BELFAST-headquartered Novosco has secured a contract worth up to €1.25 million to provide Cork County Council with a completely new solution to its IT infrastructure requirements.
The company, which employs 120 people with offices in Dublin, Cork and Belfast, won a tender to provide the council with a complete refresh, covering disaster recovery, back-up, and hosted infrastructure.
Cork County Council’s existing data storage and associated infrastructure had reached the end of its life, and had reached maximum capacity. Given the importance and integrity of the data held, and the requirement to add capacity for future projects, it was decided that a new solution would be required.
The council, which has 1,500 IT users and services a population of 400,000 people, selected Novosco based on its thorough understanding of the requirements, and its innovation and flexible solution.
Novosco managing director Patrick McAliskey said: “The council went to tender for a complete infrastructure refresh that would meet current and future needs over the coming five years.
"They also sought invitations for innovation in the areas of disaster recovery, backup and hosted infrastructure to allow them to manage their critical data on-site, while also allowing them the flexibility of hosted or cloud solutions and services into the future, should they require them.
"The solution has been specifically designed to allow for exponential growth in Cork’s data."
Cork County Council divisional manager James Fogarty said: “This is a natural evolution of technology and the Council’s requirements that will cope with the demands for increased data storage and protection while improving disaster recovery and resilience into the future.
"The hybrid cloud offering from Novosco offers us a comprehensive framework and architecture to address current and future demands while allowing us the required flexibility to take advantage of the benefits of cloud services where we consider them to the advantage of the Council."
