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Tayto collaborates with Novosco to drive Green IT agenda

Belfast, July 2011- Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, today announced it has completed the first phase implementation of Tayto Group’s “Green IT” overhaul of back office systems.

Built on VMware’s vSphere Cloud Operating System and EMC’s Celerra storage platform, Tayto Group has now virtualised a significant amount of its legacy server estate. This centralised approach affords the company greater flexibility in the deployment of servers and systems. Servers that had previously taken days and weeks to deploy can now be commissioned in a matter of hours. Moreover, fewer physical devices means reductions in maintenance combined with greater operational efficiencies. All of this can be delivered, whilst allowing the company to reduce its carbon footprint.

: L-R: Christopher Milligan, IT Systems and Infrastructure Manager (Tayto Group Ltd) and Ellen Dickson, Account Manager (Novosco)

This change in how ICT is deployed within Tayto Group has allowed the company to expedite certain strategic operational projects, such as the deployment of production systems, and most recently, the delivery of video conferencing between various production sites.

Christopher Milligan, Tayto Group IT Systems and Infrastructure Manager said, “Novosco, as an innovative local company, was an obvious choice for Tayto in this project as their business values closely mirror our own. Novosco’s experience in virtualising large scale enterprise environments has helped us adopt a more flexible ICT agenda between the main parts of the company, whilst allowing us to proactively reduce our carbon footprint not least from the time, effort and financial savings from our new video conferencing solution.”

Patrick McAliskey, Novosco Managing Director said “Tayto is undoubtedly one of Northern Ireland’s most instantly recognisable and beloved brands, with whom we have happily worked with for many years now. In the current economic climate, companies, including Tayto Group, need to be flexible and proactive in their approach. We are certain that Tayto’s approach will allow them to do just that. Novosco has provided the best possible technical advice to Tayto on a competitive basis to all levels within the company, and we will certainly continue to do so.”

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 Tayto Group Ltd

Tayto was established in 1956, with production based in a castle in Tandragee in the heart of County Armagh, the Tayto brand remains the market leading iconic crisp and snack brand in Northern Ireland. The Tayto Group has expanded rapidly in the past five years to confirm its place as the third largest crisp and snack producer in the UK. Beginning with the acquisition of Golden Wonder in 2006, the company now boasts brands including Real Crisps, Mr Porky, Jonathan Crisp and Transform-a-Snack, with production sites in Corby, Scunthorpe, Crumlin and Westhoughton.

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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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 Cisco Ireland again commends Novosco with dual award for outstanding contribution to business development

Belfast, 14th April 2011 – Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, today announced that for the 2nd consecutive year it has been awarded ‘Cisco Ireland’s Data Centre partner of the year’. In addition to this ‘Cisco Ireland’s Premier Partner of the year’ for 2011 in recognition for outstanding contribution to Cisco’s business development throughout the year.

The main factors contributing to both successes have been primarily the company’s focus on the delivery of key and strategic data centre solutions with Cisco and their ecosystem partners, as well as driving strong customer satisfaction feedback from key customers throughout the whole of Ireland.

Left to Right: Kim Majerus, General Manager (Cisco Ireland), Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director (Novosco)

In January 2011 Cisco held their annual European engineering forum ‘Cisco Live’ in London where the Belfast Health and social care Trust project, driven and delivered by Novosco, was awarded ‘The most innovative data centre project of the year award’.

Novosco’s Data Centre Architect Solutions’ Practice is underpinned by the Virtual Computing Environment proposition. This approach, encompassing Novosco’s 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 “These awards are a huge recognition of all the time and commitment that Novosco has invested in achieving superior product knowledge of the Cisco data centre offerings. It shows that Novosco is best placed to deliver these enterprise solutions to customers throughout the UK and Ireland. A significant growth in this business area is forecast for 2011 and beyond due to our partnership with Cisco and other complimentary partners including EMC and VMware.”

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 UCS as well as their knowledge of compute and server technologies makes them a strategically key partner for Cisco Ireland. Our joint customers know they are in safe hands when dealing with Novosco for the deployment of business critical applications and their customer centric approach qualifies them as perfect recipients of these awards for 2011”  

About Novosco

 is Ireland’s leading provider 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

 About Cisco Systems    

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SEHSCT appoints Novosco to install Trust-wide EMC backup solution

Belfast, September 30th 2010 - Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, today announced it has been appointed to implement a centralised data backup and recovery environment throughout the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (SEHSCT).

Left to Right - Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director Novosco and Steven Stewart, Assistant Director of IT & Telecommunications, SEHSCT

Built on EMC’s Avamar backup platform, where disk is the primary backup storage medium, the need for tape based backup regimes is removed – a benefit universally welcomed amongst the Trust’s ICT department. This disk based backup also means that Trust staff can forecast future growth in capacity with greater accuracy, and budget for it accordingly. With capacity based growth and scalability, the need for inherent resilience is all the greater. This has been provided by configuring the installed solution with Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes (RAIN) architecture. RAIN architectures in this type of environment offer data-storage and protection systems that are more distributed, shareable and scalable, as well as being cheaper to deploy and maintain.

Moreover, the new environment will provide greater flexibility for ICT administrators, by way of global de-duplication of data both at source and target destinations. This ensures that duplicated objects are identified at source and only objects not already stored are sent across the network, thus saving time, effort, whilst reducing network traffic. Such benefits to the Trust are in addition to the fact that the solution works on standard IP network architectures, removing the need for a dedicated backup network.

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust was formed in April 2007 by the merger of the Ulster Community Hospital Trust with Down & Lisburn Trust. It is an integrated organisation, incorporating acute hospital services, community health and social services and serves a population of approx 440,000 people. It employs over 10,000 staff delivering a range of health and social care services across the local government districts of Down, North Down, Lisburn and Ards.

Stephen Stewart, Assistant Director for ICT & Telecommunications said, “Novosco’s EMC accreditations and experience in delivering this type of solution, along with their relationship with EMC was instrumental in the Trust choosing Avamar for its backup regime. Global de-duplication for backing up the remote sites as well as its built in resilience makes this offering very compelling.”

John Lennon, Sales Director for Novosco, said “SEHSCT’s approach to data backup and recovery is undoubtedly the right one. Removing the logistical headache of tape based backups and centralising the process will ensure that the already over-stretched ICT team can focus on the delivery of healthcare applications and infrastructure to the healthcare professionals and ultimately benefit patients. It will be the blueprint for other organisations of this size and scale in Northern Ireland.”

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.   

For more information visit www.novosco.com

About South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust

From 1 April 2007, the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has assumed responsibility for the services delivered by the Ulster Community Hospital Trust and Down & Lisburn Trust.

Both legacy Trusts which join to form the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust have a successful and distinguished history and come together to provide an integrated and comprehensive range of health and social care for the people in the local government districts of Ards, North Down, Down and Lisburn.

As outlined in its corporate plan 2009-2010, the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust will:
• improve the health and well-being of the people we serve in partnership with key stakeholders;
• provide person centred, safe and effective care and
• ensure best value for money.

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust employs over 10,000 staff, providing services for more than 440,000 people in its catchment area.

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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

About Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Information on Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com.

Cisco, Cisco Systems, and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. This document is Cisco Public Information.

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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