Aastra will examine the options available for mobility in and out of the work place, ranging from mobile handsets using fixed mobile convergence making the handset become part of the PBX, to utilising on site DECT handsets, a high quality, tried and tested technology.

Aastra will examine the options available for mobility in and out of the work place,ranging from mobile handsets using fixed mobile convergence making the handset become part of the PBX,to utilising on site DECT handsets,a high quality, tried and tested technology.

Aastra Telecom (UK) Ltd is the United Kingdom business unit of Aastra Technologies Limited, (TSX:“AAH”), a leading company at the forefront of the enterprise communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops and delivers innovative communications products and applications for businesses. Aastra’s operations are truly global with more than 50 million installed lines around the world and a direct and indirect presence in more than 100 countries. Aastra is entirely...

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Britannic provide converged communications solutions - working with world leaders such as Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, HP and Global Crossing, adding significant value through innovative in-house technology. Specialising in IP telephony and systems integration they provide the vital role of joining up people, process & technology. Their philosophy of turning business need into system design provides a strong basis for addressing specific public and private sector needs. Unifying te...

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Centrix Software provides solutions that optimize the way IT infrastructures deliver applications and content; whether physical, virtual, hosted or web. Headquartered in Newbury, Berkshire, Centrix Software’s customers include leading organizations in banking and securities, insurance, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy and utilities, and within public sector.

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Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from being a pioneering ISP (Internet Service Provider) into an MSP (Managed Services Provider) with annual revenues of around €100 million. We have 520 employees with an international footprint in six countries and although Claranet has grown internationally, the focus has always been on local service, out of local offices, using local data centres. Claranet brings together the best people, process and technology to provide flexible, secure and cost-e...

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Integrating network solutions, management and technical support services 24x7, our expertise spans a range of technologies, turning technology into effective solutions, improving productivity, efficiency, and delivering real ROI. Fully accredited with our partners, we deliver secure, high-performance solutions. Clients include the largest SPs, Enterprise, and the Public Sector.

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Founded in 1989, Kenson has developed into one of the most respected suppliers of network management tools, expertise and support. Kenson adapt and develop best practice techniques and methodologies to help meet the need andincreasing reliance of business and government on networks and IT Services. For the IPEXPO event Kenson are partnering with SolarWinds to demonstrate the power and benefits of the Orion Network Performance Monitor solution in the converged network environment. Visito...

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Specialist Microwave and RF component supplier for Radar, EW, Satcom, Telecoms, Medical and Marine Market The company is active in the Defence,Telecoms, Satellite and Industrial & Scientific markets, supporting applications within the following product groups • Discrete components • Modular coaxial components • Waveguide components and assemblies • Infrastructure Equipment

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Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. We deliver the best-engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that help customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. Because of our 25 years of experience and our vision of interoperability and flexibility, we deliver powerful, next-generation business inf...

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AMP NETCONNECT, a business unit of Tyco Electronics, develops, manufactures, and supplies a comprehensive range of communications infrastructure products and systems for customers in government, education, healthcare, finance, manufacturing and technology markets. Having established itself as the prominent provider of commercial premises structured cabling systems for optical fibre and twisted-pair copper technologies. Coupling this spectrum of industry-standard offerings with its superior cu...

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Working in partnership with our customers to understand your business opportunities and challenges, we aim to transform the way you work allowing you to be more cost effective, more flexible and more responsive to your customers. We create innovative solutions, bringing together the best of breed mobile and fixed technologies and applications to unify communications, provide secure access to company data and streamline your business processes..

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The London Borough of Hillingdon’s IT team approached Fordway to find an effective and greener way to handle the Borough’s rapidly growing data storage requirements. They needed a solution that would provide effective data prioritisation and management and drive down costs, while also providing increased resilience and reducing power consumption. The Borough’s existing five year old storage area network (SAN) could not handle the expanding level of data, and the associated IT infrastructure was unable to support the IT team as it struggled to manage growth and prioritise data manually.

Fordway designed and implemented a migration to a new storage area network (SAN) solution combined with a virtual server environment. This has provided substantial cost savings, improved data prioritisation and an effective business continuity solution. As well as providing disaster recovery for the Borough, the solution has been extended to provide disaster recovery for the local health authority, Hillingdon Primary Care Trust, and will enable the Borough to recover its operating costs in the not-for-profit agreement with the trust.

