E-safety at BETT 2011

Day 1 feedback from our team at BETT 2011 has been fantastic. Yesterday was a very positive day with a large number of meetings and the launch of Redstor e-safety has been extremely well received by our education partners.

Prior to BETT 2011, The Guardian ran an article on e-safety and safeguarding which references the launch of Redstor e-safety at BETT 2011.

"And Redstor, a managed services provider, has teamed up with Securus on a new e-safety service for local authority networks. It flags up child protection and behavioural issues, such as the use of proxy bypass sites, as well as key words indicating self-harm and drugs."

If you wish to find out more about Redstor e-safety then you can either visit us on stand U23 at BETT this week or call our Main Office on +44 118 951 5200.

Redstor launches e-safety service

Redstor are pleased to formally announce the launch of our new e-safety service. We are looking forward to discussing this in depth with our education channel partners at BETT show this week, where we have a record high number of appointments and meetings.

Redstor, a leading managed services, cloud storage and IT solutions provider, has today launched a new e-Safety service. Redstor e-Safety will be available to Local Authority and education IT service providers in the UK to help schools protect against the rising threat of cyber bullying.

Redstor will continue to work through its vast network of partners and build upon relationships with over 85 Local Authorities and education service providers to provide this new e-safety service to schools and educational establishments.

Redstor e-Safety, powered by Securus, will ensure a safe online working environment for pupils and teachers by capturing ICT issues and misuse. The service identifies and captures incidents such as cyberbullying, access to harmful web sites, the un-safe or inappropriate use of email, computer programs and online applications.

The launch of Redstor e-Safety comes at a time when Ofsted has highlighted Internet safety and the importance of safeguarding against online bullying and cyber abuse while providing pupils with increased access to Internet based technologies.

The new service captures child protection and behavioral issues such as the use of proxy bypass sites, contact with strangers, inappropriate content uploaded to a school’s network as well as key words indicating self-harm and drugs.

Paul Evans, Managing Director at Redstor, said: “Redstor e-Safety allows pupils and staff to feel more confident about using new technologies, safe in the knowledge the ICT network is monitored and protected.”

Evans continues, “Ofsted has stated that Headteachers must meet a legal duty of care to protect pupils and staff and provide a safe learning environment yet without monitoring technology many schools are unaware if a pupil is at risk on-line. Redstor e-Safety allows Schools and ICT service providers to safely manage any schools ICT network, providing a constant vigil for pupils and staff.”

Intrigued? Redstor will be at stand U23 at BETT, where we will be happy to answer your questions.

Not Just Online Backup

We have seen phenomenal growth on our online storage platform due to the success of our branded ‘cloud’ service offerings and through empowering service providers to quickly and cheaply generate new income streams. Our online platform, hosting many hundreds of terabytes of data, spanning two sites and supporting many thousands of customers has given us our own challenges, the same challenges our customers face regarding their data storage infrastructure – from a users perspective, how do you keep the infrastructure secure, available at all times and without disruption, and from a business perspective, how do you keep pace with growing business needs, make it easy to manage, make it scaleable and at the same time, drive out cost.

Redstor has a successful history of advising our customers how to do just that and for the last 5 years we have been practising what we preach managing our online platform! Many of our customers have forgotten and in some cases don’t even know, the breadth of experience and skills Redstor have and that we are not just one of the largest on-line service providers in the UK, we are in fact an end-to-end storage infrastructure solutions provider. We offer our advice and guidance on all data storage, protection, management, business continuity and disaster recovery needs and offer a complete range of best-of-breed technology, services and solutions.

Our partnerships with global, leading and innovative technology vendors, coupled with over 12 years of data experience and an in-depth understanding of the processes and procedures required to make solutions work, make Redstor a leading provider of storage infrastructure solutions. And, if you don’t want to manage the environment yourself, Redstor offers a complete range of remote managed backup and storage services as well!

With Redstor we offer the best choice, we can help you build it yourself or you can take it from our ‘cloud’.

Do you want to quickly generate a new revenue stream?

The Redstor Protector ‘Cloud’ Service allows you to quickly generate a new revenue stream. Redstor provides all the technology infrastructure and marketing support you need to rapidly take to market the most comprehensive and secure data protection and recovery solution available. Redstor Protector is a unique service designed to be offered by Service Providers and includes:

• Policy-driven desktop and laptop backup and recovery
• At rest AES encryption
• Remote data delete
• Port access control
• Device trace

If you are a Service Provider, Redstor Protector represents a unique service proposition for your customers and will give your organisation a competitive edge by offering differentiated functionality - Redstor Protector combines 5 best-of-breed components into one powerful solution.

Grow your organisation during these challenging times as a Redstor Services Partner. Redstor provides its ‘cloud’ experience and everything you need to take the service to your customers and quickly generate a new recurring income stream with minimal cost of entry:

• No infrastructure costs and low operating overheads
• Built on solid, proven award winning technology
• Designed to generate recurring revenues
• Simple sign up process for you and your customers
• Keeps support calls to a minimum
• Extend your brand and create customer loyalty with re-branding options
• Extensive sales tools and customer facing collateral that can be re-branded
• Built on Redstor's Storage Platform

Redstor have been focused on data management and protection since 1998 and have created one of the largest service provider enabled storage infrastructures (storage clouds) in the UK.

Contact Redstor now to find out how you can quickly generate a new revenue stream and GROW YOUR BUSINESS.

+44 (0)118 951 5200
sales@redstor.com

For more information on Redstor Protector click here

Dominic Anschutz-Redstor's New Operations Manager

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dominic Anschutz to the role of Operations Manager.
Dominic has an Honours Degree in Engineering from University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and then began his career in 1994 at Citigroup in London, England as an independent IT consultant. Since then his career has taken him across the world, working in Verizon (MCI), Barclays Bank and City of London Telecommunications. In 1998 he co-founded Turing Service Management seeking to deliver quality consultancy in the BMC Remedy market place. Under his guidance Turing became synonymous with quality consultancy within the BMC industry.Dominic has held a series of leadership positions during his career at TuringSMI and played a key role in creating the Global Managed Services Division. Rising to CEO, he built one of the largest Global BMC services organizations in the industry. Since then, Dominic’s leadership and passion for the Managed services have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. In 2007 he did an MBO of the recruitment division and started Resource Management Solutions a specialist recruitment firm with a radically new way of doing Technology placements based on product verticals. In 2009 Dominic merged RMS with ETICA and managed the strategy for SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, BMC and RFID resource management portals.
Dominic comes with a wealth of experience in dealing with the challenges of growing businesses especially in the managed services arena. Dominic has been brought on board as part of the management team to help lead the Redstor push into more Managed Services and continue to build the Redstor Online Backup and Storage Platform. In particular, to ensure that we continue to maintain and enhance our customer experience as we go through the next phase of Redstor’s growth.

Paul Evans