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Company’s UCS accreditation and all Ireland approach, instrumental in winning industry accolade.

Left to right: Bernadette Wightman, Managing Director, Channels (Cisco UK and Ireland), Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director, (Novosco),
Kim Majerus, Director, General Manager – (Ireland Cisco UK & Ireland).

Belfast, April 19th, 2010 - Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, today announced it has been awarded Cisco Ireland’s UCS Data Centre Partner of the Year for 2010. Novosco won the award against stiff competition from other companies in the data centre arena.

In addition, Novosco is the first, and currently only, Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) technical solutions and sales accredited partner in Ireland.

The main factors contributing to both successes have been primarily the company’s focus on the provision of V-Block service offerings to its customer base, and secondly delivering these solutions throughout the whole of Ireland.

Novosco has been awarded a number of high profile UCS contracts in recent months. These include the delivery of the first public sector UCS environment in the UK and the current largest public sector UCS deployment in Europe.

Novosco’s DataCentre Architect Solutions’ Practice is underpinned by the “DataCentre 3.0” vision extolled by each of the key technology partners of the VCE coalition. This approach, coupled with our experience of the Cisco UCS platform, EMC’s storage offerings and VMware’s Cloud Operating System allows Novosco’s customers to experience innovative, flexible and dynamic IT environments at competitive price points.

Patrick McAliskey, Novosco Managing Director said “Our investment in Cisco and the other VCE partners’ technologies allows Novosco to be innovative in solution design. This coupled with understanding the issues facing our customer base, has allowed us to deliver the flexible and dynamic IT experience expected by all our customers. Cisco UCS gives us a real chance to get ahead of the competition in this rapidly changing market, and translate these benefits to our customers. Doing more with less gives both us and our customers an edge in the current economic climate.”

Owen McAllister, Channel Partner Manager for Cisco Ireland, said “Novosco has demonstrated a willingness to challenge the traditional method of server based computing. Their adoption of the UCS platform as well as their knowledge of cloud based computing and their strong customer relationships throughout Ireland makes them the obvious choice for this award in 2010.”

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 Queen’s University Belfast, Burlington Hotel, SIAC Construction, Windsor Motors and many more.   

Novosco was recognised at the annual ICT Excellence awards as ‘Best System Integration Company, for 2009.

For more information visit www.novosco.com

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About VCE Alliance

The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, formed jointly by EMC and Cisco with VMware, represents an unprecedented level of collaboration in development, services, and partner enablement to minimize risk during an organization’s infrastructure virtualization journey to private cloud implementation.

Vblock Infrastructure Packages are integrated IT offerings from the VCE coalition that combine best-in-class virtualization, networking, compute, storage, security, and management technologies with end-to-end vendor accountability. Pre-integrated to provide a new way of delivering IT to businesses, these offerings are validated to help enable the creation of customized solution packages.

Vblock Unified Customer Engagement includes capabilities to help customers understand the business benefits of VCE and deploy Vblock Infrastructure Packages to minimize risk in the journey to private cloud.

Unifying customer engagements, the VCE coalition offers comprehensive professional and technical support services to provide a smooth end-to-end customer and partner experience.

The VCE coalition professional services, jointly developed and delivered, will help customers understand how to maximize value and speed time to virtualization and private cloud solutions. These offers include executive and architecture advisory services, strategy services, and design and implementation services.

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Novosco ranked 41st place in Ireland’s top 50 fastest growing technology companies

Patrick McAliskey, Novosco Managing Director & John Lennon, Novosco Business Development Director

Belfast & Dublin, 29th Oct 09 – Novosco, a leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, announced today that it has been ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards for the 10th consecutive year.  Novosco is uniquely one of only three companies to receive a ranking since the beginning of the Deloitte Technology awards in 1999. 

The Technology Fast 50, now in its 10th year in Ireland, is an awards programme honouring business growth, technological innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.  The programme ranks the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in Ireland based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period. 
      
“It is a great achievement for Novosco to have been ranked for the last 10 years as one of Ireland’s leading Top 50 Technology Companies,” said Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director for Novosco.  “As criteria is based on percentage growth each year, it is notoriously hard to maintain your ranking in the FAST 50 technology awards.  The fact that Novosco has been recognised since the beginning is testament to our success in sustained growth, despite the challenging economic year”. 

