Says Wayne Richards, the IT Development Manager at Old Mutual Investment Services: "We are now appropriately positioned in terms of IT infrastructure to take the business into the next millennium. The IT management focus has also moved from that of reactive management to one of being able to focus on further competitive advantage through the active exploitation of innovative enabling technologies. I really feel that I am now able to effectively influence the bottom line."
Dimension Data Networking Cape supplied OMIS with a new resilient processing platform and networking infrastructure.
Compaq racks with fail-over resilience, as well as fully redundant networking devices were installed. Dedicated Ethernet LAN switching to every desktop was implemented using fast Ethernet to a Microsoft NT server cluster. In addition, a new Firewall was installed.
The massive undertaking was successfully completed over only one weekend, with OMIS up and running on the Monday morning after the move.
Advanced Cabling, the cabling arm of Dimension Data, were sub-contracted to supply the cabling infrastructure, which included voice and data cabling for the whole operation.
The OMIS IT environment is monitored from Dimension Data Cape`s new premises, also at River Park, via their Managed Online Network (MON) Service, from 07h00 to 22h00 and at the national MON centre after this.
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