Response Data Communications Ltd

Response Earn ShoreTel’s Circle of Excellence Award for the 2nd Year Running!

sophie.nicholls — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 13:14:46 +0000

PRESS RELEASE: 09th December 2015 – London. Response Data Communications Ltd (RDC) has today announced that it has received ShoreTel’s Circle of Excellence Award in the Global Theaters category for the 2015 partner year, covering the October 2014 through September 2015 time period.

Winners again! The Response team being presented with their Circle of Excellence Award by Simon Longhurst, Partner Business Manager at ShoreTel

The award recognises RDC for exceptional achievement in areas including net billings and billings growth, proficiency with advanced applications, and customer satisfaction. ShoreTel, Inc. is the leading provider of brilliantly simple phone systems and unified communications (UC) solutions.

“We are delighted to have been recognised with an Excellence Award from ShoreTel, it’s really satisfying to have our efforts rewarded in this way,” said Jason Evans, Managing Director, RDC. “As a company we are constantly striving to deliver excellence in customer satisfaction while continuing to build our business, so it’s gratifying to get third party endorsement of this from ShoreTel.”

“Being named to the Circle of Excellence is the highest accolade given by ShoreTel to its partners, and we’re very pleased to welcome Response Data Communications Ltd into this elite group,” said David Petts, senior vice president of worldwide sales at ShoreTel. “The Circle of Excellence Award is presented to ShoreTel’s top global reseller partners, and each year less than one-half of one percent of all partners earn this distinction. We’re proud that RDC surpassed the strict criteria required to earn Circle of Excellence status this year.”

ShoreTel partners specialise in delivering ShoreTel’s solutions portfolio as well as training and supporting end customers. They have expertise in disciplines such as LAN, WAN, call center, voice and data application integration. ShoreTel and its partners share the same goals in delivering UC solutions that improve communication and collaboration, with superior levels of customer care and satisfaction at a low total cost of ownership.

About Response Data Communications Ltd
Response Data Communications Ltd (RDC) are one of the UK’s leading providers of next generation, disruptive technology solutions and have been delivering ShoreTel’s Brilliantly Simple IP phone systems and unified communications solutions since ShoreTel first entered the UK marketplace in 2005. Since that time, our team’s knowledge, expertise and dedication has seen us earn the right to deliver a significant number of notable customer success stories, a number of which have been worldwide deployments based on ShoreTel’s market leading single-image architecture, which is scalable to over 20,000 end users. RDC have consistently achieved above ‘World Class’ customer satisfaction through ShoreTel’s Net Promoter Score (NPS) based annual surveys of both new and existing customers, the last 2 years seeing us achieve 100% customer satisfaction.

Quotes from three of our notable customers sums up the value that RDC delivers:

“Proactive in bringing new and emerging developments to the table. Responsive to issues and willing to go the extra mile to sort out problems and queries.”

“Fantastic support and brilliant technical knowledge. Assisted us in successfully rolling out a new ShoreTel system across our business, and provided excellent follow up training for our users.”

“Excellent support and knowledge in ShoreTel. We have developed an extremely close relationship with them. Customer-focused service is outstanding.”

About ShoreTel
ShoreTel, Inc. is a leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems and unified communications solutions powering today’s always-on workforce. Its flexible communications solutions for onsite, cloud and hybrid environments eliminate complexity, reduce costs and improve productivity. Recognized for its industry-leading customer experience and support, ShoreTel’s innovative business phones, application integration, collaboration tools, mobility, and contact center applications enable users to communicate and collaborate no matter the time, place or device, with minimal demand on IT resources. ShoreTel is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has regional offices and partners worldwide. For more information, visit www.shoretel.com.

More Praise as Response Earn ShoreTels Circle of Excellence Award

Anneka Hicks — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:07:12 +0000

PRESS RELEASE: 12th December – London. Leading UC and business telephony giant, ShoreTel have revealed Response Data Communications, providers of an exceptional portfolio of next generation disruptive technology solutions, have achieved second place within their coveted ‘Circle of Excellence’ Awards, announced earlier this month.

ShoreTel CEO Don Joos with Circle of Excellence Award Winner Jason Evans, MD of Response.

The news comes just a week after Response shared their delight at having achieved a ‘beyond-outstanding’ Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 100%, with this new award positioning them among only four partners within the international space to have received this honour, and the only one of the 25 global partners announced to have achieved and maintained the 100% NPS Score in addition.

