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[ News ]

18 March 2010 – HP and Oriel help WWF-Australia to virtualise IT for a lower environmental impact.

HP, in partnership with Oriel Technologies, has implemented a new virtualisation solution in WWF-Australia, to lower the environmental impact of their IT and deliver cost savings.

WWF-Australia wanted to take advantage of more energy efficient technologies in their data centre and reduce the operational and support costs associated with running a multivendor platform. This drove the decision to undertake a data centre refresh which was completed in February 2010.

“As a conservation organisation we wanted to lead by example, by using more energy efficient technologies that would reduce our power draw” said Paul Molloy, Chief Financial Officer of WWF-Australia. “Also operating as a not-for-profit, it was important to us to minimise the operational costs of our IT, so that we can put more of our resources towards our conservation efforts.”

“Legacy, multivendor environments can be difficult and costly to run” said Paul Robson, Director of Enterprise Storage, Servers and Networking, HP South Pacific. “By standardising on newer, more energy efficient systems, WWF-Australia will not only reduce their support and running costs, but will also reduce their power requirements”

Choosing HP for their fully virtualised solution, WWF-Australia replaced aged Sun and IBM technologies, with HP BladeSystems running VMWare, HP EVA Storage Array Networks and HP ProCurve switches. Oriel Technologies designed and implemented the solution and will provide ongoing managed services. Oriel has become a sponsor of WWF-Australia, in support of their valuable conservation work.

“Although we wanted to deliver a cost-conscious solution to benefit this not-for-profit organisation, we also ensured that Oriel and HP delivered a high quality solution that provided scope to grow” said Jake Wynne, Managing Director of Oriel Technologies. He continues “Implementing HP end to end provides a solid platform for business continuity and disaster recovery.”

Future plans include the implementation of HP Thin Clients, for a VMware desktop virtualisation solution, that will further reduce energy consumption. It will also enable WWF-Australia to more easily scale up their desktop fleet each year, to support the increased workforce needed for Earth Hour, occurring this year on 27 March 2010.

9 February 2010 – Nick Gifford, an Oriel Principal Consultant has released a great new book, Information Security – Managing the Legal Risks.

It covers information security, an analysis of the legal exposures that can flow from security breaches, and practical advice on the management of those risks.

Information Security – Managing the Legal Risks provides a balanced, multi-disciplinary perspective to what can otherwise be a highly technical subject, reflecting Nick’s unusual blend of experience as a lawyer, risk manager, information security consultant and corporate leader.

This book will appeal to professionals involved in risk management and corporate governance.

Now available from CCH Australia.

2 February 2010 – Oriel now partners with Palo Alto Networks to provide our customers with next generation firewall technology.

Why Palo Alto Networks’ next generation Firewall technology can help you.
• The emergence of social enterprise applications is making security more difficult to manage (eg. Facebook, Linked In, Twitter and You Tube)
• The risks of these applications include data loss, non-compliance, excessive bandwidth consumption, loss of productivity and threats to business continuity
• Palo Alto help mitigate these risks by delivering the only next-generation firewall that enables you to:
– Identify and control applications, users and content
– Prevent potential threats associated with high risk applications
– Implement granular policy based control

14 August 2009 – Chris Fydler, Oriel’s General Manager, is appointed Deputy Chefs de Mission for the Australian Olympic Team.

Oriel’s General Manager, Chris Fydler, a swimming gold medallist at the Sydney Olympics has been appointed Deputy Chefs de Mission for the Australian Olympic Team to compete at the 2012 London Games. Don’t panic, this isn’t a full time role, it’ll be business as usual until 2012 when Chris will take several weeks off to attend to his official Olympic duties.

Together with dual rowing gold medallist Nick Green who is the 2012 Chef de Mission, Chris Fydler and Kitty Chiller form a completely new team. The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) believed “it was time to introduce the next generation of Olympic leaders in Australia.”

“In Nick, Chris and Kitty we have three outstanding leaders who excelled as athletes and have continued in that vein in their business and private lives post their competitive years. We have no doubt they will make a major contribution to the on-going success of our Olympic Teams” AOC President John Coates said.

Fydler is a lawyer and a member of the Swimming Australia (SA) Board. He was a member of the swim team for 12 years and team captain for four. He has represented Australia at three Olympic Games, three World Championships and three Commonwealth Games.

