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To deliver innovative web 2.0 blogging application globally
Reading, UK – 15 April 2008- DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, today announced that its Thames Valley Hosting Centre has been selected by Favorit to provide co-location services within its data centre to host an innovative blogging aggregation platform.
With a global coverage in the blogoshere, Favorit required a data centre with solid network resilience and connectivity to house its critical IT infrastructure. Backed by Sun Microsystems, Favorit developed a web 2.0 application that aggregates blogs and centralises the commenting functionality, vastly simplifying the ability to view and comment, without having to access multiple sites. The blogopshere currently stands at more than 80 million blogs and deriving value from this wealth of information requires different ways of leveraging the community to produce new experiences for end users. For Favorit utilising a data centre leverages economies of scale and reduces the risk for their IT investment.
"In selecting a co-location data centre, I was ultimately looking for a company to protect my IT infrastructure, with a track record of remote hands service excellence. DediPower stood out amongst its competitors and their reputation in the market was critical, as a new company offering innovative technology we need to get off on the right foot," said Nick Halstead, CEO, Favorit.
DediPower's Co-location solutions offer customers piece of mind that their servers will be safe and accessible 24x7x365, all housed within a secure environment with fully managed air-conditioning, redundant power supplies and high speed connectivity. Located on the outskirts of Reading, Berkshire, Thames Valley Hosting Centre is also ideal for companies who are designing disaster recovery requirements into their IT infrastructure.
"Favorit are at the forefront of technology, delivering an integrated blogging portal. At DediPower it is exciting to work and support companies like Favorit who are pushing the boundaries in how we communicate and operate via the internet. Managed Hosting companies are enablers and help underpin businesses in today’s eBusiness economies," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About DediPower Managed Hosting
DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers, delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK. For more information call DediPower on 0870 252 3600, email info@dedipower.com or visit our website http://www.dedipower.com
Visit DediPower Managed Hosting at Internet World 2008, Earls Court, London, 29th April – 1st May, stand E220.
READING, UK - 1st April 2008 - DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Triad Computer Services Limited, to host their business critical IT infrastructure in DediPower's Thames Valley Hosting Centre.
Thames Valley Hosting Centre is a co-location facility providing customers rack space in a secure and custom built environment. For Triad Computer Services, an ISP delivering a range of IT services in Britain, the data centre leverages economies of scale and reduces the risk for their IT investment. Businesses are increasingly turning to co-location because of the considerable advantages it offers over maintaining servers in-house. These include significant cost savings as it becomes unnecessary to build and maintain the in-house requirements that servers demand. Additionally the benefits of enhanced security, improved connectivity and hardware reliability and system flexibility makes co-location a very compelling proposition.
"In selecting DediPower we have chosen an organisation that has built an excellent track record of delivering to customer requirements. Taking the decision to co-locate our servers is of critical importance to us and we needed to ensure that our chosen supplier was capable of meeting our needs with a cost effective solution. With DediPower we will be utilising their data centres which are designed and equipped to tier 3 industry data centre standards," said Steve Gosnay, Managing Director, Triad Computer Services Ltd
DediPower's Co-location solutions offer customers piece of mind that their servers will be safe and accessible 24x7x365, all housed within a secure environment with fully managed air-conditioning, redundant power supplies and high speed connectivity. Located on the outskirts of Reading, Berkshire, Thames Valley Hosting Centre is also ideal for companies who are designing disaster recovery requirements into their IT infrastructure.
"More and more companies are turning to DediPower’s Co-location services. Co-location enables our customers to focus on their business objectives, whilst we mange their online needs, like security and guaranteed access to high bandwidth. Over the last 18 months we have made a significant investment in our data centres to ensure we can offer the very best co-location service available in the market today," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About DediPower
DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK. For more information call DediPower on 0870 252 3600, email info@dedipower.com or visit our website – www.dedipower.com
Visit DediPower Managed Hosting at Internet World 2008, Earls Court, London, 29th April – 1st May, stand E220.
READING, UK - 11th March 2008 - DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Asylum Entertainment Ltd (www.asylum-entertainment.com), a leading video game developer to provide all of their managed hosting requirements. DediPower will deliver a managed hosting business server solution to meet Asylum Entertainment's operational requirements in the competitive global games market worth over £15bn and growing at nearly 10% p.a.
Asylum Entertainment's primary focus is on designing and developing innovative, stylish and popular properties for the children's and family entertainment markets, building a vast array of complex 3D games and software development. With an online business model, Asylum required a managed hosting company to underpin their business operations as a critical element in their go to market strategy.