The Circle of Excellence is awarded to ShoreTel’s top performing global reseller partners, recognizing their exceptional achievement in total revenue bookings, year-over-year growth, customer satisfaction (measured via Net Promoter Scores) and advanced application proficiency based on results from the previous four quarters.

“The criteria for the Circle of Excellence are set at an intentionally high bar, leading the winners to differentiate themselves as the best-of-the-best,” said David Petts, senior vice president of worldwide sales in a previous post. “The Circle of Excellence is the highest award given by ShoreTel and we congratulate this year’s elite group of partners.”

This years recognition was hosted at the UK Partner Summit on 2nd December, and was timed to coincide with the visit of CEO Don Joos and CMO Mark Roberts, who took the opportunity to congratulate the winners and participate in round table discussions with the leading partners in attendance.

“This new wave of recognition, firstly with our unrivalled 100% NPS score, and now to have placed for the first time in the Circle of Excellence is a fantastic achievement for us and credit to our exceptional levels of customer service and technical support as a company, and that of the relationships we’ve built and support we have from the team at ShoreTel.” says Jason Evans, Managing Director of Response Data Communications.

Last years ‘World Class Performance’ award for 2013-2014 came after they attained the coveted Gold Exclusive Champion Partner status in early 2011 – an accolade that still stands strong as Response remain the only one of ShoreTel’s partners, that solely select the Brilliantly Simple ShoreTel UC solution as their business telephony and communications offering. Based entirely on a foundation of market leading results, a fantastic range of products, effortless deployment and maintenance, and the ability to offer the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) available on the market, Response have been a true advocate for ShoreTel since recognising the potential early on.

“We are very fortunate to find ourselves as as one of ShoreTel’s prefered partners, and honoured to be recognised as such. We are extremely proud of being able to offer our customers the absolutely unrivaled service and support in comparison to any other reseller, owed to our flexibility, customer centric approach and dedication from such a close and technically experienced team.” Jason continued.

The Net Promoter Score, or NPS, is a straightforward metric that holds companies and their staff accountable for how they handle customers by inviting them to take part in a short customer satisfaction survey where answers are collated and scored. Shoretel recently released their highest NPS score of 74 with their resellers having averaged a score of around 64 since 2012 – This is well above the Industry World Class threshold of 50.

ShoreTel adopted NPS as their customer loyalty model in 2008, and like Response, are committed to creating an exceptional service experience. “Great service is what our customers, define it to be. We strive to go beyond “satisfied” to create fans who will refer us to other businesses. We proactively contact our entire client base twice a year to obtain their feedback and clients can change their score at any time.” says ShoreTel. See Source

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If your company would benefit from an upgrade in communications technology, enabling all members of staff in all sites the ability to communicate seamlessly from one single interface combining Telephone, IM, Video Calling and Conferencing facilities, or if you are looking for a custom feature or have an unusually complex network or location configuration, get in touch with Response today. Our professional service experts are ready to assist clients with especially unique requirements. Members of our Engagement Team will work with you to outline a Statement of Work, so you’ll know in advance what to expect from the project.

We would love to be able to show you a demonstration of the model and help you to develop and improve your current communications infrastructure, resulting in higher levels of productivity company wide, significantly lowering travel costs whilst offering the lowest Total Cost of Ownership GUARANTEED.

Response Achieve ‘Beyond Exceptional’ Recognition From Unified Communications Giant, ShoreTel.

Anneka Hicks — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:50:56 +0000

PRESS RELEASE: 3rd December – London, UK; Response Data Communications, strategic IT partners for some of the UK’s leading brands, and value-added-reseller for a growing portfolio of next generation, disruptive technology providers, have again been recognised for their ‘World Class Performance’ from Unified Communications leaders, ShoreTel following the announcement of their ‘beyond-outstanding’ Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 100%.

Response Data Communications are pleased and extremely proud to announce that they have managed to sustain a perfect 100% score for the last two years after receiving the highest possible ratings from their loyal ShoreTel customers throughout the UK and EMEA. It is extremely rare for a partner to achieve a perfect 100% score, not least maintain it consistently, an evident testament to the ongoing commitment that Response Data Communications have shown towards ShoreTel as their flagship vendor of choice.