A major component in reducing ongoing cost of IT infrastructure by 25% annually while meeting business objectives, improving business efficiency, resilience and maximising return on investment

London Borough of HillingdonV2.pdf 174.76 kB

Anue Systems enables Bell Canada to validate performance for
their Canada-wide network. This validation ensures Bell’s Service
Level Agreements can be maintained across their different service
offerings to both business and residential customers.

bell_canada_casestudy_05.pdf 357.20 kB

The Challenge
To introduce new applications for major clients in the insurance and rail transport industries, Atos Origin needed be able to support large numbers of users and high transaction volumes. The company required a high-performance infrastructure that could offer 24x7 availability.

The Solution
Atos Origin decided to implement the new applications in Linux environments running under z/VM on an IBM Enterprise Linux Server (ELS). The ELS is an IBM System z10 Business Class server which uses Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engines to deliver excellent price-performance.

ATOS success_Linux.pdf 188.07 kB

By the implementation of Video Communications technology the largest group of independent schools in the UK reduced costs, time, and CO2 emissions associated with traveling and enhanced teaching and learning between sites.

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Heritage Automotive...Intelligate helps to drive motor group success

Aastra Heritage Automotive.pdf 4.73 MB

When the London School of Economics and Political Science took the bold step of
outsourcing its presence on the internet, it did so in the belief that it was the first Higher
Education establishment in the UK to use an external provider to host its website.
Traditionally, universities have tended to keep their web management in-house but with
the LSE launching a new and improved website to coincide with the start of the new
academic year; it decided that it was time to bring in a specialist managed hosting partner
to guarantee the availability of the new site.

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Many benefits of deploying an IP Communications (IPC) system are, by now, well documented. However, once the basic IPC foundation is set, there are many additional applications that can leverage this converged IP network even more fully. Quantifying the real productivity gains of these relatively new value-added Unified Communications technologies is difficult, yet if armed with such information, potential adopters could make a far more comprehensive ROI justification for their planned deployments. One source of such information is Based on a survey of 244 small, medium, and large organisations presently using or planning to deploy Unified Communications applications, this paper outlines both the challenges that those applications address and the actual benefits that current adopters experience.

Cisco UC Applications, uses & benefits.pdf 571.66 kB

The reality in today’s businesses, small and large, is that downtime of vital business applications can have a severe impact on business operations. Inevitably, any downtime for such applications leads to loss of productivity, loss of revenue, customer dissatisfaction and ultimately damage to reputation. Therefore, it should come as no surprise then that eliminating end user and application downtime, through the use of availability and disaster recovery technologies, comes in at the very top of many IT agendas.

Continuous Availability for your Business Applications.pdf 904.96 kB

As a global company, TANDBERG. now part of Ciisco, has a genuine concern for the environment. They believe that embracing green practices and technologies is not only a corporate social responsibility, but also makes good business sense. Video provides a practical alternative for companies looking to reduce their carbon footprint through decreased travel and telework programs, as well as provides a key competitive advantage through increased productivity.

TANDBERG, now part of Cisco, is committed to making environmental responsibility an integral part of its own corporate culture and strives to continually reduce the Company’s overall environmental impact through company-wide green programs and policies.

Visual Communications is green.pdf 464.66 kB

Because enterprise applications are rarely tested under WAN conditions, expectations of performance are often at variance to actual performance.Anue Systems Network Emulators are essential tools for effectively developing and deploying enterprise applications. They provide the ability to accurately and precisely emulate real-world network conditions prior to deployment, reducing development schedules and support cost, avoiding live troubleshooting and downtime, and consequently increasing revenue and competitive advantage. Emulating your production network enables you to understand the behavior of an application before it goes live, allowing you to determine if it will meet service level objectives (SLO) and to correctly identify the factors affecting performance.

WPNetworkedAppsRB0310.pdf 707.71 kB

As networks, security threats, and other requirements increase in complexity, monitoring of
enterprise infrastructures has become a difficult yet crucial exercise. Monitoring Optimization, a
new solution for making sense of the chaos, has emerged as an ideal solution for maximizing
network coverage and maintaining optimal utilization of hardware monitoring tools. However,
there is a third variable at play – the productivity of the staff responsible for managing
monitoring, a staff that is shrinking in the wake of layoffs. This brief reviews how important the
third variable is, and how Monitoring Optimization is the only solution to manage all three
variables.

ITB-Productivityv 2.pdf 935.70 kB

When it comes to extending the benefits of server virtualization to their mission-critical business applications, many organizations often struggle with how to re-architect their environment and strike the right balance between performance, scalability, manageability and most importantly, high availability and disaster recovery.

