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News Release from: Comtec Enterprises
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 May 2008
Comtec Enterprises secure datacentre
facility
Comtec Enterprises, the ICT solutions company, announce final completion of its secure datacentre facility located just outside the M25 near London.
Visionary solutions provider completes own large state-of-the-art datacentre facility to underpin the most advanced selection of managed ICT services available to the UK SME sector The facility extends the footprint of Comtec's high density datacentre environment, capitalising on the most advanced technology currently available such as in-row cooling, hydrogen fuel cells and proactive monitoring, providing the platform for a range of managed services that includes email hosting, application hosting, disaster recovery/replication, hosted voice and a combined 'virtual desktop' service
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 2 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The facility is also excellently suited to support 'swing-kit', offering a third party platform where customers we can host their ICT infrastructures during major ICT relocation projects whilst they check their new environment is ready for a smooth transition.
"With this latest phase of our infrastructure expansion, we are offering a unique way for SMEs to derive valuable managed services without worrying about their provenance".
"We're committed to the development of our own high-spec managed services for the SME market that we control, we operate and we deliver," said Nick Claxson, Managing Director of Comtec Enterprises.
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"Listening to our customers, they've told us they want to extend the value of their ICT solutions by adding managed services that aren't subcontracted from supplier to supplier, but delivered 100% by one trusted partner - Comtec".
The Comtec datacentre facility boasts the level of security, connectivity, power resilience and on-site engineering expertise more commonly associated with far larger co-location sites.
Specifically:.
- Secure fencing perimeter, 24 hour CCTV, and multiple-layer card entry, raised floors, fire suppression.
- Diverse high capacity connections to TeleHouse and TeleCity as well as BT and NTL/Telewest backbones.
- Dedicated electricity substation with high capacity UPS and additional hydrogen fuel cells.
- Permanently staffed 24 hours a day by qualified NOC engineers.
- Gold-accredited APC datacentre professionals permanently onsite.
"This isn't about competing with the 'space and rack' colo providers because we're offering something far more valuable," added Claxson.
"Services like our virtual desktop combine hosted voice, hosted collaboration apps and hosted back-up that customers can pay for on a per seat basis rather than invest the capital themselves". Request free introductory details about products from Comtec Enterprises ...
"Because its own infrastructure we can also be incredibly flexible; some customers are even electing to failover to our hydrogen fuel cell UPS so that they can stay green no matter what happens!".
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