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Novosco will be holding a ‘Cloud Computing Breakfast Briefing’ in the Park Inn, Belfast on Thursday 22nd Oct 09.

Agenda 

- Breakfast 
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Overview of Novosco CloudStream services
- CloudStream Net Service (Private & Resilient Cloud Network Service)
- Q&A

Who should attend: 

 Consultants, IT Professionals & management involved in networks / IT infrastructure

Spaces are limited.  To register please complete the form below:

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John Stone, CTO, Cisco; Novosco MD, Patrick McAliskey;Jimmy Kehoe, Partner Manager, VMware;Brendan Crossey, Territory Manager, EMC

Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual IT infrastructure and services, held an industry leading ‘Virtual Datacentre’ briefing in the Europa Hotel, Belfast on 11th June.   With 140 IT end users registered, the event focused on the IT industry’s first Cloud offering now becoming a reality.  Novosco held the briefing in conjunction with key technology partners VMware, EMC & Cisco. 

 The exclusive briefing featured Novosco’s new Cloud network offering and how Novosco, VMware and other technology partners can deliver a new cloud computing platform.

The benefits of IT virtualisation, such as server consolidation, cost savings and desktop/application centralisation have always been widely known, but clients are realising more and more the future operational benefits that a virtual IT infrastructure has to offer, including the move to a cloud infrastructure.  Cloud computing essentially is the delivery of applications/files, (anything from storage to email and CRM), over the internet.

“As Ireland’s leading virtualisation expert, Novosco is best placed to bring the new Cloud offering to the IT market”, said Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director, Novosco.  “Cloud computing has long been a buzz word within the IT industry, but until now its true implementation has not been possible.  With a reputation for delivering industry firsts and working alongside our technology partners, VMware, EMC and Cisco, we are set to transform the IT industry once again”.   

During the briefing, VMware released its new vSphere 4 product, which is the leading platform for building cloud infrastructures.  Novosco technical staff supplemented this with a LIVE vSphere demo.   EMC also discussed virtualised storage and Cisco presented virtualised networking. 

Registered delegates included Novosco customers such as Belfast Trust, Belfast International Airport, and Progressive Building Society.

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Iain McClure, Novosco Technical Consultant & David Maginnes, Novosco Account Manager

On Thursday 2nd April, at the Ramada Hotel, Belfast, the Belfast Telegraph held their 2009 business awards.

Novosco was commended for service excellence in both pre & post sales, as well as their contribution to clients through innovative virtualisation projects.

“As a business that depends on the availability of our systems to serve our members we have achieved significant benefits through our partnership with Novosco.   With their help we have implemented Virtualisation both for our desktops and a number of key servers.  This has improved the manageability, reliability and resilience of both applications and servers significantly.  These benefits have been felt throughout the organisation.  Our users have experienced major improvements in application performance, availability and reliability.  We are much more flexible and in control of our systems.  Our centralised environment allows us to prioritise our efforts where it matters most”.
Tommy O’Neill, Head of IT, Progressive Building Society

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Novosco gold sponsors at VMware Virtualisation Forum 09, Dublin

Belfast & Dublin,  22nd January  2009 — Novosco, Ireland’s leading IT virtualisation expert announced today its key participation to the VMware Virtualisation Forum, Citywest Hotel, Dublin, 4th February 09.        

“The Dublin V-Forum offers Irish customers the ideal opportunity to experience first-hand, the benefits of virtualisation; benefits such as reducing costs, server consolidation, business continuity and overall a more optimised IT infrastructure”, said Eddie O’Rourke, Sales Director, Novosco.  “Lagan Holdings will also be speaking at the forum about their experience as Ireland’s first implementation of VMware’s ‘Site Recovery Manager’ solution, as implemented by Novosco”. 
      
Lagan Holdings has a turnover of £450 million and has been a customer of Novosco for over 6 years.  Released in June 2008, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) offered Lagan Holdings an innovative and automated disaster recovery solution to complement their existing virtualised IT infrastructure.     

“Working in consultation with Novosco, Lagan Holdings Disaster recovery plan went from manual back-ups to having a high value innovative disaster recovery in 3 months”, said Jim Fennell, Information Systems Manager, Lagan Group.   “Full site level disaster recovery can now be carried out in less than 1 hour and we can conduct frequent non-disruptive DR tests”.

The V-forum will be attended by over 900 IT professionals and decision makers and as gold sponsors, Novosco will exhibit to showcase a live demo of Site Recovery Manager.  With the highest level of employee accreditation in Ireland for virtualised solutions, the V-forum will also offer Novosco the opportunity to illustrate virtualisation best practices/customer experiences.

Visit the Novosco stand to speak with a virtualisation expert!

About Novosco

Novosco is one of Ireland’s leading providers of virtual IT infrastructure and services and is committed to assisting customers in the evaluation of all potential solutions, including the optimisation of current IT systems.  With established hardware/software vendor partnerships including Citrix, EMC, Microsoft and VMware, Novosco offers the highest level of accreditation in Ireland for Virtualisation solutions.  This approach enables Novosco to develop and deliver cost-effective solutions that are an asset to client’s businesses.  Novosco have provided solutions to a range of clients including government establishments and private sector organisations of all sizes.

For more information visit www.novosco.com

For more information on the WMware Virtualisation Forum 2009 visit www.vmware.com/go/vforum_dublin

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