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In 2009, Ideal started as a network specialist company with one man and a desk, and a vision to give customers real business value through IT. Today, the company has around 60 staff and offers deep and transformative expertise in networks, security, collaboration and platforms to customers spanning all industries.

Ideal is delighted to be shortlisted for the Best Company to Work For (sub £50m) category at the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards. 

Sometimes we hear positive news about proactive threat management. But sadly we hear hundreds more reactive horror stories of companies who have been breached and are scrambling around to plug the gaps in their infrastructure to prevent it happening again. Luckily, we have a good news story about how our Managed SIEM Threat Management solution prevented one of our customers experiencing a security risk.

Ideal, the Brighton-based managed services provider, today announces a new advanced Software-Defined WAN security stack with capabilities that solve critical edge security challenges, at the same time as enabling digital transformation. By 2020, 80% of organisations will primarily use public cloud and there’ll be 10 billion mobile-connected devices¹. The latest Cisco SD-WAN offering from Ideal ensures businesses can embrace SD-WAN at pace, without compromising on security.

Ideal, the Brighton-based managed services and IT infrastructure provider, today announces its new company strapline ‘Create. Protect. Accelerate’ which crystallises the brand promise to its customers.The brand update comes as Ideal celebrates a decade in business. In 2009, Ideal started with one man and a desk, and the company has successfully grown into an established independent SME with over 60 staff and is seen as a local employer of choice in the South East.

Ideal employees who graduated from the University of Sussex return to the campus to complete a wi-fi survey as part of a digital transformation project. 

Kevin Green is the latest hire to our dedicated project management team who work closely with our clients to deliver their projects seamlessly, on-time and in scope. Discover what Kevin does, what he likes, and what he's been working on so far. 

Ideal, experts in network, security, collaborations and platforms announces it's further investment in Data Centre and Cloud expertise to strengthen their Infrastructure capabilities.

Ideal, the Brighton-based managed services and IT infrastructure provider, today announces the launch of its Cloud Cost Optimisation service.

Ideal is happy to announce that it has achieved a place on the G-Cloud 10 procurement framework. Public sector organisations can continue to use the Digital Marketplace to directly procure cloud-hosted services and cloud software from Ideal. G-Cloud 10 is the successor to G-Cloud 9, on which Ideal was also represented.