Mason Infotech and Nottingham Rugby have introduced a scheme to enable local businesses to get the advertising and networking benefits of sponsorship, at no cost to themselves, while benefiting from cheaper phone calls and financially supporting the rugby club.

Under the scheme, by switching their telephone billing to Mason Infotech, companies benefit from calls that are typically 10% to 40% cheaper than their current deals, and always less expensive than BT. There's no need to change their phone number, and the switchover is easy and quick. There are no connection charges or hidden fees.

The profit generated from each deal under the scheme goes directly to the rugby club, helping it prosper in the challenging environment of the Guinness Championship.

Gary Rees, ex-Nottingham and England rugby player, said: "One of the key ingredients that will allow Nottingham Rugby to take that next step up the ladder of success is increased income generation. Although the cost of pushing Nottingham Rugby up to the level of playing in the Premiership and competing in Europe is high, the rewards for the city can also be high. I hope local businesses can get behind the club and support it financially, helping it recapture its position as a top-level team."

The hospitality benefits that companies receive depend on their level of spending with Mason Infotech and hence the revenue raised for Nottingham Rugby. These can include free VIP entry and a three-course lunch at every home game, match day programme and perimeter advertising, and hospitality packages at matches.

The new service has already been successfully trialled, and one Nottingham business that has signed up is the solicitors Fraser Brown. Paul Keegan, practice manager at Fraser Brown, said: "By simply changing our telephone billing through Mason Infotech, we saved money and helped Nottingham rugby at the same time."

Tim Sayers, chief operating officer at Nottingham Rugby, said: "Mason Infotech has been a valued sponsor of Nottingham Rugby over the last four years. This new scheme is a great win-win opportunity for local businesses to get cheaper phone calls and pull together with other companies to help the rugby club, while also enjoying access to hospitality."

Nottingham-born Stephen Mason, managing director of Mason Infotech, has been a lifelong rugby enthusiast, and at one point played for the second team at Nottingham Rugby. He now helps with the mini and junior sections at the club, coaching local children including his own two sons. He has also played club rugby in New Zealand and Australia.

Mason said: "Too many businesses are stuck paying over the odds for their calls, often simply because they haven't investigated the alternatives. With this new offer, we hope to help Nottingham firms get cheaper calls and a better phone service, while also helping support the city's rugby team."

Exponential-e, the Next-Generation-Network and applications provider, is supporting CCT Venues, a top ranking provider of venue facilities, with high-speed, fibre-based, business Internet.

The 100Mbps solution is available at all of CCT Venues and has already secured additional business for the events company from delegates needing world-class conference facilities.

CCT Venues provides high-quality venues for a wide range of demanding corporate clients. Their assignments may be short courses or be complex training programmes lasting several months.

Pawan Shastri, Head of IT, at CCT Venues, said: "A large investment bank approached us to provide facilities for their Graduate training programme taking place over several months. Each delegate needed individual Internet access. They came to us because the venue they had been using could only provide 24Mbps on ADSL and the bank had been forced to revert to pen and paper for what was supposed to be an online exam."

Exponential-e deployed its PowerNGN100 service to avoid such problems. CCT Venues benefit from 100mbps of high-speed symmetrical, uncontended Internet. Equipped with the service provider's Route 1^TM sampling algorithm, the service constantly screens multiple tier 1 transit providers to select the optimum route across the Internet according to the best metrics for latency, packet loss and jitter.

Shastri added: "We had previously been considering a 10Mb SDSL connection. But for only an extra £150 per month we got an extra 90Mbps as well as the peace of mind that comes with delivery using fibre. Fibre connectivity meant we could avoid many of the performance issues associated with copper solutions such as DSL."

Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, today announced that DFN (Deutsches Forschungsnetz), Germany’s national research and education network, has significantly expanded its network hub at the Interxion Frankfurt campus. The DFN hub has been based in Interxion’s high-security data centres in Frankfurt since 1999 and enables X-WIN, a high-performance research and education platform. 

DFN provides a high-performance infrastructure for the German research and education community, connecting over 400 universities and research institutions in Europe and other continents, and supporting the development of innovative applications. Since 2006 DFN’s national backbone has been the X-WiN, which is connected to the European Backbone GÉANT and is an integral part of the worldwide community of research and education networks.