‘Team’ Oriel has always been incredibly proud of Chris' achievements, and extraordinarily pleased to have such a multi-talented and successful General Manager. However, in the meantime, we’ll keep him well grounded. As Briony from Oriel jested, “For those that don’t know, “Deputy Chef de Mission” means Deputy Chief of Mission. It doesn’t mean they are sending Chris along as the team cook!”.

16 March 2009 – Oriel Adds a Rabbit to Our Virtual Herd.

There is a new addition to Oriel’s virtual herd of creatures with control 'issues'. Our flatulent cow with emmission issues joins forces with an overly friendly rabbit.

If you need to pull a rabbit out of your desktop budget hat, take a look at Oriel’s complete range of VDI bundles at our Vitual Herd site.

29 January 2009 – Oriel Achieves Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status.

Oriel has been elevated to Microsoft’s Gold Certified Partner Status, recognising Oriel at the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies. This achievement is an important milestone for Oriel as these technologies form a fundamental element of Oriel’s IT services and solutions offering, and will feature even more prominently as we expand our hosted solutions offering.

This certification reflects Oriel’s continued commitment to providing our clients with the highest quality solutions and support, by investing heavily in training and accreditations from our key technology partners.

16 June 2008 – Oriel releases ORIZON, our new and improved remote management platform.

It has been re-designed and re-branded, incorporating the valuable feedback and requests from our customers. ORIZON provides users with an improved user experience, additional features and the enhancement of information and analysis tools for Unified Comms, SAN Storage, VMware and Citrix environments.

With even more improvements on the way, ORIZON will continue to offer a comprehensive and feature-rich solution as part of the Oriel Managed Services offering.

25 May 2008 – Oriel elevated to HP Premier Business Partner, the highest accolade a HP Channel Partner can receive.

This was awarded in recognition of Oriel attaining HP Business Systems and Storage specialisations. Oriel has made, and continues to make, significant investments in training, certification and accreditation to ensure we always provide our customers with high quality, innovative solutions.

20 February 2008 – Wyse Technology, awards Oriel as the 2007 “Up and Coming Reseller”

Wyse Technology, the global leader in thin computing, recognised Oriel as the 2007 “Up and Coming Reseller” in January for innovations in the industry’s hottest area: VDI.

As Ward Nash of WYSE states, ‘the annual award acknowledges Oriel’s winning approach to VDI, which included extending their existing VMware Lab to incorporate VDI Solutions in addition to deploying a VDI solution internally.’

“Oriel is unique in one big way: they focus on VDI,” he says. “Not only can they clearly explain the difference between server consolidation and the virtual desktop… but they can also invite you in to see VDI ‘alive’ in the lab and can substantiate what they’re talking about from their own experience.”

Oriel’s Practice Manager, Rodney Haywood says the award affirmed the hard work we’ve done with our vendors to really implement best practices into our customer base. “We work with Wyse on VDI because they are best practice in thin computing... It’s great to be recognised by them for being best-practice in what we do, too.”

13 December 2007 – Oriel receives Avnet’s Solutions Partner of the Year Award

Avnet have distinguished Oriel as the integrator that best utilises a wide range of technologies to provide complete solutions for its clients.

"The solutions partner of the year award, is an award that honours innovation, excellence and a commitment to drive solution sales. Oriel Technologies is an organization that exemplifies the before mentioned, as well doing all this with a great deal of integrity. Avnet is proud to be associated with Oriel, and we look forward to being part of their continued success. Congratulations to the Oriel team in taking out this award for 2007," said Gavin Lawless, General Manager of Avnet Technology Solutions Australia.

Oriel’s flatulent cow continues to turn heads!

Our emissions campaign “Ain’t that the Truth” continues to gain momentum and international press. Amongst the latest, Windows IT Pro – a leading US site, humorously states our campaign “… serves as the inspiration for a hilarious flash animation that spells out the real benefits of using server virtualization, which you can view in its gaseous entirety on the Ain't That the Truth Web site.”

Whilst the US Information Week Blog notes, “Frankly, if Oriel's creativity is representative of international channel partners, I can understand VMware's recent push to expand and support the channel.”

[ Promotions ]

Oriel’s 20% Discount on FalconStor CDP Software

Want it more than once a day? Get continuous data backup and fast reliable recovery with FalconStor’s CDP.

Oriel can help yopu protect your physical and virtual environment with FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP).

• Backup and protect your data right up to the last transaction
• Reliably restore business operations within minutes
• Low-cost DR with WAN optimised replication to remote sites
• Disk-based solutions reduces or even eliminates reliance on tape
• Integrates with VMware virtual Infrastructure

ORIEL IS CURRENTLY OFFERING A 20% DISCOUNT ON FALCONSTOR CDP SOFTWARE.