“Our customer feedback is highly valued and we really appreciate those who take the time to help us recognise our successes and identify areas for improvement. We are extremely thankful of our customers for acknowledging our ability to continue to deliver outstanding standards of customer care from initial consultation, right the way through the deployment process, and beyond. This also strengthens our belief that the ShoreTel model is considerably further ahead than all of its peers in terms of ease of usability, scalability and deployment, offering a fantastically high level of customer satisfaction from an end user perspective…” said Jason Evans, Managing Director of Response Data Communications.

After considerable analysis of the competing solutions on the world wide market, Response selectively chose ShoreTel as their vendor of choice back in 2008 and have since been responsible for delivering ShoreTel’s largest customers to date within the EMEA region. Last years ‘World Class Performance’ award for 2013-2014 came after they attained the coveted Gold Exclusive Champion Partner status in early 2011 – an accolade that still stands strong as Response remain the only one of ShoreTels partners, when it comes to improving and upgrading enterprise telephony and communications to their customers, that solely offer the Brilliantly Simple ShoreTel UC solution, based entirely on a foundation of market leading results, a fantastic range of products, effortless deployment and maintenance, and the ability to offer the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) available on the market.

“..By excelling in these areas, and continually demonstrating our commitment to the fantastic solution on offer from ShoreTel, we are fortunate to find ourselves as as one of their prefered partners, and subsequently find that we are better positioned to continue to offer our customers the absolutely unrivaled service and support for their investment in comparison to any other reseller.” Jason continued.

Since ShoreTel’s introduction into the UK market, Response have been responsible for a number of highly successful deployments of such technologies with a variety of customers within a wide range of industries, including some of the UKs largest multi-sited companies, such as microprocessor giant ARM, leading food manufacturer Tulip Ltd, and crude oil provider Arcadia Petroleum to name a few.

In 2013, Response were able to save food manufacturing giant, Tulip Ltd, 35% on their over all line costs, resulting in a nomination at the much accredited Comms National Awards and becoming a finalist in the Unified Comms Category following a ‘seamless’ deployment of ShoreTels Unified Communications Solution to over 700 staff at Tulips 17 sites within just three days.

Tulip’s IT Infrastructure Manager, Wayne Fairhurst, in a previous interview for Response states; “Throughout the installation process across our 20 sites, the support we’ve received from Response has been extremely professional, and the execution of the project has been flawless”

[Watch the Video Testimonial: Response Save Tulip 35% with ShoreTel Unified Communications Solution]

Talari Launches Cloud Solution That Tackles Unreliable and Unpredictable Connections to the Cloud

Anneka Hicks — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:35:02 +0000

Solution Supports Growing Need To Expand Business-critical Apps Into The Cloud

SAN JOSE, CA–(Oct 21, 2014) – Talari, a leading innovator in intelligent network solutions that transform the capabilities and reliability of the WAN by adding real-time intelligence to the network, today announced a solution that transforms public cloud access links into secure, reliable and manageable points on any wide area network (WAN). This new solution gives businesses the control and oversight they need to trust business-critical applications to the cloud.

Talari’s latest solution addresses the ongoing market concern over reliability and predictability when connecting to the cloud over public access broadband links, removing one of the barriers to the wide-spread adoption of business-critical applications in the cloud. Businesses deploying Talari can treat the cloud like any other location on their WAN, which means access to public applications, such as salesforce.com and Dropbox and private cloud applications running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is over a secure and reliable connection the IT team can manage.

With Talari, access to applications in the cloud isn’t interrupted by network quality issues or failures, bandwidth becomes predictable and data is secure. It is Talari’s packet-by-packet adaptive private networking intelligence that facilitates the aggregation of multiple broadband and/or Amazon Direct Connect links, the continuous measurement and monitoring of the quality of each possible path in each direction and the adaptation of traffic flows in real time to route around failures and poor quality links that makes moving business-critical applications up into the cloud worry-free for the IT team. The results of the measurements are centrally stored to give IT managers a comprehensive and detailed view of the quality of each network path to the cloud and the quality received by applications across that network, allowing them to separate issues on the cloud access network from issues on the cloud applications themselves.

Thousands of business sites around the world are using Talari’s intelligent solution to increase capacity, improve reliability and lower costs across their wide area network. In conjunction with the release of the cloud solution, the company has added enhanced security features, such as 256 bit AES encryption and application level quality scoring over the WAN and up to the cloud. These new features apply to physical sites, as well as the cloud access network.

