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London based IT consultancy ISN Solutions are pleased to congratulate one of our engineering team leaders, Nilesh Vaghela, on passing his Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA) exam today with a mark of 96%!

The high mark may be because Nilesh already has a great deal of practical experience in Citrix software solutions. He is valued by many of ISN’s clients as a consultant who can resolve IT issues and implement new IT solutions quickly, effectively and without fuss.

ISN has five other engineers who have gained the the CCA qualification, however Nilesh is the first to pass the newly released XenApp v5 exam.

For more information on what Citrix XenApp, XenServer and XenDesktop can do for your company, please contact one of our specialist solutions consultants on 020 7313 9900.

Congratulations to Tom Clowes, ISN’s senior support consultant, for passing NetApp’s Accredited Storage Architect Professional exam with a score of 90%!

This followed an intensive course at #NetApp UK HQ in Stockley Park where Tom was able to brush up on his knowledge of storage technology in general as well as learn all there is to know about the range of SAN and NAS storage solutions offered by NetApp.

This covered training on FAS2020, FAS2050, FAS3000 series and all the way up to FAS6080 filers as well as the core Snapshot technology which translates to easy data backup, file and volume restore (in seconds, not hours)and storage replication technology that is unmatched by any other vendor.

If you would like to explore how NetApp storage solutions can help your business, please contact us on 020 7313 9900 to arrange a demonstration, or come along to one of our short Demo Cafe briefings.

The annual conference for the EAGE - European Association of Geologists & Engineers - took place in Amsterdam last week - 8th to 11th June. A great opportunity for professionals in geophysics, petroleum exploration, geology, reservoir engineering, mining and civil engineering to get together for one of the key events of the oil and gas IT calendar.

As an IT infrastructure specialist for the Oil & Gas industry, London-based IT consultancy ISN Solutions partnered storage vendor Isilon Systems on their stand at the show. ISN have much experience of consultancy, design, project management, installation and support of IT and comms infrastructure for the oil & gas exploration and production sector.

With seismic data storage very much on the agenda and new applications for its manipulation and interpretation being showcased, ISN and Isilon where kept busy with interest on how best to manage the obvious storage implications, not just now, but allowing for likely growth patterns into the future.

Isilon’s scale-out NAS products offer unparalleled speed of access, uptime and cost effectiveness for storage of seismic data. Having evaluated the options available in the marketplace, we have been impressed by how easy  Isilon clustered NAS arrays are to manage and maintain. We have seen nothing that scales so well, while still maintaining extremely fast response times. Isilon’s product range includes solutions for storage needs from 5 Terabytes to over 5 Petabytes. Ideal for many geoscience applications.

Call us on 020 7313 9900  to tell us more about your storage challenges.

Congratulations to ISN engineers Alex Woolsey and Chris Territt who successfully completed the safety training necessary to work on offshore oil and gas facilities.

Both engineers underwent intensive combined OPITO approved training course covering:

• Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency Training (BOSIET)
• Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET)
• Escape System Training (Norwegian OLF standard)
• Emergency Breathing Systems (EBS)

Like other ISN engineers they are qualified to work offshore from the North Sea to the Tropics. ISN need to maintain readiness to work offshore at short notice to provide IT support and consultancy anywhere in the world for our oil & gas exploration and production customers.

This involves taking a snapshot image of a whole server (or desktop PC or laptop). If the server fails, the image can be used to recreate it the server on any hardware – doesn’t have to be identical - long as it has enough disk space and memory.

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