News & Events
This page will be updated regularly with details of news and events for Telamon and Telamon’s Partners:
News:
- NEC Philips AcquireS Telamon Systems
- Upgrading or Migrating to Exchange 2007; take advantage of Unified Communications
- Telamon provide Virtualization with VMware
- Novell and Microsoft Technical Collaboration
- Telamon strengthen relationship with Quest
- Telamon Services and Solutions now available through GCat & Catalist
- Infrastructure Optimisation One Day Workshops
NEC PHILIPS ACQUIRES TELAMON SYSTEMS
- Unified communications solutions provider strengthens software infrastructure delivery and cross-platform systems integration capability -
1 October 2007: Cambridge, UK: NEC Philips Unified Solutions UK Limited (NEC Philips) has today announced that it has acquired Telamon Systems Limited (Telamon) – a specialist provider of resilient IT business solutions and services based in Berkshire, UK. Financial details of the transaction are not disclosed.
Telamon specializes in core infrastructure, virtualization, identity management, security, remote/mobile solutions and cross-platform systems integration backed up by high quality project management and technical support. More than 80% of its employees are in technical IT services roles as consultants, project managers and systems/software engineers. With more than 80 customers across the UK, Telamon specializes in the provision of solutions to mid-to-large enterprises and public sector organizations.
There are considerable synergies between the two businesses, in terms of expertise, as both are Microsoft Gold Partners and both work extensively in enterprise-scale implementations. Telamon adds a depth of experience being a Novell Platinum Partner of many years standing as well as a VMware Enterprise Partner and Citrix Silver Partner.
The acquisition of Telamon fits in extremely well with NEC Philips’ strategy of developing its solutions and services business targeted towards larger commercial and public sector organizations. NEC Philips has considerable expertise in the field of Unified Communications and a well established track record in large, complex converged networks and communications implementations.
Chris de Silva, UK Managing Director of NEC Philips, comments, “We see tremendous growth potential for Unified Communications solutions in the large enterprise space. Telamon‘s experience and track-record will add real value to our strengths in enterprise communications and to our overall solutions proposition to the market. We believe that by adding a great team of people to our existing substantial resources we will have the ‘bandwidth’ to capitalize on the enormous growth potential of this market.”
De Silva continues, “We think that the NEC Philips brand, backed up by some of the best consulting and project management services available is an unbeatable combination.”
Steve Derbyshire, Managing Director of Telamon, who joins NEC Philips as Business Development Director, adds, "We have worked closely with NEC Philips over the past year so we already realize that by combining our respective skills and product knowledge we can create a superb team that can deliver exceptional solutions of outstanding quality.”
Unified Communications Seminar
The New World of Work – Making the Most of Microsoft Collaboration Tools
Upgrading to Exchange 2007
Unified Communications with OCS
Microsoft, Thames Valley Park, Reading 23rd May - 10:00 – 13:00
The New World of Work – A People Ready Business
In today’s ever changing environment all IT departments face the challenge of delivering more service with less resource.
As an IT professional you are constantly being asked to improve the scope and scale of the services you offer without increasing running costs or complexity for your users and customers. Microsoft have launched a major wave of new technology to help you help your users and customers collaborate and work together more effectively under the banner of “The People Ready Business”. You need to be aware of what your options are and how you can most effectively get to grips with the changes that are coming to your best advantage. To do this you need to understand Microsoft’s vision for collaboration and where Unified Communications fits in so that you are ready and able to embrace the changes that are coming.
One Day Workshop
Telamon, PC-Ware and Microsoft are delighted to invite you to a one day workshop to understand more about the People Ready Business, Exchange 2007 and Unified Communications. During the day we’ll discuss how an organisation can quickly understand the strategic value and business benefits to the organization in moving to this exciting new platform.
The workshop will start with a look at the New World of Work, within the context of Microsoft’s vision of a People Ready Business. This will include a scenario based demo of Microsoft’s Office System 2007 and associated technologies. Telamon will show you how they can assist you in the upgrading or migrating to Exchange 2007 and integrating Unified Communications using OCS and Live Meeting to help you to achieve the highest level of return from your IT investment, on your journey to a People Ready Business.
Who Should Attend?
This event is designed for ICT directors, managers and senior IT personnel with an interest in upgrading from earlier versions of Exchange or migrating from legacy email systems to Exchange 2007; it will be of particular interest to those wishing to understand how Exchange 2007 works with Office Communications Server to provide Unified Communications.
Please contact Telamon on 0870 607 4747 or PC-Ware on 0870 050 0125 to register or email events@telamon.co.uk with the subject line “May Exchange 2007 Event”.
Outline Agenda
As this is an interactive event this agenda is outline only; there will be an opportunity at the start of the session to define and select which areas are of most interest.
The New World of Work - A People Ready Business
Upgrading & Migrating to Exchange 2007 – Why, When & How?
Making the most of Unified Communications
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Virtualisation Partner of Choice
Telamon is proud to announce that we have become a VMware Enterprise Partner.
Having proven that we have the skills and abilities required to achieve this level of accreditation, we are now able to offer our customer’s consultancy, advice and implantation services on the market leading virtualisation technology.
Ideal for any organisation seeking to consolidate their server estate, improve the carbon footprint of their computing environment, create an environment where multiple applications can run on a single server or provide a robust Disaster Recovery solution, virtualisation is fast becoming the solution of choice.
Coupled with Telamon’s existing accreditations from the leading software providers, the VMWare accreditation enables Telamon to provide our clients with services and solutions that encompass every facet of today’s IT infrastructure. Whether it is Migration, Systems Integration, Messaging and Collaboration, Single/Secure logon, Identity Management, Storage, Virtualisation or Back-up, Telamon are able to offer a complete range of services to address the most demanding of requirements.
