News
- Graham Murray Joins Advent One
- Advent One named in CRN 3rd time
- Advent One's storage virtualisation breakfast seminar
- Advent One exhibitor at Pulse Event in Melbourne
- Advent One partners EverCompliant to strengthen its Risk & Compliance portfolio
- Advent One brings world leading Capacity Planning solution to Australia
- Advent One appointed IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Partner
- Tupperware Readies for the Christmas Rush
- Advent One named 19th fastest growing IT Company
- Advent One assist Hallmark to virtualise their Datacentre
- Growth in Business Solutions & Consulting Practice
- Advent One receives Two National IBM Business Partner Awards for 2009
- Advent One becomes a VMWare Enterprise Partner
- Advent One: IBM's Victorian Solution Provider of the Year 2008
Graham Murray joins Advent One to spearhead Northern Expansion
January 2012During 2012 Advent One will establish a Northern Region branch, based in Sydney, to service clients across Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane. Retiring IBM Executive, Graham Murray will lead this initiative for Advent One. Graham is retiring from IBM effective 3 January 2012. Graham has achieved distinguished Sales and Management careers in IBM.
Graham Murray joined IBM in 1972 in Perth, Western Australia as a Sales Representative. In his Sales career, Graham achieved 23 Hundred Per Cent Clubs, 3 Golden Circles and was IBM Sales President in 1978. He has been a Client Director for major Finance and Public Sector accounts including Westrail, TAB, CBA and NAB. In his Management career, Graham has held the positions of Director Finance and Planning, CEO of IBM NZ, General Manager, Finance Services Sector and AP Banking Industry Director. In addition, he has contributed to IBM and the industry through papers on Internet Banking, WTO and the China Banks and a partnership with Macquarie University for a Banking Diploma for IBM and FSS clients. Graham retires from his current position as Client Director for NAB which resulted in the signing of a major SO (Strategic Outsourcing) contract.
Advent One's Northern region business will build on the results generated over 12 years through expertise in IBM Infrastructure Solutions and in Fraud, Governance Risk & Compliance.
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Advent One named in the 'Fast50' for its 3rd consecutive year
December 2011Computer Reseller News (CRN) recently announced the 50 fastest growing IT companies in Australia, known as the CRN 'Fast50'.
Advent One was recognised as one of Australia's smartest and toughest technology specialists named in the 'Fast50' for its 3rd consecutive year. This acheivement came over a period of great economic uncertainty across the globe, and has only ever been acheived by 6 other companies, demonstrating Advent One's strength and position within the industry.
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Advent One's storage virtualisation breakfast seminar
December 2011
On the 8th December Advent One hosted a breakfast seminar where we explored the IBM Storwize V7000 and why it was voted the 'most powerful and easy-to-use innovative midrange disk system in the storage marketplace,' receiving the iF Product Design Award for 2011, which recognises leadership in innovation, design and usability.
The session consisted of a short presentation highlighting the features and benefits of the V7000, followed by a hands-on and interactive demonstration of particularly valuable features of the technology.
Our experts demonstrated how the V7000 can help you reduce the cost of your storage by:
- Improving scalability through external virtualisation and thin provisioning,
- Enhancing performance by intelligently aligning the storage with current workload and automatically and non-disruptively relocating data through EasyTier,
- Simplifying management through an easy to use web user interface resulting in more time for other business aspects and fewer resources being dedicated.
Advent One an exhibitor at the Pulse Event in Melbourne
July 2011Advent One sponsored the recent Pulse event held at Crown Promenade on the 27th & 28th of July in Melbourne, exhibiting its capacity planning and performance management solution Athene, in conjunction with other Tivoli solutions. Athene builds on the capacity planning mechanisms in place and uses the data captured by Tivoli, to further monitor, alert, analyse, report, trend and model data from businesses. It manages a variety of different capacities, including financial management, continuity and availability management and configuration management, to improve different sectors across the business.
Athene is a multi-platform capacity planning solution that provides:
- comprehensive performance management reporting
- strong statistical base for analysis
- strong modelling, and scenario analysis capability
Athene allows your business to spend more time using the data, not fighting to get it. This one tool manages all your virtual and physical environments and allows capacity planners to be ready for problems, be made aware of them and tackle them before they affect the business.
Advent One partners EverCompliant to strengthen its Risk & Compliance portfolio
June 2011Advent One has expanded its already extensive Risk and Compliance portfolio, with the welcome edition of EverCompliant. EverCompliant helps organisations to successfully meet their Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) initiatives.
