Headquartered in London’s Poland Street, and with a total of seven offices located throughout the UK, Centaur has extended its business in the last few years through the development of a number of highly successful Web portal and on-line information service brands.

With a broad geographical spread and multiple on-line portfolios, Centaur had two main requirements from Globix. Firstly, to provide secure and reliable connectivity to the Internet, and second, to provide a centralized hosting environment where its leading on-line services, such as Lawtel, TheLawyer.com, mad.co.uk, and e4engineering.com could reside.

“With an increasing requirement for a secure and highly available hosting service that provides easy connectivity, we were required to outsource a provider that had a fast global network,” says Ian Mortimer, IT Director at Centaur Communications. “We chose Globix because they had a track record of being reliable, fault tolerant, and above all secure.”

Centaur’s corporate access to the Internet had been unreliable with the existing ISP. Globix directly replaced the fully-managed high-speed connectivity, at the same time adding fully-managed firewall security.

Centaur’s existing hosted Internet services were with a number of providers around the country. Globix’ Professional Services worked with Centaur’s technical staff to design an offering that would provide a seamless transition of the majority of these services to a central facility. This was delivered through a bespoke combination of a Centaur-managed platform housed at Globix, and Globix’ Dedicated Server Hosting offering. Dedicated Server Hosting is a managed outsourced solution that is client controlled, and supported by managed firewalls. All the server hardware and software is supported 24×7 by trained technical staff within the secure and resilient Globix data centre environment. The Dedicated Server Hosting environment is linked directly to the Globix backbone, which allows for faster connectivity and an enhanced-user experience.