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01/2011 Taupo continues expansion in further education market

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:52:21 +0000

Taupo are pleased to announce that we are now working with over 15 further education establishments for strategic VMware deployments. This includes strategy, design, installation, support, upgrades and maintaining VMware best practice methodologies.

09/2010 Taupo starts upgrading clients to Vsphere 4.1.

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:16:05 +0000

VSpere 4.1 is a big upgrade and has major benefits to VMware users and provides the opportunity to move away from ESX to the new ESXi standard. For many organisations it is also a way of checking that their current configuration complies with VMware best practice guidelines.

04/2010 Taupo move to larger offices

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:17:15 +0000

Taupo are pleased to announce their move into the Maxim Business Park which is directly behind the Dakota Hotel at Euro Central just of the M8

Dave Ashton of Taupo said “ Over the last 12 months we have grown is size so we needed a larger office to facilitate the new staff, demo equipment and have more space for client training. The new office is just behind the very popular Dakota Hotel less than a 100 meters from the M8 Euro Central and has a large car park so it will be easier for clients to get here for training and strategy workshops”

VMware View Event – Stirling 26th February

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:02:41 +0000

This event is being run in conjunction with our partners Celerity/ IBM at the Stirling University conference centre on Friday the 26th of February. Speakers include Alistair Sutherland who designed and implemented the first VMware View deployment and the first View deployment over a WAN, Darren Sanders a SAN expert etc.

Key topics include SAN sizing, how View scales using the new Nehalem processors, VMware roadmaps and applying VMware best practice methodology to your project.

9:30 – 10:00 Registration & Coffee

10:00 – 10:05 Introduction

10:05 – 10:30 VMware View Today
- The Recent Launch of Version 4

10:30 – 11:00   Hardware Sizing Challenges: The Answers
                                 – San Sizing & Scaling
                                 – Planning for Nehalem Processors

11:00 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 11:50 VMware View: what to expect in 2010

11:50- 12:20 Using VMware Best Practice methodology to your project

12:20-12.30 Q&A

12:30 onwards Close & Lunch

IBM hardware specialists and certified VMware trainers and consultants will be on hand after the sessions and during lunch to answer any questions that you may have.

You will have access to a Demo Lab running an IBM Nseries SAN, IBM Server and 5 Thin Client Devices. This will be configured to run MS Office and email.

Delegates that attend the briefing session will be entered into a free prize draw to win use of the demonstration equipment (configured as above) for 2 weeks plus 1 Days free onsite consultancy.

To book your place please fill in our contact form or call us on 0845 094 3366

January 2010 End of year successes

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:59:35 +0000

Taupo has just completed its first year working with UK clients instead of 100% Global customers.
During this time we have continued to provide certified training, consultancy and support services and have:
• Increased staffs count by 100%
• Become the first VMware partner to install VMware view anywhere in the world
• Trained a Global IT manufacture on VMware
• Deployed VMware view over a WAN for this time in Europe
• Delivered VMware services after being recommended by 3 Global IT manufacturers.
Dave Ashton Taupo Marketing said “ 2009 was a year of transition and hence we am delighted to have made the progress we have during tough trading conditions. We believe that a lot of our success so far has been due to us only selling VMware solutions which coupled with our global and European reference sites has resulted in many referrals from clients and other IT resellers.
Moving forward into 2010, we believe we will find that most our or business comes from working closely with other specialist suppliers so that we can continue to provide complete solutions without diluting our skill set in VMware. We predict a large increase in demand for Site Recovery Manager and VMware View as more references sites becomes available. Both products benefit from having had major version updates.

December 20009 Taupo announces another college win with their partner Celerity.

Taupo win another college with their strategic partner Celerity who are a 100% focused IBM VAR. Alistair Sutherland said “ By working with other specialist companies we can all benefit as our client gets the highest level technical consultancy available and it enables Celerity and Taupo to provide complete solutions without detracting from our core focus technology areas”

October 2009: Taupo troubleshoot a large VMware View deployment

Taupo have just completed troubleshooting a large education deployment of VMware View and though several configuration issues were addressed it was another classic example of SAN sizing that created the main problem of performance for end users.
Chris McEwan of Taupo said “ we have deployed VMware View in several sites including over a WAN and found that it has been trouble free after we have complete the planning and proof of concept. The sites that we have been asked to resolve technical and performance issues had all skipped this vital stage or had not conformed to VMware best practice.”

October 2009: Taupo provide best practice advice to a meeting of Scotland’s Colleges

This October Alistair Sutherland, technical director, presented to Scotland’s colleges in Stirling on VMware best practice. The request came after several successful college installations and the fact that Taupo are and will remain the only company in the UK to provide certified training and consultancy.