“Whether cloud computing is the future in enterprise IT networking is an area of strategic debate within IT organizations worldwide. Concerns over security, reliability, visibility and end-to-end service level guarantees are some of the factors contributing to this debate,” said John Dickey, Talari’s co-founder & CTO. “We’re proud to be among the first to eliminate these concerns by pulling the cloud down into the wide area network. With Talari, issues are isolated and service disruptions are minimized for the end users, giving IT managers the assurance, control and visibility they need to trust the cloud for business-critical applications.”

Dickey continued, “With enterprise cloud adoption in its early stage and hybrid WAN models emerging, the market is ready for an intelligent network that delivers service-level assurance. Using our adaptive private network technology, Talari will help to seamlessly ease the migration of key applications to the cloud, providing greater peace of mind for service sustainability.”

Talari’s cloud solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is available immediately. To learn more, www.talari.com.

About Talari Networks, Inc.
Talari offers businesses a better way to WAN by bringing intelligence to the network that results in increased capacity, improved reliability and lower costs. Talari’s patented packet-by-packet adaptive private networking (APN) technology enables networks to support the growing demands of mission-critical applications without compromising quality or increasing MPLS spend. By aggregating multiple diverse links into a virtual WAN and continuously steering traffic based on the availability and real-time quality of the network paths, Talari ensures applications are not impacted by underlying network issues, user productivity is unencumbered and the business can run at full speed. Talari has received numerous industry awards, including Best of Interop; Techworld Award; Comms Business Award; Gold Silver Stevie Award; and named Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN 2013 Emerging Vendors and CRN Data Center 100 List, among others.

For more information, visit www.rdc.uk.com/vendors/talari-networks

Source: http://www.talari.com/company/press_releases/press_release_20141021.php

Tulip Ltd Selects A10 Networks from Response for Innovative Hybrid-Cloud Environment

sophie.nicholls — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:59:45 +0000

Leading uk food solutions business replaces citrix netscaler with next-generation application delivery controllers from A10 Networks

PRESS RELEASE: September 30th 2014 A10 Networks a technology leader in application networking, today announced that Tulip Ltd. is using Thunder Series Application Delivery Controllers to ensure reliable delivery of business-critical services and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) for the successful operation of its hybrid-cloud environment.

Tulip Ltd. is the UK’s leading food solutions company, supplying a wide range of high-quality pork and meat products to the retail and foodservice sectors. It currently employs approximately 7,500 highly skilled colleagues across 17 manufacturing sites and also operates 330 pig farms across the country.

And as a major supplier to the UK’s retail and foodservice sectors, Tulip depends on a growing number of critical applications across its sites and has developed an ethos to continually progress the effectiveness and reliability of the IT systems that support the business. This ongoing process is highlighted by its hybrid-cloud environment and ability to deliver IT across a wider range of fixed and mobile devices.

“Delivering ‘always on’ services that are available anytime, anywhere, and on almost any device is an integral part of our strategy of people-centric services,” said Wayne Fairhurst, head of technical services, group IS&T at Tulip Ltd. “The ADC’s and Global Server Load Balancers are a prerequisite, ensuring our services are highly-available both within and outside our corporate network, in particular, supporting over 600 mobile devices.

Unfortunately, the initial implementation of a Citrix NetScaler ADC proved unsuitable.

“Our previous solution suffered from limitations such as an inability to identify performance degradation in specific components within our infrastructure which increased the complexity of diagnostics and remediation. Issues with poor SSL encryption and decryption performance were also having a profound impact on our email environment, making SSL offload an absolute priority for us.”

Fairhurst estimates that at the time of the previous Citrix NetScaler implementation, roughly 65 percent of the service desk calls received by the Tulip IT department were directly related to issues with its legacy ADC.

With the decision to replace the NetScaler units, Fairhurst and his team began working closely with Response Data Communications Ltd., a highly experienced specialist provider of networking and communication technologies, to consider alternative products from A10 Networks, F5 Networks, Kemp, Radware and Riverbed.

“One of the benefits of working with Response is their insight into the industry and the complement of solutions that they offer. Having partnered with Response for just over five years, we’ve engaged with them on several different projects and have found their knowledge and due diligence around the evaluation and research of the solutions they offer has been exemplary,” said Fairhurst.

Following extensive testing and evaluation of price, performance and feature sets, the A10 Networks Thunder series ADCs were deemed the most suitable.

In terms of value, Fairhurst highlighted the GSLB functionality provided at no additional charge as part of A10’s “All-Inclusive” licensing policy also improved cost efficiency.“Our evaluation positioned them uniquely against the competition with a product and feature set that understands our pain points and, ultimately, eradicates them,” says Fairhurst.

