After the success of our Tech Talks in 2010 Damson Technologies are happy to announce our first event of 2011, we are hoping that these events will help educate the business community about the current advancements taking place in the technology sector and how they can leverage those technologies for their organisations. According to the a new IDC survey Cloud Computing in Ireland will grow by 40% every year until 2014! Its an expanding industry and many businesses all over the world have seen the huge benefits that cloud computing can bring to their organisation. Companies like Jaguar-Landrover, Virgin America, Trinity College, Dublin College University, National Geographic, Capgemini and many many more. So if you would like to learn more about the cloud and what it means to your business why not join Damson Technologies and Google on the 10th of February, click on the link at the bottom to register.
Damson Technologies in partnership with Google are running an event entitled “An Exploration of Cloud Computing for Irish Business” in Google Ireland’s HQon the 10th of February 2011.
Date: Thursday, February 10th 2011 Time: 9:00 – 11:00 Location: Google Dublin, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4 Duration: 2 hours
More than 3 million businesses now run Google Apps. It is a reliable, secure web-based set of office tools for any size business
Powerful, intuitive applications like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs can help reduce your IT costs and help employees collaborate more effectively – all for just €40 per user per year. Google Apps can offer your organisation:
Proven cost savings – no hardware or software required.
Mobile email and calendar sync
99.9% uptime reliability guarantee
50 times more storage than industry average
Data security from the ground up
If you would like to join Google and Damson Technologies to learn more about Google Apps go to www.damson.ie/events to register or email events@damson.ie for more information.
Damson Technologies in partnership with Google are running an event entitled “An Exploration of Cloud Computing for Irish Business” in Google Ireland’s HQon the 3rd of December 2010.
Date: Friday, December 3rd 2010 Time: 11:30 – 13:00 Location: Google Dublin, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4 Duration: 1.5 hours
More than 3 million businesses now run Google Apps. It is a reliable, secure web-based set of office tools for any size business
Powerful, intuitive applications like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs can help reduce your IT costs and help employees collaborate more effectively – all for just €40 per user per year. Google Apps can offer your organisation:
Proven cost savings – no hardware or software required.
Mobile email and calendar sync
99.9% uptime reliability guarantee
50 times more storage than industry average
Data security from the ground up
If you would like to join Google and Damson Technologies to learn more about Google Apps go to www.damson.ie/events to register or email events@damson.ie for more information.
Fintan speaking on - Cloud Computing&Google Apps (photo by Amanda Webb)
Bizcamp Dublin was held this weekend, Saturday 29th May 2010. The venue was the amazing Guinness Storehouse. What is Bizcamp?
“It’s a chance for us all to lift ourselves out of the gloom of the endless bad news stories. It’s based on the fact that each of us as entrepreneurs have loads to learn from our peers. And we have a lot to share with them as well. There are a lot of great things happening in the Irish Economy – especially in small and medium businesses and this day will be a celebration of those. And a great place to come for people who have lost their jobs and are actively looking at starting up.”
I was lucky enough to be speaking at Bizcamp this year on Cloud Computing and Google Apps. My talk was aimed at the non technical user who wanted to learn about ‘The Cloud’ and its possibilities, but I knew I would get a few technical minds as Bizcamp does tend to attract us geeks.
There is an increased interest in cloud computing from the business community this year. My talk covered everything from what is cloud computing to an overview of Google Apps, one of the worlds leading cloud computing products. Even for the more technical I think they got a greater understanding of the full potential of the Google Apps suite. It can be a challenge to keep up with Google’s many updates to the product, so it’s interesting for people to check out the updates from time to time. I hope everyone learned something from the talk, I know many people were surprised by the number of larger businesses now using Google Apps as their core email solution. There are now over 2 million organisations using Google Apps; including Trinity College, GAA, DCU, Gaiety School of Acting, Telegraph Media, Guardian and Jaguar Landrover
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the organisers Keith Bohanna, Emily Tully, David Scanlon, Alan O’Rourke, Paul Browne, Keith Shirley and Jason Roe for organising this years Bizcamp Dublin. Also a thanks to Amanda Webb for taking some snaps at Bizcamp. You can see the rest of them here and here is a link to Amanda’s site http://www.spiderworking.com
Below I have published the slides of my presentation for those who are interested (on Google presentation of course). If you have trouble viewing the slideshow <<click here>>
The Trading Post is a monthly network for small business owners in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area. The Trading Post meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Its aim is to promote small business via the network, exchange ideas with other small business owners & entrepreneurs, and meet business partners, suppliers and customers.
