The Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) has announced a technology partnership with eircom Business. Valued at €1.1 million, the deal will see eircom provide cloud computing and network services to reduce the organisation’s operational costs. The Irish Greyhound Board has reduced operational costs by 45% since 2007 which has largely been driven by innovations in technology usage.
Eircom’s cloud solution, powered by Amazon Web Services, forms a key part of the Irish Greyhound Board’s five year strategic plan to support the business with a leading edge technology infrastructure that will deliver significant efficiencies to the business and enable it to generate new and growing revenue streams both nationally and internationally.
As part of the project, live streaming of races will also be broadcast via the IGB’s website with race analysis, interviews, commentary and live discussions.
Adrian Neilan, CEO, Irish Greyhound Board, said: "The new content and revenue-generating services that we can now begin to rollout over the coming three years look set to be a real game-changer for the industry as we seek to realise the potential to further grow and engage with our community of greyhound racing followers, not only in Ireland but also internationally."
Jason O’Conaill, head of cloud and data centres, eircom Business, said: "The partnership that we have in place with Amazon Web Services, along with the significant investments that we have made in our cloud capabilities, can now truly enable businesses to transform their legacy IT infrastructures to become more agile and deliver savings in operating costs."
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