"We have set very exacting standards in dealing with our own customers and we expect our suppliers to be similarly focused. DediPower stood out in the managed hosting market with a clear commitment to delivering high levels of customer satisfaction coupled with their proven track record of working with rapidly growing on-line businesses. This is all powerfully supported by DediPower’s understanding and application of technology," said Tony Bailey, Studio Manager, Asylum Entertainment.
DediPower is focused on the eBusiness market with its Managed Hosting solutions enable businesses to focus on their core competencies to deliver their business goals. The DediPower business server solutions provide custom built high-specification dedicated servers combined with a world-class hosting infrastructure that has been designed to ensure the highest levels of network uptime, availability, flexibility and security.
"The video games market is very competitive and changing all the time. In order for companies like Asylum to compete effectively all elements of their value chain need to be robust and dependable not least their online hosting. We have created in DediPower a managed hosting service that is not only delivers very high levels of reliability but can also cope with the exacting requirements of customers such as Asylum Entertainments," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About DediPower
DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK. For more information call DediPower on 0870 252 3600, email info@dedipower.com or visit our website – www.dedipower.com
Visit DediPower Managed Hosting at Internet World 2008, Earls Court, London, 29th April – 1st May, stand E220.
READING, UK - 26th February 2008 - DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, today announced they have been selected by Risk Analysis Services to provide a managed hosting solution to underpin a recently launched business continuity programme called Crisis Pro (www.crisispro.co.uk). DediPower will deliver a managed hosting business server solution in multiple locations to meet Risk Analysis Services business continuity requirements.
Business continuity is crucial with the survival rate of companies not planning for disasters is estimated at around 20% and few firms surviving catastrophic IT failure beyond 1 year.* DediPower's multiple data centres enable enterprises to protect their critical data for business operations.
"Because we supply risk management solutions, we have very specific and rigorous needs relating to security. Our own continuity arrangements are integral to our operations so we wanted a managed hosting supplier who could meet our strict requirements," commented Joe Aspey, Director, Risk Analysis Services. "If critical resources were not available or data was not securely managed, this could have security implications for our customers and a negative impact on our business. We needed to protect access to our data and that is why we chose DediPower."
DediPower's Managed Hosting provides enterprises with business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for customers who want to protect their data, with two purpose built data centres and a third site for disaster recovery. DediPower business server solutions provide custom built high-specification dedicated servers combined with a world-class hosting infrastructure that has been designed to ensure the highest levels of network uptime, availability, flexibility and security. Focused on delivering service excellence, DediPower offers one of the best services level agreements in the industry today and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner.
"Companies with business continuity capabilities are more likely to survive a major incident than those who aren't and Risk Analysis Services is working with SME’s to understand the risks in business and the need for protecting their intellectual assets. The need to respond to changing conditions quickly and effectively protect your data is a crucial reason why Risk Analysis Services selected a managed hosting solution," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About DediPower
DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.
For more information call Jodie Hoare, Head of Marketing at DediPower on 0870 252 3600, email info@dedipower.com or visit our website – www.dedipower.com
Notes to Editors:
Risk Analysis Services Ltd. is a leading supplier of risk management software designed to assist the SME business sector. Its software programs are in extensive use throughout the UK by consultants who support their SME clients with the creation of risk management programs and business continuity plans. CrisisPro sits alongside tried and trusted applications ActionPro (software to examine and report on risk management across the spectrum of business operations) and CoverPro (commercial insurance planning software for insurance professionals, designed for use by FSA regulated firms).
For more information visit www.crisispro.co.uk or Risk Analysis Services Ltd’s site at www.riskan.co.uk.
* London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Disaster Recovery: business tips for survival.
READING, UK - 5th February 2008 - DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Red Advertising Ltd to provide all of their managed hosting requirements with a fully managed enterprise solution.
Reds current stable of 14 different online classified job advertising web sites process in excess of 5.3 million page views a month and being with an experienced managed hosting provider is absolutely essential for their business. Over the past five years Red Advertising has built on its market position and has had to increase its server capacity on an almost ongoing basis.
