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CWL Systems, the UK supplier of data availability solutions, is delighted to announce the acquisition of Lyonesse Software Ltd. Lyonesse Software, a 7 year old business that specialised in reselling data replication products was purchased with a self funded cash transaction in June this year. The Surrey based business will be integrated into company’s head office in St Neots Cambridgeshire. This will be CWL Systems second acquisition within twelve months, following the purchase of Active Systems late last year. “Following our takeover of Active Systems, the acquisition of Lyonesse Software will enable further growth of CWL’s business in supplying data availability solutions within the mid market space,” Said Andy Griffiths - CWL Systems Managing Director. "This second acquisition places CWL as the largest supplier and installer of Double-Take Software solutions in the UK"
CWL Systems has added to its Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program with the Information Worker Productivity Solutions Competency, recognising CWL’s expertise in the technology marketplace. As a Gold Certified partner, CWL has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and its proven ability to meet customers’ needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access to training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the marketplace. CWL Systems earned its first Microsoft competency, the Networking Infrastructure Solutions Competency, for its proven expertise in designing and implementing complex infrastructure solutions such as Active Directory®-based design and deployment solutions and Microsoft Exchange Server migration or deployment solutions. A rare breed amongst IT practices due to its ability to design and deploy both application solutions and the infrastructure solutions those applications run on. “We are extremely pleased to have attained a second Microsoft Competency in Information Worker Productivity Solutions. This allows us to clearly promote our capabilities to design, deploy and operate Microsoft based infrastructure and application solutions to our customers,” said Andy Griffiths – Managing Director. “The benefits provided through our Gold Certified status will allow us to continue to enhance the offerings that we provide for customers."
Some of the key issues confronting CIOs today. Quoting from research done internally by HDS, is that storage growth has become irrational and it is perceived as being not aligned to business performance. In a typical large enterprise, two-thirds of storage costs are in the hardware, some 78 percent of the cost goes into Tier 1 storage, which is twice as costly as Tier 2 storage. Organisations are also running out of data centre floor space, besides addressing other issues like power supply management and cooling system. In short, organisations may have hundreds of terabytes of storage capacities that are probably enjoying only as much as 20 percent utilisation. No wonder storage budgets are shrinking. Across the board, the problems persist-buying too much storage capacities, paying too much for storage (especially Tier 1 solutions), low utilisation, and containing data centres. It's easier to just add new storage than to come up with solutions to find and reallocate capacity from the storage pool, Vendors too have some responsibility to shoulder, in that they would deliver new functionality in bigger, monolithic storage frames instead of incremental upgrades. Underlining all this is the fact that data is persistent-it's unlike processing power and bandwidth that can be turned on and off when necessary. Data persists for generations, and storage has to cater for this need. To quote from research done by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), The top five "pain points" CIOs face today. · Cost, price and managing total cost of ownership. · Managing growth and how to meet capacity needs moving forward. · The inability to effectively manage storage assets and infrastructure. · The lack of integrated and/or interoperable solutions. · Added to that is the increasing complexity of storage infrastructure. Despite these pain points, the two biggest issues are on managing storage growth and data migration which naturally leads to Virtualising storage, so is it the answer?
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