Academia

We supply software and licensing, hardware and training solutions to UK academic institutions and charitable organizations. These sectors have different requirements. We therefore have dedicated account managers that specialize in each. Add in our competitive pricing and the in-depth knowledge of our experienced, qualified staff, and you’ve got a one stop shop for schools, universities, colleges and charities in search of leading products and the very best service.

Accreditations:
Apple Solution Expert in Education.
Adobe Authorised Licensing Centre
Autodesk Education partner
Microsoft Authorised Education Partner

For a full list visit www.academia.co.uk

Apple

Apple in Education: Apple products inspire creativity and hands-on learning with features you won’t find anywhere else. And they’re easy to integrate into your curriculum. Once you do, you’ll see teaching — and learning — in a whole new way.

Apple on Campus: Ireland's leading colleges and universities have joined forces with Apple to create the Apple on Campus programme. With Apple on Campus, the goal is to provide students, teachers and other education professionals with our full range of Mac hardware, software and peripherals at the best prices.

Damovo

Damovo is a leading provider of Information Communication Technology (ICT) services and solutions specifically aimed at education customers. Together with our partner Extreme Networks we will be showcasing a number of these solutions - highlighting how new technologies around network security, automation, convergence and collaboration can meet the challenges facing third level institutions today.

These challenges include the ability to offer greater flexibility and location-independent study, providing secure network connectivity whilst enabling instant access to virtual learning environments, and commercial and environmental demands to decrease cost, increase revenue and reduce carbon footprint.

Digiweb

Digiweb is Ireland’s leading independent telecommunications service provider. The company has provided excellent service to the Business, Government and Residential markets in Ireland since its inception in 1997. Digiweb offers tailored communications and IT solutions nationwide including broadband access, enterprise data networks, data centre and web hosting services, managed services and virtualisation solutions. As a single-source vendor, we manage organisations connectivity & voice solutions as well as their data networking infrastructure. Our comprehensive service capabilities effectively cover business requirements end to end – from the data centre, out to the edge of the enterprise.

Digiweb Group has expanded with strong organic growth and also key acquisitions now comprises Smart Telecom, an Irish Next Generation Network (NGN) operator providing voice, data and media communications services. Digiweb and Smart’s multi-platform and wholly-owned national infrastructure uniquely provides digital communications to 100% of the Irish business and consumer population.

Enovation Solutions

Enovation Solutions Ltd. is a business and information technology company specialising in professional services and managed solutions. Our highly experienced senior management team and IT consultants have successfully implemented bespoke, third-party and open source solutions to a wide client base in the finance, government, health and education sectors. We are valued for our attention to quality, our ability to manage complex projects and our commitment to delivering on-time and within budget. www.enovation.ie

e|net

e|net is Ireland’s largest open-access network operator and the company responsible for managing the State’s Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) programme. The MANs enables 93 cities and towns across the country with an advanced technology platform capable of delivering cutting-edge communications and information services. e|net is uniquely positioned, as the only carrier-neutral, wholesale provider within Ireland.

eircom

eircom is Ireland's leading aggregator of innovative, customised ICT solutions that address the strategic and operational challenges faced by our customers, including those in the education sector. We have worked closely with HEAnet and many other third level schools and colleges to provide secure nationwide voice and data services, designed to take 21st century learning beyond the four walls of the classroom and support innovative education programmes for a growing student population. Our IT professionals will be on hand to discuss our range of Managed IT solutions including virtualisation, cloud computing and data centre services. For more information please visit www.eircom.ie

Eurotek

Eurotek Ireland Ltd provides a wide range of broadcast and audio-visual systems for the professional market. The company designs and installs broadcast systems for TV production, graphics, editing, and distribution and works closely with the educational sector to provide facilities for media courses throughout the country. In the Audio-Visual division, the company provides systems for Digital Signage, IPTV, High-End imaging systems, lecture theatre AV systems, and the advanced DNA content capture and management system for nurse training and other skills-based training environments. Eurotek was established in 1967 and has continuously led the industry in audio-visual technology and it’s applications. Our system specialists will be glad to discuss your requirements with you.

ESB-Telecoms

ESB Telecoms (ESBT) is Ireland’s leading independent telecoms infrastructure and bandwidth solutions provider. ESBT built and owns 1,300 kilometers of National Fibre Optic Network (NTFON). The network is constructed in a ‘figure of eight’ around Ireland and includes a spur from Carrick on Shannon to Buncrana. It comprises of 48 fibre cores and is wrapped on ESB High Voltage Network. ESBT also manages over 300 telecommunications towers and sites on which all major Irish telecommunications companies have substantial installations.