"We offer our services only online and are therefore entirely reliant upon the internet. We need to provide 100% site availability for all of our websites in order to meet the demands of both potential job seekers and our advertising customers. Following an exhaustive search of the managed hosting suppliers in the market we selected DediPower based on its proven track record of delivering high quality customer services coupled with their capacity to cope with significant growth," commented Richard Clarke, Director, Red Advertising. "We had outgrown our current managed server provider and felt it time to move to a more dedicated and personalised high level support service. DediPower’s flexible approach to providing a tailored solution supported by competitive pricing made them the obvious choice for our company".
DediPower’s Managed Hosting solutions enable businesses to focus on their core competencies to deliver their business goals. Its fully managed enterprise solutions are custom designed to meet individual company requirements for high-end mission critical business operations. Delivering 100% uptime and the highest level of support, DediPower offers one of the best services level agreements in the industry today and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner.
"DediPower is strongly committed to supporting Britain’s e-Business community to deliver competitive solutions locally and for a global reach. It is exciting to work with Red Advertising who are revolutionising the online classified job advertising space and utilising technology to find the best possible candidates for British businesses. We look forward to a long working relationship with them," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About Red Advertising
Red Advertising Ltd currently owns 14 sector-specific classified job advertising websites, including the generalist job site Redgoldfish.co.uk. These sites are incorporated under the Redadvertising.co.uk platform arrangement. Red is an independent company controlled by private shareholders and venture capital investors and is not owned or associated with any recruitment agency or publisher. Red Advertising operates solely in the online classified job advertising space. www.redadvertising.co.uk
About DediPower
DediPower, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built data centres totalling over 22,000 sq ft situated in Reading, UK.
READING, UK - 11th December 2007 - DediPower one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, today announced that it has secured a second data centre in to cope with rapidly growing demand for its range of managed hosting solutions which include dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location.
The new 11000 sq. ft tier 3 data centre located in Reading, UK enables companies the flexibility of future expansion whilst protecting access to their information. Providing 24x7 security, N+1 redundancy and cooling systems with multiple gigabit fibre connectivity. The new centre delivers a solid platform for companies with data storage or business recovery compliance requirements.
"Over the last 12 months we have seen an explosion in demand for our services and have added a host of increasingly high profile clients including Capita, ITV, Sam Learning, and Carphone Warehouse. The new facility will allow us to significantly expand our hosting capacity and the range of services we offer," commented Gareth Cadwallader, DediPower, non-executive chairman.
DediPower, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner, has been providing managed hosting services since 1999 and hosts thousands of servers for customers at its existing purpose built Berkshire 'Cadogan House' data centre. Customers and sites include some of the largest and most well known brands and companies in the world, from a wide range of industries including finance, travel, education, health, communications and fast moving goods. DediPower also provides tailored solutions to both central and local government using the very latest technology supported by 24 x 7 customer support.
"Securing this data centre will allow us to continue to satisfy the growing demand for our services whilst ensuring we maintain the high level of customer service that has established us a premier supplier of managed hosting services in the UK," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower. READING, UK - 11th November 2007 - DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by TriSys Business Software (www.trisys.biz) to provide all of their managed hosting requirements. TriSys, based in Cambridge, develops and markets advanced recruitment software that covers all aspects of the recruitment process. The software is delivered to customers as a hosted solution.
"Offering software as a service means that one of our critical dependencies is our web hosting service provider. We require a very resilient system, supported by excellent customer service, flexible terms and the capacity to cope with significant growth. DediPower ticked all the boxes, and this coupled with their proven experience and capabilities of working with other application service providers made them the obvious choice," commented Garry Lowther, Technical Director, TriSys Business Software.
Delivering 'software as a service' has become a mainstream software delivery mechanism, particularly to small and medium sized businesses. It delivers a multitude of benefits including rapid implementation, reduced cost, and minimal impact on internal IT resource. DediPower works with an increasing number of ASP's who focus on a broad range of vertical and application specific markets including the finance sector, manufacturing and the public sector.
DediPower, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner, has been providing managed hosting services since 1999 and hosts thousands of servers for customers at its two purpose built data centres in Reading. Customers and sites include some of the largest and most well known brands and companies in the world, from a wide range of industries including finance, travel, education, health, communications and fast moving goods. DediPower also provides tailored solutions to both central and local government using the very latest technology supported by 24 x 7 customer support.
"The ASP market represents a very demanding market for hosting providers. It requires us to deliver the very highest levels of customer service supported by a high degree of technical competency. TriSys joins a growing number of ASP’s who have recognised our capabilities to deliver managed hosting services to meet their exacting requirements," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower. READING, UK - 18th October 2007 - DediPower one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Canongate Books to provide all their managed hosting needs.
