Medhurst Attains Gold Networking Specialisation with Hewlett Packard

Medhurst today announced it has become an HP Gold Unified Networking Specialist. The specialisation was awarded to recognise the company’s specialist skills and continued success with HP networking technology. The accreditation is the next step in a successful partnership with HP and signals that Medhurst has the HP-certified technical capabilities to provide comprehensive design, deployment and management services spanning the entire networking lifecycle.

“We are delighted to be awarded this Gold accreditation from HP. This accolade positions Medhurst as a leading solutions provider in the south, clearly demonstrating that the company can manage the increasing complexity of converged IT solutions and offer outstanding technical leadership in the marketplace. In order to reach this level within HP’s partner program, Medhurst’s team of consultants and engineers completed a series of HP courses, examinations and met with HP’s stringent codes of business conduct,” said Charlie Baynes, Managing Director, Medhurst.

“Medhurst’s Gold Networking Specialisation is a reflection of its commitment to using HP’s market-leading networking technology. Medhurst combines this formal networking accreditation with broader technical expertise and a customer-focused philosophy to best serve its customers’ needs.” Added Clive Allen, Regional Public Sector Sales Manager, HP Networking UK.

This award will continue to build on Medhurst’s current successes, especially within the education and SMB sectors. The Gold Specialisation indicates HP’s trust in Medhurst’s core technological capabilities – recommending the best-suited solutions to prospective customers; demonstrating the skills to expertly deploy them and having the expertise to manage them.

“We are delighted to welcome Medhurst to the Gold Unified Networking Specialist team and look forward to working in an ever-closer partnership with Medhurst, helping the company to continue to deliver class-leading value to its customers.” Said Michael Sweeney, HP Networking Partner Business Manager

Hewlett Packard’s industry-leading channel program recognises the skills and dedication of top partners, the Gold Networking Specialisation simplifies the customer’s search for expertise in the deployment of wired and wireless networks.

Medhurst achieves Gold Certification in Virtualisation from Microsoft Corporation in the UK

Medhurst, a leading IT solutions company in Hampshire, announced today it has achieved Gold Certification from Microsoft® in Virtualisation. To earn Gold Certification, Medhurst had to meet rigorous standards for Virtualisation competency, including revenue, service, support and customer satisfaction requirements set forth by Microsoft.

“We are delighted to have been awarded with Gold accreditation from Microsoft, demonstrating our expertise and competence in Microsoft virtualisation technology and solutions. With six Silver accreditations and one Gold, we believe that makes Medhurst one of the highest Microsoft accredited partners in the South”, said Charlie Baynes, Managing Director of Medhurst. “Our relationship with Microsoft has enabled our team to provide a high-level of support and expertise to our customers and we look forward to working more closely with Microsoft to further enhance the services that we provide, to ensure our clients receive the most competitive and tailored solution for their individual needs.”

“Partners with Gold status in competencies represent organisations (and associated individuals) that have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment within a targeted business solution area. Gold competencies reward this deep expertise and high commitment with benefits including tailored, competency-specific benefits based on solutions offered, and core benefits such as training, channel incentives, eligibility for a Microsoft named contact who will support the creation of a business plan to serve customer demand and help with sales efforts and a distinct Microsoft partner gold competency brand to differentiate our company, among other benefits. We are committed to support our Gold level partners by enabling them with the right set of tools, training and information that will help them delight our customers through leading edge Microsoft based solutions and services offerings that address the customer’s technology requirements”, said Janet Gibbons, director of partner strategy and programmes at Microsoft UK. “With advanced specialisation in Virtualisation, Medhurst has made an investment in developing their capability to deliver an integrated and customised technology solution today’s customers demand.”

The Microsoft Partner Network is committed to serving the needs of our partners and helping over 160 million mutual customers worldwide realise their potential. By acquiring the Gold level in virtualisation, Medhurst has demonstrated its ability to meet stringent technology and customer satisfaction requirements set forth by Microsoft in order to provide best in class Microsoft based solutions to our customers.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Virtualisation, Medhurst has met the requirements for attaining the broadest range of expertise across multiple technologies aligned to the competency. Microsoft Gold level status provides Medhurst access to comprehensive marketing, sales, technical, and support services benefits that will enable us to serve the technology needs of our prospective customers.

About Medhurst
Since 1986, Medhurst has been making IT work for corporate businesses and the public sector, delivering cost effective and flexible IT solutions and services to meet the individual business needs of our clients.