ESB Telecoms operates managed bandwidth services over its network. The fibre network has 16 points of presence (PoPs) around Ireland. The network is managed 24x7 from a Telecoms Operations Centre in ESB Head Office, Dublin.

Hibernia Evros

Founded in 1988, HiberniaEvros is an IT Managed Services Specialist providing a complete range of outsourcing, support and data centre services.
As a VMware Partner we are the Irish leaders in Virtual Desktop with some of the countries largest reference sites.
Our Managed Services Division provides a range of remote and onsite support services designed to keep your technology running.
Our Technology Consulting Division provides a range of advisory and technical implementation services.
Our IT Resourcing is a strategic resourcing service dedicated to sourcing high calibre associates for positions within the IT industry.

HP

HP is one of the largest multinational companies in Ireland, with over 4,000 people employed across its core business groups in Leixlip, Dublin, Galway and Belfast. In Ireland, HP is the largest IT and services provider to consumers, businesses and institutions and has been a leading player in the Irish ICT market for over 25 years. HP core businesses represented in Ireland are the HP Sales and Services Division; HP Inkjet Supplies Manufacturing Operation; HP European Software Centre; HP Global Service Desk for EMEA, and HP Financial Services EMEA operation. The company is committed to its R&D presence in Ireland and works in partnership with many Irish Universities including CRANN Centre for NanoTechnology Research (Trinity College), NUI Galway with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) and extensive funding for PhD student research projects (University College Dublin and others).

Interxion

Interxion owns and operates 55, 800m2 of colocation space within 28 data centers in 11 countries across Europe. As a leading pan-European provider of co-location and associated managed services, Interxion delivers a full set of services that allow more than 1,100 companies to securely house, connect, monitor and maintain mission-critical IT equipment. Interxion services start with basic co-location (cabinets, cages, private rooms) and range up to fully-outsourced data center solutions for disaster recovery and total operational resilience. Interxion Ireland has been operational in Dublin since 2001. In April 2010, Interxion expanded its data centre footprint in Dublin with a new data centre at Parkwest in West Dublin. This new site features the next generation of data centre design, showcasing many energy efficient features and benefits. As Interxion is a carrier neutral operator, the data centre also offers multiple connectivity providers and services in this high security building.

Learning Objects

Learning Objects, Inc. is a leader in social software for learning. Our solutions facilitate constructive interactions among students and instructors and enhance the value of an institution’s existing IT investments.

Campus Pack, powered by Learning Objects, Inc., is a social learning platform delivered via the Cloud (SaaS) that combines Web 2.0 technologies, including wikis, blogs,podcasts and social media templates, with any e-learning environment.

Magnet Entertainment

Magnet Entertainment is the consumer services division of Magnet Networks, which has to date, invested over €120m in Ireland’s most advanced telecoms network. Magnet Entertainment provides Ireland’s fastest and best value broadband, with speeds of up to 50Mb available. With Magnet broadband you get an individual broadband line to your home, so you’re not sharing your connection with any of your neighbours like you do if you’re with eircom, UPC or Vodafone. So there’s no more slowdown at peak times, no more buffering, no more frustration. Magnet Entertainment is also the only broadband providers to offer you an unlimited download limit and free TV on your PC or laptop (through their Magnet WebTV product). Magnet Entertainment also owns the largest Fibre Optic Network in Ireland and the UK, providing superfast broadband speeds, digital TV and telephone services.

MentecPlus

MentecPlus, wholly owned by Better Capital Ltd. provides Business Software Solutions and associated Support Service to a wide range or organisations in Ireland and the UK. MentecPlus specialise in 4 key areas:

1. Microsoft Solutions (MS Dynamics GP/xRM; Sharepoint; Software development)
2. Unit 4 Business software (Agresso Business World; Coda; Software development)
3. Technical Services
4. Project Managament

MentecPlus is commited to building superior relationships with all stakeholders and delivers successful projects by using a team approach with fully trained and qualified staff
For further information, contact us on 01 205 9797 or visit www.mentecplus.com

Microsoft

Fundamental to our Software and Services approach is the idea that customers are empowered with a complete set of options to ideally address their needs. We firmly believe that the magic of software should not be constrained to a particular delivery model. The Software and Services approach ensures that you don't need to choose between a rich client and a browser application that lives only in the cloud. You can have either or both. Education customers can have secure, reliable and scalable solutions that work across and combine software (On Premises or Partner Hosted) and services (Microsoft Online Services or Live@edu) - optimizing a consistent end-user experience via the web, mobile, or rich client.

o2

O2, part of Telefonica Europe, is a leading provider of mobile services, offering communications solutions to over 1.7 million customers in Ireland. Headquartered in Dublin's Docklands, and with a Customer Care Centre in Limerick, O2 has a total workforce of over 1,150 employees. In 2006, O2 was named the best company to work for in Ireland. In 2008, O2 Customer Care was named Call Centre of the Year, and O2 was also named Best Retail Employer in Ireland.

