Insomnia awards €150,000 cloud and connectivity contract to IT Force and Strencom
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IT Force, in partnership with Strencom, has won a contract worth more than €150,000 to provide a private cloud and connectivity system to the Insomnia chain of coffee shops.
“We had encountered a number of difficulties in relation to our IT infrastructure and connectivity network, resulting in persistent issues in store,” said Insomnia chairman, Bobby Kerr. “Ultimately our IT resources were being devoured by small and repeat issues, which was both frustrating and expensive in terms of downtime and staff resources.
“The IT Force and Strencom solution made perfect business sense for us, enabling us to eliminate the IT issues, while providing a smart network that was scalable and robust from which we could now deliver customer wifi, contactless payments, loyalty cards and other services we may require in the future.
“We have embraced the cloud – migrating applications to the cloud, refreshing hardware through cloud and proactive monitoring and support throughout, and our business has become more efficient as a result.”
Strencom’s Cloud Connect and Virtual Data Centre suite of services enables all of Insomnia’s retail stores and back-office functions to move to the cloud, using an uncongested private network that triples the bandwidth available to the organisation and its outlets.
Our objective in this market is to provide Irish SMEs the peace of mind that we are the one stop shop for all ICT services,” said Joe Molloy, director of managed services, IT Force. “Our guarantee to Insomnia is to ensure they can focus on what they do best, while we with the assistance of our partner Strencom can support and manage their complete ICT system. As the ‘virtual IT department’ for Insomnia we feel we can now offer a higher level of service.”
“Having combined the connectivity with cloud solution, and following the recent launch of our Virtual Data Centre, Strencom is working with a number of partners to deliver the Strencom cloud-connect solution to corporates and enterprises in Ireland”, said Tim Murphy, CEO, Strencom. “This is a best in breed solution, and this is evidenced by the excellent response we have had from the market to date.”