Case Study: Van Elle

Since Van Elle was founded in 1984 and listed on AIM in 2016, Van Elle has grown to become the UK’s largest and most diverse ground engineering and geotechnical contractor.

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Van Elle undertake over 1000 projects a year and have built a reputation for delivering safe and innovative solutions and providing high-quality service to their customers.

The Group comprises expert teams that are able to design and deliver optimal techniques across a 120 string UK based rig fleet.  Their breadth of capabilities spans open site piling, specialist and restricted access piling, modular foundation systems and a wide range of geotechnical specialisms across the infrastructure, residential and construction sectors.

The Challenge

Van Elle was looking for a digital re-structure of their aging on-site server estate which would make daily operations faster, more flexible, and therefore improve productivity.

Cybersecurity is also a factor in modern business dealings, making sure that all company data is secure across all sites and while staff are on sites around the country.

Some of the factors to consider was the power consumption on current servers, lack of chips for new servers, End of Life coming soon, capital expenditure of new servers, resilience, and security issues of current servers.

The Solution

NT Voice & Data partner with PlatformX Communications (previously known as TalkTalk Wholesale Services and Virtual1) and chose them above other network providers because of their intelligent Software Defined Network, plus the suite of Cloud and Security applications. We met with Van Elle to discuss their current situation, goals and how a digital transformation would benefit them. We were able to demonstrate how they would be able to streamline their services by use of a cloud-based solution and how partnering with PXC would meet these demands.

PXC are the ideal host for an Infrastructure as a Service platform due to their reliability and wide coverage allowing 24/7 connection regardless of location. This flexible, cost-effective solution is directly connected to the PXC data centres to provide swift, resilient hosting, and has been able to offer t0 Van Elle the level of response required (and expected) from cloud hosting.

Platform X Communications

A continuing issue across all business is the challenge of keeping customer data and workloads secure, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud provides a complete suite of data protection products, keeping business data safe. From data backup and disaster recovery to AI-based malware protection, remote desktop management and security, PXC protects from all angles.

The Results

“The 1Cloud and Acronis offerings has enabled NT V&D to open up new revenue streams and engage with larger enterprises” – Mark Beardsley, Sales Director NT Voice & Data Solutions.

NT Voice & Data provide the complete communication solution for businesses and organisations across the UK. With a range of unified comms platforms, cloud hosting and secure solutions, we can help you to save money and future-proof your communications today. 

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