After a successful management buyout in the 90's, Canongate Books has emerged as one of the most dynamic publishing houses in Britain. Based in Edinburgh but with a distinctly international outlook, Canongate continues to nurture and publish new talent from around the world, whilst retaining the essence of the Scottish Canon.
"Following an exhaustive review of the market we opted for DediPower based on their proven track record and considerable experience of supplying value for money managed hosting services to organisations like ourselves. This is backed by a clear commitment to delivering high levels of customer service," commented Andrea See, Online Marketing Executive at Cannongate Books.
DediPower, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and RedHat Ready Hosting Partner, has been providing managed hosting services since 1999 and hosts thousands of servers for customers at its two purpose built data centres in Reading. Customers and sites include some of the largest and most well known brands and companies in the world, from a wide range of industries including finance, travel, education, health, communications and fast moving goods. DediPower also provides tailored solutions to both central and local government using the very latest technology supported by 24 x 7 customer support.
"We are very pleased to have been selected by Canongate Books to provide their managed hosting services. They join a growing list of customers who have entrusted their internet and hosting related infrastructure to DediPower," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower. READING, UK - 2nd August 2007 - Holidaylettings.co.uk is one of the largest and fastest growing holiday home rental portals in the UK and has experienced large increases in site visitors since partnering with Rightmove.co.uk in March. DediPower, as the provider of managed hosting services to Holidaylettings.co.uk, has jumped to the challenge to ensure that more and more holidaymakers can have a problem free browsing experience.
Operating in a highly competitive market, Holidaylettings.co.uk is now one of the top 15 travel websites in the UK according to Hitwise*. Its rapid growth is partly a result of its commitment to deliver total customer satisfaction combined with a user-friendly website. Today the site advertises and promotes more than 16,000 properties in over 100 countries worldwide and attracts in excess of 1.2 million visitors each month.
"Users want and expect high bandwidth, content rich sites these days, which enable them to browse and search quickly and easily," says Andy Firth, Technical Director at Holidaylettings.co.uk. "We are now using terabytes of bandwidth each month. Our established relationship with DediPower and their comprehension of our needs has enabled us to meet the demands of homeowners and holidaymakers using our site."
DediPower Managed Hosting is a leading provider of business and enterprise level managed hosting solutions in the United Kingdom. DediPower hosts thousands of servers for customers at its purpose built Berkshire 'Cadogan House' data centre. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse.
"The user demand for Holidaylettings.co.uk has grown rapidly in recent months and we are very pleased to be meeting their continuing hosting needs," commented Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower. "They are part of a growing list of successful web based companies that rely on DediPower to deliver value for money, high quality and reliable managed hosting services."
* Source: Market share of UK page impressions to UK Travel websites, Hitwise March-June 2007
READING, UK - 17th May 2007 - DediPower has been engaged by ITV.com to provide managed hosting services to host one of ITV’s most visited websites - emmerdalemurder.itv.com – the "Who killed Tom King" interactive game site. Emmerdale is ITV's second most popular TV property, with over 12 million regular viewers. The interactive site allows users to gather clues to solve the murder, with daily content updates to keep up with the on-screen storyline.
The growth of this website has far exceeded the expectation of ITV and DediPower have been required to rapidly scale up their support by adding new servers to match site demand. The site today has over 130,000 registered users and continues to grow.
"We needed to get up and running fast so we needed a quick a turnaround. DediPower were able to get the site up from scratch in under 24 hours with sufficient power to ensure that it was able to cope with the unprecedented number of visitors it has been receiving," commented David McAdam, Head of Technology & Operations at ITV.com. "In just under 6 weeks we have more than doubled the number of managed servers dedicated to emmerdalemurder.itv.com. I have been very impressed with both the speed and the responsiveness of DediPower. We will definitely be using them again."
DediPower Managed Hosting is a leading provider of business and enterprise level managed hosting solutions in the United Kingdom. DediPower hosts thousands of servers for customers at its purpose built Berkshire 'Cadogan House' data centre. Customers and sites include some of the largest and most well known brands and companies in the world.
