projects & agreements
SSE Enterprise
Telecoms extends
network reach with
new PoP at Colt’s
London, Welwyn
Garden City data
centre
SSE Enterprise Telecoms has
announced that it has extended
its national fibre network to
connect Colt’s London, Welwyn
Garden City data centre.
Customers at the facility now
have access to SSE Enterprise
Telecoms’ range of low latency,
high capacity optical connectivity
and fibre services.
Situated just 40km from the
centre of London, Colt’s stateof-the-art Tier 3 facility is ideally
located for enterprises that
want to do business in London,
but are concerned about the
business continuity risks of
locating their IT equipment in
the Capital. SSE Enterprise
Telecoms’ latest network
expansion is in direct response
to exceptional customer demand
for reliable, high capacity optical
wavelengths at this strategically
located UK data centre.
This expansion of SSE
Enterprise Telecoms’ fibre network
is the latest of a number of
substantial investments including
Edge 2, which will add 33 BT
exchanges to the company’s
existing 13,700km, 232 Point of
Presence (PoP) UK-wide fibre
network from Q2 2016.
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StratoGen deploy Tintri VMstore to
ensure better service for customers
Tintri has announced StratoGen is using Tintri VMstore across its public and private cloud
services for simplified management and increased performance. Since deploying Tintri,
StratoGen has achieved a 4x reduction in its data centre footprint and power consumption, while
offering customers predictably fast performance and improved disaster recovery services.
Given its global footprint and demanding requirements, StratoGen needed a storage
platform that could enable high levels of customer services across three data centres in the
UK, United States and Asia. The company needed to be able to both scale rapidly and deliver
exceptional performance.
After encountering Tintri through a VMware Partner Exchange and running a successful
demo with development and production workloads, StratoGen purchased two Tintri solutions:
one for the main data centre in the US and another one for the UK. The second system was
used to create a dedicated environment for one of StratoGen’s largest customers.
Since the Tintri deployment StratoGen has been able to offer its customers a better option
for disaster recovery and guaranteed quality of service – and that has helped StratoGen build
differentiated services and stronger customer relationships.
SOFON CLOSES INTERNATIONAL
DEAL WITH PHILIPS HEALTHCARE
Software company
Sofon has struck
a deal with Philips
Healthcare, in which
the electronics group
will make worldwide
use of Sofon’s cloud
based invoicing and
configuration software
(CPQ), in combination
with Salesforce (CRM)
and Microsoft Azure
(cloud services).
The deal with
Philips was preceded by a Microsoft certification. Microsoft recently awarded Sofon with a Gold
Partner distinction, because Sofon proved to have at its disposal a wide range of experience, the
right competencies, and knowledge on the subject of Microsoft products and solutions. Sofon uses
Microsoft technology to develop its solutions. In order to obtain the certification, the company was
judged on a number of elements: product testing as per Microsoft guidelines, customer satisfaction
surveys, certified employees and project results.
Gold Partnership means that Sofon enjoys a wide range of advantages, including access to
products, training and specialist support services. Prior to the Gold Partnership, Sofon also received
the SQL certification and the Enterprise certification.