ICO to join senior executives at the Prestigious Australian CIO Summit 2010, hosted by marcus evans Summits
July 26th 2010
marcus evans Summits, is pleased to announce ICO as a Sponsor at the 9th annual Australian CIO Summit, on the 2 – 4 August 2010, taking place at the RACV Royal Pines, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Australia.
With an increasingly challenging operating environment, the CIO faces multiple battles to ensure organisational competitiveness and sustainability. With technology advancing to new heights, greater possibilities emerge to change how businesses are run. A highly acclaimed event, the 9th Annual Australian CIO Summit 2010 is a premium forum addressing the top priorities of the modern CIO.
ICO has built an enviable reputation providing leading edge technologies in infrastructure and virtualised environments. Based in Sydney and servicing customers both Australia-wide and across the globe, we pride ourselves on our 99.999% uptime (backed by our SLA), superior triple redundant network connectivity and our immediate telephone response support by qualified engineers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no exceptions. We specialise in managing hosted environments and disaster recovery and offer services on both Microsoft and Linux platforms from simple virtual dedicated servers right up to fully managed clustered environments on either VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V where we host and manage the entire infrastructure for an organisation.
ICO representatives will have a number of pre-scheduled meetings. This selection process ensures that the attendees consist only of senior-level IT executives from the leading organisations throughout Australia and New Zealand. Attendees representing all major industries will include: Chief Information Officers; Chief Technology Officers; Vice Presidents of Information Technology / Information Systems and Directors of Information Technology / Information Systems.
The Australian CIO Summit (www.australianciosummit.com) attendees will follow a personalised agenda designed to maximise their limited time and to effectively meet their business needs and interests. The keynote speakers include: Glenn McGrath, Former International Cricketer; Adam Neat, Head of Strategy & Architecture, Asia Pacific, Europe & America, ANZ; Bernie Brooks, CEO, Myer; Hugh Banister, CIO, Santos and Rob Livingstone, CIO, Ricoh ANZ.
Lilly Pavlou, Senior Marketing Manager EMEA & APAC of marcus evans Summits commented, "We are proud to stage Australia’s premium CIO event. The Australia CIO Summit 2010 brings together the best of the best IT practitioners from leading organisations across a diverse range of industries. The involvement and support of our prestigious sponsors, delegates and speakers helps ensure our success."
Please note that the Australian CIO Summit is a closed business event.
marcus evans Summits (www.marcusevans.com), produces high level business platforms for the world’s leading decision makers. These dynamic and innovative forums initiate and develop business relationships one to one between director and C-level practitioners from the world’s most influential organisations and with leading product and service suppliers. marcus evans Summits guarantee an exclusive format which enables participants to achieve the maximum amount of business and knowledge interaction over a three day event in a stimulating environment.
For more information:
Lilly Pavlou, Senior Marketing Manager, Marcus Evans
Tel: +357 22 849 321
Email: Lillyp@marcusevanscy.com
www.australianciosummit.com
www.marcusevans.com
EarthSoft Selects ICO for Hosted EQuIS in Australia
February 22, 2010 – EarthSoft announced today the purchase and location of a server with ICO in North Ryde, NSW, for Help Desk and Sales and Marketing operations in Australia.
EarthSoft’s EQuIS software is the most widely used in the world for environmental data management, with many government and industrial clients, as well as most large consultants and all top labs. EarthSoft supplies free hosted "sandboxes" for all large Enterprise clients and now may better support these large Australian and New Zealand clients.
Established in 1997, ICO has built an enviable reputation providing leading edge technologies and services, offering expert support and an unparalleled track record of extremely high uptime (99.999% availability).
For the first seven years ICO concentrated on Dedicated Servers, however, in 2004 virtualization technology became a real option to add to their offering and they became the first web hosting company in the world to offer virtualization technology in the form of Virtual Dedicated Servers.
In July 2007, the business of ICO International Pty Limited (ICO) was acquired by the publically listed itX Group Limited (ASX:ITX) and has since been integrated as a business divisional unit. itX was formed in 1991 as i.t.connXions to provide value-added distribution to the Australian Reseller Channel.
Mitch Beard, CEO of EarthSoft "We selected ICO for their uptime record and also for their dedication to customer support which is unparalleled in the high availability hosting market in Australia. We know that at any time of the day, we'll be able to speak to a qualified support engineer who will be able to help us."
ICO subjects all high security devices to full security testing before they are deployed — including the installation and configuration of the Operating System, the disabling of vulnerable or unneeded services, and advanced vulnerability tests. EarthSoft sales in Australia grew rapidly in 2008 and 2009, and large Oracle and ESRI implementations require hosted web dashboards and sandboxes for testing, training and phased implementations.
Thousands of environmental laboratories, consultants, and other organizations processing thousands of electronic data delivery (EDD) submissions each year use EDP and Enterprise EDP. EDP checks many different EDD formats including AGS. Sample Planning Module automates the preparation of chain of custodies (CoCs) and bottle labels, with an included Completeness Checker. EarthSoft’s EDGE provides links to data loggers and sensors for the warehousing of real-time environmental data. EQuIS for ArcGIS Server provides EQuIS integration with web GIS reporting.
EQuIS is all .NET, available in both Oracle and SQL Server. EarthSoft and ICO are both Microsoft Gold Certified, certifying both companies provide state-of-the-art technologies and consulting services.
For further information on EarthSoft, please visit www.earthsoft.com or email info@earthsoft.com
For further information on ICO, please visit www.ico.com.au or email Rachel.Holden@ico.com.au