PFH Technology Group has invested €1.2 million in the establishment of a dedicated cloud, virtualisation and enterprise systems management centre in Sandyford, Dublin. The centre was opened by Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, Richard Bruton, TD, will create up to 20 jobs over the next three years.
The centre is designed to provide users from across large corporate, government, health and education organisations with the ability to gain hands on experience with the current and next generation of virtualisation and cloud technologies. The centre will be able to model the organisations’ systems to show the savings and efficiencies that can be made through the implementation of new technologies, through real world scenarios, while demonstrating systems management capabilities. The emphasis is firmly on experience and interaction to ensure that organisations gain a thorough understanding of the specific benefits.
“Last week,” said Minister Bruton at the launch, “I announced the establishment by Government of a €5 million applied research centre in cloud computing to ensure that Ireland can become a world leader in this sector, which according to Microsoft could create 8,500 jobs and be worth €9.5 billion per annum to the Irish economy by 2014. Today, I am delighted to launch this cutting edge technology experience centre which represents another step towards ensuring that we realise that ambition.”
“Cloud Computing is more than just the latest buzzword, it is a real and proven way of significantly reducing your cost base by managing your technology needs in a more effective manner,” said Paul Hourican, CEO, PFH Technology Group. “The Experience centre provides experiential learning for the current generation of business leaders to see for themselves the practical benefits and applications of a range of new technologies which can help transform how their organisations are run and help them plan their journey into the Cloud.”
The Experience Centre includes technologies such as:
- * Private cloud technologies including utility storage platform supporting highly virtualised enterprise environments
- * Siemens Openscape, the enterprise ready server based telephony and enterprise communications platform
- * Collaboration technologies from Siemens, Microsoft and Polycom
- * Server and desktop virtualisation from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix
- * Enterprise core networking from HP and Enterasys
- * Systems automation and management from HP, Microsoft and VMware
- * Custodian branded, managed services and remote infrastructure solutions from PFH
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