Response was instrumental in the successful deployment of the 4 Thunder 3030s, each offering 30 Gbps of Layer 4-7 throughput, providing application delivery and GSLB functionality from a single appliance across multiple datacentres to ensure the highest levels of reliability. Alongside rock solid performance and reliability, according to Fairhurst, the switch to A10 Networks has delivered a wealth of improvement;

“The “Virtual Chassis” architecture delivers an intuitive, single point of administration for all appliances and the built-in monitoring has provided enhanced insight into application behaviour, service health and, crucially, capacity planning.”

These features have been instrumental in service health monitoring, enabling the company to improve its service levels through the proactive identification and isolation of degraded or failed components within its infrastructure. The high-performance SSL offload and HTTP compression feature, “…has enhanced performance of our Intranet and other web-based applications,” Fairhurst added.

With the implementation of the Thunder ADCs considered a success, Tulip is now working closely with Response on the process of migrating all of its remaining applications onto the new appliances and completing the rollout of a new MDM solution across its mobile infrastructure. Other projects under future consideration include the development of scripts to support ‘elasticity,’ and dynamically and bi-directionally scale services to accommodate the demands from the business as well as sustainability targets.

“A10 Networks has helped to provide the flexibility and scalability to support our business-critical services today and in the future,” Fairhurst concluded.

About A10 Networks

A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) is a leader in application networking, providing a range of high-performance application networking solutions that help organizations ensure that their data center applications and networks remain highly available, accelerated and secure. Founded in 2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, Calif., and serves customers globally with offices worldwide. For more information, visit: http://www.a10networks.com/emea/ or speak to a member of the Response Team today.

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Pure Storage Named a Leader in the Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Solid State Arrays

Anneka Hicks — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:09:03 +0000

Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company, has announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the inaugural Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays (SSA) by Gartner, Inc, a leading global research firm.

According to Gartner, companies considered to be “leaders” drive the market’s transformation with a clear vision and a strong ability to execute. Leaders in SSA have generally made strong customer gains. They provide feature sets that are appropriate for current customer use case needs. Leaders also show evidence of superior vision and execution for anticipated requirements related to technology, methodology or means of delivery. Leaders typically demonstrate solid customer satisfaction with overall SSA capabilities and/or related service and support.

Founded in 2009, Pure Storage was a pioneer of the SSA category and was first to market with a viable enterprise-class all-flash storage array that could achieve cost and functional parity with legacy disk solutions, and quickly established itself in the incumbent entrenched enterprise storage market, culminating in its leader position in Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays today. The company has raised $470 million in private equity funding to-date and is valued at more than $3 billion, making it one of the highly valued, venture-backed private technology companies in the world according to the Wall Street Journal. Having achieved 700 percent year-over-year growth in 2013, Pure Storage is also one of the fastest growing enterprise storage companies in the industry’s history.

In 2014, the company has continued to accelerate, rapidly expanding its global operational footprint and employee base across 6 continents, and forging new strategic reseller partnerships to further develop its sales channels worldwide. It also introduced two new storage arrays to its flagship FlashArray product line—the FA-405 and FA-450—and the 4.0 release of its Purity Operating Environment software, featuring native asynchronous replication. Through this expansion, Pure Storage has effectively extended its market reach and increased its support for Tier 1 storage use cases and mission-critical environments.

“There’s no question that the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant represents an inflection point for the solid-state array category,” said Scott Dietzen, CEO at Pure Storage. “A great deal of hard work and innovation by both Pure and its competitors has been invested in the creation of the all-flash array category, which we believe is positioned to supersede Tier 1 mechanical disk arrays, a roughly $15B annual market opportunity. AFAs like Pure’s FlashArray are plug-compatible with legacy disk arrays, but dramatically faster, more space and power efficient, reliable and simpler, yet cost less. Undoubtedly, the competition will continue to be fierce, as evidenced by the growing number of incumbents coming to compete on the playing field we staked out five years ago. However, we believe that with well satisfied customers and partners, the best team in the storage business, and a two year technology lead, we will prevail.”