"ITV.com have been overwhelmed by the success of this website. At peak times, the solution has had to cope with over 30,000 concurrent users. I am pleased to say that we have been more than able to keep pace with the demand and ensure that visitors to the site are able to enjoy to unlimited access it," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About ITV
ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK, broadcasting the most talked about television and making a major contribution to the UK’s culture, economy and communities. The ITV Network is made up of 15 regional licences, providing television to viewers across the UK. 11 of the licences in England and Wales are owned by ITV Plc, formed in 2004 following the merger of Carlton and Granada. SMG owns the two Scottish licences, Scottish Television and Grampian; UTV and Channel Television own the licences for Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands respectively.
About DediPower
DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built 11,000 sq ft data centre in Reading, UK.
READING, UK - 29th March 2007 - DediPower has been engaged by Extrinsica to provide Hosted Managed Services for it's recently launched Office Anywhere service. The Office Anywhere service provides organisations with enterprise-standard IT facilities, including business applications and secure shared file storage that can be accessed securely and reliably via the Web from anywhere in the world.
To offer the very best cost effectiveness and flexibility to its customers, the Office Anywhere service requires a platform based extensively on server visualisation, which allows much greater IT resource utilization and flexibility. Extrinsica have also contracted DediPower to deliver this.
"Office Anywhere will be providing business-critical IT facilities to our customers via the Web so we needed to ensure we had the very best in managed hosting services available supplied by a company that we felt we could absolutely rely on. This is what our Office Anywhere customers expect from us. Following an exhaustive selection process we chose DediPower on the basis of their track record and their very clear commitment to providing first class customer support. Since engaging DediPower they have already demonstrated they can deliver to their promises," said Simon Smith, Managing Director, Extrinsica.
DediPower Managed Hosting is a leading provider of business and enterprise level managed hosting solutions in the United Kingdom. DediPower hosts thousands of servers for customers at its purpose built Berkshire 'Cadogan House' data centre. Customers and sites include some of the largest and most well known brands and companies in the world.
"We are very pleased to be working with Extrinsica. In the last 18 months we have seen a very rapid growth in our managed hosting business for Application Service Providers, but Office Anywhere takes this concept a stage further. Given they are completely web only business-critical solution providers they require very high levels of system capability and support, which we have proven ourselves to be more than capable of delivering," said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About Office Anywhere
Office Anywhere provides enterprise-class IT facilities, including software applications, file storage and continuous data protection backup, which are accessible securely from any computer connected to the Internet. It uses cutting-edge hardware and software technology to provide exceptionally high quality, on-demand facilities. It is a leased service, charged on a per user, per month basis, reducing or even eliminating the need for IT-related capital expenditure. Office Anywhere has been designed to meet the diverse needs of businesses from small start-ups to organisations of over 500 hundred users.
For more information call 07917352186, e-mail oainfo@extrinsicaglobal.com or visit www.officeanywhere.org.uk
About DediPower
DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built 11,000 sq ft data centre in Reading, UK.
READING, UK - 23rd February 2007 - SAM Learning, who offer online exam and revision practice services to secondary and primary schools and is used by more than 800,000 students in the UK uses DediPower for all its managed hosting requirements. The service, which was recently named the 2006 Education Resources Supplier of the Year, is subscribed to by 60% of all English state secondary schools with more than half of all Local Authorities and 1000+ primary schools as key partners.
DediPower have worked with Sam Learning for over 2 years and provide a set of managed servers running in a load balanced fully redundant cluster. The DediPower solution is fully managed and based on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) platform.
"Running an online business the robustness of our hosting partner is critical. DediPower has proven to be an excellent managed hosting service provider. They are very responsive as an organisation and focused on providing high levels of customer service" commented William Wharfe, Head of Software Development, SAM Learning Ltd.
DediPower Managed Hosting is a leading provider of business and enterprise level managed hosting solutions in the United Kingdom. DediPower hosts thousands of servers for customers at its purpose built Berkshire 'Cadogan House' data centre. Customers and sites include some of the largest and most well known brands and companies in the world.
"We congratulate Sam Learning on receiving their prestigious award which reflects their innovative and robust products and services which are helping to transform education. Like Sam Learning we seek to deliver high impact, high quality mission critical hosting services to support a growing list of high profile clients" said Craig Martin, CEO, DediPower.
About Sam Learning
SAM Learning provides the UK's most popular, proven test practice and revision services. Independent research by the Fischer Family Trust based on the results of more than 300,000 learners show that using a SAM Learning service improves results at GCSE, KS3 and KS2. SAM Learning services are chosen by more than 800,000 learners to support their revision. Over 60% of all English state secondary schools and over 1000 primary schools are current subscribers with more than half of all LAs as key partners.
