable me to recharge these devices. I am hoping for lots of bright blue skies and not many white outs!

In the short time that I have known Danny Long and his team at Pure Technology, I have been bowled over by their level of support, their mantra has been “How else can we help you?” A few months ago I hadn’t even heard of Pure Technology. When I emailed them for possible help, I didn’t really know what they did; I had found an article which talked about Pure Technology providing the communications and IT support for Bear Grylls’ expedition to the North West Passage, and thought,  “maybe they can help me!”

I have to say I got lucky! Here is a small bit of information on Pure Technology, and what they actually do for a living, when they are not helping wanna be explorers like me!

Pure Technology is an independent technology support company with offices in the UK and Australia.  Operating 24/7 support services for a variety of organisations across a broad range of platforms, its core focus is on the delivery of high calibre solutions tailored to meet the individual requirements of an organisation, regardless of environment or location.  Services focus on provision of traditional IT support, critical systems monitoring, integration of disaster recovery platforms, as well as a comprehensive range of offsite data management services.

If your company needs any of this kind of support, I can highly recommend Pure Technology as a professional, personable company passionate about what they do.

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