Welcome!
Welcome to our latest issue of our quarterly newsletter for the analyst community which coincides with Logicalis’ launch of its new global branding. Implemented across all its markets, it is a further step in unifying all our markets and establishing a distinct positioning for the Logicalis' brand.
Much has happened over the past quarter. For example, on 2nd December 2010, Logicalis acquired Network Infrastructure Corporation (NIC), a Phoenix, Arizona-based Cisco Gold Partner. NIC provides network consulting and IT services to the K-12 education, state and local government, gaming and hospitality markets across the Southwest United States (click here for further information).
Then, on 18th November 2010, Logicalis announced its expansion into Bolivia to supplement its network of offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay (click here for further information).
And, on 20th September 2010, Logicalis acquired Touchbase Singapore, a Unified Communications (UC) solutions provider focusing on UC and customer contact centre solutions (click here for more information).
Our new Data Centre at Logicalis, Slough, UK has been operating since May 2010. As there has been much interest in this and our Cloud capabilities, we recently hosted a visit of industry analysts to the DC. As a number of analysts wished to attend but couldn’t make this particular date, another visit will be organised in early 2011 (click here if you would wish to attend).
This newsletter has been created to keep you abreast of our latest news and announcements so, if there is anything in particular that you would wish to hear about from Logicalis, or if we can help you with your research, please do not hesitate to tell us.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
Kind regards
Joanne James
VP International Marketing
Logicalis
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Logicalis: Public Sector Manifesto
Logicalis UK has just published a Public Sector Manifesto, which gives our view about what’s happening in the public sector IT space. Logicalis’ experience in partnering with Local Authorities, Health Services, universities and colleges, and the devolved Welsh Assembly Government has enabled us to create a series of Public Sector Business and Technology Architectures that can make a big difference in some key areas, enabling IT and Communications Technology ( ICT) to become more accountable and more efficient.
The challenge facing most Chief Executives in all public services is simply one of cutting the cost of delivery while maintaining the same levels of service, or providing more services. As part of this, they will be challenging every member of their executive team to find savings, or realising the value of existing assets. They will be looking at ICT as an area where dramatic cost reductions can be made.
Logicalis has four key business and technology architectural goals:
- Architectures that enable ICT to get its house in order
- Architectures that help the public sector deliver business savings and continue service delivery
- Architectures that change the procurement and provisioning of technology and services
- Architectures that enable the creation of local, regional and national shared services
ICT architectures can be applied to every one of these key business transformations:
- Smarter Workspace
- Workforce Collaboration
- Streamlined Citizen Engagement
- Community and Regional Public Sector Network (PSN)
- Virtualised Infrastructure
- Shared Services Data Centre and G-Cloud
- Partnership and Procurement
- Smarter Software and Smarter Information
These eight key architectures are applicable to Local Government, Health, Education, and other key public sector organisations, including regional and national government services.
Click here to download the full document of the ‘Public Sector Manifesto’.
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Logicalis: Healthcare
In today’s healthcare environment, increasing patient care and safety, efficiently engaging specialists and reducing enterprise costs are not choices but a requirement.
Logicalis has developed a Top Ten HIT (Healthcare Information Technology) List of technology initiatives that are on the radar screen, in the planning process, or in early implementation phases for many healthcare IT organisations.
Logicalis - Top Ten HIT List:
- Electronic Health/Medical Records (EHR or EMR)
- Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
- Medical Archiving Systems (MAS)
- Storage Consolidation and Virtualization
- Backup (disk-based and online storage)
- Business Intelligence
- Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)
- Infrastructure for Health Information Systems
- Compliance
- Securing Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI)
Healthcare IT environments present a unique set of challenges to IT departments but also share many of the same issues that face organisations across a broad range of industries. As part of the series, Logicalis has produced several in-depth features that not only offer solutions to many of the problems that organisations confront today but also identify technologies that proactive IT departments can leverage to give their organisations a competitive edge.
Click here for more information or click here to request a briefing.
Related links: Because Hope is Not a Strategy in Healthcare IT; Data Storage in Healthcare; Logicalis & Healthcare infrastructure.
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Acquisitions & Strategic Announcements
Network Infrastructure Corporation (NIC), US
On 2nd December 2010, Logicalis acquired Network Infrastructure Corporation (NIC), a Phoenix, Arizona-based Cisco Gold Partner. NIC provides network consulting and IT services to the K-12 education, state and local government, gaming and hospitality markets across the Southwest United States.
