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Red Nose Day is a nationwide fundraising event which takes place every two years. The technical solution in place to support Red Nose Day 2011 builds on 2009’s hugely successful UK IT Industry Award-winning cloud computing platform, with continued emphasis on resilience and scalability. Comic Relief operates two core platforms with Carrenza, a donation platform and a core websites platform. The donation platform consists of a highly-tuned donation application built in Java and backed by a stretched Oracle Real Application Clusters environment that runs active across two data centres. This allows Comic Relief to process hundreds of thousands of donations in just a few hours. The core websites platform supports all Comic Relief websites. The websites are all built using the open source CMS Drupal on a scalable LAMP technology stack with bespoke deployment procedures overcoming a well-known barrier for Drupal at the enterprise level. Both platforms use VMware vSphere 4 for virtualisation and sit on HP ProLiant BL460 blade server with HP 3PAR T-Class Storage Systems -- virtualised, multitenant storage arrays built for public and private cloud computings -- to provide agile and efficient storage. Cisco 6500-series networking (including ACE and FWSM modules) and Zeus Technology provide security, switching and smooth traffic management at the front whilst PayPal and WorldPay provide secure payment processing at the back.
Samsung Techwin Europe has appointed Lucas Lee as its new
Managing Director. With a career spanning nearly 20 years within Samsung Techwin, Lee has headed up the overseas sales and marketing activities of the company’s digital camera division and has spent time living in the UK, Germany and France and Korea. Directly prior to his appointment as Managing Director, Lee was Overseas Sales & Marketing Director for the company’s professional security division. He was responsible for developing sales growth both in Europe and the Americas.
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Land Registry, the government department responsible for
keeping and maintaining the Land Register for England and Wales, has adopted open source data management tool, Talend Integration Suite. This is part of a strategic move to improve data integration for its business intelligence (BI) warehouse and to support the department’s new business intelligence project. Land Registry aims to maintain and develop a stable, effective land registration system, guarantee title to registered estates and interests in land and enable confident dealings in property and security of title by providing ready access to up-to-date and guaranteed land information. Steven Philips, Delivery Manager
at Land Registry commented: “Maintaining concise and accurate data for business intelligence (BI) is crucial to Land Registry’s operational performance and we needed a flexible and cost effective tool that would improve data integration for the BI warehouse.” Talend Integration Suite is the first open source enterprise data integration solution, designed to support multi-user development, and to scale to the highest levels of data volumes and process complexity. It is used for ETL, data synchronisation and data migration. Phillips added: “With Talend Integration Suite, Land Registry will benefit from being able to use ETL processes - extract, transform and load - to extract data from a number of different repositories and in multiple formats to provide consistent data for business intelligence.” François Méro, VP of Global Sales,
Talend commented: “Land Registry has to handle vast amounts of complex data on the ownership of property and land across the nation. Ensuring that its business intelligence data is up to date and accurate is paramount and using an open source data management tool is an efficient and cost effective way to achieve this.”
Christian Nellemann, CEO of small business telecom
provider, XLN Telecom, has received
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the Crème de la Crème Award for Outstanding Business Achievement. Other business leaders who have
received this accolade include Richard Branson, Steve Leach at Big Mouth Media and Colin Byrne at Weber Shandwick. In the last year turnover at XLN was increased from £36m to £54m and profits grew to £12m. Nellemann has previously received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Business Services, and led the XLN management team through a secondary buyout. The company states that this latest achievement recognises his drive and serial entrepreneur status. Commenting on Christian’s success, Simon Burgess, joint founder, CEO, and chairman of the panel of judges, said: “With a turnover in excess of £50 million, a growth of 80% over the last two years and an increase in operating profit of almost 300% over the same period, XLN telecom is delivering outstanding performance. This is Christian Nellemann’s fourth successful venture, having been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 and 2010. Christian demonstrates an ability not only to identify substantial new business opportunities, but also to follow through and deliver relentlessly on the initial vision.”
Claranet has announced four senior appointments as the
business sets its sights on growth across Europe. Following recent investment in a virtual hosting infrastructure and the ongoing development of its networking services, the company is aiming to capitalise on the growth in demand for cloud services across Europe. The new appointments are: Olivier Beaudet, Group Chief Marketing Officer (a position he will hold alongside his current role of Managing Director of Claranet France), Ian Finlay, Group Chief Information Officer, Nigel Fairhurst, Group Finance Director and Brett Shepherd, UK Operations Director.
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