Archive for June, 2011

Templeton Robinson nominates Novosco as its ICT Partner for its business

Belfast, June 2011 - Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, today announced it has been appointed to host and maintain the back office ICT systems, and Wide Area Network links for Northern Ireland based estate agency Templeton Robinson.

A period of sustained growth for the company, coupled with the focus on transacting properties meant that IT was often neglected. This led to the contradictory situation of an increased reliance on IT services, whilst being unable to focus on hardware refresh, software upgrade and constant training.

Keith Mitchell, Partner (Templeton Robinson) and David Maginnes, Account Manager (Novosco)

After testing the market, Templeton Robinson opted to host all back office IT systems in the Novosco DataCentre, coupled with the CloudStream™ platform for WAN connectivity between the company’s sites. This was all backed up with a fully managed service offering to ensure that business critical applications, such as email and property databases, are available at all times.

The flexibility of this approach will allow Templeton Robinson to concentrate on its core business of transacting properties for the next three years. It will also afford management with greater control over the support and control of the environment, with the potential for new and improved services delivered as budgets and demands dictate.

Keith Mitchell, Partner with Templeton Robinson said “Novosco’s cloud computing based solution set gives us the much needed flexibility to cope with changes in how we run our business. By hosting the IT infrastructure with Novosco, we can scale our operations upwards and downwards as needed, whilst being able to accurately budget against this on a monthly basis. This is particularly important in the current market.”

Patrick McAliskey, Novosco Managing Director said “The challenges facing Templeton Robinson are similar to those facing many other companies. The ability to provide a dynamic and scalable IT infrastructure will be closely linked to Templeton Robinson’s success. We look forward to helping Keith and his team achieve this”.

About Novosco

Novosco is a leading provider of virtual and cloud based infrastructure solutions with offices in Dublin and Belfast. Our vendor accreditations  include:

• Ireland’s only accredited VCE Partner
• Ireland’s only EMC Velocity Premier Solution Partner
• VMware Enterprise Partner
• Cisco Premier Partner
• Citrix Platinum Partner
• Microsoft Gold Partner

With a track record of building and hosting some of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects on the island, our expertise with virtual and cloud infrastructure is second to none. Novosco works with some the largest public and private sector organisations in Ireland, helping them define and deliver their infrastructure strategies across a broad range of technologies. Recent awards include our 11th consecutive listing in the Deloitte Fast50 awards and Cisco Datacentre and Premier Partner of the year.
For more information visit www.novosco.com

About Templeton Robinson
Templeton Robinson has been one of Northern Ireland’s most recognisable estate agencies since 1994, and is situated across five branches throughout Belfast, Holywood and Bangor, employing more than 60 people. Templeton Robinson is widely seen as being well specialists in all aspects of residential estate agency. With the belief that nothing substitutes personal contact, the company’s experienced team ensures the experience of buying or selling property is be a straightforward one.

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Increased Capacity Enables a Future-Proof Network for Cloud Expansion

- Hibernia delivers fast, diverse connectivity to Novosco across Europe
- Novosco’s Network expansion allows for ‘future-proof’ virtual offering
- Hibernia was chosen due to its cutting-edge network, flexibility, rapid deployment and cost-effective solutions

Belfast June 7th, 2011  Hibernia Atlantic, the organisation responsible for the deployment of the ‘Project Kelvin’ high speed, diverse network, announces today that Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, chose Hibernia Atlantic for its fast, diverse connectivity within Northern Ireland and throughout the rest of Europe. This increased capacity enables a ‘future-proof‘ network for Novosco’s virtualisation and cloud expansion.

Left to Right - Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director (Novosco) and Steve Swift, Director of Network Operations Northern Ireland (Hibernia Atlantic)

As a robust and innovative virtual infrastructure company, Novosco specialises in integrating emerging technologies into its customer solutions. With the addition of Hibernia’s secure connectivity, Novosco has increased its capacity via a diverse ring topology throughout Europe, including routes linking Dublin, Belfast and London, as well as extending its national coverage by using Hibernia’s network to access key British Telecom exchanges.

“Hibernia’s cutting-edge network, coupled with its flexible and cost-effective solutions, allows us to future proof our IT backbone, making it capable for the rapid expansion envisaged in the cloud and virtual space,” states Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director of Novosco.  ”Novosco’s CloudStream network will, for the first time, bring together the Northern Ireland Department of Enterprise Trade & Industry’s (DETI) flagship Kelvin project along with next generation broadband. This will provide Northern Ireland with the fastest and lowest latency fibre and Ethernet services, both nationally and internationally, and provide Northern Ireland business customers with the fastest direct broadband connectivity to European and North American markets.”

“By leveraging Hibernia’s rapid deployment of robust infrastructure throughout Europe, Novosco is able to meet the demand for its first-rate cloud service offering, as well as plan for future growth,” states Fergus Innes, Vice President Sales EMEA for Hibernia Atlantic. “With Hibernia’s successful delivery and operation of networks throughout Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Europe, our team continues to be Novosco’s strategic partner in the region.”

Operating an extensive 24,000-kilometre submarine and terrestrial fibre optic network, Hibernia successfully delivers a wide range of high capacity services including wavelength, Ethernet and Sonet self-healing circuits across the globe. Hibernia’s Project Kelvin Build, an extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment directly connecting Ireland to the United States, further strengthened its diverse capacity throughout the Ireland and UK region.

Operating an extensive 24,000-kilometre submarine and terrestrial fibre optic network, Hibernia successfully delivers a wide range of high capacity services including wavelength, Ethernet and Sonet self-healing circuits across the globe. Hibernia’s Project Kelvin Build, an extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment directly connecting Ireland to the United States, further strengthened its diverse capacity throughout the Ireland and UK region.

For a map of Hibernia’s high-capacity build throughout Ireland, please visit
http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/images/NIrelandMaps5-09_000.jpg

To view its global network map, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/HA_StatSheet_0511_000.pdf

About Hibernia Atlantic:Hibernia Atlantic is the only diverse, transatlantic, high bandwidth, connectivity provider. The Company owns a transatlantic submarine cable system and terrestrial fiber network that offers over 120 Points of Presence throughout Canada, the US, UK, and mainland Europe, spanning over 24,000 kilometers.  Hibernia’s investors are Columbia Ventures Corporation and Constellation Ventures.
 
Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level service including GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. Hibernia Express is the lowest latency cable between New York and London offering access to key metro markets and financial exchanges in North America, UK and Europe. The Company’s media division, Hibernia Media, operates in more than 60 European and North American markets and represents the largest, national, state-of-the-art optical switching and Dynamic Transport Mode (DTM) network.
 
For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view the company’s communication video, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/.  For further information on Hibernia Media, please visit http://www.hiberniamedia.com/?_sm_au_=iVV8kKbRtTTKWTG6.

About Novosco:
Novosco is one of Ireland’s leading providers of virtual & cloud IT infrastructure and network services. With established hardware/software vendor partnerships with Cisco, Citrix, EMC, Microsoft and VMware, Novosco offers the highest level of accreditation in Ireland for Virtualisation solutions. The Novosco CloudStream™ range of solutions is leading the industry with Cloud networks and hosted Cloud servers / applications.   

Novosco has provided solutions to a range of clients including government establishments and private sector organisations of all sizes, such as the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Queen’s University Belfast, Burlington Hotel, SIAC Construction, Windsor Motors and many more.
For more information visit www.novosco.com

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