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Job Opening: Senior Sales Consultant - 6th September 2010

Sharon McGuire — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:32:09 +0100

Senior Sales Consultant

A bit about us - We are a dynamic expanding Irish IT services and solutions organization that now wants to recruit the best talent in the industry as part of an aggressive growth strategy
We are a multi award winning organisation with a very different attitude towards IT. Our goal is to make IT the hero for our customers.

Tech firm's €1.1m investment to create 10 jobs -27th August 2010

Sharon McGuire — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:14:00 +0100

Tweet The Irish Times - Business Section - 12th August 2010 GORDON SMITH

This article originally appeared in the Business Section of the Irish Times, in the print and online edition, on 27th August 2010.

ORIGINA, A Dublin-based business technology provider, is to invest €1.1 million in developing a cloud computing service, creating 10 new jobs. Part of the funding will be put towards collaborative research with universities to design the service.

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E-View: How IT benchmarking saved Irish Government €4.5m - 12th August 2010

Sharon McGuire — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:53:34 +0100

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Irish Independent E-View 12th August 2010

Three successful IT projects in the public sector have resulted in cost savings of €4.5m using benchmarking technology from home-grown firm Origina. Tomás O’Leary is Origina’s managing director.

By John Kennedy

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Win an Apple iPad by completing the Origina Data Storage & Analysis Survey! - 29th July 2010

Sharon McGuire — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:53:29 +0100

Global industry statistics show that up to 80% of companies’ data has probably not been accessed within the last 30 days, yet we keep it on costly storage environments.

We recently did an analysis of our data and discovered that 80% of the data sitting in our infrastructure had not been touched in 2 years!!!

We want to get your feedback to see if this is common across Read More...

Job Opening: Enterprise Technical Support Specialist - 26th July 2010

Sharon McGuire — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:28:57 +0100

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Enterprise Technical Support SpecialistBackground and Introduction

Origina is one of Ireland’s leading IT consulting, services and outsourcing companies, with some of the best people in the industry in its Dublin and London offices. Established in 1998, we work with government and commercial customers in Ireland, UK, mainland Europe, Caribbean and United States to drive real business value from IT.

Our highly certified IT professionals specialise in some of the world’s Read More...

Origina saves €4.5M for Irish public sector and launches IT benchmarking matrix - 14th July 2010

Sharon McGuire — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:07:44 +0100

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News Release

• New service has 6 dedicated senior technology experts with team numbers

Welcome to our new website! - 12th July 2010

Sharon McGuire — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:34:08 +0100

We are delighted to announce that our new website www.origina.com is now live! The new site has been redesigned with a fresh new look and now features our "IT Hero" video on the homepage.

We also very excited that our blog is now able receive comments so please let us know what you think?! We want your opinions on all our stories.

Keep an eye on the site as we will continuously be posting up news, updates, blogs, tweets and much more!

Origina C-Level Forums - 22nd June 2010

Sharon McGuire — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:11:18 +0100

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Origina C-Level Forums

Every quarter, Origina runs their CIO forums for dedicated ICT decision makers from many business sectors including, financial, government & manufacturing. The forums objective is for attendees to meet and share experiences, discuss future trends in IT and voice their concerns.

Each forum is working to help find solutions to current business problems.

See what past attendees have said about Origina's CIO forums:

"It was a great forum to meet wRead More...

Are you an IT Hero? - 22nd June 2010

Sharon McGuire — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100

Origina have a new vision! One we know you will love! We want to make IT the Hero!

We're so passionate about this vision; we have captured it in our latest video 'IT Heroes'. Our video can be viewed here!

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We have also put together a fun quiz to help you determine if you are a true IT Hero or Villain!
Try it out for yourself right here! www.origina.com/it-hero

By simply completing and sharing this qRead More...

Origina's IT Heroes attacked by IT Villains!!!!!! - 1st June 2010

Rowan O'Donoghue (Director of Innovation & Development) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:36:33 +0100

Over the course of the last few days, IT Villains have attacked our website to prevent us from making more IT Heroes!!!