This month Damson Technologies founder Fintan Murphy will be exploring Cloud Computing and its benefits to Irish businesses. Cloud computing is all the buzz at the moment and many small businesses are unaware of what exactly it means to them and how they might use some of these tools to save money or increase their efficiency. The advent of this new form of communication and collaboration is a significant and exciting revolution in computing. Imagine you were a carpenter and someone had just invented the electric saw…you’d want to know about it right?
If you would like to join us on Tuesday eveing email angela@dlrceb.ie with your details
A little bit about Fintan
Fintan Murphy is a Technology Consultant and Founder of Damson Technologies. Fintan has a Diploma in Business Analysis and Consultancy from the National College of Ireland and recently received a certificate in Leadership Management from I.L.M. He has worked in the Technology Sector for almost 8 years. His company Damson Technologies are Google Apps Authorised resellers and work closely with the Google Enterprise Team here in Ireland. Some of Damson’s notable clients include Buena Vista International, Atex-EHL group, Volker Infra and Complete Highway Maintenance Ltd. Damson recently appeared in Business Plus magazine discussing the benefits of Google Apps and how Irish businesses can benefit from using cloud computing in their organisations.
Fintan is a member of the Business Analysts Association of Ireland. He is a Gold Member of Business Network International (BNI) and has just finished his second term as Membership Coordinator. Fintan speaks at business and technology events on topics such as Cloud Computing and Social Media. Fintan also speaks to parent groups at local schools about “Being a Parent in the Digital Age”. Fintan lives in Clondalkin with his partner Lesley and their one year old son Ruairi. When he’s not working Fintan enjoys rock climbing, kayaking and off-roading.
Silicon Republic reports Irish-owned international provider of engineering to the manufacturing and energy sector LotusWorks has deployed Google Apps Premier Edition across its workforce.
Following a serious downtime incident on its current email system LotusWorks moved its 100 users to Google’s Enterprise messaging and collaboration system. This guaranteed them improved uptime, reduced IT costs and increased employees ability to collaborate and communicate.
“Our legacy system was supported here in Ireland,” explained Gary Gilgan, IT manager, LotusWorks. “We decided to look at an alternative after we experienced a serious outage incident in Ireland which affected our business operations in the US.”
Google now help 3000 organisations per day move to Google Apps to save money and increase efficiency in their business.
If you would like to know more about how Google Apps can help your business or to arrange a demo contact our team today on +353 1 685 466 or complete our contact form.
Paul Cassidy, Google Enterprise Team, & Fintan Murphy, Damson Technologies
06/11/09 — Damson Technologies, a Cloud Computing sytems integrator specialist, today announced it has become an authorised reseller of the Google Apps™ suite of communication and collaboration tools.
Damson Technologies joins the Google Apps Authorised Reseller program as a solutions provider of Google Apps Services and will extend the power of Google by helping customers gain added value from their Google Apps deployments. Damson Technologies offers a series of products and services around deployment, data migration, system integration, training and support for the Google Apps suite.
“Damson is leading the way in moving Irish businesses into the cloud,” said Fintan Murphy, Sales Director, Damson Technologies. “We are delighted to be working with Google to bring the benefits and cost savings of Google Apps and hosted services to Irish businesses. The Google Apps Reseller program will help us enhance the value of Google Apps for our clients.”
Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as Gmail™ webmail service, Google Talk™ instant messaging service, Google Calendar™ calendaring service, Google Docs™ program, Google Sites™ web application, and Google Video™ for business on their own domain to work together more effectively. Best of all, it’s all hosted by Google, so there’s no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.
The Google Apps Reseller program includes resellers, consultants and independent software vendors that sell, service and customize Google Apps Premier Edition for their customers. Damson Technologies received training, support and deployment services from Google, as well as access to APIs for integrating Google Apps into their customers’ business operations. Damson Technologies is able to retain a close relationship with their customers in order to provide additional service and support. The businesses receiving Google Apps will benefit from the additional attention to their specific needs.
Founded in 2003, Damson Technologies is a cloud computing system integrator specialist providing solutions to the Irish market. We deliver services and products that enable organisations to reduce cost and risk by leveraging cloud computing solutions. For more information on Damson Technologies service offerings please visit www.damson.ie.
