BERMUDA REALTY MOVES TO THE CLOUD
Top Bermuda real estate company chooses Private Cloud from CCS and QuoVadis
Bermuda Realty Company Limited (trading as Coldwell Banker Bermuda Realty) has adopted a Private Cloud solution from CCS Group and QuoVadis Services as the backbone of its computing needs.
Bermuda Realty is the island’s largest real estate firm offering a wide range of rental, sales, and management services for both commercial and residential real estate.
“Bermuda Realty has a long tradition of developing innovative services for the local real estate sector,” said company president Brian Madeiros. “This has lead to a considerable investment in IT infrastructure. By moving to cloud hosting, we have made the conscious decision to focus our resources on the real estate services at the heart of our business, and to outsource the underlying technology platforms to IT specialists like CCS and QuoVadis.”
CCS and QuoVadis are providing both production and disaster recovery hosting for Bermuda Realty’s server environments, as well as virtual desktops for all employees. The Private Cloud solution is based on QuoVadis’ multimillion dollar Infrastructure on Demand platform, hosted in its SecureCentre datacentre in Hamilton.
“Bermuda Realty were looking for a highly available, high performance solution for their servers as well as the ability for employees to securely access their work from anywhere at any time,” stated Kory Logan, Product Development Manager of CCS. “Based on these requirements, we felt that hosted services with virtual desktops powered by the QuoVadis platform would be the most effective and economical solution for Bermuda Realty.”
With cloud hosting, companies outsource their server computing requirements to a hosting provider, reducing their own costs of buying in-house hardware or maintaining a datacentre. Virtual desktops expand on that idea, so a user’s software and files are not tied to an individual desktop computer. Rather, they operate from a central cloud server, so that users can access their office work environment from any computer when securely connected to the cloud.
“The QuoVadis cloud allows companies to reduce their business risk and overall cost of IT by leveraging our high performance computing platforms and datacentre technologies,” said Gavin Dent, CEO of QuoVadis Services. “It’s an appealing formula for many businesses faced with steep upgrade costs, replacing their variable IT capital expenditures with predictable monthly fees.”
QuoVadis launched the high availability SecureCentre hosting facility in central Hamilton in late 2010 with multiple layers of support infrastructure and direct connections to Bermuda’s various data networks. QuoVadis expanded its offering with a world class Infrastructure on Demand platform, able to support a wide variety of virtual hosting and virtual desktop solutions, as well as tailored Private Cloud hosting. Other offerings include disaster recovery and remote back up services, managed storage solutions, as well as managed firewall and security monitoring.
“In this economic environment, many local companies are paying particular attention to their in-house costs of supporting and operating IT infrastructure. At the same time, they have concerns about hosting their IT overseas for jurisdiction or support reasons,” said Ian Cook, General Manager of CCS. “Working with the QuoVadis Infrastructure on Demand platform, CCS can create solutions that leverage the power of cloud computing but are customised to local company requirements and are backed up by experienced Bermuda support teams.”
CCS has provided IT professional services in Bermuda since 1982, building and providing ongoing support for some of the island’s most complex technology implementations. CCS consultants offer a complete portfolio of communications solutions, both for in-house implementation or for outsourced environments such as the QuoVadis Infrastructure on Demand platform.
CCS RECOGNIZED BY CISCO AS THE FIRST AUTHORIZED TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER IN BERMUDA
Launch event on June 30
(Hamilton, Bermuda, June 10, 2010) - Local systems integrator CCS Group has become the first Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Authorized Technology Provider in Bermuda. Cisco’s ATP network is an invitation-only program. To participate in the program, partners must already possess technology and market credentials in the ATP focused technology. CCS also had to show knowledge of the Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure and the Cisco Data Center Storage Networking specializations, as well as demonstrate mature competencies in a number of technologies. This is the first time that a technology company in Bermuda has earned such a designation from Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the internet.
The Cisco Unified Computing System unites network, computational, storage access, and virtualization resources in a single energy-efficient system that can reduce the costs and complexity of information technology (IT) infrastructure, help extend capital assets, and improve business agility well into the future. A new computing model, the Cisco Unified Computing System uses integrated management and combines a “wire once” unified fabric with an industry-standard computing platform to optimize virtualization, reduce the data center’s total overall cost, and provide dynamic resource provisioning for businesses that are becoming increasingly collaborative, mobile and distributed.
Wayne Scott, Chief Executive Officer at CCS, says: “CCS is honoured to have been selected as an ATP partner for Cisco. Although Bermuda is a small country, the market demands extremely advanced technology solutions with on-island expertise to implement and support them. The Unified Computing System is efficient and easy to use, which results in reduced IT costs.”
John Growdon, Director at Worldwide Channels Go-to-Market Group at Cisco, says: “Cisco’s new computing model can help customers transform their data center into a dynamic IT environment with the power to increase productivity and improve efficiency to an entirely new level. As an ATP for Cisco’s UCS, CCS is a member of a group of industry leaders working with Cisco to stimulate technology innovation, augment service delivery and accelerate the market adoption of unified computing. We’re delighted to welcome them on board.”
CCS will be hosting a seminar at the Bermuda Underwater Exportation Institute (BUEI) to officially launch Cisco’s UCS in Bermuda. Representatives of Cisco and VMware will explain the advantages that the UCS can deliver. There will also be a presentation from next generation storage area network (SAN) provider Compellent to explain how the SAN fits into the UCS architecture. The seminar will be held on Wednesday, June 30th, starting at 8:30 and running until 11:30 pm. Those interested in attending can RSVP to Kory Logan at CCS on 294-3406 or email klogan@ccs.bm.
Notes to Editors
CCS Group
CCS Group is a rapidly growing information technology and communications company providing a variety of business solutions from best-of-breed solutions providers. Services include: networking; server; storage; software development; telephony; IP telephony and infrastructure cabling. CCS is a Cisco Premier Partner, VMware Enterprise Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Compellent Certified solutions provider.
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