About Vnetrix

June 2010
Vnetrix wins Harrington Starr

Vnetrix is proud to announce that it has completed the IT setup of new recruitment company Harrington Starr.

Recommended to us via an existing client, Harrington Starr came to Vnetrix for advice and the setup of all IT requirements.  Working to very tight timelines, Vnetrix was able to design and deploy the new network in time for the launch as the business had to hit the ground running. 

Commenting on the new client Robert Norman CEO said “We are delighted that Harrington Starr chose Vnetrix for all its IT provision. The London based business was an ideal fit for our managed IT services.  We have enjoyed working with Toby and the team and are looking forward to helping them as they grow the business”.

Harrington Starr specialise in placing high quality IT professionals in permanent, retained, contract and interim positions for the global financial services and commodity trading sectors.

Toby Babb, Director at Harrington Starr said “Vnetrix pulled out all the stops to ensure we had everything in place ready to go. I have been impressed with their excellent service ethic, knowledgeable and friendly engineers and a genuine desire to look after us”.

March 2010
Vnetrix wins Glastonbury Festivals

Vnetrix is excited to announce it has won the contract to manage the Glastonbury Festivals website and provide IT Support for the staff of organisation itself.

The Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world with over 177,000 expected to attend in 2010.

Vnetrix were chosen to design and implement a new hosting infrastructure capable of meeting the huge demands from the thousands of visitors keen to know the latest information.  Drawing on years of experience of running high performance websites for the new media industry Vnetrix will support and continue to provide enhancements to the service to meet the demanding needs of the Glastonbury Festival's operation.

Commenting on the contract Robert Norman CEO Vnetrix said "to be part of the Glastonbury experience is immensely rewarding and we are very proud to have the opportunity to build and manage their online presence".

Robert Richards a Festival spokesperson said "we have been working with Vnetrix since the end of last year to migrate the website and IT support to them and have been delighted with their professionalism, dedication and genuine care to deliver the best possible service they can".

www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

October 2009
Vnetrix and Shift F7 Announce Strategic Partnership

Vnetrix are pleased to announce it has agreed a new strategic partnership with Shift F7.

As part of the arrangement Shift F7 will offer the full range of Vnetrix managed services to its new and existing clients. This will extend the Shift F7 capability and provide a true end to end solution.

A Microsoft Gold Partner Shift F7 have over 14 years experience in IT procurement, implementation and software services and can now add a new range of managed services to their portfolio.

Peter Mustoe Technical Director Shift F7 said, "We are delighted to be working with Vnetrix. Through our partnership we will be able to offer customers first class managed services and support solutions that will provide true cost savings – a very important factor for businesses in the current economic environment."

Commenting on the partnership Robert Norman CEO Vnetrix said "we are proud to have been chosen by Shift F7 and look forward to a long and fruitful relationship".

Vnetrix has created a series of managed services packages for Shift F7 customers and expects to add more services in the coming months.

September 2009
Vnetrix rocks Formula 1™ with All The Worlds

Vnetrix is delighted to announce that the new global content delivery network created for Universal Music has been chosen to host www.f1rocks.com

F1 ROCKS™ is a joint venture between Universal Music Group Ltd, All the Worlds and Formula One Administration Limited. As F1 ROCKS™ grows the site will become a global entertainment portal used to keep fans updated with videos, access to the artists and news on events.

The www.f1rocks.com site was an excellent candidate to use the new caching network due to the global reach of the audience.  Content is cached in nodes around the world providing rapid access to the site.

Beverley Dean Head of eCRM Digital UK for Universal Music said "…being a global brand the site needed a content network that could deliver the best consumer experience possible to its worldwide audience."

July 2009
Vnetrix Expands Global Hosting Provision for Universal Music Group Ltd

Driven by business need Vnetrix is proud to announce it has completed expansion of its data centre hosting capability into Los Angeles and Singapore.