Contact Oriel now or call us on 1300 662 695 for further details on this great offer!

Oriel Special VDI Offers and Pilot Packs

Being asked to cut costs? Desktops multiplying like rabbits and difficult to manage?

Oriel can help you with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)solutions from HP and VMware. We’ll give you the ultimate control of your desktops whilst enabling you to save money in the next 12 months.

SPECIAL VDI OFFERS: Oriel’s range of complete VDI Bundles, built on VMware's new View technology, can provide you with ROI’s of up to 63% in the first year, and 53% over 3 years.
(Bundles include: HP SAN and Server infrastructure, Thin Clients and VMware View software)

• Reduce total cost of ownership
• Improve security management and control
• Better business agility and user flexibility
• Extend the value of VMware virtualisation

OR TRY OUR VDI PILOT PACK
Take up Oriel’s VDI Pilot Pack offer and test VDI for yourself.

To find out more visit www.orielvirtualherd.com/rabbit or contact Oriel.

Oriel Managed Telephony Solutions

If you haven't made the move to Unified Communications yet, then you aren't experiencing the cost control and productivity benefits from integrating voice, video, data and mobile.

Oriel's Managed Telephony solutions can help you, from just $4,750 (ex GST) per month for the first 100 handsets, and $25 per month for each additional handset - conditions apply.

The solutions are based on Cisco's Unified Communications solutions, and include: handsets; unified messaging; voice, email and mobility integration; installation and management. Contact Oriel to find out more.

ORIZON Goes on Trial! Try our 30 day free trial &/or free set up costs & 2 mths service.

Do you know what is happening on your network right now? Do you and your team get caught up in the day to day IT issues and have no time for strategic projects?

ORIZON is a web-based application designed to provide a comprehensive and powerful IT Infrastructure Management tool that is cost effective, scalable, easy to access via the internet; and provides superior visibility of your environment, and the detailed information you need for informed decision making.

Oriel is pleased to extend to you two great offers allowing you to see how much value ORIZON and Oriel Remote Managed Services can bring to your business, and make immediate savings.

Call Oriel today to start your Free Trial!

HP Makes Consolidation Simple with Oriel

HP has chosen Oriel as a Preferred Consolidation Partner. For more information about how HP Makes Consolidation Simple <click here>
Contact Oriel today to find out how easy consolidating your infrastructure can be and what benefits it can bring to your business.

FREE* VMware Basic Consolidation Estimate

Thinking of virtualising your servers? Oriel is offering a free BCE service, where up to 25 of you candidate servers will be analysed. You will receive a report showing you how many VMware Servers are needed to run these physical servers as virtual machines (VM).

If you have more than 25 servers or require more in depth analysis of your existing infrastructure, Oriel also offers a comprehensive Virtual Assessment Service.

Call Oriel today to book your Free* Basic Consolidation Estimate

* Conditions Apply

Oriel and APC are offering a FREE* APC Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) Health Check

How reliable is your physical IT infrastructure? With so much focus on high availability servers, SAN's and solution redundancy it is easy to forget components such as power, power distribution, racks, cabling, cooling, security and environmental monitoring can greatly impact business operations and future expansion projects if they are faulty or not adequately provisioned.

APC's NCPI Health Check reviews all these components and provides you with an assessment of your current physical IT environment including any potential vulnerability points and recommendations to rectify them.

Call Oriel to book your Free Health Check.

* Conditions Apply

FREE* Data Profile Analysis

EMC VisualSRM software enables centralised storage resource management (SRM) for multi-vendor, mid-tier storage environments. Oriel utilises this software to perform a Data Profile Analysis on a subset of your storage infrastructure. This will provide a quantitative assessment of your current environment and may allow you to identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and optimise the allocation of your storage resources.

The following information is captured from the nominated storage host servers over a 24 hour period: Capacity and utilisation – files sizes, file types and categories, file age, file duplication and file ownership.

Oriel will then deliver a Data Profile Report which will include report summaries and recommendations based on the analysis of the above information.

* Conditions Apply

Unified Communications Demo Offer

Not sure what the benefits of Unified Communications mean for your business?

Let Oriel give you a tailored onsite demonstration of IP Telephony at work.

We will come to you with handsets and a fully working system that you can see up close. We will answer all your questions and show you the features of interest to your business.

You'll see why so many organisations are choosing IP Telephony over traditional PBX's.

Contact us for more information or a demo.