Projects & Agreements
Tintri
improves VDI
infrastructure
for South
Eastern Health
and Social
Care Trust
Tintri has announced that
South Eastern Health and
Social Care Trust (South Eastern
Health) has deployed Tintri
across its VDI environment.
The deployment allowed South
Eastern Health to provide its
healthcare practitioners with
fast access to vital data and
its infrastructure team with
simplified management.
Initially, South Eastern Health
built its virtual environment
using HPE’s StoreVirtual
platform. Although this
worked well in a data centre
environment, the Trust soon
found it wasn’t ideal for coping
with virtual desktops. The
organisation needed a solution
that could maintain performance
and simplify its infrastructure.
After first encountering
Tintri at VMworld in 2013,
the IT team purchased two
VMstore systems. In 2016, after
experiencing significant business
benefits first hand, it added
two more VMstore systems to
accommodate growth.
Since deploying Tintri, South
Eastern Health has been able
to provide its practitioners with
the instant access they need.
Additionally, South Eastern
Health has greatly reduced
time spent managing storage
and added the scalability
and redundancy needed for a
growing VDI environment.
For further information visit:
www.tintri.com
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Centrality supports Saïd Business School,
University of Oxford, transforming its
IT infrastructure
Saïd Business School, part of the
University of Oxford has selected
Centrality to help transform its IT
infrastructure.
The school’s new CIO Mark
Bramwell had inherited an ageing,
obsolete, non-resilient and out
of support and maintenance
infrastructure. There were several
single points of failure and no disaster
recovery plan or failover in place. The
infrastructure was not fit for purpose
and prone to failure and loss of service.
A managed private wide area network (WAN) formed part of the Centrality proposal,
as did a round the clock, 365-day a year hosted data centre with full resilience, failover and
disaster recovery for absolute peace of mind, together with an incentivised future migration
plan to Office 365.
The proposal went to a panel with Centrality being selected unanimously from a shortlist
of four. After contracting, the project commenced in March 2016 and full integration of the
new system began in August the same year, all running to schedule and budget.
Since the integration of the new system, the school has stated that it now has total confidence
in providing an up to date, supported, maintained, resilient and highly available ‘world class IT
service’ that its students, staff and faculty members reasonably expect and fully appreciate.
For further information visit: www.centrality.com
New technology partnership
Verne Global and Símafélagið
Verne Global has announced a technology partnership with Símafélagið, an Icelandic
telecommunications provider specialising in data connectivity solutions for enterprise
customers, to offer dedicated connectivity to the public cloud.
From the Verne Global campus in Iceland, Símafélagið provides a private, secure service
to interconnect physical infrastructure with cloud based applications and services to leading
cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google, Office 365, and Microsoft Azure.
In today’s data driven economy, organisations rely on the cloud to accelerate
application and service delivery. This has led to new requirements for higher power
density, dynamic bandwidth and reliable, secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Verne Global provides users with dynamically configurable direct interconnects
to major public cloud providers. Coupled with access to its low cost, highly reliable
power grid with abundant renewable power, Verne Global offers the right balance of
connectivity and computing options for companies looking to scale essential enterprise
applications delivered through the public cloud.
Verne Global provides advanced connectivity solutions to over 170 countries
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