Advent One, partnered with EverCompliant, is capable of delivering organisational compliance frameworks over IT systems. With platforms for large and small organisations, EverCompliant combines pioneering automation technology with intuitive management systems to help make compliance simple. The comprehensive solutions cover internal controls management, internal audit, operational risk management, compliance, IT governance and enterprise risk management.
Advent One brings world leading Capacity Planning solution to Australia
January 2011Advent One has been appointed Australian distributor by Metron and will be bringing the Athene software to Australian organisations to provide a world class solution to assist in Capacity Planning and Systems Performance Management Solution.
Metron is the world's leading independent Capacity Planning and Systems Performance Management organization. The company was founded in 1986 and has 350+ years of combined Capacity Management experience. Metron's flagship product, Athene, is the leading Performance Management software package providing measurement, analysis, planning and reporting capabilities for z/OS Mainframe, UNIX, Linux, Open VMS, iSeries, Windows Servers and virtual environments, with an open architecture that integrates with any framework or other solution for data input or output.
Athene is the world's most scalable Performance Management software for real and virtual environments with the Universal Capacity Planning Module interfacing with all third-party systems management products.
Advent One appointed IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Partner
January 2011Advent One recently qualified as a fully certified IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Partner. Leveraging certifications across Power, System x, Systems Storage, Tivoli & Infrastructure architecture.
Advent One brings to Clients a deep understanding of Infrastructure Solutions leveraging IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure framework. To succeed in business on a smarter planet - where the world is more instrumented, intelligent, interconnected, and the demands on your infrastructure are constantly growing - a smarter kind of infrastructure is needed. One that can help improves service, reduce cost and manage risk while accelerating growth in your business.
A dynamic infrastructure aligns business and IT assets to support the overall goals of the business while taking a smarter, new and more streamlined approach.
Tupperware Readies for the Christmas Rush with IBM POWER7 Technology with Partner Advent One
November 2010Tupperware Australia, one of the world's leading brands in home preparation, storage and serving products, has upgraded to IBM POWER7 technology in time for this year's hectic Christmas sales rush.
The new system supports Tupperware's web ordering system for more than 6,000 of its sales force, as well as its browser-based TupperNet system for 32 Australian and New Zealand distributors. The TupperNet system handles key business applications such as order processing, stock control, accounts and reporting. Crucially, it will accommodate the company's frenetic peak sales periods leading up to Christmas and Mother's Day, as well as anticipated future business growth.
With the rapid increase in business and sales force using the web ordering system to place orders, Tupperware realised it required more processing power and capacity to underpin its expansion. The increased demand on its web-based business applications also required a robust infrastructure capable of providing high levels of availability and performance.
With the help of IBM technology solution provider Advent One, Tupperware chose two IBM Power 750 servers, including one for disaster recovery, and six IBM System x3550 servers to handle the increased workload and capacity needs of its two web-based business applications. The upgrade of its WebSphere Application Server, which supports both web-based ordering systems, as well as the IBM i operating system to version 6.1, enabled its applications to run more efficiently and transactions to be processed faster. In addition, the company implemented IBM iCluster High Availability software to facilitate a smooth, rapid transition from the previous system to the new environment.
In the past three years, the number of Tupperware's sales force in Australia and New Zealand using the online ordering application has jumped from 1,850 to over 6,000. As a result, retail transactions on the company's web ordering system increased 40 percent to 75 percent, which placed increased workload pressure on Tupperware's infrastructure. In 2010, so far over 850,000 orders have been processed through the web ordering system alone.
With the new POWER7 system, Tupperware can process twice the number of web orders each day and reliably handle more of its sales force, providing increased functionality without any degradation in performance. The company can offer around-the-clock service across three time zones to customers in Australia and New Zealand with confidence, even during the busiest sales periods.
Con Sardellis, IT Operations Manager for Tupperware, said he appreciated the quick, easy migration from the existing system to the new IBM POWER7 system. "It was all completed in a couple of hours with barely any disruption to our operations," he said.
"This business cannot afford any significant outage. With the support of IBM and Advent One, the migration to the Power 750 was painless."
Gary Zuccala, Client Consultant, Advent One, said, "Performance is better, processing and response times are faster. Back-up times have halved so uptime has significantly improved. We have complete confidence that the new technology meets and surpasses Tupperware's expectations and builds on our close, longstanding relationship."
Con Sardellis said, "For more than 50 years Tupperware has been synonymous with quality products of the highest standard. When it came to selecting future-proofed, business-critical technology for our business, IBM was a perfect fit."
