Phoenix has bolstered its relationship with Redmayne-Bentley, one of the UK's largest independently owned stockbroking and investment management firms, with an additional fully managed IT contract.
The three year contract will see Phoenix provide a new Wide Area Network (WAN) based on an MPLS solution that will cover Redmayne-Bentley's 38 branch offices from Inverness to Exeter including its administrative and settlement operations and all its investment management and execution-only stockbroking services, plus the Phoenix DR and Data centre sites.
The contract will deliver Redmayne-Bentley a fully managed solution including the management of the circuits and router hardware (on-site), active and hardware monitoring along with network support (on-site) and break-fix of all router hardware.
The new contract win complements Phoenix's existing hosting contract which already delivers a Private Cloud service, providing secure hosting and supporting a suite of IT services. These include an 'anywhere, anytime' desktop with managed applications, email and Active Directory services.
Steve Vaughan, Phoenix Chief Executive, said: "The solution will include resilient Internet options and take advantage of the new technologies and network services to allow greater bandwidths to be available at less cost improving upload and download speeds.
"As a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulated firm, having a secure IT network that complies with regulatory requirements is critical to Redmayne-Bentley. In addition the company wanted to secure significant savings and generate real efficiency improvements to support the growth of its services to clients."