Redstor Online Backup Specialists, Grow and Move

Redstor synonymous with cloud storage and online backups have now moved into their new home on the Kings Road, Reading.

Following 12 years of growth and renting offices within Reading, Redstor decided it was time to buy their own premises and wanted a location which was close to the town centre and to Reading Train Station.

In November 2009, Redstor finally acquired what were the premises of the RAOB club in Kings Road, Reading, comprising some 5000 square feet. After obtaining a change of use permission from Reading Borough Council, Redstor had the task of turning what were club premises, including 3 bars and a skittle alley into a flexible, modern open plan working environment which the Redstor team would be proud of.

“We created a design brief to reflect the evolving nature of our Data Storage and Online Backup Business. In particular, we wanted a place we could demonstrate and showcase our Cloud Storage Solutions and Storage Expertise to our customers and Partners and a place where our team would enjoy working........” said Dominic Anschutz, Redstor’s Operations Manager....“As a result we needed a client facing data centre suite, training and meeting rooms and a flexible working area which would attract natural light, encourage open communication and be conducive to work”

Following the design brief a competitive beauty parade of interested companies to carry out the office transformation project was conducted and Morgan Lovell was selected.

“They fully understood our brief and came up with some innovative ideas and from our first engagement, they were extremely professional and meticulous” commented Tony Ruane, Redstor’s Co-Founder who was heavily involved in formulating the design.

“We engaged a local company to strip out the building and many of the old fixtures and fittings, including bar taps, dance floors, skittle alley were recycled and distributed to local charities, friends and family and local businesses who were happy to take it off our hands.....Following a 3 week strip out, Morgan Lovell took over the site and within 3 weeks had transformed what was a fully operational club site into a modern office which is now our home” said Paul Evans, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Redstor............ “We have been mightily impressed with Morgan Lovell’s professionalism throughout, from design all the way through to execution and handover of the building and now have an office which better meets the demands of our growing business”.
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Redstor at Norfolk County Council's ICT in Schools Conference 2010

We've had a successful 2 days exhibiting at the Norfolk County Council ICT in Schools Conference where over 200 delegates attended the conference over the 2 days. These delegates consisted of IT personnel, headteachers and teachers.
We had a great amount of interest in the online backup service with many schools talking about how painful their manual backups are and how an online service would certainly be of benefit!
It was good to support Norfolk Council as their online backup for schools partner.

From the good work at the Conference, we're confident that the ICT Solutions team at Norfolk should be getting requests for the backup service.

Redstor Growing and Moving

From the 22^nd March, Redstor, the Data Storage and Online Backup specialists are pleased that following 12 years of growth we are moving into our new purpose built home at St James’ Wharf Reading………..

Our New Address will be:

Redstor Limited

St James’ Wharf
99-105 Kings Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 3DD

Please update your records following our move from Soane Point.

More to follow………..

CentraStage SIMS-SQL Webcast

View the latest CentraStage SIMS-SQL webcast that took place on the 17th February in conjunction with Scott Baxter from Buckinghamshire Local Authority. The webcast discusses how Local Authorities can save considerable time, effort and money by automating their SIMS-SQL upgrade.

Buckinghamshire LA ICT support team look after over 230 schools. Over 80 working days have been saved due to time and efficiency savings generated through automation.

Using CentraStage has also resulted in reduced disruption during teaching time, reduced IT downtime and lowered IT risks, enabling schools to focus on teaching.

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

Redstor Relocating!

As part of Redstor's growth and expansion, we are pleased to announce that we will be relocating to new offices next month. The move sees the result of many months of hard work by various members of the Redstor team and we are very much looking forward to our new surroundings. Our first day in the new office will be the 22nd March. The move will also see the expansion of our data centre operations. More details on the move to follow...

Redstor Online Backup in the News

Redstor's Backup Service For Schools (RBUSS) was the subject of the following news articles.

Click here to read more about how Bradford LEA are using the Redstor Schools Backup Service.