Novosco has sustained yearly growth levels for a number of reasons.  As an innovative IT provider, Novosco continually adopts the latest technologies into its IT service portfolio.  With over 18 year’s virtualisation experience, Novosco’s implementation of virtualisation technologies have offered organisations of all sizes great cost savings and IT efficiencies.  Novosco is now taking customers to the next stage of virtualisation with the ever growing concept of cloud computing.    

To capitalise on the growth of cloud computing, Novosco in June 2009 acquired dooloop Ltd, an IT & Communications provider.  This enabled Novosco to quickly grow the business into the field of cloud networking/infrastructure.  As a result of the acquisition, the dooloop technology and Intellectual Property was rebranded as Novosco CloudStream™, with the CloudStream™ range of solutions leading the industry with Cloud networks and hosted Cloud servers / applications.

 “To maintain growth and satisfy customers you have to continually adopt business benefiting technologies.  Given today’s economic tide, Cloud Computing is proving an extremely popular option for customers”, continued Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director for Novosco.  “Using the CloudStream range of services, our customers have innovative cloud solutions at affordable prices.”

With hosting facilities in a series of Tier 3 data centres throughout Europe and UK, Novosco is fast becoming a cloud provider of choice, with CloudStream enabling Novosco to continually grow in export markets outside Ireland.

About Novosco

Novosco is one of Ireland’s leading providers of virtual & cloud based IT infrastructure and network services.  With established hardware/software vendor partnerships with 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 was recently recognised at the annual ICT Excellence awards as ‘Best System Integration Company, for 2009.
For more information visit www.novosco.com

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Novosco awarded ICT Excellence Award for market-leading performance in supplying and integrating systems solutions.

Dublin, 27th May 09 - Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual IT infrastructure and services has been awarded ‘Systems Integration Company of the Year at ICT Excellence Awards, Dublin.  The awards took place on Thursday 21st May at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, where the ICT excellence award was presented to Novosco technical director, Justin Winston by Dr Tom McCarthy, CEO, IMI.

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Excellence awards are in their ninth year and recognise outstanding achievement in the sector.  Novosco was delighted with this award which commends market-leading performance in supplying and implementing systems solutions. Special recognition was given to Novosco who clearly demonstrated integration of diverse systems from multiple sources. 

This award was based on the integration of two projects, John Sisk & Sons & Lagan Holdings where multiple technologies where implemented including Microsoft Exchange, Citrix XenApp for remote user access, VMware for server virtualisation and Riverbed technology for accelerating application performance and data transfer.   Other technologies included EMC Celerra & VMware Site Recovery Manager for disaster recovery and Mimosa Nearpoint for email archiving. 

“We are extremely flattered to receive this award and we take great encouragement from this recognition of our unique approach to IT infrastructure.  Our clients have always told us that they want to see real solutions, not just product pitches” said Eddie O’Rourke, Sales Director of Novosco.  “By figuring out which blend of technologies is right for each client, we have achieved some great results over the past year.  Despite, or maybe even because of today’s economic challenges, it is encouraging to see so many organisations looking at new ways to increase their efficiency by using technology, particularly virtualisation technology”.
 
Novosco’s philosophy is that the answer for customers is rarely black and white. With the highest level of accreditation in Ireland for virtualised solutions and with more staff than any other provider accredited with Citrix, EMC, Microsoft and VMware technologies, Novosco has a high level of in-house expertise that allows engineers to integrate multiple technologies seamlessly. 

A customised and fully integrated solution unique to each clients IT infrastructure is designed.  This is what makes Novosco a trusted advisor for many clients such as John Sisk & Sons and Lagan Holdings. 

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 and optimisation of their IT systems.  With established hardware/software vendor partnerships with 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 IT solutions that enhance client operations and enable them to get the most out of their IT infrastructure.

Novosco have provided solutions to a range of clients including government establishments and private sector organisations of all sizes including Lagan Holdings, John Sisk & Sons and many more.

