Fordway Blog

Hosting desktops and a critical regulatory portal for the Oil and Gas Authority.

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 26, 2017 4:41:56 PM / by Caroline Houlden posted in Fordway Managed Services, Cloud, DaaS, Web hosting, case study

With the online portal which handles the majority of its consent and regulatory activities becoming increasingly unresponsive, the Oil and Gas Authority needed a new secure hosting environment. After a competitive tender it chose managed cloud provider Fordway, which now hosts the portal and provides back-up and DR using its own equipment in two UK data centres. Fordway also set up and hosts a remote desktop environment to run business-critical applications which could not be supported internally and enables new applications to be added rapidly to meet user demands.

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Fordway's shared services help councils reduce costs and improve disaster recovery

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 18, 2017 12:38:50 PM / by Caroline Houlden posted in managed cloud, Disaster Recovery, shared services, case study

To meet the need to reduce costs while protecting front line services, Chiltern and South Bucks District Councils agreed to work together to implement a shared services initiative. They chose Fordway to design and implement a new IT infrastructure to support the initiative using a shared platform to streamline service provision across the two councils while enabling each to maintain its own identity.

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