20 January 2025

The Republic of Ireland’s fire services are responsible for ensuring the safety of more than five million people. Ireland’s fire brigades are operated by 27 fire authorities, made up of 218 fire stations that deploy more than 3,200 serving fire personnel to attend tens of thousands of emergencies every year.

The emergency call taking, incident dispatch and mobilisation of the first response crews and fire appliances is managed and operated by three Regional Control Centres (RCC). The RCCs are based in Dublin (Eastern Region), Limerick (Munster Region) and Castlebar (Western Region).

11 December 2024

DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,600 people in locations across the UK, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. It takes a partnership approach with its clients, providing tailored commercial, transactional, claims, risk and advisory legal services, to help them achieve sustainable growth and to defend their business and reputation.

Going global
With the international side of its business continuing to expand and increased pressures being placed upon network infrastructure, DAC Beachcroft needed to put in place a global network that could provide the performance and resilience the organisation needed to maintain operations across a wider geographical area.

11 December 2024

Harbottle & Lewis is a London, UK-based law firm serving media, entertainment, and technology clients for over 60 years. With more than 200 employees, their IT strategy needs to support a remote work structure to ensure secure access and reliable connectivity for employees, regardless of where they are.

The COVID-19 impact
What was once a traditional, office-based environment quickly changed for Harbottle & Lewis in 2020, when workers needed to work remotely for the foreseeable future.

10 December 2024

G6 Motion Control is a leading global visual engineering company that produces films, commercials, and music videos. The team specializes in high-speed motion control capture, steadicam work, and virtual production. Their cameras produce extremely large files that are stored, accessed, and shared, which means highcapacity storage is a must.

05 November 2024

Agrovista is a leading supplier of agronomy advice, seed, crop protection products and precision farming services to farmers across the UK, working with arable, fruit, vegetable, horticultural and amenity sectors.

Agrovista’s existing MPLS network and existing service provider was struggling to deliver - and a more solid foundation for future network evolution was needed to support the business.

05 November 2024

Leverhulme Church of England and Community Trust (LCECT) is a multi-academy trust based in Bolton. Its schools - Rivington & Blackrod High School and Harper Green School - operate as secondary phase teaching environments.

Both schools had ten-year old legacy Meru wireless networks with a mixed estate of HP switches, which were struggling to cope with the throughput and density required by classroom environments. The wireless performance was poor with slow connectivity speeds and the networks were difficult to manage. The Meru Wi-Fi support was also end of life which meant the trust’s central IT team had no technical assistance in place for network troubleshooting.

07 October 2024

Independent family pub, retailer and brewer, Hydes, was founded in 1863, and has remained an independent brewery in the Northwest of England and North Wales ever since.

Like other breweries, Hydes must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which exists to help keep sensitive financial information safe from theft, hacking, and other security threats.

07 October 2024

Following a £70 million restoration, London’s iconic KOKO reopened its doors, now offering a one-of-a-kind physical space and media facility that offers an unrivalled experience for live music fans. Launched in partnership with SISTER, the new KOKO marries historic buildings with state-of-the-art technology to build on a long cultural legacy and protect the city’s nightlife for future generations.

However, KOKO’s revitalisation goes beyond the realms of architecture and design. The team wanted a space where artists can create without limits, an all-encompassing location in which music can be performed, produced, and streamed around the globe. The entertainment world is going in new directions and this venue of the future needed the technology to match.

07 October 2024

EfficiencyIT has shared the results of a data centre digital transformation initiative for its customers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a world-leader in genomic research and bioinformatics.

The project sought to increase the energy efficiency of its 4.5MW, genomic data centre in Cambridge – one of Europe’s largest, independent and privately owned, research facilities – and improve both the resiliency and visibility of its critical systems.

30 August 2024

The West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS) serves as a critical lifeline for the West Midlands region of England, providing essential NHS ambulance services. As one of ten ambulance trusts within the NHS, WMAS is entrusted with delivering emergency medical services across a vast geographical area.

Covering Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, WMAS’s reach extends to the unitary authorities of Stoke-on-Trent and Telford & Wrekin. Additionally, the trust offers non-emergency patient transport services in Birmingham, the Black Country, Arden, Cheshire, and the Wirral.