This acquisition significantly builds Logicalis’ presence in the Southwest expanding its networking and services business. It will also provide NIC clients with access to Logicalis’ outsourced services, cloud computing and data centre management solutions. NIC’s proven model for delivering wireless, security, and video services will provide a platform for Logicalis to expand on those capabilities on a national level.
NIC was established in 1994 to support the technology requirements of the education vertical, offering key technologies for schools including networks, Video-On-Demand, Inter-campus wireless connectivity and physical security. Since its founding the company has grown to annualised revenues of approximately $20 million.
Click here for further information or click here to request a briefing.
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Touchbase, Singapore
On 20th September 2010, Logicalis acquired Touchbase Singapore from Touchbase Group, a unified communications (UC) solutions provider focusing in the areas of UC and customer contact centre solutions for enterprise and multinational corporations.
The acquisition further enhances our presence in Asia Pacific, bringing important contact centre expertise, and the business has been integrated into Logicalis’ Singapore operation, NetstarLogicalis.
Touchbase Singapore was established in 2002 and became one of the strongest Cisco UC and contact centre partners in Asia. The business serviced enterprise and multinational companies across the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan.
Click here for further information or click here to request a briefing about this announcement.
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Logicalis, Bolivia
On 18th November 2010, Logicalis announced its expansion into Bolivia. This supplements its offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, so strengthening the company’s role as a major integrator of ICT infrastructure in Latin America.
Click here for more information about this announcement or click here to request a briefing.
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New wins
Logicalis delivers a Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Solution for Total Safety U.S., Inc with its Logicalis Enterprise Cloud.
Total Safety U.S., Inc. is the world's leading global provider of integrated industrial safety services, strategies and equipment necessary to keep workers, facilities and the environment safe.
Logicalis provides Disaster Recovery (DR) to Total Safety in Houston, in our Logicalis Enterprise Cloud for their main ERP application Rental Man. This is their primary business-critical application that runs their business, which is the rental of safety equipment globally. Total Safety's world headquarters in Houston, has the threat of hurricanes, and all that comes with being based on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Rental Man application is based on the IBM platform. It is replicated to our Logicalis Enterprise Cloud using iTera's replication solution. Today, the solution is VPN over the Internet, with a T1 circuit being installed shortly, between the two locations. The circuit will have the VPN/Internet as a secondary route eliminating a single point of failure.
Additionally, Logicalis Enterprise Cloud provides cloud based DR for Total Safety's ancillary applications, like Exchange, using DoubleTake replication technologies.
This is our first DR solution in the Cloud and has resulted in a 36 month annuity contract.
The next two projects for Total Safety and Logicalis, will be to provide managed PowerSystems (IBM i), also know as iSeries, services and after-hours help desk for 80+ locations for their global user base.
Click here to request more information about this announcement.
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Trends across the Logicalis’ regions... South America
TelePresence
Logicalis has recently won some significant large TelePresence projects in South America, mainly driven by multinationals trying to integrate themselves on an operational level with their corporate HQ, one being a large multinational drinks manufacturer. This particular implementation in Argentina was one of the most relevant Logicalis TelePresence projects to date, with the installment of the full three screen TelePresence room.
Unified Fabric
We are observing an important accelerated uptake for Unified Fabric solutions in the deployment of the Cisco NEXUS product family throughout the region, with clients such as a large national oil company in Argentina and UTE Uruguay (energy utility), Telefonica, Uruguay and another large service provider in Paraguay (Nucleo).
This market transformation for delivering a unified fabric for public and private data centres is driving a new wave of data centre investments in South America, positioning Logicalis strongly in this arena.
The Unified Fabric solutions can present significant savings for data centre and IT administrators and simplify management. Across the Southern Cone of South America, Logicalis is experiencing its first big deployments of NEXUS, and deployed several large NEXUS projects. This market trends lags behind Brazil by some 12 months or more, but is indicative of a new wave of investment in the rest of South America.
Click here to request more information about these developments.
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Corporate information
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Stock symbol:
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Datatec Limited (DTC) is listed on the AIM market of the LSE and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
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Fiscal year:
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1 st Mar to 28 th Feb
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Founded/IPO:
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1997 (when Datatec acquired Logical Networks plc)
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Employees worldwide:
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1,900 approximately
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Headquarters:
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110 Buckingham Avenue , Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4PF, United Kingdom
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Logicalis: Summary of revenue – US$ (M)
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Quarter/year
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FY2009
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FY2010
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Revenues (ending 28 th Feb)
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US$1,007.4
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US$840.6
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Click here for the Logicalis’ Annual Report, 2010.
