Centerprise International has extended its Caerphilly premises to expand its PC building and configuration services.
The 70,000 sq ft IT operational facility costs £6 million and will add “significant production capacity” for PC building and configuration services, the Basingstoke-headquartered outfit said.
Centerprise employs 40 staff in the region. The new facility extends its 50,000 sq ft hub.
Centerprise has cut the ribbon on its CiCloud platform, which has been built leaning on technology from HPE and CloudSigma.
For those not in the know, CiCloud is based on HPE GreenLake technology combined with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) specialist CloudSigma’s expertise to offer hybrid, private or public cloud options to customers. Ark Data Centres are being used to physically house the information.
The idea is that workloads can be moved to the platform without too much hassle, as well as the promise of the option to scale up or down quickly and the option of a pay-as-you-use model.
Timing is important as customers shift towards the cloud, with many having accepted that it is a way to consumer technology and services.
Resellers have been winning parts of a £500 million framework that will provide “end-to-end” IT to the NHS including Computacenter, Softcat, Total and Dell.
The Digital Workplace Solutions framework is managed by NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) and replaces the predecessor “Link: IT Solutions”.
Total Computers sales director Kieran O’Connor said: “We’re already working with NHS Shared Business Services through ‘The Edge4Health’, so are thrilled to be a ‘Digital Workplace Solutions’ supplier and see it as further endorsement of our ability to provide the public sector with competitive pricing, technical excellence and great service.”
The framework will run for an initial two-year period, with an option to run for a further two years after. Since publication, NHS SBS has told CRNthat the framework is worth an estimated £500 million.