Do not fear, for help is here!

In the name of justice we remain steadfast in our mission to create more IT Heroes. Join our IT Heroes today in fighting off the dark forces of the IT Villains!

Origina IT Heroes video - 28th May 2010

Shauna Perry — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:41:23 +0100

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Origina is changing how IT is perceived with some 'Origina Thinking'! We are dedicated on providing simple & efficient IT solutions that build on the successes of IT! We make IT the Hero! Watch our video & find out if you are an IT Hero at www.origina.com/it-hero

Those who don’t make mistakes, make nothing... - 25th March 2010

Shauna Perry — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:26:02 +0100

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Those who don’t make mistakes, make nothing...

Mistakes or accidents aren’t usually what organizations like to admit to or shout from the roof tops – but in a gracious and refreshing manner, Zurich has admitted that although they lost 000’s of individuals personal information, they are now stepping up to the plate and improving their data protection standards from this point on.

In this frank and honest press release from Zurich on the 24th of March &Read More...

Origina wins European IT excellence award for its virtualised solution with Lakeland Dairies - ...

Shauna Perry — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Origina wins European IT excellence award for its virtualised solution with Lakeland Dairies“Best SMB Solutions Provider” at the 2010 European IT Excellence Awards

New virtualised environment enables Lakeland Dairies to decrease the risk of downtime, reduce costs, lower carbon emissions and improve delivery times

70% saving on power and cooling costs

Disaster recovery reduced from 5 days to less than 2 hours

35 servers consolidated into two new virtualised serversRead More...

Origina Customer Case Study with Lakeland - 4th February 2010

Shauna Perry — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:18:20 +0100

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This Origina architected cutting edge solution enabled Lakeland Dairies complete a full infrastructure refresh in order to give them a more dynamic, highly available, scalable and easier to manage IT infrastructure in order to cope with ever increasing business demands from IT.

“We feel that Lakeland now has one of the most dynamic, flexible and easy to manage highly available IT infrastructures in the country.”

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Irish VMware Desktop Virtualization Survey - 28th January 2010

Shauna Perry — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:50:40 +0100

I hope you can spare 5 mins of your time to help Origina and VMware to get some specific information on Desktop Virtualization in Ireland.

This survey is being run by VMware and its Partners in Ireland to understand the specific requirements and needs of Irish customers in regard to Virtual Desktops. The survey is to be completed by all types and sizes of organisations regardless of whether you have virtualised any of your environment or not.

Once you complete this short survey yoRead More...

Important Notice to all AIX Support Contracts with Origina - 21st January 2010

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:04:04 +0100

FLASH: AIX6.1 - chvg -g high impact problem

High Impact/Highly Pervasive

High Impact/Highly Pervasive APAR

APAR Number: IZ67529

Fix available in fixpack: 6100-04-02-1007

APAR status

Closed as program error.

If you happened to miss our webinar on 21st of October 2009 with Riverbed, Compellent & Lakeland dairies, don't despair we have uploaded the entire webinar for you to view or share with colleagues, please see below:

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Origina @ Storage Expo 2009 - 24th September 2009

Shauna Perry — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:38:57 +0100

So who is attending the Storage Expo in London's Olympia on the 14th - 15th October??

Well Origina will be there at stand 550E on the ground floor within Microsoft solutions pavilion arena!!

We will be presenting an Origina Customer Case Study – showcasing how Lakeland Dairies incorporRead More...

Registered for Origina's Advanced Disaster Recovery & Data Management Webinar - 21st ...

Shauna Perry — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:51:35 +0100

Have you registered for our free webinar on advanced disaster recovery and data management solutions yet??

If you answered no, now is the time to get registered, for what promises to be a very insightful webinar!

If you or your company is interested in advanced disaster recovery, data management or WAN optimisation you be mad to miss this webinar on the 21st of OctoRead More...