“We are extremely pleased to have started this new financial year in such a positive way” said Steve Derbyshire, MD of Telamon. “The VMWare accreditation was a goal we had set the company as it is an essential addition to the Telamon skill set.”
Novell and Microsoft Technical Collaboration
On the 2nd November 2006 Novell and Microsoft announced a new working partnership aimed to deliver a new collaborative effort that will help their products work better together. Telamon, as both a Microsoft Gold Partner and a Novell Platinum Partner, believe this new direction by both vendors will ensure customers can continue to select the best technology that meets their own individual needs.
Under the new agreement Novell and Microsoft have broadly agreed to collaborate on three main technology areas;
- Virtualisation - As one of the fastest growing technologies in the IT market today, Microsoft and Novell have agreed to jointly develop a virtualisation offering for Linux and Windows. Telamon already deliver virtualisation solutions and currently assist customers with server consolidation and proof of concept environments using emerging virtualisation strategies. Telamon will now also be able to help customers realise the potential savings virtualised environments offer, with the significant benefit of native, comprehensive vendor support.
- Web Services and Server Management - Where customers need to deploy both Microsoft Windows and SUSE Linux Enterprise environments, this new imitative is aimed at improving overall software interoperability. Telamon already assists customers deploy and manage mixed environments, and expect this imitative to further assist in selecting and deploying best of breed technologies into the future.
- Office format compatibility - The adoption of both Open Office and Microsoft Office presents a challenge today in terms of file format. Novell and Microsoft have agreed to work together to tackle these issues and deliver translators which will improve the experience when working with both Office solutions. Telamon will help customers understand how this interoperability can be achieved and the opportunities it presents.
Telamon understand that customers need solutions that meet their own individual needs, and with our long-standing relationships with Novell, Microsoft and other selected partners we are ideally positioned to help you benefit from this significant announcement now, and into the future.
If you have any questions on how this agreement may impact your organisation, or how Telamon can help you achieve the benefits it provides please contact us on 0870 607 4747.
Telamon strengthen relationship with Quest
Telamon are extremely pleased to have achieved Quest Certified Consulting Partner Status. This demonstrates our commitment to maintaining the highest levels of Vendor accreditation. In a very competitive workplace we believe striving to be the best helps to ensure that Telamon stand out from the crowd and provide our customers with the very best in Consulting and Services around Quest and other major vendor technologies.
"When working with best of breed technologies, it is important to us and our customers that we are leaders in our chosen field" says Steve Derbyshire, MD of Telamon.
Any customers wanting to know more about the Quest products and and the solutions Telamon can deliver should contact Telamon on 0870 607 4747 or email information@telamon.co.uk .
Telamon Services and Solutions now available through GCat & Catalist
Telamon Systems Limited (Telamon) is pleased to announce that we can now provide Services, Solutions, Hardware and Software through the official GCat/Catalist channel.
Telamon has become an approved GCat sub-contractor through a strategic partnership with PC World Business, meaning that we are able to work with our Health Service, Local Government and Central Government customers through this route in addition to our other channels.
Telamon is a Microsoft Gold Managed Partner and a Novell Platinum Partner; and for the past 11 years we have been providing our customers with the very highest level of IT Solutions and Services.
Telamon is one of only a handful of organisations in the UK to hold both the Microsoft Gold Managed Partner and Novell Platinum Partner status. Telamon's core skills are in the areas of Systems Integration; Migration Services; Identity Management; Messaging and Collaboration; Mobile and Remote Working; Remote Network Monitoring and Support; Storage and Enterprise Backup; and Security and Disaster Recovery. We also hold accreditations from Citrix, Quest, BridgeHead Software, Dot-Hill and Syncsort.
We deliver services and solutions throughout the UK to organisations varying in size from 100 to 12,000 users and who span a variety of industry sectors. We are specialists in the areas of Identity Management and Remote Working; working closely with both Microsoft and Novell technologies in these fields.
Infrastructure Optimisation One Day Workshops
IT Infrastructure is a strategic asset and the critical foundation upon which software can deliver services and user applications that a business needs in order to operate effectively and succeed. For many organizations growth and rapid developments in new technologies have resulted in data centre and desktop infrastructures that are overly complex, inflexible and difficult to manage with built-in costs that are not only high but somewhat fixed, regardless of changing business requirements.
According to Analysts more than 70 percent of a typical IT budget is spent on infrastructure such as servers, operating systems, storage and networking. Add to this the need to refresh and manage desktop and mobile devices and you have a unique set of challenges for IT infrastructure to face.
Telamon and Microsoft recently held the first in a series of one day workshops with several of our customers. During the day we discussed Infrastructure Optimisation and how using this model as a framework enables organisations to understand the strategic value and business benefits of moving from a “basic” level of maturity towards a more “dynamic” use of IT. As organisations progress through the various stages of maturity the value of the IT infrastructure becomes more clearly understood and the IT infrastructure (and the IT department) starts to be viewed as a strategic business asset and business enabler.
The workshop also delivered an update on associated technologies from Microsoft and services from Telamon that you can use to assist you in developing your IT infrastructure as a strategic asset.
Topics covered included Introduction to Infrastructure Optimisation; Operational efficiency; Zero-touch deployment; Avoiding the avoidable; Thin client computing; Identity and Access Management; Security; Federation and Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)
If you feel your organisation could benefit from a similar session or you would like a one-to-one consultation on any of these issues contact us on 0870 607 4747 or click here to have someone contact you today.
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