Managed Hosting Services Christmas Special

Are you unhappy with your current infrastructure hosting?  Want strong SLAs, uptime, reslience?
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Microsoft Talks About Zignals Using Silverlight

Martha Rotter, a development evangelist in Microsoft Ireland and well known to the MTUG community, recently talked about the activities of Zignals.  Zignals, a managed hosting services client of C Infinity, provide an online finance advisory service.  This arms the smaller investor with the information to enable them to play on the same field as the large investors who can afford exexpensive advisory services.

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Microsoft And C Infinity Program For Start-Ups

C Infinity is a member of Microsoft’s new BizSpark program to assist new start-ups with attaining an online presence.  This program is designed to accelerate the success of these ventures.

As a partner in this program C Infinity will offer:

  • Sponsorship to enter the program to qualifying companies.
  • Hosting services for the solution.

The start-up will get:

  • Software: You will get the development environment and your production licenses for immediate use with no up front costs.
  • Support: You will get support for your technical solution through the MSDN service.
  • Visibility: As a member of the program you will be visible to a global listing of potential clients, partners and investors.

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HP In €500,000 Blade Server Deal With C Infinity

Computing giant HP has struck a deal worth €500,000 to equip business outsourcing firm C Infinity with high-end blade-server technology.

The deal was completed via HP’s channel partner Redstone.

The deal will allow C Infinity to make the full range of HP enterprise-class server features available to companies of any size, and in particular off-site storage.
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SAP Supports Hyper-V

SAP announced that their product range will now support being installed onto a Hyper-V virtualised platform. This support is available from version 6.40 and higher. This opens up the virtualised platform to another enterprise platform – and it opens up being hosted in an economic and managed online environment such as C Infinity’s virtual server solution.

€12M/Day Sold Online By Irish Companies

A recent study claims that Irish companies are selling products and services online for a staggering €12million per day!

Think about this for a few moments … this is proof that, if done correctly, the online presence is not a luxury but can be the primary method for interacting with customers and partners. It’s not just for the Dell’s and Amazon’s of the world, but also for the small to medium business that needs to be able to deal with a global market.

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Microsoft Launches New SME Products

Microsoft has long had a solution with “Small Business Server” for the small business with less than 75 users. They recently released the latest version of this, SBS 2008. This solution gives the small business an integrated single server solution allowing central data storage (and backups!), email (with PDA “push email”), database and policy enforcement for desktops/laptops. It’s intended to be a simple appliance solution that allows the small business to get online and have much of the functionality that was exclusive to larger companies.

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Microsoft Launches New Virtualisation Strategy

Microsoft launched their new virtualisation strategy on Monday, 8th of September, featuring Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. We often think of virtualisation of just being a collection of virtual machines running on a server. Microsoft, and C Infinity, sees it as being much more. Microsoft has several layers of virtualisation:

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New Managed Virtual Hosting Infrastructure Launched

C Infinity has announced the launch of their new managed virtual server hosting infrastructure based on Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008.

Microsoft recently released their new machine virtualisation solution, Hyper-V. Based on Windows Server 2008, allows machine virtualisation using a hypervisor. This provides greater performance and flexibility.

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