Our Systems and Infrastructure Manager, Aidan Finn, was recently interviewed by Dave Northey from Microsoft. Aidan discusses about us and why our hosting infrastructure was built using Microsoft Hyper-V and System Centre.
New Managed Monitoring Services Launched
We have launched our new managed monitoring services that can help make you aware of every performance and fault issue in your IT infrastructure.
As a service provider we know how important it is to monitor every critical service within an infrastructure. It’s important to achieve the best possible uptime & availability not only for customers but also for employees who rely on internal IT systems.
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The Future Of Windows Server
The next release of Windows Server will be in 2010 or thereabouts. This will probably be soon after the release of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista. This new server product will be called Windows Server 2008 R2.
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.
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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Strategic IT Outsourcing ‘Key To Surviving Economic Malaise’
There’s an interesting article on Silicon Republic about the potential of IT outsourcing and how it can help businesses. Phrases such as the below can be found in the article:
- “The difference between the leading organisations and other organisations is that they are thinking strategically about outsourcing”.
- “Outsourcing can prove a key means of gaining a competitive advantage”.
- “Keep what you do best and outsource the rest”.
- “there are often numerous benefits such as increased access to skills and expertise, better service, efficiency and reliability”.
This all ties in with C Infinity’s cooperative approach with our clients. Why do something you’re not an expert in? Get in someone who is an expert, even someone who’s already deployed the infrastructure. Leverage their expertise. Build on their data centre.
Focus on what you do best and let us do what we do best: provide you with the solution your business needs to be competitive in an increasingly online world with a managed, agile, secure and highly available 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.
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.
