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US firm Harrison Careers joins Cobweb Cloud Services for 24/7 UK based technical support and data security.

Investment bank recruitment specialists Harrison Careers help students from Europe’s leading universities gain their dream jobs. Based in Nevada, they wanted a respected cloud services provider with secure, fully compliant, ISO accredited UK data centres and procedures.

After being disappointed by other providers they recruited Cobweb Solutions expertise for help with their business email, information sharing and data storage needs.

 

The Challenge

As part of their long-term expansion and awareness building plans Harrison Careers knew they required a faster and more effective means of sharing information.

Harrison comments, "Sharing information was one of our biggest problems – we had tried three other cloud services providers but they all let us down. Good technical support seems to be getting harder to find."

Their team needs to be able to constantly access thousands of contact files on prospective and actual clients, coaches and suppliers. This combined with changing team members and various technical problems made them realise they needed to implement a business email solution with 24/7 technical support 365 days a year.

After contemplating an in-house solution and quickly deciding their requirements were too complex they decided the best route would be to outsource to a cloud based business email solutions provider. However, they were frustrated to be let down by several cloud services providers including MDaemon, Ibackup and Contacts4Outlook.

This left them on the lookout for a supplier who could provide them with outstanding UK based technical support, so that they could concentrate on continuing to deliver a fantastic service to their customers.

Extremely impressed by their prospective Account Manager at Cobweb Solutions but still slightly pensive after being let down by other providers, they decided to test out Cobweb’s technical support before committing.

Harrison adds, "Our staff called Cobweb’s technical support seven times over the course of a week at all hours of the day. Every time the phone was answered within five rings by a real person. That convinced us to join!"

To read the full case study go to http://www.cobweb.com/about-us/customer-testimonials/harrison-careers.aspx

Cobweb join EMC and Martin O'Neill at the ‘Sparks’ Charity Golf Day

Cobwebs Finance Director, Michael Olpin, joined EMC and other celebrities for a charity golf day at The Grove, Watford on Thursday 14th July in aid of the children’s charity ‘Sparks’. 

The team consisted of Russell Poole, EMC UK Sales Director and the captain of the team, Rob Burnett, Cable and Wireless Senior Buyer and last but by no means least the ‘legend’ that is Martin O’Neil. 

For those of you that don’t follow football, Martin spent most of his playing career with Nottingham Forest, with which he won the European Cup in 1980. He was capped 64 times for the Northern Ireland national football team, captaining the side and managed Wycombe Wanderers, Norwich City, Leicester City and Celtic before moving to Aston Villa.

Martin was one of many celebs invited on the day to help raise funds for the charity, other celebrities included Kenny Logan, Gabby Logan, Anton de Burke, Len Goodman, James Harris, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Glenn Hoddle. 

The EMC team, although triumphant in their game and ability, only managed to get placed 16^th out of 18 - but good fun was had by all.  Michael Olpin’s keen to point out that whilst sharing a golf buggy with Martin O’Neill he did go to great lengths to explain why Southampton are the best team on the South Coast!! 

 

With generous donations from EMC, channel partners and the auction on the day, Sparks managed to raise £15,000 – which is a fantastic achievement.

A bit about Sparks - Founded in 1960 by professional sports people who were grateful for their own good health Sparks wanted to help those who are less fortunate. 

Their vision is a world where all babies are given the best possible start in life and where a medical condition or disability at birth is not a barrier to opportunity and fulfilment.  Sparks aim is to achieve this by funding high quality medical research that is intended to have a practical and positive effect on the lives of children.  http://www.sparks.org.uk

Accelerating the adoption of Microsoft SaaS in the Cloud - Live Blogging Ends

Thank you to all those that attended our events today, including all those who joined us virtually through Cob-Blog and Twitter. We hope that the event was beneficial to all those who attended, and we look forward to helping many of you tackle your messaging, collaboration and unified communication challenges.

Be sure to check back on Cob-Blog for slide decks, key takeaways and more, which will be available in the coming days.

One day in the life of EPA as a Cobweb channel partner

For the final session of the afternoon Craig MacAlpine from the Email Protection Agency joins us to run the audience through “a day in the life” as a Cobweb reseller.  

His session draws a very concise, but very powerful conclusion for any business looking to partner and resell:

• Be an expert on the services you sell
• There is a lot of technology that you can sell – pick the correct ones
• Select the correct vendors
• Understand how to make money!

About EPA
The EPA (originally called Email Protection Agency) was setup 2003 and as a company began selling email filtering services, which has evolved over the years. They have always sold Cloud services – previously under the banner on managed services or SaaS, from their head office in Devon, UK.

An overview of the voice industry for partners and how it’s moving on - SipCom

Oliver Compton, Senior VP from SipCom has just begun his keynote, he is going to be presenting to the delegates a high level view of the voice industry and their view of how partnering within that industry will become critical to maintaining a competitive edge.

Within his presentation he has some great examples of just how big the Cloud market has become:

• CRN predicts that small business spending on Cloud Computing will hit $100 billion by 2014
• IDC estimates the market for public cloud products and services at $16 billion in 2010, growing to $56B by 2014
• Gartner estimates the Cloud market at $150 billion by 2013 while Merrill Lynch has it at 160 billion by 2011
• A recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers by Sand Hill found that 50% of respondents cited business agility as their primary reason for adopting cloud applications