Juniper Jobs

As a Juniper Services Company, demand from customers for utlising our consultants for project work is sky high at the moment. I'm not sure whether this is down to the fact that we are a growing company or whether due to the financial climate, restructing of staff and redundancies have left skills gaps in clients IT departments.

Anyway this recent surge led me to have a look at the state of the Juniper Jobs Market and I thought I'd share these interesting stats with you from itjobswatch.

For the 6 months to 20 October 2008, IT jobs within the UK citing Juniper also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity:

Cisco 78.9%
CheckPoint 39.7%
Windows 17.51%
BlueCoat 15.58%
Linux 13.43%
Nortel 10.65%

For the 3 months to 2o October 2008, below shows the geographic location of Juniper Jobs based on UK Job Adverts citing Juniper:

TOTAL ADVERTS 843

London 439
South East 271
Berkshire 98
Hampshire 78
Reading 51
North West 41
Basingstoke 38
East of England 31
Surrey 30
Manchester 22
Yorkshire 18
West Midlands 18

For the 6 months to 20 October 2008, IT jobs within the UK citing Juniper were in the following industry sectors:

Finance 14.67%
IT/Telecoms 12.12%
Health 3.40%
Government 3.12%
Education 1.76%
Retail 1.42%
Marketing 1.02%
Legal 0.74%
Manufacturing 0.17%

And finally, the average salary for Jobs citing Juniper over the last 3 months was £46,412.

I hope you find this as interesting as I did.

Thanks,

Andy

Quantix win CNA Mobility Solution of the Year 2008

Last Thursday night we scooped the CNA award for Best Mobility Solution delivered in 2008. This project was based on an integrated Juniper SA & Citrix implementaion for our great customer HCA Healthcare.

Please find the press release below.

Quantix Celebrates Awards Success
Specialist managed service provider wins Mobility Solution award with innovative HCA Healthcare solution

Quantix, a provider of enterprise applications, support and managed services, is celebrating its success in the Channel Network Awards (CNA), held at the prestigious Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, London. Quantix won the Mobility Solution category for the innovative mobility solution it provided for HCA Healthcare and was also a finalist in the Business Awards Nottinghamshire 2008 in the Innovation Through Technology category for its Business Continuity Managed Service.

The CNA Awards recognise business solutions supplied to clients by the channel and the Mobility Solutions category looks for innovative and scalable solutions where a reseller has understood the specific needs of the client. Quantix provided HCA Healthcare with an innovative solution to allow secure access to proprietary and graphically intensive medical applications from any machine with a web browser. This presents medical personnel with the ability to gain access to x-ray images, patient records, and surgical modelling applications from any machine with a web browser in a secure manner. This would allow them to consult with clients and view images in a home environment but also provide a rapid response to consultation on urgent surgery.

“We’re thrilled to have won this award and to have had our solutions recognised in an event as prestigious as the CNA Awards,” said Quantix Managing Director Richard Salmon. “The work we have done for HCA Healthcare is a true testament to the need for mobile solutions and we look forward to providing further benefits to their mobility needs.”

The mobility solution deployed at HCA Healthcare reduces the waiting time for patients needing urgent surgery, as consultants can access vital information from any connected device, reducing the time needed to view any relevant radiography images.

“Winning at the Channel Network Awards has always been difficult and this year doubly so with the increased number of entries and the highest quality ever,” claimed John Chapman, judging organiser. “One of the toughest categories this year was for Mobility Solutions and for Quantix to come away as winner of this category is great testament to their ingenuity, skill and focus on what the customer was trying to achieve. The judges were particularly impressed with the way Quantix overcame some tough technology and operational issues”

Quantix’s RapidRecovery business continuity solution was also a finalist in the Innovation Through Technology category of the Business Awards Nottinghamshire 2008 which recognise business achievements and helps organisations celebrate their contribution to the regions’ economy.

Thanks,

Andy

Quantix's Managed Business Continuity Service hits the news..

Quantix's Managed Business Continuity Service, hits the press this week. Please find below one of the articles.


The FINANCIAL -- Quantix, a leading Managed Services providers, launches its new RapidRecovery Business Continuity solution.

Specifically designed by Quantix to offer customers a fully outsourced replicated environment, this service can drastically drive down the costs of Business Continuity. RapidRecovery provides not only a replicated standby site, but also day-to-day failover of servers in order to provide true business continuity.

RapidRecovery is all encompassing, comprising an Accelerated Private Data Link, the Rapid Recovery Platform, SecureConnect Service, Proactive Monitoring and the Quantix Managed Service Team. Other benefits include the recovery time of minutes from invocation, data recovery point of minutes, bare metal recovery, platform resiliency, snap shots, flexible storage and multi vendor support.

'Disaster recovery has typically been viewed as a form of insurance that carries a large annually recurring fee, with businesses only realising the real benefits of their investment when a disaster occurs,' explains Quantix's Managing Director, Richard Salmon. 'We are changing this perception by offering our customers the ability to use the same platform for development purposes and extended in-house maintenance, as well as acting as their disaster recovery service delivery infrastructure.'

Following the installation of RapidRecovery, businesses can benefit from flexible and secure access to the RapidRecovery platform and a low cost, secure solution that allows partners, customers or employees to work on applications, directories or extranets without client software having to be installed. It also had the added bonus of allowing an organisation to focus on their core business as Quantix manages the implementation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

'One of the biggest benefits of RapidRecovery is that it is fully managed by a team of more than 20 accredited engineers on a 24/7 basis,' adds Salmon. 'Our support team includes engineers and consultants who are specialists in their fields, so once RapidRecovery is installed, our customers have the reassurance that one of the leading support companies in the UK is managing and maintaining their system.'

If you would like further information our Business continuity/Disaster Recovery services, please visit our website or please do not hesitate to contact one of our engineers on 0115 983 6200.

Improve Performance of Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0

In the month that saw Larry Ellison award himself a 38% pay rise, Juniper confirm that the WXC appliances have been successfully been validated with Oracle(R) E-Business Suite 12.0. The Juniper WXC reduces the effects of WAN latency, network congestion and packet loss, providing distributed enterprises with superior end-to-end performance of Oracle applications.

Here's the rest of the announcement....

The Juniper Networks WXC is a best-in-class application acceleration platform that provides distributed enterprises with a cost-effective, scalable solution for accelerating applications over the WAN, helping businesses and government agencies deliver fast and consistent application response times, maximize WAN investments, and control and prioritize mission-critical applications and services. Validation testing through the Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Partners Initiative has shown that with the WXC platform inserted in-line between the client and application, Oracle E-Business Suite functionality is maintained.

'Juniper's WXC application acceleration platform has been tested and shows simplified business processes,' said Tom Herrmann, vice president, Oracle ISV Management and Programs. 'Validation with Oracle E-Business Suite enables our joint customers to overcome the obstacles posed by a distributed and extended enterprise, which depends on fast, reliable and secure communications across the WAN.'

Key test results revealed:

The WXC platform provides robust compression of HTML, HTTP/HTTPS and Oracle Forms traffic, reducing payload and improving response time.

The WXC delivers best-in-class quality of service (QoS), allowing prioritization and bandwidth allocation for mission-critical E-Business Suite applications over non-business critical traffic.

As both an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner and a Juniper Select Partner this is very welcome news.

Thanks,

Andy