News & Events

July 2010

Celerity Nominated for UK IT Industry Award 2010

Celerity is delighted to be nominated for the “Project Excellence Awards – Public Sector Project of The Year” at this year’s forthcoming UK IT Industry Awards.

The UK IT Industry Awards are the benchmark for excellence throughout the computer industry. The Awards focus on the contribution of individuals, projects, organisations and technologies that have excelled in the use, development and deployment of IT in the past 12 months.

Project Excellence Award - The Project Excellence award is presented to organisations and to project teams that have achieved exceptional results through their outstanding implementation of technology and their high levels of professionalism in IT.

Celerity’s nomination is for the implementation of IBM’s new Virtualised Disk Solution (VDS) into a public sector organisation.

The winners will be announced at a prize giving ceremony, to be held at the Battersea Park Events Arena in London on Thursday 11 November 2010.

For more information on the awards please Click Here.
Source: UK IT Industry Awards

IBM’s New Virtualised Disk Solution (VDS) is an affordable enterprise storage solution starting at under £20,000 for 12TB and scalable to over 1,000TB.

It will increase your utilisation by up to 80%, drive efficiency, control costs, improve flexibility, simplify management and indeed maximise value. To find out more please email info@celerity-uk.com

 

IBM’s Virtualised Disk Solution (VDS)

VDS enables customers to add new features to their existing storage, thus enabling a higher return on the investment already made in their storage environment.

Thin provisioning: Enabling the dynamic management of storage allocation, no more over allocation of disk space and only use the disk space that it needed.

iSCSI: Utilise existing network infrastructure for applications that need SAN connectivity where it is not cost effective enough for use of Fibre Channel hot connectivity.

Migration: Migrate data between different vendors of storage array, taking away the head ache of being locked in to a certain vendor or future upgrade processes.

Centralised management of all your storage in one place reduces the requirement for training as the management interface is the same regardless of storage vendor, adding the ability to tier your storage real time by moving data between FC and SATA disk - and back, if required, with no disruption to applications or services.

With the huge discounts available on IBM’s VDS - take control of your storage now and for your growing needs in the future!

IBM’s New Virtualised Disk Solution (VDS) is an affordable enterprise storage solution starting at under £20,000 for 12TB and scalable to over 1,000TB.

It will increase your utilisation by up to 80%, drive efficiency, control costs, improve flexibility, simplify management and indeed maximise value. To find out more please email info@celerity-uk.com


IBM Celebrates Greenest SuperComputers

IBM's green credentials have received another boost after its supercomputers were judged to be the most energy efficient in the world, according to the results of the latest Green500 List announced by Green500.org.

The environmental awards body has been appraising the green credentials of supercomputers globally for several years, and IBM dominated the list yet again this time around.

For further information Click Here.
Source: www.channelweb.co.uk

 

March 2010

VDI Event Success in Stirling...

Celerity hosted yet another successful event in Stirling last month for organisations looking at virtualising their desktop infrastructure. The event was run in conjunction with both IBM and VMware training & consultancy specialist, Taupo Consulting and we were delighted at the attendance despite the poor weather conditions!!

Attendance at the briefing was mainly public sector organisations currently looking at desktop vitualisation as a priority on their IT agenda.

Presentations on the day included: Highlights of the latest VMware View Version 4, Hardware Sizing Challenges and the power of IBM Nseries, Announcements and what to expect from VMware view in 2010.

Celerity will be hosting a series of virtualisation briefings over the coming months throughout Scotland – watch this space for more dates….

To register your interest in forthcoming seminars or if you are looking at Virtualisation as part of your ongoing IT strategy please email info@celerity-uk.com and we will be more than happy to discuss your requirements with you.

eWeek article - Software: The Driving Force Behind IBM's Business Transformation

Software

A recent eWeek article reported that although IBM ranks as the second largest software business in the industry, "IBM Software Group is not sitting around on its laurels. The profit-driving division of IBM has been on a growth path for a long time, investing both organically and through acquisitions to build one of the most powerful software portfolios in the industry." At US$22 billion in revenue last year, IBM Software Group brought in more than 42% of IBM's profits.

Recently, IBM realigned its software business by creating two umbrella organisations, IBM Software Solutions Group and IBM Software Middleware Group. IBM will more closely align its industry and analytics growth plays, as well as its core middleware capabilities to build its technology portfolio and capture marketplace opportunities.

>>Read the entire article.

February 2010

VMware Desktop Virtualisation Event, Stirling, Friday 26th Feb 2010


Virtualisation – It’s Time to Make the Leap Get more efficiency, control & choice with Celerity, IBM & VMware

In conjunction with IBM and VMware specialist partner Taupo Consulting, Celerity are running a half day briefing around Desktop Virtualisation at Stirling Management Centre, University of Stirling Campus.

Agenda - Friday 26th February 2010:
09:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Introductions
10:05 VMware View Today - The Recent Launch of Version 4
10:30 Hardware Sizing Challenges: The Answers - SAN Sizing & Scaling
11:00 Break
11:30 VMware View - What To Expect In 2010
11:50 Using VMware Best Practice Methodology To Your Project
12:20 Q & A
12:30 Close & Lunch. Demonstrations

Speakers include Alistair Sutherland who designed and implemented the first VMware View deployment and the first View deployment over a WAN. We will present the hardware challenges faced when virtualising the desktop and how these can be overcome with the versatile and scalable server technology from IBM - delivering to you a more manageable and more powerful IT environment.

Come along and find out how you can:

- Transform desktop management into a simplified & automated process.
- Reduce the total cost of desktop ownership by 50%
- Provide end users a consistent high performance desktop experience
- Bring the power of the datacenter to your corporate desktop

For full details please click here

To register please click here and complete the form, email tracy.whittle@celerity-uk.com or alternatively telephone 0870 240 8116.

 

January 2010

Mary Kelly Joins Celerity To Further strengthen Southern Sales Team

We are delighted to announce that Mary Kelly will be joining Celerity as of the 18th January and will be based from the Ascot Office.

Mary will be joining us on secondment from IBM and will be the second addition to our southern territory sales team, focusing on new business mainly in Central London and the South East of England.

Mary has spent the last 7 years in IBM working for Software Group, initially as a Data Rep for Local Government and Education and then in FSS as a Content Management Specialist. Over the past two and a half years Mary has worked in the Channel, originally in Content Management and more recently with Lotus Brand.

With the appointment of both Mary Kelly and Mark Hunt, Celerity are confident that we will continue to see a significant sales growth in this territory and further demonstrates our commitment to strengthening Celerity's presence in the South.

 

Mark Hunt Joins Celerity Sales Team In The South

We are pleased to announce that Mark Hunt will be joining Celerity in January based from our Ascot Office.

Mark will be working in territory sales focusing on new business mainly in the South East of England. The territory will cover a corridor of South Wales and Bristol down to Plymouth and the South East of England. Mark has been selling for several years in the industry, previously working at IBM as an AIX Power salesman in the North of England on a general business territory and also as the eSM/CSM for HSBC.
Mark is joining us after what has been a very successful year for Celerity and we are delighted that he will be part of our growing team in taking the business forward in 2010.