Convergence Group are delighted to be working with ACS, supplying connectivity to their new state-of-the-art data centre in Telford which opened on 4th March 2010. 
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The new £2million facility located in Telford combines leading edge technology with environmentally focused infrastructure. An estimated 70 per cent of energy cost savings alone can be made within the first year.

ACS have chosen Convergence Group as its provider of choice for data network provision for the extensive product portfolio and cost savings offered to customers. Convergence Group leverages relationships with the main Tier 1 carriers to deliver the most appropriate and costs effective solutions. Steve Rowland, Commercial Director “Convergence Group is proud to be working with ACS on this innovatively designed data centre. This service enhances an already comprehensive product portfolio and offers scalability, whilst at the same time offering substantial cost savings.”

For more information please contact our Sales department on 0845 270 2709 or at sales@convergencegroup.co.uk.

For more information on ACS please follow the link below....

http://www.acs-ito.co.uk/news-green-data-centre

BT Wholesale Convergence Group (Networks) Ltd has selected BT Wholesale as its preferred supplier of data services in a deal worth £10 million over five years. The agreement will enable Convergence to improve the level of service it offers existing customers and deliver an enhanced IP-based product portfolio, expanding its reach to small and media sized businesses.

Convergence will benefit from access to BT Wholesale’s extensive national Ethernet footprint, which runs over 21CN and now totals 782 nodes, providing the widest coverage in the UK. By selecting BT, Convergence is improving its Ethernet network capability and consolidating its leased line and Ethernet supply chain, enabling it to simplify its delivery process.

Neal Harrison, Managing Director, Convergence Group, said: “As a growing organisation Convergence Group absolutely needs a consistent, reliable supplier who can meet our growing bandwidth and access requirements comfortably with minimum effort. BT Wholesale’s Ethernet product is replacing the ‘access method’ for the vast majority of our products and is putting us in the position of being able to offer cost effective, high bandwidth, flexible customer solutions including VPLS, Internet Access and point-to-point connections.”

Colin Annette, client director, BT Wholesale, said: “We are delighted that Convergence has chosen BT Wholesale as a key partner to grow its business. With the largest UK Ethernet reach we can take Convergence nearer to the end customer, reducing access costs and placing both BT and Convergence in a more competitive place in the market. Through our 21CN network we are enabling Convergence to continue to provide innovative network solutions well into the future”

As the biggest player in the industry, BT Wholesale provides improved cost efficiency, versatility and scale as well as its capability of providing managed services to the UK’s largest communications providers, to its channel customers. This expertise, coupled with the widest voice, broadband and data portfolio in the industry has seen BT Wholesale grow the value of its channel business contracts by more than 80% in the last two years.

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Masstock Arable, the UK's leading R&D-led supplier of agronomy advice and farm consultancy services has appointed network solution expert Convergence Group to manage an effective and efficient Network solution for all of its eight major regional sites and twenty-one local depots.

The farming community rely upon Masstock Arable for advice and support. The company’s unique approach allows local advisers to call upon in-house specialists to provide customers with the widest range of arable products and advanced technical expertise to support farmers’ needs.  With such an important and often time critical support structure, Masstock Arable needed a more responsive and proactive partner to manage its Private Data Network as its previous infrastructure was not meeting the challenge of an ever more demanding customer base.

Convergence Group was tasked with providing a solution that would provide a better level of customer support, optimise performance, integrate across the entire organisation and offer future flexibility and scalability.  After a full audit of the current network, the design, configuration and procurement process took place and a network infrastructure was agreed and implemented. The new system delivers inter-site connectivity over a private high performance network and is managed 24x7, 365 days a year.  It works within strict performance and SLA parameters and delivers  a real-time back-up solution for every single location.

Richard Price, Head of IT for Masstock Arable, commented “Convergence Group was selected because of its proven track record, its commitment to clients and its comprehensive support package which is critical for our business. Convergence demonstrated an understanding of our requirements from a commercial as well as a technical point of view.”

Neal Harrison, commercial director of Convergence Group explains:
”We offer a transparent and consistent level of service to all our clients and our support package is fully comprehensive. By working closely with Masstock Arable we were able to offer the best possible IT solution and ensure that the networks supplied met the exact needs of its business.”

Convergence Group is a data network provider offering a complete communication network service to national and international organisations via multi-vendor/supplier relationships. This offering is enhanced and supported by Convergence Group’s own technical and engineering skill set, network management systems, infrastructure and a full range of consultancy and professional services. The Group combines best value products with industry-leading service to provide the most appropriate and tailored network solutions for any organisation.

As Micheldever Tyres, the UK’s largest independent tyre wholesaler, distributor and retailer, continues to drive its business forward, it relies on a stable yet flexible IT network to support it.  Convergence Group, the network solutions group, has expanded the highly efficient MPLS network it installed towards the end of 2008 to include a further 12 sites, ensuring total systems coverage across the whole branch network.

The new network has been created by Convergence to enable the tyre company to continue to inflate its operations while maintaining continuity of service to existing sites.  The stability of the MPLS network also allows for future technologies, including Voice over IP (VoIP) to be easily integrated into the existing system without the need for costly and disruptive network alterations.

Working in partnership with the Micheldever IT team, Convergence has improved reporting on network performance through the introduction of its NetView service.  This enables Micheldever to accurately monitor the performance of the network at any given time and allows more informed decisions about upgrades to be made.

Commenting on the expansion of the network, Luke Claughton, Micheldever IT manager, said, “Flexibility and responsiveness of both the network and our IT partner has always been of paramount importance to us.  Once again, Convergence has demonstrated its ability to integrate our network quickly and efficiently and with minimum disruption to current operations – a refreshing change in the telecoms and networking industry.”

Neal Harrison, commercial director of Convergence Group explains: “We aim to exceed our customers’ expectations both in terms of what we can deliver to their network communication operations but also in terms of the levels of service we offer.  It is always our intention to partner with clients, rather than merely supplying them, and our continued relationship with Micheldever is evidence of the success that can be achieved through this approach.”

Convergence Group, the network solution experts, has launched an innovative new network infrastructure which provides comprehensive coverage to customers coupled with cost efficiencies.

The Inter-connect service offers customers access to a wide range of national and international supply chains comprising ‘Tier 1’ carriers.  These carriers offer a full product portfolio, including MPLS, Ethernet, VPLS, Network Hosting and feature rich application content management.

Using a range of private and public, national and international network providers, Convergence Group can build bespoke networks to meet customers’ specific needs and, through its close partnerships with companies such as Virgin, BT and Cisco, it is able to offer hybrid networks where a single supplier may not have the reach or capability.

The primary advantage to customers is total network freedom coupled with a seamless IT service, however customers are also likely to benefit from considerable cost savings and contract flexibility.

Neal Harrison, commercial director of Convergence Group explains: “We recognise that our customers need flexibility and we are constantly analysing and developing technology strategies which support our customers’ needs.

“Our unique partnership approach to customer relations means that we are well placed to anticipate the needs of our clients and able to develop services which meet those needs proficiently and successfully,” continues Harrison.  “We believe that our new Inter-connect service will offer unparalleled freedom and flexibility to our clients and it has the power to change the way they do business for good. It will deliver all the IT tools they need to compete effectively and efficiently in today’s tough climate, allowing them to focus on their core business operations with total peace of mind.”