Want to save energy, Turn off your computer room
How can you save energy? Many IT departments and small office computer rooms are today faced with the same challenges of power and cooling. Traditional IT teams have historically been focused on maintaining server uptime, and minimising wait times when using line of business databases, rather than on trying to save energy. Contemporary business stakeholders […]
virtualDCS selected by VMware® as the UK’s 1st
virtualDCS™ has been recognised as the UK’s first VMware enterprise partner, or VMware ® Service Provider Program (VSPP) Enterprise Partner. The VMware Enterprise VSPP program is a global partner strategy specific to service providers like virtualDCS. Our fully managed VMware hosting solutions are offered to our clients on a rental basis, and we can now […]
New vSphere hosting
We are pleased to announce we are one of the first UK Cloud providers to be offering hosted virtual machines on VMware’s feature rich ESX4 vSphere platform. This powerful hypervisor enables us to offer features such as Dynamic Hot Add Hardware, Extended OS Support, up to 8 vCPU’s per VM, and many more. The new […]
virtualDCS sponsors 7 seater charity bicycle ride
virtualDCS are proudly supporting Geoff Major’s latest challenge, sponsoring a 7-seater bicycle ride around Leeds City Centre on the 18th December. The day acts as a promotion for a 350 mile bike ride over 7 days in April 2013, which will raise money for and awareness of Disability Action Yorkshire, Heart Research UK and the […]
YOU’RE HIRED! virtualDCS hires a new technical support apprentice
Cloud Computing experts virtualDCS are pleased to announce that Antonio Francis joined the company as a support apprentice on the 27th January. This is the second technical apprentice that virtualDCS has welcomed into the company. Prior to Antonio, Matthew Sharpe joined the team and he has now successfully transitioned into a technical support engineer for […]
Congratulations class of 2015
Support Apprentice Antonio Francis has graduated the Microsoft apprenticeship programme and is now an official member of the virtualDCS team. With virtualDCS pioneering the Cloud once again, Antonio was one of the first students to take part in the Microsoft Apprenticeship programme, which he attended remotely through the Cloud. Learning key skills such as the […]
virtualDCS achieves its ISO 27001 status
As the head of information security at virtualDCS, a company that takes pride in its ability to securely host customer data on its UK infrastructure, I oversee our daily efforts to safely handle hundreds of thousands of transactions from clients across the globe. This position gives me a unique insight into what customers’ desire, and […]
New research shows lack of education around DR in Yorkshire
The Cloud Computing experts, virtualDCS conducted independent research over two days at the Buy Yorkshire conference in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Focussing on existing business continuity plans and practices the delegates at the event were invited to complete an anonymous survey, with the goal of analysing business attitudes to data protection. The results uncovered that although […]
Protecting Yorkshire against Cybercrime
Richard May is speaking at the first ever ‘Yorkshire Cyber Security Event’ on Thursday 12th May. The free educational event is open to businesses of all sizes, providing a starting point to protecting and preventing data loss in organisations. Taking place at 3M Buckley Innovation Centre in Huddersfield, Richard will be holding a seminar on […]
virtualDCS is now an Authorised Licence Mobility Partner
As a Microsoft Authorised Licence Mobility Partner virtualDCS customers can now use their own software licences on our Cloud platform. Yes, you read correctly… it enables you to use your own licences in the Cloud. To date, your copy of a standard Microsoft open box product license should not have legally been used with a […]
