Delivering our CentraStage service to users is a mighty challenge. It’s a simple proposition but requires complex engineering to deliver and scale. To raise the stakes, our customers are themselves a tech savvy lot, and primarily using CentraStage to solve the IT problems of their clients. They need to be able to rely on Centrastage to deliver when the heat is on. This, and our insistence on CentraStage being the most affordable IT management solution available, led us squarly to Amazon Web Services’ door, where we host a distributed architecture serving a global customer base.
Distribution of all our primary services is the key to availability, but what about scale? How do we ensure that the traffic spikes we experience as both the service scales and different time zones come online don’t affect performance and user experience. Our solution has been to isolate incoming traffic spike from the backend … Read More
by Ian van Reenen l May 2, 2012 l No Comments »
Amazon and its business partners produce a continual stream of summits, seminars, webinars and other events promoting the use and understanding of Amazon Web Services. These events are scattered all around the world, in cities such as NYC, Chennai and Seoul.
An AWS traveling theatre arrived in London recently so I headed down there to hear what they had to say. Would the event be an Amazon infomercial, distributed computing theory, or industry news on the state of the cloud?
The venue was the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London. It’s just around the corner from Big Ben and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the heart of the British government. This is the area where Victorian captains of industry ruled the British Empire. Now the new captains of industry are just passing through on their world tour (next stop: Melbourne).
The AWS London event was actually two separate events … Read More
by Aneel Baqar l May 1, 2012 l No Comments »
ICT services firm Joskos Solutions has moved into the cloud through partnerships with CentraStage and RedStor that allow it to centralise and improve IT management for 200 schools.
The company will work with CentraStage’s cloud-based software to remotely monitor, manage and support thousands of devices across the schools’ networks, delivering accurate, efficient and cost-effective IT support. Using Redstor’s remote back-up system it will also provide an automated, online back-up and recovery service that automatically protects data across devices in the schools’ networks.
Read more on ICT for Education.… Read More
by Aneel Baqar l April 26, 2012 l No Comments »
In the recent budget announcement, government’s plan to limit the tax relief on charitable donations has brewed fears within the charity sector. Concerns that these plans will put people off giving large donations, will further contribute to the challenges faced by the sector due to the cuts.
One can only imagine the challenges voluntary and community sector (VCS) has to go through due to the challenging climate, making it even more crucial for the sector to make the most out of what they already have – the technology which enables them to promote the cause.
The VCS will need to optimise their existing IT infrastructure to work more effectively without having to worry about buying new equipment. CentraStage OnDemand can help the sector by providing the right solution at no cost.
OnDemand provides a 7 day audit and remote support, your first 250 agents free and the first 10 … Read More
by Aneel Baqar l April 19, 2012 l No Comments »
CRN Sales and Marketing awards are brand new, and will take place on 21st June 2012, at the Royal Garden Hotel London. The awards are focused on the UK IT channel industry and are aimed at recognise and reward those involved.
CentraStage has been short listed for Best New Business Win under the Reseller Categories.
View the shortlist and details of the awards.… Read More
by James Fletcher l April 16, 2012 l No Comments »