Click here for the company’s history.
Click here to see the company’s international presence.
Click here to see the company’s awards.
Click here to see the company’s Executive Team.
Click here to see the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility policy.
Click here for Investor Relations.
Click here to see Logicalis’ video.
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Awards
CA Technologies Announces Winners of the VIIP Awards
On 19th November 2010, CA Technologies announced the winners of the VIIP Awards at the CA Technologies Open Day.
One of these awards, the Innovation Award, recognises organisations that have pushed the boundaries and enabled them to outperform their competitors. Initiatives in this category, even if not complete, will demonstrate excellent planning or communications and will have some project success to celebrate. This award was made to Logicalis UK Ltd.
Click here for further information.
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Logicalis’ solutions
Data Centre, Cloud, Virtualization
Click here to see Logicalis' solutions or click here to see case studies.
Professional and Managed Services
Click here and click here for related case studies.
Unified Communications and Collaboration
Click here or click here for related case studies.
Each topic above features articles of Logicalis in the news, related videos and a spotlight on our Data Centre, Innovation Centre, etc.
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Press releases, 1st Sep to 6th Dec 2010
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Logicalis company
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2 nd Dec 2010
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Logicalis
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Logicalis US increases networking and services business with acquisition of Network Infrastructure Corporation
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29 th Nov 2010
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Logicalis UK
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Logicalis enhances mainframe expertise with RSM partners
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25 th Nov 2010
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Logicalis UK
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Logicalis unveils enhanced virtualisation portfolio
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23 rd Nov 2010
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Netstar Logicalis, Australia
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Country Fire Authority Enhances Communication with Firefighters via NetstarLogicalis Network Solution
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19 th Nov 2010
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Logicalis UK
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CA Technologies Announces Winners of the VIIP Awards
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19 th Nov 2010
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Netstar Logicalis, Australia
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Value YES Bundle
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18 th Nov 2010
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Logicalis, Inc
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Logicalis IDs Top Decision Points in Cloud Security
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18 th Nov 2010
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Logicalis
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Logicalis started operations in Bolivia
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17 th Nov 2010
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Logicalis South America
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New Country Manager for Chile Logicalis
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3 rd Nov 2010
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Logicalis South America
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Logicalis present in Cisco Networkers 2010 Argentina
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2 nd Nov 2010
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Logicalis, Inc
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Is Your Data Center Behind the Times?
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26 th Oct 2010
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NetstarLogicalis, Australia
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Corporate Express Selects Cisco, EMC and VMware to Virtualize for Increased Business Agility and Energy Efficiency
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20 th Oct 2010
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Logicalis UK
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Logicalis to address Cloud opportunity, challenges and value at Public Sector Enterprise ICT 2010
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20 th Oct 2010
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Logicalis South America
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Great call at the annual meeting on virtual infrastructure
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19 th Oct 2010
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Logicalis UK
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Logicalis Gives IT Pros a Handle on Cloud Control
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12 th Oct 2010
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Logicalis, Inc
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Logicalis Helps Clients Grow With Managed Services
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11 th Oct 2010
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Logicalis UK Ltd
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Logicalis launches solutions for Cloud Computing journey
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5 th Oct 2010
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Logicalis, Inc
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How to Avoid Falling For Unified Communications Myths
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28 th Sep 2010
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Logicalis South America
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Area Logicalis Consulting presents "Advisor"
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28 th Sep 2010
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Logicalis, Inc
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Logicalis Experts Identify How to Cut Data Center Costs Today
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28 th Sep 2010
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Logicalis South America
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Converged networks, allied business
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21 st Sep 2010
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Logicalis, Inc
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Logicalis Gives Healthcare Execs Secrets to Effective Management of Patient Image Data
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20 th Sep 2010
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Logicalis
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Logicalis increases Asia Pacific presence with acquisition of Touchbase Singapore
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15 th Sep 2010
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Logicalis South America
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Logicalis introduced strategies to ensure the integrity of corporate information
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14 th Sep 2010
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Logicalis, Inc
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Six Common Outsourcing Myths IT Pros Need To Understand
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14 th Sep 2010
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Logicalis Brazil
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PromonLogicalis receives title of Allied McAfee Technical Excellence in Brazil
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Contact us
Joanne James, VP International Marketing,
Logicalis, 110 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4PF, United Kingdom
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