Source: Market Watch

View the full report HERE

ShoreTel’s Unified Communications Add Traction to Williams Team Operations for a Second Year!

sophie.nicholls — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:09:36 +0000

PRESS RELEASE: London. UK. 18th September 2014

ShoreTel® (NASDAQ: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple phone systems and unified communications (UC) solutions, continues its technical partnership with Williams Martini Racing at the Singapore Grand Prix in 2014. For the second year, ShoreTel willdeliver a full UC and mobility infrastructure throughout the Williams business – including the race team, Williams Advanced Engineering, and the world-renowned Conference Centre. The affiliation will maximise communication and collaboration between the drivers, race strategists, management and operations teams around the world, propelling the organisation forward during this year’s exciting season.

Originally, ShoreTel joined forces with Williams to become an Official Supplier for the UK-based team in June 2013 through the entire 2014 race calendar. Highlights of the partnership include the 2013 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix and 2014 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix – given its unique combination of being held at night on a very challenging track and with the city nightscape of the Marina Bay Street Circuit and the accompanying Circuit Park as a backdrop, the Singapore Grand Prix is a spectacle watched by millions of motorsport enthusiasts.

During the season, ShoreTel is providing its award-winning UC solutions across the entire Williams organisation, facilitating the team’s activities at all races, as well as promoting the Customer Experience at the Williams Conference Centre. The Conference Centre is seen worldwide as a first-class facility offering a modern and creative environment to meet, train, network and entertain guests at any time, including hospitality on certain race days.

ShoreTel’s UC system consists of an easy-to-use phone system to integrate voice and data systems through a single interface, ShoreTel Mobility client licenses to extend UC applications to mobile devices, ShoreTel IP 930D mobile handsets for all-day mobility, conferencing services, and a ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Centre (ECC) with multimedia capabilities to enhance the team’s communications before, during and after all the races in the season.

“This exciting union with Williams showcases ShoreTel’s full UC and mobility capabilities, as well as features that support inbound call management with one of the world’s most distinguished engineering companies,” said Bruce Downing, ShoreTel’s Managing Director, Asia and South Africa. “With powerful data-analysis tools, the ShoreTel Contact Centre enables Williams Martini Racing to configure business process and resources – ensuring seamless alignment with the demand from internal and external audiences –to fine-tune the team’s day-to-day operations, as well as their race-day communications between the drivers, pit experts, logistics masters and principals.”

“We are pleased to have ShoreTel back for the second year as Official Supplier of the team after a rewarding relationship last year,” said Claire Williams, Deputy Team Principal and Commercial Director of Williams Martini Racing. “With ShoreTel’s UC technology connecting our drivers with the rest of the enterprise with mission-critical communications and improved teamwork and efficiency, we are climbing the charts in the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship”.

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Motorsporting Event Follows Response’s Recent MIA Membership

Anneka Hicks — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:55:22 +0000

The newest members of the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA), Response Data Communications will be joined by some of the motorsport industries leading IT management, representing their own teams in a selection of cars including the Caterham 7 Superlight and the Ariel Atom…

PRESS RELEASE: London. UK. 21^st August 2014 Response Data Communications, an established UK solutions provider and integrator of best of breed ‘disruptive technology’, will be holding an exclusive event in September to showcase a range of data centre and communications solutions from two of their most sought after technology vendors.

Having recently become members of the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA), the event, of which some of the motorsport industries leading IT management are expected to attend, will see its delegates encouraged to take part in an afternoon of racing around the coveted Bedford Autodrome racing circuit, representing their own teams in a selection of cars including the Caterham 7 Superlight and the Ariel Atom.

Following a series of successful deployments of some of the world’s leading edge storage and network optimisation technology solutions from Silicon Valley based vendors Pure Storage and Silver Peak Systems, Response are excited to offer those responsible for the IT infrastructure of companies within or related to the sector, an exclusive opportunity to meet with these experts personally to better understand the impact and type of performance benefits that are already being seen within Formula 1, as well as the extended automotive, aerospace and engineering industries.

Pure Storage, who have been visibly overtaking their peers in the high performance storage market with their all flash arrays, offering considerable benefits compared to the archaic spinning disk alternative; and Silver Peak Systems, recognised leaders in WAN optimisation technology and replication acceleration, were hand selected by Response Data Communications based on their innovative solutions, which on recent evidence, have proven ideally suited to the motorsport industry.