SAM Learning offers three services - SAM Learning Secondary aimed at secondary school students, SAM Learning Primary specifically for KS2 pupils, and SAM Learning Plus aimed at improving teacher engagement.
For more information phone 0845 130 4160 or email helpdesk@samlearning.com. Curriculum Online approved. Winner - BETT Awards 2007
About DediPower
DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers delivers a range of managed hosting solutions including: dedicated servers, application and exchange hosting, high availability multi-server clusters and co-location. DediPower is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and a RedHat Ready Hosting partner. A winner of numerous awards, hosted sites include Sony, Sam Learning, Institute of Physics, Coca-Cola, Capita, First Great Western and Carphone Warehouse. Established in 1998 and self funded, DediPower runs its own purpose built 11,000 sq ft data centre in Reading, UK.
DediPower Managed Hosting Further Distinguishes Itself by Earning a Microsoft Competency In Hosting Solutions
READING, UK - 5th September 2006 - DediPower Managed Hosting today announced it has attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program with a competency in Hosting Solutions, recognizing DediPower Managed Hosting's expertise and total impact in the technology marketplace. As a Gold Certified partner, DediPower Managed Hosting has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers' needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
DediPower Managed Hosting is a leading provider of business and enterprise level managed hosting solutions in the United Kingdom. DediPower hosts thousands or servers for customers at its purpose built Berkshire 'Cadogan House' data centre. Customers and sites include some of the largest and well known brands and companies in the world.
"We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program. This allows us to clearly promote our expertise and relationship with Microsoft to our customers," said Craig Martin, Managing Director. "As one of only a handful of hosting providers worldwide achieving the rigorous requirements for Gold certification, the benefits provided will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide for customers."
Karl Noakes, Director of the Partner Development Group at Microsoft, said: "Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technology capabilities. They need to trust in someone that can act as an expert adviser for their long-term strategic technology plans. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, which have certified expertise and direct training and support from Microsoft, can build a positive customer experience with our technologies. As a Microsoft Gold partner, DediPower Managed Hosting can offer its customers the reassurance of a truly professional organisation with the backing of Microsoft's resources."
The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Competency is designed for partners with proven expertise in designing and/or implementing complex infrastructure solutions such as Active Directory®- and Microsoft Host Integration Server-based design and deployment solutions, and Microsoft Exchange Server migration or deployment solutions. Because customers are increasingly asking to do more with less, partners with the Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Competency can identify their unique skill in helping customers access management solutions, improve operational efficiency and reduce security risks.
READING, UK - 21st August 2006 - As summer comes to an end DediPower has seen record growth levels for both managed hosting and co-location services. The number of servers hosted in the Cadogan House data centre has more than doubled compared to August last year.
"The last six months have seen record growth in all product areas" said Craig Martin, Managing Director. "It has allowed us to extensively invest in our staff and infrastructure ensuring our high standards are maintained and also allowing additional upgrades to improve services even further. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their support and loyalty".
DediPower has always reinvested 90% of profits to keep service levels ahead of competitors. A testament to this philosophy is the incredibly low cancellation rate of less then 0.5%. This means less money is spent on advertising to replace lost customers; therefore the saving can be passed back to the customers providing unrivalled value for money. For example, some competitors in the industry spend more money on sales and marketing than actually providing the services they are selling.
READING, UK - 23rd November 2005 - DediPower are pleased to announce that a substantial network capacity upgrade has gone live with Affiniti, part of Kingston Communications. The direct fibre connection to Kingston?s national network provides complete provider redundancy at DediPower's Cadogan House data centre. An initial 100 Megabit capacity has been provisioned providing a 25% increase to current overall capacity, and can be upgraded to Gigabit speeds at short notice if required. In addition, DediPower customers requiring telecommunications services (such as ISDN and leased lines) now have the option of three providers: BT, Kingston and NTL.
"DediPower continue to focus on diversifying our critical infrastructure to supply the best possible reliability, redundancy, performance and choice to our customers. The new direct fibre connection with Affiniti further bolsters our ability to provide industry leading business critical hosting services", says Craig Martin, Managing Director.
The opportunities for customers are also expanded, explains Ashley Rance who is responsible for DediPower's technical infrastructure: "With the continuing convergence of traditional telecoms and IP based platforms, it is important we provide access to both platforms quickly and affordably. Our customers not only have access to our high-performance IP connectivity, but now have a choice of providers for traditional ISDN services enabling easier voice integration with their hosted ebusiness applications." |
