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Northgate Information Solutions: Global IT services...
Northgate Information Solutions: Global IT services company enhances business resilience
Challenge
When establishing new data centres Northgate wanted a networked IT services solution that would enhance business continuity and disaster recovery
Solution
Etherflow services provide dual diverse Gigabit links into the data centres, while 100Mbps fibre access circuits serve 44 customer sites
Value
Enabling improved application response times, the new network is providing improved performance and greater resilience at lower cost
Challenge
Northgate Information Solutions is a market leader in providing specialist software, outsourcing, and IT services to market sectors such as local government and education. It has over 10,000 employees in 35 countries. Its UK clients need high-speed access to cloud-based centrally hosted applications, making business resilience critical to the company’s reputation.
Richard Shaw, a Principal Consultant at Northgate Information Solutions, takes up the story: “The Buncefield oil depot explosion completely took out our UK headquarters, which included our data centre. We made emergency provision using a data centre in Essex connected over BT CellStream. At the same time we created a new WAN to reconnect our sites using BT IP Clear.”
With the company back on a firm footing, the Northgate IT team focused on further improving business continuity and disaster recovery. New duplicated primary and secondary data centres were planned for London and Woking, while more resilient and cost effective networked IT services were sought.
“We wanted a robust connectivity solution for our new data centres. Meanwhile, because the demand for bandwidth is growing all the time,” says Richard Shaw, “the BT CellStream service was starting to look expensive.”