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High-tech startup ties down order from Smith Electric Vehicles

A GATESHEAD-based high tech start up has secured a lucrative order from Smith Electric Vehicles.

StormMQ has announced its first customer success with the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles.

Using two data centres in the North East and a massive array of machinery, the firm has developed a ‘cloud based service’ to help put Gateshead on the map for enterprise software manufacturers.

StormMQ was selected after Smith Electric sought independent consultancy to help solve the challenge of collecting maintenance data from commercial vehicle fleets.

This US$1.6b market is currently dominated by the huge US software houses such as IBM and Tibco.

This new application will need to handle a very large and sustained flow of data and StormMQ was awarded the contract.

“The sheer volume of messages and the requirement to scale up quickly as we roll out more vehicles to customers around the world was a significant issue,” said Robin Mackie, CTO of Smith Electric.

“To develop and run our own multi server messaging queue in house would have been extremely expensive and we would still need to expand it in subsequent years as our business is growing very quickly.”

“We sought independent expert advice and the recommendation was that StormMQ was potentially the only platform that could both meet our requirement and more importantly, we could evaluate it and deploy extremely quickly.”

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