Case Studies
Here are just some of the ways we’ve enhanced New Zealand Businesses.
Silicon leads Resene Paints cloud transformation initiative
Since 2015, Silicon has played a key role supporting Resene on a journey to modernise its Information Systems, with a “cloud first” transformation approach. This engagement has touched almost every part of Resene’s business from its nationwide network of over 170 colorshops and resellers, to its Head Office – improving performance, resilience and service to its stakeholders.
With a fresh approach to platform consistency, as-a-service consumption of software and improved infrastructure service & resilience, Resene is transforming its business to ensure it remains New Zealand’s premium paint and colour brand.
“Silicon has helped Resene overcome a number of challenges, and really helped shape our transformation into a cloud enabled business, with far greater resiliency and protection.”
Tim Simpson
Silicon enables Education New Zealand with Enhanced Office 365
Silicon was engaged by Education New Zealand to migrate its local Microsoft Exchange system to Office 365 with hybrid Active Directory. Our extensive experience and methodical approach ensured a seamless, timely migration with no down time and minimal impact to over 250 individual and shared mailboxes.
SIlicon also deployed an Office 365 Backup solution, to protect ENZ’s Office 365 data from accidental data loss, as well as potential cyber-security attacks.
“Silicon’s migration of our email environment to Office 365 was a painless hassle-free process, topped off with the peace of mind that our Office 365 environment meets government requirements, and is well protected from human error.”
Matt PenneyBackup and Disaster Recovery Solution for Takeovers Panel
Silicon was engaged by the Takeovers Panel as a Managed Services Provider to advise on an enhanced BDR solution to mitigate the risk of data loss, ransomware attacks and natural disasters.
Silicon deployed a Datto SIRIS 3 solution, with on premise replication and Cloud virtualisation to protect against a range of disaster scenarios.
Silicon provides the Infrastructure foundation for the Catalyst Cloud, & develops Microsoft Server Images
Since 2016, Silicon has provided server infrastructure for the Catalyst Cloud – New Zealand’s most open and flexible public cloud platform. Silicon’s locally assembled server platforms provide the perfect building blocks for Catalyst Cloud to be able to deliver scalable and cost effective cloud solutions, enabling them to complete with, and provide many advantages over global cloud providers.
Silicon has also developed Microsoft Server and SQL Server images for the Catalyst Cloud – allowing them to provide an even broader range of cloud solutions to their clients.
“Catalyst Cloud is happy to engage a New Zealand hardware integrator like Silicon to provide the infrastructure for our cloud platform – we can rely on their quality, support and the level of communication they provide.”
Bruno LagoProvoke Solutions moves to a full Managed Services Model
With a 10 year partnership already established, Silicon were engaged by Provoke to deliver a full Managed IT Services solution. This includes Private Cloud Infrastructure, managed desktop and server support, PC as-a-Service, 2nd generation endpoint protection and Dark Web ID credential theft monitoring.
As a result, Provoke has improved support desk services levels, reduced costs and have mitigated risks across their business. This partnership has also enabled them to focus on their core competencies – ensuring they remain the leader in software development solutions.
“Silicon were the obvious choice for us when choosing a Managed Services Provider. Their solutions deliver improved service levels, reduced costs, and mitigates risk to our business.”
John Robson