About Our People
Des Ramsay has been in the IT industry since 1968. Having worked at two of Durban's largest IT installations (Durban Municipality from 1966 to 1969 and The McCarthy Group from 1970 to 1973), Des took an IT management role at Smith and Nephew before joining ICL in 1976, which, at the time was one of South Africa's two leading mainframe IT suppliers.
The five years spent at ICL, first in a sales support role and later in sales, provided Des with the experience to start his own IT business, Concept Computer Systems, which opened in 1981 and pioneered the IBM Personal Computer and the desktop computing revolution in Durban. CCS operated very successfully until 1997, when it was absorbed into the Dimension Data Group to become the desktop services arm of Dimension Data Natal.
Des then opened the Internet Solutions branch in Natal, before transferring to Johannesburg as Sales Director. In December 2001, he decided to return to kwaZulu Natal, and purchased SAI and in 2004, Futurenet.
Our support team is backed up by IS' second and third level support teams and by BassettRamsay Technical Services. As part of our service we project manage all Internet related support issues on our client's behalf, involving Telkom or IS as required.
