AIMES secures £50k loan
Liverpool-based IT company AIMES Grid Services has secured a £50,000 enterprise finance guarantee (EFG) loan from NatWest, as part of a £100,000 infrastructure investment to support the development of new services.
The funds aim to cover the cost of new networking equipment, servers and secure power supplies for the company’s business continuity and "cloud computing" services.
AIMES’ business continuity service provides clients with a physical location and back-up IT infrastructure in the event of an incident which disrupts their day-to-day operations.
The cloud-based service offers businesses secure data back-up on a "scalable and consumption-based pricing model".
Established four years ago, AIMES has achieved a turnover in excess of £1m and established a client base which includes Novartis Vaccines, Park Group, the Institute of Child Health and Caterpillar Group.
Dennis Kehoe, chief executive of AIMES Grid Services, said: “Our ambition is to develop a successful digital infrastructure business here on Merseyside which combines highly efficient cloud computing, and secure and resilient facilities with cost effective, high bandwidth network provision.”