Interxion provides DFN with a failsafe high-performance infrastructure, ISO 27001-certified information security processes, and direct access to over 150 network and internet service providers. The availability of so many different connectivity options ensures almost unlimited scalability and flexibility.

“Reliable, sustainable service quality is vital for a powerful network like ours, and Interxion provides us with ample power, a state-of-the-art infrastructure, extensive security measures and reliable processes,” said Martin Wilhelm, DFN Deputy Managing Director. “With Interxion we also have high bandwidths for high-availability internet performance, and we can connect with any of the major internet providers, as well as DE-CIX, Germany’s leading internet exchange.”

“We are extremely pleased to be building on our successful and long-lasting relationship with DFN,” said Peter Knapp, Managing Director, Interxion Germany. “DFN is a vital platform for both German and global research and education efforts, and Interxion is dedicated to meeting the high standards of reliability, security and availability they require.”  

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About DFN
DFN – Deutsches Forschungsnetz – is Germany`s National Research and Education Network. It provides a high-performance infrastructure for the German research and education community. DFN connects universities and research institutions and supports the development of innovative applications. Since 2006 the national backbone of DFN is the X-WiN. Connected to the European Backbone GÉANT, X-WiN is an integral part of the worldwide community of research and education networks. Based on contracts and peering agreements X-WiN is connected to the Global Internet as well.  The X-WiN is operated by the DFN-Verein (Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.) which guarantees its further use and development. DFN-Verein is a non-profit association established by the research, development and education sector in Germany to promote computer-based communication and information services. http://www.dfn.de/en/enhome/

About Interxion
Interxion is a leading European operator of carrier-neutral datacentres. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands, Interxion serves its customers from 24 carrier-neutral data centres located in 13 cities across 11 European countries. Interxion serves network and carrier-based, hosting, enterprise and non-profit customers who require professionally managed and strictly controlled physical environments within which to operate mission-critical applications and computer systems. Interxion’s data centres offer cost-effective and fast access to multiple local and global communication networks. For more information please visit www.interxion.com 

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London, 2nd July 2009:  Investment management firm Cazenove Capital Management has launched a new website at http://www.cazenovecapital.com/. The site was developed and delivered by IS Solutions, incorporating a new design into a template-based site structure for consistency and flexibility.  It has been based on EPiServer’s content management system, enabling automation of the publishing process and allowing content experts throughout the organisation to author and publish material quickly and easily.

The new site enhances the Cazenove brand by creating a more visually appealing look and feel, an improved user experience and greater depth and richness of content.   This includes extensive information on investment funds as well as on Cazenove Capital’s leading private wealth management and charity services.  The improved content has been made possible through the flexibility and ease of use of the EPiServer content management system and will help Cazenove Capital promote its services online to its target markets.

IS Solutions was responsible for the specification and development of the new site and the underlying content management technology. Both were delivered to Cazenove Capital to test, create the site structure and load content.  EPiServer training was also provided and IS Solutions is continuing to provide support to Cazenove Capital’s in-house team now the site is live.

Victoria Woods, Head of Marketing at Cazenove Capital commented: “This is a significant development of our digital platform and will give us greater control and flexibility in the way we deliver content to our target market.  EPiServer will also give us scalability and we are already working on a number of enhancements to our site.”

About Cazenove Capital Management Limited
Cazenove Capital Management is one of the oldest and most respected names in the financial community, tracing its origins back to 1823.  Today, Cazenove Capital is an independent asset management business, a corporate structure that suits the roles it fulfils for its clients.

About IS Solutions Plc
IS Solutions provides website design and development services for public and private sector clients.  The company’s solutions are underpinned by a full range of IT services for complete peace of mind and it also provides web analytics, content management, online risk management and security products from leading industry vendors.  IS Solutions is listed on the London Stock Exchange (stock code ISL).

For more information, please visit www.issolutions.co.uk

About EPiServer
EPiServer AB is the world’s fastest growing provider of Web Content Management (WCM) platforms and online community platforms. More than 2,500 customers worldwide use EPiServer CMS to create collaborative and attractive websites.  EPiServer CMS is the foundation for more than 8,500 websites and is used on a daily basis by more than 130,000 web editors.

For more information, please visit www.episerver.com

IS Solutions is an EPiServer Solution Partner and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

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