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.

Paul Evans, MD at Redstor, commented: “Redstor offers services to more than 10,000 schools across 85 local education authorities. Through this partnership with Joskos Solutions we can offer schools the highest levels of IT support.”

The full story is available here.

Redstor invites you to join us on stand 43 at The Academies Show 2012 on the 16th of May at Olympia in London. The event is the only FREE TO ATTEND event of its kind for headteachers, finance directors and bursars, governors, Local Authority education leaders or anyone else with a serious professional interest in the Academies Programme.

As of  the 1st of April 2012 there are 1776 academies open in England. This number continues to grow, reshaping the UK education landscape as a result. Whether you are considering conversion, are in the process of converting or are actively involved in an established Academy, make sure that you don’t miss this essential day. This year, the event will feature:

• Latest information directly from senior figures who set and implement the national education agenda
• Best practice advice on all aspects of converting and managing successful Academies, supported by real-life examples
• Discussions on key issues for Sponsored Academies and Sponsors, including funding and collaboration
• Experts on hand to explain complex legal, HR and property requirements
• Demonstrations of services and products designed to tangibly improve teaching, learning and school administration
• and more…

Redstor will be showcasing market-leading cloud services that safeguard and protect critical information and assets, whilst improving IT efficiency. Our services include; Capita’s approved secure online backup for SIMS; CentraStage – remote device management/support tool; and E-Safety, safeguarding children in schools. In total our services are used by over 15,000 schools and academies.

If you’re a school, academy, Local Authority or service provider, stop by our stand as we discuss the changing legal landscape, challenges of legal compliance and how to meet legal requirements. We’ll also demonstrate how we improve efficiencies, IT productivity and security, whilst reducing costs and downtime.

Please click here for further information. The list of exhibitors is here.

To register your place at The Academies Show, please e-mail Redstor.

Redstor will once again be exhibiting at the Cloud Computing World Forum this year. The event, held on the 12th and 13th of June at Earls Court in London, is Europe’s biggest cloud computing event with over 4,000 senior IT decision-makers from around the globe expected to attend over the course of the 2 days.

Last year, the event proved to be a very succesful outing for Redstor. It provided a great opportunity to network with clients, partners and suppliers alike and resulted in a number of opportunities for Redstor, our partners and our clients.

This year, the event will feature 150 seminars across 8 theatres spanning a wide range of topics under the broad headings of SaaS, Security, Big  Data, PaaS,  Mobile, Public Sector, Virtualization, Communications,  Social, CRM and  more. Exhibiting at the event will be over 120 global exhibitors (the full list is available here).

Attendance through Redstor is free and meetings can be arranged in advance to ensure you don’t have to wait to meet with one of our representatives. To register, please click here and a representative will be in touch to arrange a suitable meeting time. Redstor will be on stand 2140. The floorplan for the event can be viewed here.

If you’re unsure whether the event would be relevant to you, why not give us a call to discuss it in more detail.

Cloud Storage V.s. Local Storage?

Wouldn’t it be nice to know that all of your work was backed up and secure without you having to worry about your local storage device being tampered with?  Cloud Storage has been designed for this exact reason, to protect your online back up.  Any small, medium or large businesses can really benefit from having it.

What are the pros? There are many pros to using this form of software, as you can access it from any location, at anytime and anywhere.

Unlike local storage, there is no physical location, as a result of this there is less chance of losing your data as Cloud Storage cannot physically be tampered with. All you need to access the cloud is an internet connection. Having this form of data back up is both cheaper and convenient for businesses and consumers.

One of the most appealing features of this product is that it relieves you from the task of upgrading constantly. Capacity is available on-demand and as required, plus having that higher level of security is always an advantage.

Having secure cloud storage is also of great benefit to IT Professionals as it frees up their time within the office, it gives them the freedom to be able to access data anytime, anywhere.

Should a natural disaster occur, like a fire for instance, the businesses who were running their data backups, e-mails and any other software, onsite through their servers would lose everything and off site backups would still not be instantaneous to recover.  However the businesses who were running off the cloud would need to just use a different computer which had an internet connection and they would be immediately up and running as if nothing had happened.

Cloud Storage is not only the smart way to store but it can prove to be incredibly cost effective as well.

Author Emma Keast                                                                                                   30^th June 2011

For more information see:  http://www.redstor.com/onlinebackup.htm

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