GLASGOW, Scotland, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
- Barton Willmore Outsources IT to Maidenhead Data Centre
iomart (AIM:IOM), the cloud company that enables businesses and
organisations to operate their online data and IT environments
safely and securely, has carried out a major server and Storage
Area Network (SAN) migration for Barton
Willmore, the UK's leading integrated planning and design
consultancy.
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Barton Willmore works with leading developers and public sector
organisations. It recently steered the new £40m 'Islands'
attraction at Chester Zoo, the biggest development in the history
of UK zoos, through the planning process.
When Barton Willmore moved into
new offices in the centre of Reading it decided it was time to move
its IT infrastructure off-premise and chose dedicated hosting
specialist RapidSwitch to migrate it out of an old set of barns
into parent company iomart's data centre in Maidenhead.
Simon Webb, IT Procurement
Officer for Barton Willmore,
explained: "If we had got the migration wrong we would have been in
big trouble. However the whole process was incredibly smooth. The
RapidSwitch team came and helped us dismantle all the servers and
transport them to their data centre and then re-built them with
us."
In all about 25 physical servers were moved into RapidSwitch's
fully accredited and secure N+1 28000m² data centre in Maidenhead.
This included a massive EMC VNX SAN installation containing both
physical and virtual servers.
Barton Willmore is responsible
for more than 30 terabytes of project data on behalf of its
clients. Most of this is file data created by its large team of
designers who use software packages such as Photoshop, InDesign and
AutoCAD.
Neil Christie, Commercial
Director for RapidSwitch, explained: "The physical security of our
customers' equipment and the protection of their data is at the
heart of everything we do. We carry ISO 27001, 2000 and 9001
accreditations and our entire network, transit links and servers
are monitored 24 hours a day."
Lee Cripps, IT Manager for
Barton Willmore, said: "Our data is
our gold and without it there is no Barton
Willmore. It really is very important to us to know that it
is secure and protected within RapidSwitch's data centre and the
wider iomart Group network."
To find out more please read the full case study here
About iomart
Award winning cloud company iomart Group PLC (AIM:IOM) enables
businesses and organisations to operate their online data and IT
environments safely and securely. Headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, iomart partners with
leading vendors such as VMware, Amazon, EMC, Microsoft, Asigra,
Arbor and Dell to offer customers a centrally managed, controlled
and completely agnostic set of hybrid, private and public cloud
platforms. By owning a global network and datacentre
infrastructure, iomart can support any customer who wishes to move
seamlessly between any and all of these platforms with a
consultative level of knowledge and expertise, delivering cloud
services to meet exact business needs. For more information
visit http://www.iomart.com
SOURCE Iomart Group Plc