Servecentric wins €140,000 Managed Hosting deal with TESCO DIETS

  • Tesco Diets website receives over one million visitors per week
  • Servecentric solution reduces Tesco Diets' previous hosting costs by 34%
  • Tesco Diets expects to decrease energy costs by 70%

Dublin, 26 May, 2010
Servecentric, the data centre managed services company, today announced it has won a three year €140,000 managed hosting deal with Tesco Diets, an online subscription based weight loss service. This is part of a broader IT development strategy aimed at facilitating Tesco Diets' continued growth. Servecentric's solution has reduced Tesco Diets hosting costs by 34%, and through its virtualised server environment expects to reduce power consumption by 70%.

Tesco Diets, part of the Tesco Group, is a leading provider of online personalised diet plans and fitness programmes. Devised by nutritionists, its plans are calorie controlled and enable members to lose weight healthily while ensuring they meet their daily nutritional requirements too. To facilitate its rapidly growing membership numbers across Ireland and the UK, Tesco Diets made the decision to review its entire ICT strategy. This includes the migration of its IT infrastructure from its previous US location to a European data centre. Servecentric was chosen based on its ability to offer a flexible, consultative and cost effective solution.

In addition, Servecentric is the only Irish and independently owned data centre managed services company awarded the ISO14001 Environmental Management Standard . Servecentric's efforts to limit its environmental impact were key selection criteria for Tesco Diets. Other key factors were its ISO 27001 (Information Security Management) and ISO 9001 (Quality Management) awards from Certification Europe.

Servecentric is providing Tesco Diets with a managed hosting infrastructure, direct access to global networks and 24x7 technical support to ensure constant uptime. It is also providing a range of managed services including monitoring and security. The Servecentric solution has allowed Tesco Diets to consolidate its entire IT infrastructure, delivering a centralised, scalable and intelligently designed network.

The www.tescodiets.com website, which currently receives over one million visits per week, continues to introduce interactive applications onto its website to enhance the user experience. It offers rich media applications like webinars and video testimonials in real-time to ensure a personalised, community driven approach to weight loss is delivered to members. The Servecentric managed hosting solution has enhanced the quality and reliability of the Tesco Diets website by removing interruptions like time delays and other latency related issues.

Denis Finnegan, IT Manager, said, "Tesco Diets is experiencing incredible growth due to our very active and vocal membership community endorsing our services. We constantly strive to provide a secure and fully functional website that brings like minded people together, offering them a professional and personal weight loss programme.

"With membership numbers increasing, we realised our IT infrastructure was critical to facilitate this growth. Servecentric has become a true IT partner, working with us to deliver the appropriate solution with a focus on the long term business objectives of the company," he continued.

Helga Muir, sales and marketing manager at Servecentric commented, "For hundreds of thousands of people, visiting the Tesco Diet website has become a daily ritual. As numbers increase and the breadth of services become more media rich, the IT infrastructure becomes critical to user experience and business performance. To be selected as Tesco Diet's IT partner during such an important period of the company's growth is a true endorsement of the quality of our service offering."

About Servecentric

Servecentric is a wholly owned, private funded, Irish organisation. It was established in August 2002 and has its headquarters in Blanchardstown Corporate Park in Dublin. It is currently Ireland’s leading managed services and data centre operator and provides high-quality, scalable solutions from single cabinet collocation services to full-scale provision of managed services.

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