Leeds-based VirtualDCS launches innovative cost saving IT hosting services and sponsors techmesh EXPO 2010

Just as a century ago companies stopped generating their own power through steam engines and plugged into the electricity grid, businesses today can dispense with their servers and access all of their information by placing it within secure data centres connected to the internet’s global computing network.

 

This is called ‘cloud computing’ and virtualDCS utilises the technology to provide hosting and disaster recovery services which provide businesses with significant cost savings and improved IT availability. Cloud computing is growing quickly and is being adopted by the Government to help it save 20 per cent of its IT budget whilst Microsoft has recently launched a cloud version of its Office software.

 

Richard May, director of virtualDCS, explained: “Cloud computing is rapidly shifting the way in which businesses manage their IT and it presents significant commercial opportunities. Using cloud computing immediately cuts capital expenditure as the expensive hardware traditionally required is not needed.

 

“The use of cloud-based hardware also provides unprecedented availability and scalability. Additionally, cloud computing has been proven to be 80 per cent more energy efficient than using physical servers.

 

“Concerns over security due to hosting sensitive information on the cloud are common, and our proven security framework helps us to regularly win business from our competitors. By choosing to embrace cloud computing from virtualDCS, businesses will make themselves more cost effective, responsive and flexible which are all attributes that help underpin growth.”

 

virtualDCS is also sponsoring the techmesh IT and Telecoms EXPO 2010 being held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds on September 30. This one day exhibition will provide a forum for Yorkshire and the Humber’s IT & telecoms providers and professionals to share knowledge and discuss future commercial opportunities.

 

Richard May will host a presentation at the EXPO where he will deconstruct the complexity around cloud computing and use real world examples to show how using the cloud provides advantages over traditional approaches to IT.

 

Commenting on the techmesh IT and Telecoms EXPO 2010, Richard said: “We are very pleased to be sponsoring the EXPO as it provides an excellent opportunity for the region’s leading authorities in IT and telecoms to meet and exchange ideas.

 

“techmesh is Yorkshire’s preeminent IT and telecoms business network so its events are of significant interest and value to everyone who attends. We are looking forward to telling delegates about virtualDCS, what we have to offer and how it can deliver substantial, quantifiable business benefits.”

 

virtualDCS was established in 2008 by Richard May, John Murray and Dan Nichols who were previously architects of the hosting services business for a FTSE-listed IT services provider. They formed virtualDCS to give clarity to cloud computing by confidently delivering robust services underpinned by outstanding levels of client care.