Johannesburg, 29 Oct 2009
Great Basin Gold, a mining company engaged in the development and exploration of gold properties, has appointed IT systems, software, hardware and consulting services provider, Datacentrix, as its sole IT provider.
Great Basin Gold is currently in late stage development at two projects in the world's two most well known gold producing regions, with a substantial resource base of 12.4 million ounces in the measured and indicated category.
The Hollister project is located on the Carlin Trend, in Nevada, USA, and the Burnstone project is located about 80km southeast of Johannesburg and just east of Balfour, Mpumalanga.
The company is currently revitalising its technology with the assistance of Datacentrix, an extensive undertaking ranging from the design of a Cisco network backbone, to be executed next year, to the current implementation of HP ProCurve switches on its Virtual Private Network (VPN).
"Great Basin Gold also recently qualified for a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, a comprehensive Microsoft Volume Licensing programme designed for enterprise organisations with 250 or more desktop PCs that wants to standardise on the latest Microsoft technology," explains Quintin Koegelenberg, account manager at Datacentrix.
"Furthermore, the organisation is in the process of building a disaster recovery (DR) site, which will be internally managed at its Balfour mine, with the assistance of Datacentrix. Great Basin Gold has also entered into a service level agreement with Datacentrix covering all of its existing and new equipment, from servers to desktops."
According to Steven Jacobs, group IT manager at Great Basin Gold, the organisation is on a drive to standardise on HP equipment. "Based on our previous good experiences with HP equipment, as well as its cost-effectiveness, we made the decision to standardise on these solutions moving forward.
"Datacentrix has an extensive skills base covering all the equipment we want to implement - from Cisco and HP to Microsoft - so their appointment as our exclusive partner made a lot of sense," Jacobs explains. "We really wanted a one-stop-shop and Datacentrix's proven experience made them the clear choice of partner."
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