Outsourced technology for small firms

More than 5,000 new companies were set up in Ireland in the first three months of this year.

Many new businesses cannot afford to hire their own IT staff and have to rely on outside companies to provide IT back-up and services.

George O’Dowd set up Globalnet, an IT outsourcing solutions company, in 1999. ‘‘We set up as a consultancy service originally, but demand has seen the business grow into a full-blown IT ...