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Over the last few weeks, there has been an evident increase in media discussing businesses trialling remote working ahead of the London Olympics. 3,000 of O2’s 12,000-strong workforce trialled remote working on Wednesday 8th February to assess how the large company would cope if staff were unable to get into the office. This follows a government trial at Whitehall this week to reduce their impact on the transport network by allowing thousands of employees to work remotely or in flexible hours.
GGR Communications today announced it will now offer LifeSize® Connections™ from LifeSize, a division of Logitech. The new solution enables GGR Communications, a leader in Managed Networks, IP Telephony and Data Security to help business of all sizes throughout the UK unlock the power, productivity and quality of HD video collaboration through a simple cloud-based platform.
Mobility brings tremendous business benefits to your company. These benefits also bring challenges, namely, accommodating the influx of tablets and other mobile devices while helping ensure secure connections and performance. GGR have been a Cisco Premier Partner for 13 years, forming a close relationship and knowledge of their systems and technologies. As part of this partnership, Cisco requires partners to get customers to complete a survey on their customer satisfaction, providing scores against GGR’s knowledge, support, professionalism and responsiveness.
Having been associated with Saracens Rugby Club for over 10 years, GGR Communications continue to look at new ways to help the club and increase the business’s presence to fans, corporate supports and also the wider media. For the 2011/2012 season, GGR are sponsoring Saracens first team squad player, Jackson Wray.
GGR Communications have successfully implemented a Wide Area Network and Unified Communications solution for Worcester Community Housing, being selected as the partner of choice after a competitive tender process.
GGR would like to welcome Craig in the role of Network Engineer to their expanding expert engineering team. Working in the industry for 3 years, Craig joins GGR Communications from data center company Six Degrees Group. On Wednesday 25th January 2012, GGR's Double CCIE Managing Director will be holding a live webinar to discuss the ways of using the technology of end point assessment to ensure compliance with business policies for remote workers. As December begins, Movember comes to and end and the six engineers at GGR, along with thousands of men across the country pick up their razors with relief and say goodbye to those weird and wonderful moustache creations. Congratulations Greg Boot, Network Engineer, on completing and passing his first Cisco Qualification. The 27 races that make up Cheltenham Festival are the most eagerly contested of the entire racing calendar, with over £150 million in bets placed and 50,000 visitors per day to the course. Further to this, the Grand National steeplechase is one of the highlights of the entire sporting year, with a sellout 3 day event and over 200,000 people attending. We’re pleased to be working with the Water Services Regulation Authority, OFWAT. GGR Communications, in partnership with Data Power Limited, will be responsible for managing the complete contract including SLAs and support desk for OFWAT’s premises in Birmingham. We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Williams as Head of Sales at GGR Communications. Richard is an accomplished business manager with over 20 years experience in the IT and Telecommunications Market. We’re pleased to announce that in December Adrian Clinton-Watkins successfully achieved his second Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) in Voice As an existing member of the exclusive ‘1st XV Club’ the clear option was to sponsor a player. With numerous changes in this season’s squad, we chose Kevin Barrett, the player who best reflected GGR’s core values. GGR have incorporated WebEx into their working practices to offer their clients a more interactive support and maintenance service via WebEx Support Centre. Congratulations to Engineers Alastair Powney and Matt King on successfully completing their Cisco Certified Network Professional exams. This July, GGR has been awarded Advanced Wireless LAN by Cisco. This specialisation recognises Cisco partners for their knowledge and expertise in building and maintaining unified wireless LAN solutions. We are pleased to announce that in May we were successfully awarded the ISO 9001:2008 certification, which is a progression from the standard ISO9001:2000, following an audit by BSI, the National Standards Body of the UK. |