Posted in: Press Releases Tags: awards, virtualisation

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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Belfast, 12th March, 2009 — Novosco, who is Ireland’s leading provider of virtual IT infrastructure and services, has been awarded the prestigious and internationally recognised ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications.  This formed part of an integrated achievement with Novosco also being awarded the Investors In People (IIP) award.   Novosco achieved the awards with the assistance of CIMAOMEGA, experts in transformational change in the workplace.

The Novosco NIMS system contains details of the procedures and processes that meet ISO requirements for business continuity, data security, and disaster recovery, as well as providing Novosco management and staff with an objective method of maintaining excellent working practices.

Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director for Novosco explained, “As an IT service provider, Novosco customers trust us with their confidential data and their IT infrastructure.  The awards reinforce our commitment to providing our customers with service excellence and they formally recognise that the products and services which we provide are consistently on par with world class standards.  Despite the current economic climate, Novosco felt it was important to invest in the awards as it gives us further competitive advantage and has reinforced Novosco’s position as Ireland’s leading IT provider to both public & private sector customers”. 

“Novosco has been our trusted partner since 2003 and we congratulate the company on the achievement of the ISO awards.  Novosco implemented the virtualisation of our IT infrastructure, which decommissioned over 20 servers and saved around £200k compared to the cost of a non-virtualised environment.” said Jim Fennell Information Systems Manager, Lagan Holdings Ltd.

At the end of last year, Novosco also received the Investors in People (IIP) recognition.  The company was formally assessed with regard to staff training, development and overall company performance. 

Patrick McAliskey continues, “The IIP award shows that we take our commitment as an employer very seriously.  The process has helped us to organise our development programme so that it delivers focused, up-to-date skills to our workforce.  The award is integrated with the ISO accreditation to ensure the high standards needed for these awards are continually maintained.”

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 and optimisation of their IT systems.  With established hardware/software vendor partnerships with 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 IT solutions that enhance client operations.

Novosco have provided solutions to a range of clients including government establishments and private sector organisations of all sizes including Acheson Glover, Belfast Trust, Lagan Holdings and many more.   
For more information visit www.novosco.com

Posted in: Press Releases Tags: awards, business, business continuity, Quality, security

Left to right: Simon Hamilton - Technical Director, John Lennon - Sales Director, David Mulligan - Solution Architect

Novosco ranked 43^rd place in Ireland’s top 50 fastest growing technology companies

Belfast & Dublin,  29th October  2008 — Novosco, a leading provider of virtual infrastructure announced today that it has once again been awarded a ranking in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards, Ireland.  Ranked for the ninth consecutive year, Novosco is uniquely also one of only three companies to additionally receive a prestigious Fast 50 ‘Gold Standard Award’.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards recognise and rank the fastest-growing technology companies in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.  Now in its ninth year, the programme allows innovative technology companies to demonstrate and receive recognition for growth strategies and successes.  This year, the Fast 50 ‘Gold Standard Awards’ have also been introduced to recognise companies that have successfully been ranked for seven or more years.

“Novosco is delighted to be ranked for the ninth time in the Deloitte Top 50 Technology Awards and is one of only three companies to achieve a ranking every year of the awards,” said Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director for Novosco.  “Through the use of innovative technology and strong vendor partnerships, Novosco is leading the industry in the concept of ‘infrastructure virtualisation’ and is positioned to transform the IT world for clients throughout the UK & Ireland”.

IT virtualisation is the act of isolating or unbinding one computing resource from others – from the data centre to the desktop.  It essentially lets one computer do the job of multiple computers, by sharing the resources of a single computer across multiple environments.  It offers organisations of all sizes great cost savings and efficiencies in reducing their carbon footprint.  With over 18 year’s virtualisation experience, Novosco has successfully assisted customers in implementing various aspects of virtualisation; from Server virtualisation right through to running virtual applications and desktops. The Awards which took place in the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin are based on percentage turnover over the past 5 years.  Novosco’s ranking is testament to the fact that turnover has grown substantially, with a customer acquisition growth rate of over 110% within both private and public sectors.

With the demand for Virtualisation technology forecasted to grow at a phenomenal rate, Novosco’s position as Ireland’s leading virtualisation expert is set to continue to go from strength to strength.

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 final Technology Fast 50 ranking list visit www.fast50.ie.

Posted in: Press Releases Tags: awards, business, Novosco