Medhurst’s mission is simple – to take away the burden of IT management to enable its clients to focus on their core business. Medhurst provides a range of tailored services and scalable solutions, offering clients the flexibility to choose the level of support that best suits their requirements now and into the future. This includes acting as the client's outsourced IT department with full responsibility for daily support or supplementing an existing IT team to provide additional expert project delivery or guidance.

With offices in Fareham, Hampshire and Frodsham, Cheshire, Medhurst prides itself on its accountability and first-rate technology services.

Further information can be found at http://www.medhurst-it.com/

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A Fond Farewell

Last week, the Medhurst education team was delighted to be invited to attend the leaving BBQ for Headteacher Alex Bostock of Clarendon Juniors School in Tidworth. After 22 years at the school, Alex is now looking forward to a well earned retirement.

Medhurst has had the pleasure of working with Alex and Clarendon School for over 10 years now and we'd like to thank him for his continuous support and wish him all the best for the future.

Happy retirement Alex from all at Medhurst and we look forward to carrying on your ICT visions at Clarendon!

Medhurst to discuss virtualisation at Hampshire IT Manager event

Medhurst, sponsors of next month’s Hampshire Network Managers Meeting, to be held at Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College on Friday 1st July, will also be delivering a presentation on virtualisation.

Medhurst staff will look at the ways in which IT Managers within schools and colleges can use virtualisation to provide cost savings as well as offer greater flexibility and hardware efficiency.

The business case for virtualisation is obvious; by simplifying the way computers handle their workload, they can work faster and for less money. It's a discipline that can be applied to every component of an IT network and offers companies the opportunity to run multiple operating systems on a single server. By also reducing the amount of physical space occupied by hardware, virtualisation can provide multiple opportunities for cost savings.

South Downs College thanks Medhurst for "valuable work experience"

Last week, South Downs College near Portsmouth invited Medhurst to a buffet lunch to thank them for the valuable work experience it has recently provided to the students. Medhurst worked with a number of the students from the college, teaching them how they could be better equipped for the workplace and introducing them to the career options available working at an IT company.

Charlie Baynes, CEO, Medhurst comments, “We were delighted to be involved with the work experience scheme with South Downs College and believe that helping young people to be better prepared for work in later life is very important. As a company we encourage the learning and development of young people and actively work to promote IT as career option. We hope that this work experience has helped these students to understand how IT businesses work and provided them with an ongoing interest in IT.”

Medhurst Education Seminar Recognises Importance of Virtualisation

Attended by over 50 IT and senior business managers from schools throughout the southeast, the latest Medhurst education seminar held at Microsoft’s Reading Campus in June, saw presentations from leading ICT education professionals from Microsoft, HP and Training Associates.

Microsoft education specialists gave an overview of the benefits offered by virtualised IT systems and how they can provide a flexible IT environment for schools, offering greater availability of shared services and applications across the network.

Members of Hewlett Packard's Personal Systems Group (PSG) and Networking Business team showcased the latest HP education solutions, as well as the current deals available for education users such as trade-ins and cash-back savings

Jeremy Gilbert, from Training Associates introduced the Government funded ICT apprentice scheme and its potential benefit for schools and colleges.

In addition, guest speakers Russell Stevens, Deputy Headteacher from Crookhorn College of Technology and Richard Markey, IT Director at Havant Academy provided an overview of their positive experiences of using Medhurst's virtualisation solutions and the cost and resource savings to be made.

Presentations from the event can now be downloaded from the Medhurst website http://medhurst-it.com/events.php

By organising free seminars focused on education technology solutions, Medhurst aims to help schools and colleges save money and meet tighter budgets. Information about future education seminars will be available soon.

For further information about any of the issues discussed at the event or to find out more about Medhurst’s IT solutions, please contact the Medhurst Education team on 01489 563000 or via email on education@medhurst-it.com.

We're recruiting! With an immediate start for First line Helpdesk Support Engineers

Salary: £20000 - £26000 per annum
Job type: Permanent

Due to expansion, we need to increase our support team and we’re looking for experienced and service-focused first line helpdesk support engineers to provide excellent IT support to our education and corporate clients, assisting them with hardware and software problems via phone, email or remote control.

You must be extremely attentive and supportive to all our clients and deal with each request professionally and promptly, as in many cases, we act as the organisation’s outsourced IT department responsible for its business-critical IT applications and services.

An excellent telephone manner is essential, alongside a good knowledge of Microsoft servers, MS Exchange, MS SQL etc. In return, we offer an excellent working environment, competitive salary and benefits, and a commitment to training and development for all staff in line with our accreditation as a Microsoft Gold Partner and Preferred partner of HP.

For further information or to apply, please send a covering letter and current CV to HR@medhurst-it.com