NER Infrastructure Upgrades Benefit Customers

Network Improvements Provide Increased Capacity and Resilience for Services Offering

 
NER announced the completion of key upgrades to NER’s internal processing network and Print4 MPS platform. The upgraded infrastructure significantly increases NER’s capacity, provides for faster provisioning of services, and adds higher levels of resiliency. The completed project boosts NER’s business model of installing, testing, and implementing innovative managed services technologies with a reduced time to market.

“We invest heavily in supporting infrastructure to stay ahead of demand and to provide the optimal platform for ongoing development,” said Steve Oatway, President and COO at NER. “We lead the market in MPS program capabilities by staying focused on our requirements to continually store, manage, analyze, and present more data in the most efficient, functional way possible. Customers depend on NER’s SaaS-based solutions and managed services for business optimization; our investment ensures uninterrupted access to the best tools available.”

The upgrades provide a substantial increase in NER’s network capacity, and businesses that depend on NER’s services will benefit from improvements that include:

• Standardization on a robust VMware that quadruples processing capacity
• Increased redundancy removes any single point of failure to ensure availability
• Increased scalability accommodates future growth through dynamic processing and capacity upgrades
• Enhanced backup and disaster recovery plan that provides better Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

“As a business partner of NER, Atlantic is excited with the recent technology upgrades and infrastructure investments,” said Bill McLaughlin, CTO and Vice President of Managed Services at Atlantic, Tomorrow’s Office. “By utilizing a VM environment, NER consolidated the number of physical pieces of hardware, reduced any potential single point of failure, and created automated failover with resiliency and high availability. As a partner who utilizes their MPS technology, it gives us peace of mind knowing there is a scalable platform for long term growth.”
 
The latest network upgrades support NER’s Data Center Infrastructure Optimization Division and Print 4 MPS Division, which just released a version upgrade of their Print4 MPS Online Portal Nov. 8, 2013.