Networking with Melbourne – a chance to tour our new Turing House data centre
One of my key tasks is making the business public aware of servers and their importance to enterprise.
On Thursday Melbourne had a fantastic opportunity to further that goal when it co-sponsored Simply Networking at Turing House– adjacent to our headquarters.
Our fellow sponsors were the ever-supportive Manchester Science Park.
Simply Networking is run by Mark Greenwood who has been organising and delivering incredibly popular networking events in Manchester for over five years.
The Turing House event gave Richard, a key member of Melbourne’s sales function, and myself a good opportunity to meet a wide range of businesses: many that might not have been aware of servers and their role in safeguarding business mission critical data.
Many attendees were from SMEs and might have thought servers “were not for them.”
Servers are tremendously powerful these days and a small business might use only a fraction of its capacity. With our virtualisation service Melbourne can ensure that one server can support securely the server requirements of a number of businesses. It also has the added benefit of conserving energy and so is a greener solution as well as more cost effective one.
The networking also allowed us to offer a tour of our new Turing House data centre as well as our well-established Reynold’s House facility, just across the road from our headquarters.
11 attendees took the opportunity to see over 2,000 servers in operation as the meeting closed. It also allowed us to show all the safety, security and energy saving features of our data centres.
Tours of the data centre are invariably met with impressed faces and quite a few questions – this time was no exception.
If we get a new sale from the tour: brilliant. But the key is that businesses are more aware of what data centres such as ours can offer and that message is pushed along by word of mouth.
If you couldn’t make it to Simply Networking and would like a tour please call me Steven Allan on 0161 232 0001 / steven.allan@melbourne.co.uk I am sure you will also be impressed.
Steven Allan account director Melbourne
