Olympic Support News
Channel Sales Expansion - Olympic Support welcomes Philippa Radley
The last few months has seen an expansion in the skills base provided by Olympic Support. The latest addition to our team is Philippa Radley who joins the Channel Sales team as Senior Account Manager, a valuable asset with an extensive knowledge of independent service solutions for Sun, HP, IBM and Dell platforms, gained from over 10 years in the IT industry.
Philippa was the first choice of a management determined to bring future plans and strategy to fruition and when the opportunity to join us arose she had no hesitation in taking up the challenge.
She told us "Olympic have a dynamic approach to the market, great technical ability and a fantastic reputation, the drive and energy the management have is infectious."
"The channel delivery methodology they have is excellent, its well thought through, you can tell they have a real ear for exactly what the channel want, they are able to react quickly and get it to market, resulting in great relationships, something I hope to capitalise on"
Philippa added that a strong financial base and over twenty years of support experience was also a major factor. "Olympic Support have been around for 20 years, but have a very young mentality and an appetite for balanced growth"
Roger Taylor MD of Olympic Support is pleased with the appointment "Channel Partner relationships are the mainstay of our business at here, we work hard to develop an understanding of partners businesses, Philippa has great experience of what partners require and how to deliver it, she will be a valuable asset to the team, I look forward to working with her"
Olympic to support a leading French Bank with 100 plus UNIX Servers across Europe
For maintaining high levels of availability, perhaps no single industry tests support provision more than the financial services sector. With these institutions under mounting pressure to cut costs to maintain business critical levels, Olympic Support, working with a Channel Partner recently won a 3 year contract for the Europe wide support and maintenance of their enterprise network and storage infrastructure. The contract provided for high levels of availability, strong manageability, escalation and SLA.
Dutch Telecoms - Unix, Sun, HP Intel servers and multi-vendor environments maintained and supported across Europe
Telecommunications is now the basic messaging mechanism for all of today’s business and government institutions. The independence that Olympic Support brings to the multi vendor environment has helped a Channel Partner beat off competition to support a major Dutch Telecoms enterprise with service and spares for Unix, Sun, HP Intel servers. Covered by Olympic Gold, Remote Monitoring and Managed Services Provision.
Pharmacueticals Firm takes Olympic Support preferred service provider
Working alongside a channel partner, Olympic Support has been contracted to provide 24:7 maintenance to a leading UK Pharmacueticals Distribution company with a Sun and Solaris infrastructure, across over 20 sites nationwide. The reason our channel partner chose to go for independent rather than vendor support, "Sun were reluctant to support their Solaris 2.6 applications, so we came to Olympic Support due to their skills and commitment to Legacy"
Olympic Support announces record spending on training for HP Alpha, DEC, Sun, NetApp and VMware
Over the last financial year the training spend for Olympic Support Engineers increased by 300% in order to cope with advances in emerging technologies and as part of an ongoing commitment to Channel Partners to provide only the most highly qualified field engineers. A significant percentage of this was made available for a dedicated HP Certified Training Budget to support virtualised servers, software and troubleshooting mainframe-class partitioning issues.