Working in conjunction with Universal Music Group Ltd, Vnetrix co-designed and deployed a highly scalable content delivery platform across London, Los Angeles and Singapore using multiple servers and networks to enable intelligently routed access to global music artists’ websites. 

Universal Music wanted to provide the best possible experience for the visitors attracted from across the globe to artist sites.

The new network, known as the “Grid”, enables content to be cached at strategic nodes around the Internet ready for the next consumer to access.  With automated processes to refresh the cache nodes, the network provides an excellent way to get content closer to the consumers.

The system has also been designed with scalability in mind and new nodes are expected to be added as the utilisation of the network grows.

Commenting on the project Robert Norman CEO Vnetrix said "This was one of our most ambitious projects to date but we are delighted with the outcome and look forward to building on the new platform".

Over the coming months many of the top global artist web sites will be updated to take advantage of using the new facility.

March 2009
Decca and Cooperative Music choose Vnetrix

Vnetrix are delighted to announce they have successfully migrated the Decca Classics and Cooperative Music label sites to the Universal Music Group hosting platform.

The sites based on Microsoft Windows involved complex migrations but were completed with no downtime to either site.

Commenting on the migrations Robert Norman CEO Vnetrix said "we were able to adapt the existing Universal Music Group hosting platform to incorporate these two important music labels".

The migrations allow Decca and Cooperative Music to further develop their online brand awareness confident they are on a stable and scalable platform.

Beverley Dean Head of eCRM Digital UK Universal Music said "Vnetrix were a natural choice to host these important websites, we are delighted with the professionalism expended during the migration process".

January 2009
TACK commissions Vnetrix Web Dev skills

TACK has been a Vnetrix managed services client since 2006 including user support, server and network management.

During 2008, this grew to include hosting of the TACK website which is a vital part of the organisations sales and marketing function. TACK chose Vnetrix because they needed a trusted partner for the transactional website and was a natural choice to become the single source supplier.

Vnetrix has now become the full time web development partner for TACK and has formulated a custom package of web site maintenance and larger project type enhancements.

Robert Norman CEO Vnetrix said "the TACK contract has evolved from IT Managed Services to include hosting and web development. I'm delighted that TACK felt we had the project management experience and technical skills to take on the task of developing their website."

There are a number of exciting developments planned for the website over the coming year and Vnetrix is pleased to be able to extend its reach into this key area.

Commenting on the contract Louise Gulliver Marketing Director said "we have always found Vnetrix easy to do business with and inviting them to get involved with the development of the site just felt like a natural progression with the relationship."

September 2008
Universal Music expands hosting platform

Vnetrix has doubled the hosting capacity it provides for Universal Music Group with a new infrastructure specifically designed to handle large traffic volumes. The multi-layered architecture includes multiple load balancers, caching servers, web servers and database servers.

Artist websites form a huge part of the communication and link to the fans and it was critical that the top artists had an infrastructure that could be replied upon.

Robert Norman CEO Vnetrix said "this was an ambitious project but one that was vitally needed to ensure we continued to meet the rapidly growing needs of Universal Music Group ".

The new systems have already been made available to the Digital team and we expect the number of sites to grow significantly over the next year or so. This infrastructure provides the scalability needed for high profile sites such as Take That, Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Keane and Girls Aloud.

Beverley Dean Head of eCRM Digital UK Universal Music said "we worked closely with Vnetrix to match the future business needs with the technology, the result was a new hosting platform that gives the business the confidence to promote our important online fan base".

April 2008
Vnetrix Expands Data Centre Capacity

Vnetrix is pleased to announce its has expanded to a fourth data centre. Based in Newbury the new facility provides a cost effective option to its existing hosting provision in London Docklands.

Vnetrix has chosen premium providers Level3 and Abovenet to provide the redundant bandwidth into the site.

Commenting on the new site Catherine Burke Head of Operations said "we needed to increase data centre capacity to meet demand and opted for the Newbury facility as it met our stringent security criteria".