“In this technology driven industry where speed and efficiency plays such a vital role, the impact that these solutions have been making on the communications and transfer of data between the teams’ track and factory engineers, has been amazing. Certain F1 teams have seen performance levels both trackside and back at HQ that have never before been attainable, especially when looking at the difficulties they’ve previously experienced between remote locations across the globe.” says Jason Evans, Managing Director of Response Data Communications. “We’re honoured to be in a position to introduce the motorsport industry to technology of this nature.”

Spaces are extremely limited and registrations have already been very popular, however Response Data Communications are keen to extend the opportunity for selected guests to join this event, to enjoy a complimentary breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea, network with like-minded professionals and enjoy a bit of friendly competition in a fuel-filled atmosphere, alongside experts in Disruptive Technology, more specifically the High Performance Data Storage, Virtualisation, and WAN Optimisation space.

If you are interested in attending, please email Anneka Hicks, Marketing Director at Anneka.hicks@rdc.uk.com or register directly at www.rdc.uk.com/attend.

Check out the video footage of some of our contributors from the last event in our Disruptive Technology Series.

Silver Peak Named a Leader in 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation

sophie.nicholls — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:19:54 +0000

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Mar. 31, 2014 – Silver Peak today announced its position as a Leader in Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation. Evaluation based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

“We believe Silver Peak is leading the way into a new era of software-defined WAN optimisation,” said David Hughes, CEO of Silver Peak. “Now more than ever businesses depend on wide area networks to connect data centers, branch offices and the cloud. They see that better network performance means better bottom-line results. Silver Peak gives them the most comprehensive and flexible options for network acceleration, and the most innovative approach to the next-generation WAN.”

According to Gartner, Leaders exhibit an ability to shape the market by introducing additional capabilities in their product offerings and by raising awareness of the importance of these features. Gartner expects a Leader to grow the market as a whole and to have solutions that resonate with an increasing number of enterprises. Leaders in the WOC market must have a broad feature set, including QoS, generic compression, protocol acceleration and file system acceleration, with the majority of features proved in substantial real-world implementations. They also need to be able to offer sales and support on a global basis.

View the full report here: http://svpk.co/gartner

Silver Peak Named to CRN Data Center 100 and Infrastructure 20

Anneka Hicks — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:27:00 +0000

Silver Peak recognized for outstanding performance and value of next-gen WAN technology

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. 19 February 2014 — Silver Peak, the leader in accelerating data over distance, today announced that it has been recognized in the CRN Data Center 100 annual list, featuring top technology vendors whose solutions are vital for powering today’s data centers. CRN developed the list to help solution providers navigate the marketplace and identify the top companies and technologies across the data center to best meet their needs as they build solutions for their customers.

Identified by the editorial staff, the vendors featured on this list power, support and protect today’s data center services from data backup tools to virtual data center solutions and cloud hosting services, while boosting efficiency and productivity.

The list honors vendors in five different data center technology categories: Infrastructure, Tools, Virtualization, Service Providers, and Designers and Builders.

Silver Peak is listed among the CRN Infrastructure 20, which recognizes the top data center infrastructure providers. Silver Peak software powers the industry’s highest performance and most-flexible virtual and physical data acceleration products. The software solves network bandwidth, distance and quality challenges that hinder data mobility and application performance over a wide area network, allowing customers to move more data, over longer distances, and in less time.

“The Data Center 100 list recognizes vendors that embrace innovation, efficiency and sustainability, to bring the data center to the next level,” said Robert Faletra, CEO, The Channel Company. “These dynamic companies are led by forward-thinking executives who understand today’s data center environment. We applaud their success and look forward to their continued contributions to this industry.”

“Silver Peak’s technology was designed from the ground up for the wide area networking demands of the modern enterprise,” said Damon Ennis, SVP of products for Silver Peak. “Our unsurpassed software performance and flexibility give IT professionals the best choice for optimizing any set of applications over distance, from remote collaboration, to voice and video, and data replication. And as IT managers make the shift to software-defined everything, we’re right there with them, offering a robust set of virtual options buyers can choose now or upgrade to at a later date at no extra cost.”

Coverage of the Data Center 100 will be featured in the February/March issue of CRN, and online at www.CRN.com.

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About Response Data Communications

Proud to have implemented a significant number of WAN Optimisation and network infrastructure development projects to a wide range of hugely successful multi-sited companies over the last 17 years, Response Data Communications were presented with Silver Peak’s first, and remain the only, Platinum Partner status within EMEA in 2012 being recognised for their six year commitment in delivering the industry’s highest-capacity and most cost-effective WAN optimisation and replication acceleration solutions.

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