Advent One named 19th fastest growing IT company in Australia.
October 2010At a function in Sydney on 27 October, Computer Reseller News (CRN) unveiled the 50 fastest growing IT companies in Australia, the 'CRN Fast 50'. Advent One made the list for the second successive year, moving from 29th to 19th with annual growth of 53%.
Advent One assist Hallmark to virtualise their Datacentre
September 2010Hallmark Cards needed to store a significant increase in crucial point-of-sale data being sent in each day by major retailers for the business to investigate and analyse. It was also important to improve the productivity of the IT support team and reduce operating costs.
Working closely Advent One, Hallmark replaced its existing data centre infrastructure with an IBM virtualised storage solution. Using VMware and SAN-based storage, data was migrated seamlessly from over a dozen physical servers onto virtual machines hosted by three IBM System x3650 servers.
Business benefits
- Smarter, timelier business decisions using daily retailer point-of-sale data
- IT staff work more productively and efficiently
- Reduced operational costs
- Smaller physical infrastructure footprint
Hallmark sought advice from its British counterpart and Advent One and reviewed four options, which included a like-for-like replacement of its server environment as well as virtualisation.
Hallmark had already successfully collaborated with Advent One, a respected IBM Business Partner, on a separate project which involved a system upgrade to the IBM POWER6 system platform, which Hallmark used to run enterprise resource planning software.
"In reviewing the four options with Advent One, we emphasised the importance of price and a solution that was straightforward and efficient," says Allan Grover, Asia-Pacific IT Services Manager. "We'd worked successfully with them before, so we were confident they could design and implement a new storage system that met our needs."
With Advent One's input, Hallmark settled on a virtual server platform using SAN storage, incorporating three IBM System x3650 series servers, running VMware Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit, as well as an IBM System Storage DS3400 Dual Controller, IBM System Storage EXP3000 SAS, IBM System Storage EXP3000 SATA and IBM System Storage SAN24B-4 Express.
"Advent One's high degree of professionalism and expertise gave me enormous confidence that a SAN-based virtualised solution using IBM server and storage technology was the correct way to go."
In early 2010, Hallmark and Advent One moved the company's servers and systems from its existing infrastructure onto the new IBM platform. "With Advent One on board, the migration of data from the old infrastructure onto the new system went off without a hitch," explains Grover.
"Advent One's high degree of professionalism and expertise gave me enormous confidence that a SAN-based virtualised solution using IBM server and storage technology was the correct way to go."
Growth in Business Solutions & Consulting Practice
November 2009Advent One has strengthened its consulting capability with the addition of key resource with experience in both pre-sales and consulting delivery.
The Advent One solutions practice provides expertise ranging from IT strategy, business analysis, and project management through to deep expertise in the end to end implementation of systems utilising IBM Portal, Social Software, Information Management and SOA platforms.
Advent One receives Two National IBM Business Partner Awards for 2009
February 2010In recognition of an outstanding 2009 IBM has awarded Advent One the National Systems and Technology Power Business Partner of the Year and the National Co-Marketing Partner of the Year.
These awards recognise the dedicated efforts of the Advent One team and the value they bring to Clients through the IBM Systems & Technology Group Solutions.
Advent One becomes a VMWare Enterprise Partner.
May 2009Already a VMWare partner, Advent One has recently advanced to an Enterprise Partner in recognition of our continued investment in certifications. Our new partner status builds on our already existing strong partner relationship with VMware, and ensuring that our employees are certified and trained in the technology.
Building on the existing experience in design, development and deployment of virtualisation projects, our certification and partnership status ensures that virtualisation solutions are well tailored to your business needs.
As an IBM business partner, we are well positioned in being able to provide a full end-to-end solution, from the design, procurement, and deployment of physical hardware right through to the architecture, implementation, and migration of your new or existing virtualised environment.
Advent One: IBM's Victorian Solution Provider of the Year
May 2008Advent One has received one of IBM's highest accolades, Victorian Solution Provider of the Year 2008, for excellence in delivering client solutions.
Our team was delighted to learn that IBM had chosen Advent One as its best solution provider for calendar year 2007. Chairman & Founder Robert Bassat says that he is immensely proud of the achievement. 'This is solid recognition of our team and its ability to deliver outstanding levels of service to our clients. That's what we're here to do, but having our efforts recognised by IBM is very gratifying indeed.'
Graeme Clark, Managing Director, accepted the award on behalf of Advent One at the IBM Business Partner Summit.
