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Waterstons completes Swiss contract

A Durham IT firm has been enlisted by petrol giant Petroplus to improve the infrastructure at its European headquarters in Switzerland.

Waterstons, has worked with the UK arm of Petroplus since 1999 and after building a solid relationship with the multinational.

It has now been employed to complete a server virtualisation project at the company’s European headquarters in Zug, Switzerland.

Founding director Sally Waterston said “We have worked with Petroplus in the UK for a number of years, we consider it to be a privilege that we were asked to work for such a prestigious client at their European headquarters.”

Virtualisation involves taking multiple servers and bringing them together to run from only one physical host server.

Petroplus can now increase its server capacity quickly and easily with minimal additional cost, as required, because the virtual infrastructure is much more flexible than traditional physical servers.

The infrastructure put in place by Waterstons also eliminates single points of failure in order to ensure that in the event of a hardware problem Petroplus could continue to operate without interruption.

Following the successful migration of development and test versions of Petroplus’ key systems, multiple live systems were moved to the same virtual solution.

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