Telefónica Europe is a business division of Telefónica comprising mobile, fixed and DSL operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - all of which use ‘O2’ as their consumer brand.

Polycom

Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) is a global leader in unified communications solutions with industry-leading telepresence, video, voice and infrastructure solutions built on open standards. Polycom powers smarter conversations, transforming lives and businesses worldwide.

Telindus (with Juniper & Trapeze)

Telindus build and support networks for customers throughout Ireland with partners including Cisco, Juniper, ADVA, Extreme, and Trapeze. These customers include diverse organisations such as Digiweb, HEAnet, Marriott Hotels, Genworth, Oireachtas, Harland and Wolff and several education and health trusts. What these customers have in common is a requirement for engineering expertise, consultancy, and onsite support services.

Juniper can help research groups, universities, college campuses, and schools to work together and share resources through fast, secure, interconnect IP networks. Juniper provides diverse network design solutions that help staff and students to communicate and collaborate more effectively. This is delivered through carrier-class routing platforms, network security and access systems with firewall, IPSec and SSL VPN, and intrusion detection and prevention technologies that ensure the dependability and security of the network. The company generated more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year and serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide. Juniper were delighted to add HEAnet to this customer list in the past year.

Trapeze The prolific use of laptops, PDAs and other Wi-Fi devices in colleges and universities means Wi-Fi coverage is needed everywhere including outdoors. Trapeze offers the only WLAN solution that provides completely seamless roaming from indoor networks to outdoor networks. That's because only Trapeze uses the same architecture and service deployment model across both types of networks. When you have hundreds of students entering an auditorium, all opening their laptops at the same time, you need much more than high-performance. You need intelligent traffic management to balance loads and ensure that identity-based access profiles can be both enforced and honoured. With its highly distributed Smart Mobile architecture, featuring local switching, client load balancing, AP load balancing, and band steering Trapeze can handle much higher loads and deliver better overall service than any competitor.

The Virtual Computing Environment Coalition

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition (VCE) represents an unprecedented level of collaboration of three information technology leaders and innovators - Cisco, EMC and Vmware. The coalition has been created to accelerate customers’ ability to increase business agility through greater IT infrastructure flexibility, and lower IT, energy and real estate costs through pervasive data center virtualization and a transition to private cloud infrastructures. Enterprise IT solutions can be costly to analyse, design, customise, integrate, interoperate, scale and maintain. The VCE coalition has worked closely on a shared vision for the future of enterprise IT infrastructure – private cloud computing - and has developed Vblock Infrastructure Packages that are fully integrated, tested, validated, and deliver a complete ready-to-go/ready-to-grow IT infrastructure system. It integrates best-of-breed virtualization, networking, compute, storage, security, and management technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware with end-to-end vendor accountability, supported by a unified presales, professional services and support capabilities to simplify customer engagement in collaboration with their partner ecosystems. The coalition will scale customer adoption of Vblock systems by enabling a global community of systems integrators, service providers, channel partners, and independent software vendors (ISVs). The VCE provides customers with a fundamentally better approach to streamlining and optimising IT strategies around private clouds, while reducing risk and accelerating customers' infrastructure virtualization journey to the private cloud.

For further information visit: www.emc.com/vce or contact Gerry Murray on 01-8111700 or Annette Soraine 01-8192898

Videnda

Videnda is a specialist distributor focusing on the areas of VoIP, Video & Telepresence, Networking and IP Surveillance. Among the companies Videnda represent in Ireland are Polycom, Revolabs, Wolf Vision, Lifesize, Vaddio, Vidyo, Mobotix, Arecont Vision, ACTi, Avermedia and Qnap.

Ward Solutions - sponsor of the Coffee/Tea Breaks

Ward Solutions is a leading security systems integrator offering comprehensive solutions that address the total IT requirements of our customers, allowing them to grow and achieve their business goals securely. Ward Solutions has a wide and varied experience of the Education & Research sector for over 10 years nationally and internationally. Our experience ranges from dealing with commercial education providers (on line), public education bodies/agencies, research bodies and particularly higher education institutes.