Monthly Archive for September, 2006

Gyron Internet Ltd, a leading wholesale and managed services provider for medium sized UK businesses, has signed a long-term, multi-million pound contract with leading business telecoms service provider, Telstra Europe, to run its main hosting facilities in Telstra’s datacentre in London’s Docklands.

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- Light Reading
- Telstra Europe press release

Gyron’s primary objective in changing supplier was to stabilise operational expenditure for both space and power and ensure availability of additional technical space to support anticipated growth. It also required a datacentre with enough on-site office space for its team of Network Operating Centre engineers, who are on call 24 hours a day.

Telstra was selected because of its impressive state-of-the-art Docklands datacentre, its competitive pricing, its strong reputation for hosting and the strength of its account management and technical teams, all of which set it apart from its competitors.

Gyron Internet Ltd was so impressed by Telstra’s datacentre facility that it took over 200 square metres of technical space in November 2006 – three times its original requirements, in anticipation of future growth. The company has since acquired several new customers and is adding another 95 square metres of space, with further capacity for more servers should the expansion continue.

Robin Balen, Director of Gyron commented, “We were frustrated with the price hikes, lack of expansion room and inconsistent account management with our previous supplier. Telstra offered an excellent long term commercial deal providing us with the stability we required in order to expand our business”.

“The support provided by Telstra’s dedicated team of account and facilities managers was also second to none throughout the initial consultation and fit-out period. This high standard has been maintained now that we are live. Nothing is ever a problem – even when we had a query at 10pm on the Sunday night before we moved into the datacentre they were happy to help us”.

Simon Vye, CEO, Telstra Europe, added, “The demands for hosting, co-location and business continuity services have rapidly increased. The market has become increasingly more competitive and is showing no signs of slowing down. However, there is no excuse for hosting providers to fail on the service levels they provide, or to charge extortionate pricing. We are delighted to have been selected by Gyron on the strengths of our facilities, account management and commercial proposition and look forward to many years of successful partnership”.

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