LONDON - Simpson Spence and Young, the world’s largest independent shipbroking group, is ready to face an increasingly turbulent marketplace having undertaken a complete technology refresh with their partner, BIS Ltd. SSY’s infrastructure is now hosted across resilient data centres and utilises the latest in virtualisation technologies.
Martin Lusher, Director at SSY said, “SSY has moved from a traditional single main site with remote disaster recovery solution using a ‘one box, one role’ setup to a fully virtualised and scalable environment. Not only have we been able to reduce maintenance costs, we have also increased our support cover with the BIS managed servers monitored 24/7. Beyond this, we derive great comfort knowing that business critical services and applications are now on a highly available system.”
Andy Richer, SSY’s Head of IT stated “I approached BIS to design a high availability platform for our applications with inbuilt “business continuity” and “disaster recovery”. The solution also had to be readily scalable and flexible. Using BIS designed replicated storage and virtual servers, SSY now has an infrastructure that not only offers robustness in the event of a disaster and high availability on a day to day basis but also has the flexibility to react and respond rapidly to the everyday needs of the business.”
He continued “Whilst we only went live recently, I am already seeing the benefits that working with BIS brings. They’re available at the end of a phone at all times, we’re able to readily access their technical expertise and all this is supplemented by their professional 24 hour monitoring and support.”
Samantha Keating, Sales Director of BIS said, “Not only have we been able to provide SSY with a state-of-the-art system, we have also been able to develop our relationship to the extent that SSY sees BIS as a trusted partner. With BIS providing monitoring and support for the new environment, Andy is now able to focus on the strategic IT planning that will drive his business forward and the in house support staff can concentrate more on supporting users and applications.”
About BIS Ltd
BIS has been designing, building and managing IT infrastructure solutions for over 10 years. As an independently owned service provider, our UK based team of leading technical, project and operational experts provide impartial advice on how best to meet your IT service delivery objectives.
Information about BIS Ltd and its services can be found at www.bis-internet.co.uk
About SSY
SSY combines over a century of traditional broking expertise with technological sophistication and innovation. They take pride in a pro-active approach to broking and advise their clients of future market trends, developments and opportunities as well as anticipating their growing and changing requirements.
Information about SSY and its services can be found at www.ssyonline.com
For more information, please contact: Samantha Keating BIS Ltd Tel: +44-(0)20-7861-9322
Source: BIS Ltd & SSY
For more information, please contact: Samantha Keating, BIS Ltd, Tel: +44-(0)20-7861-9322
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