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Cloud Case Study
1. CLIENT PROFILE
CPC Project Services LLP is a highly regarded specialist consultancy
providing project and consulting services in both public and private
sectors. Based in London, Manchester, and Glasgow, the 40 user
company used nine servers across their three offices.
The flexibility
London Cloud has
LONDON CLOUD PROFILE
given us is immense.
On Line Computing’s London Cloud is a turnkey computing Being able to operate
infrastructure accessible via any internet enabled device. No
servers, maintenance, upgrades, or hassle - just log in, and go.
from anywhere hasn’t
Everything, including user support is taken care of. only improved
THE MISSION
productivity, it really
does show on the
CPC had outgrown their server-on-premises set up, which had
become impractical and unfeasible to maintain and work with. They bottom line
identified four key issues On Line Computing needed to address.
The London office was moving to a temporary location for
three months, before progressing to their new base in Brandon Stringer
Chancery Lane, and needed seamless continuity during the
Partner
transition, without the cost of migrating their systems twice.
CPC Project Services LLP
The servers needed to be replaced, costing £60K.
With three offices, client based work and forthcoming
international work, CPC’s team needed the flexibility to
operate from anywhere at anytime.
Inconsistency of software versions, licenses and installations
on the workstations was impeding the company’s workflow.
Standardised workstations were required.
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2. SOLUTION in the event of a disaster, for CPC, it would be
As an early adopter of new technology, CPC had business as usual.
already outsourced their IT Support and
maintenance to lower their overheads and The ability to log into a hosted infrastructure
eliminate downtime. Not only was London Cloud meant CPC could recycle older computers and
a perfect solution to meet CPC’s needs and laptops as the only capacity required of these
enable expansion, their ethos was also a perfect units is an internet connection—the processing
match to embrace On Line Computing’s cloud and storage is completely in the Cloud. This
platform. System migration would take only two resulted in large savings and an array of business
weeks, and there’d be no downtime during the benefits for CPC. Added to this, the £60,000
transition. replacement of servers was negated entirely -
freeing CPC from future capital expenditure, and
WHY CPC PARTNERED WITH ON LINE the depreciating value and performance of the
COMPUTING’S LONDON CLOUD equipment.
On Line Computing had delivered speedy and
proactive outsourced IT Support to CPC for over PRODUCTIVITY
two years. CPC Partner Brandon Stringer: “We Every user can now work in a secure and
knew the transition would be painless, and our standardised environment with up to date
data would be in safe hands.” London Cloud was software from anywhere. Owing to the ease of
the first of its kind to gain CIF (Cloud Industry access on tablets and smartphones, CPC have
Forum) Certification, which promotes trust and found that users on average work an extra hour
transparency of Cloud services to end users. each a week, which soon adds up. CPC Partner
Brandon Stringer: “We had a good idea of how
EVALUATION the team and company would benefit on the
After their leap to the Cloud, CPC’s four goals whole, but we hadn’t anticipated how quickly
were immediately realised. By moving their data projects and tasks would be completed as a
and computing infrastructure to London Cloud, result of being in the Cloud—it’s early days, but
their team were able to log on to their desktop we’re already seeing users working an average of
from any computer, tablet and even smart an extra hour each per week—which soon adds
phone. The company could now operate from up!”
anywhere in the world, and on the go. This alone
simplified and fortified their business continuity LEARN MORE..
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London Cloud’s data centres meant that
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