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28th June 2011, Radisson Blu St Helen's Hotel, Dublin

 In 2008, Huawei,€15 billion revenue generating hardware company teamed up with one of the top ten software companies in the world, Symantec. Symantec generates revenues of up to €4 billion. Together they formed Huawei Symantec with a mission to take the storage market by storm and up until now have remained relatively unknown in Ireland!
 
Huawei Symantec facts after just 3 years:

• Added to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-end Disk Arrays in 2010 and 2011
• Over 1,000 customers across 40 countries worldwide
• Over 900 patents in important Networking and Storage technologies
• Over 60% year on year growth since its inception

Interested in learning more about how Huawei Symantec can reduce your costs and whilst maintaining the quality of your environment?  

Join us at the Radisson Blu St. Helen's Hotel on Tuesday morning, 28th June 2011 for this free and unique networking event with live demonstrations and some goodies too!

Reduce costs whilst maintaining the quality of your environment!

Agenda

8:00am: Registration (Tea, coffee and light snacks served).

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Did you know?:

1.   Origina provide IT Training courses? Origina IT Training offers onsite, offsite and bespoke courses. Some of the courses include: Cloud Computing, ITIL & Project Management, Microsoft, VMware & Virtualisation, UNIX & Linux, IBM Hardware & Software, and many more. Contact training@origina.com or 01 294 2300 for further information.

 

2.   Our IT Server Support, Raphael Ardiff, was a backing singer for Barry Manilow when he played in the Point a few years ago.

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Easter Opening Hours

Origina will be closed from Good Friday to Easter Monday (inclusive). If you are logging calls tomorrow, our office will be closed and they will not be responded to until Tuesday April 26th. If you have a priority issue and hold a 24x7 support contract with us, you will need to call the standard support number 1890 923 020.

Thursday, 21st April 2011

Office Open: 9am to 5:30pm

Friday, 22nd April 2011

Office Closed

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Origina Survey finds that 50.9% of companies plan to hire new staff this year

Highly skilled employees are becoming increasingly important to companies who are aiming to find and retain skilled employees for 2011.  

Key Findings:

• 50.9% of companies surveyed are planning to hire this year
• 56.4% of organisations surveyed believe that finding skilled employees is extremely important
• Retaining skilled employees is extremely important to 71.4% of organisations surveyed
• 38.5% of respondents believe that training in their organisations will increase slightly over the next 18 months with a further 17.3% who believe there will be a definite increase.

Origina, a leading Irish IT services company, today published the results of a survey conducted with 57 senior management Irish executives, to discover if companies are hiring skilled employees, if they are re-skilling their current IT employees and what barriers exist against re-skilling IT employees.

Origina conducted the survey online in February 2011. Respondents were primarily in management positions in IT departments and from Irish organisations of all sizes and sectors.

The results indicate that lack of funding (53.1%) and lack of time to do training (57.1%) are the biggest barriers to Irish organisations training their staff. However, 37.5% respondents said that training was extremely important and a further 37.5% said it was important to their organisation.

56.4% of organisations believe that finding skilled employees is extremely important with a further 32.7% thinking it is important. It is important for employees to not only take advantage of any training their company provides but also tries to continuously up-skill themselves as organisations are looking for already skilled up employees and to make themselves more valuable in their existing jobs. 71.4% of respondents’ organisations consider it extremely important to retain skilled employees.

Origina’s commentary on the results:

Hilary O’Sullivan, Head of Training & Renewals in Origina commented, “Lack of time for businesses to complete training is a common problem in Ireland as our work lives get busier. We have identified this as an issue and now we work with our clients to create bespoke courses which are customised around the clients’ available time, and providing trainers’ onsite to reduce travel time helping to reduce overall course times.” “According to the survey, 75% of respondents said that training was either important or very important to their organisations. This is a positive outlook, Irish organisations are beginning to realise the importance of training to help their growth. It is terrific to see companies investing in people.”

O’Sullivan concluded, “22.4% of respondents were interested in training in ITIL & Project Management. Origina is delighted to announce that we will be running a public course for ten people on ITIL &Prince. This is a new addition to our courses run in Ireland and subsequently we will be running this course at a highly competitive rate. The ten places will be allocated on a first come first served basis so contact Origina for further details.”

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Methodology:

Origina conducted the survey online in February 2011. Respondents were primarily in management positions in IT departments and from Irish organisations of all sizes and sectors. All interviews were carried out online.

To see the full report please click the below icon or visit: http://www.origina.com/it-solutions/393

About Origina

For more information visit www.origina.com/training or call 01 2942300.

Press Contact

Sharon McGuire
Marketing Executive
01 2942300
s.mcguire@origina.ie

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Competition Winner Announced!

Last month we had a competition to win 2 Nights Accommodation in a Deluxe Double Room for 2 People with Full Irish Buffet Breakfast, a 3 course Table d'Hote dinner on one evening and either a round of golf on Druids Glen course or a spa treatment per person. All the entrants had to do was to fill in our IT Skills Survey and their names were put into a hat.

We are delighted to announce that the winner’s name is…

 Nicky Power!

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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.  

A bit about you – You are a highly driven, extremely organised professional looking for a new and exciting opportunity

Are you sick of being a small cog in a big wheel? Do you fancy being that wheel for a change!

Tweet Due to increased volume of traffic from yesterday’s media release in the Sunday Business Post our website went down. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

To see our two new appointments please see below:

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EARN FREE TERABYTES WITH ORIGINA!

Would you like to become an Origina Gold Client?

If we have implemented Compellent in your organisation then you have the opportunity to become a Gold Client!

Refer Origina & Compellent to your colleagues and other organisations and then reap the rewards of a gold client!

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Cloud Power Event

Origina would like to invite you to Microsoft’s Cloud Power Event on January 25th to learn how Cloud solutions can help transform your IT and move your business forward.

An exciting speaker panel has been lined up, including Forrester’s Vice President and Principal Analyst, John Rymer and Microsoft’s EMEA Chief Technology Officer, Stephen McGibbon to share their insight on the future of cloud computing and what this could mean for your organisation. You will also hear live customers testimonies and best practices to help you make well-informed IT strategy decisions around the cloud.

The Cloud Power event will take place in the Havelock Area (level 4) at the Aviva Stadium, Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4. Registration starts from 8.30am with the keynote session at 9am and will close with lunch at 1pm.

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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.  

A bit about you – You are a highly driven, extremely organised professional looking for a new and exciting opportunity

Are you sick of being a small cog in a big wheel? Do you fancy being that wheel for a change!