June, 2006

Good times roll at Revera

IT infrastructure services firm Revera, formerly HdS, experienced a 51 per cent growth in revenues last year.

The company added 40 new customers in 2005 and in the next twelve months it plans to increase headcount by 10 including customer-facing and technical staff. Such is the success the company is having, particularly in the SME sector, it's spending $2 million over the next six months on upgrades to its Auckland and Wellington data centres. These upgrades include increasing floor space and power capacities to cope with customer demand. And, following the recent local loop unbundling announcement the company expects demand to climb even further. The company targets “the smaller market” with a variety of electronic and mobile data security, email archiving, disaster recovery, hosting and storage solutions. Chief executive Wayne Norrie believes smaller companies struggle to run their own IT infrastructures cost effectively and “the smaller the organisation the greater the desire to run IT as a utility”.

“We’re finding that the need for power and floor space in our datacentres is climbing, mainly because the greater market SME is now able to use a centralised datacentre option,” says Norrie.

Last week the company announced a partnership with Hewlett Packard in the computer infrastructure provision (CIP) market. The partnership will see Revera resell and use HP server, storage and service management technologies; and HP will resell Revera’s virtual data centre and hosting services where it doesn’t have data centre facilities.