This white paper outlines many of the common deployment scenarios that such organizations face and describes how Neverfail Continuous Availability and virtualization can be used, to deliver a more complete, consistent and cost effective availability solution for mission-critical, business applications.

Protecting_Mission_Critical_Apps_with_Neverfail.pdf 594.14 kB

FINAL IDC White Paper.pdf 381.87 kB

As organizations implement virtualized environments, knowing how to monitor and maintain them becomes yet another challenge for today’s network professional. Monitoring network and application traffic in an environment containing one-to-many relationships between physical hardware devices (virtual hosts) and virtual application servers (virtual machines) presents a number of concerns.

This white paper presents various visibility options and their ramifications,
and outlines new technology that allows visibility into both external
and internal traffic within a virtual environment.

virtualisationwhitepaper.pdf 1.23 MB

Overview of why you need to validate performance prior to deployment, and how network emulators can help you minimize risk once you deploy applications on the production network.

Winning on the WAN White Paper.pdf 1.14 MB

Ipanema’s unique patented technology aligns WAN performance with business objectives and guarantees optimal business application availability and response times for each user, no matter where or when. Ipanema is used extensively by many of the world’s largest telecom providers as well as by enterprises across business and public sectors.

mc-ipa-about_ipanema-en-100503.pdf 935.34 kB

Observer Reporting Server®
Aggregate Performance Management

Observer®
Troubleshooting and Analysis

GigaStor®
Long Term Packet Capture and Data Mining

Observer Infrastructure®
Infrastructure and Resource Monitoring

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Converged Infrastructure:
A converged infrastructure enables an organisation to do more with fewer resources. Converged Infrastructure solutions drive business agility, innovation and performance improvements, while reducing risk, complexity and cost.
IT proliferation has stretched many businesses to breaking point, and business agility is severely constrained. Converged infrastructure, a holistic solution that enables all end user sub systems to work in tandem on a single IP network, offers new and more effective ways of working which address the following typical challenges:

• Escalating IT management and administration costs
• A desire to move mission-critical environments to standards-based infrastructure
• Limited datacenter space; need to improve server consolidation, virtualisation, and utilisation
• Risk associated with older legacy systems
• A need to grow and scale capacity in line with shrinking IT budgets
• Break free of proprietary solutions to achieve true inter-operability through the adoption of open industry standards
• An approach to unifying multiple communications methods: voice, e-mail, messaging, video etc
• Security threats

Over recent years, ‘Cloud’ has suffered from a lack of definition, but for us the definition of Cloud Hosting is simple. We believe ‘cloud hosting’ gives organisations access to a resilient, high availability ‘infrastructure as a service’ solution that offers IT outsourcing at lower cost than in-house. We provide and manage and service the hosting infrastructure and you use it when you want and as often as you want – paying only for the services that you utilise/consume.

We offer and support Xen, VM Ware and Hyper V platforms.

iomart_cloud_computing_hosting_overview.pdf 604.21 kB

Massive data requires massive storage. The VMware certified JetStor SAS Model 642F features dual-redundant active/active array controllers. This 4U, 42 bay, RAID array delivers reliable data protection combined with the high performance of 8/4Gbit Fibre Channel host interfaces and quad 3Gbit SAS disk channel expanders to handle astounding amounts of data.

Engineered to meet stringent demands for continuous availability, the JetStor SAS 642F RAID array spotlights a brand-new 128-bit AMCC RISC processor for blazingly fast parity calculation and I/O operations, completely cableless SAS backplane-based design with SES capabilities, and storage capacities reaching 25.2TB of 15,000rpm SAS storage in one compact 4U enclosure.

JS_SAS_642F.pdf 273.48 kB

The Anue Network Emulator is a hardware tool that precisely simulates real-world network conditions for test and validation of networked based products and solutions prior to deployment. Anue Network Emulators, available in 1 GbE and 10GbE models, deliver objective, verifiable, repeatable network test results.
* Discover true performance before deployment
* Discover performance issues in the development cycle
* Increase user satisfaction and adoption when deploying new services

Emulators are available for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, SONET/SDH, CES/ToP, and a variety of other testing needs.

iomart Hosting’s comprehensive Oracle Managed Services builds on our market leading portfolio of managed hosting, data centre and cloud computing services, all backed by our unique 100% business uptime guarantee.

We act as a single point of contact and trusted advisor for all of our client’s Oracle and other specialist vendor hosting requirements.

iomart Hosting has the technical capability and consultative expertise to support its customers from initial business idea and conception, through project development, migration, implementation and to final go live.

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