Making IT work for business

More and more businesses are realising that outsourced IT is not only cost-effective, it can actually add strategic value, writes Jason Walsh

Nostra management team and directors at the Deloitte Fast 50 Awards

‘Fundamentally what we do is this: if you run a 25-person company with no IT person at all, we supply the full IT proposition. For large organisations, meanwhile, they might have three or four Nostra people on-site,” said Nostra chief executive Kevin O’Loughlin.

Nostra, which has shot up in the Deloitte Fast 50 rankings, was an early pioneer in outsourcing and cloud-computing, allowing businesses to concentrate on their core mission rather than fire-fighting ...