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JFL recruits Oncore IT to provide a total IT managed services solution
July 2012 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Oncore IT announced that it has signed a three year contract with specialist recruitment consultancy, JFL, to completely manage its whole outsourced IT function.
Oncore IT is providing JFL a range of IT services including: desktop, server, firewall and network infrastructure management, 24/7 monitoring, email anti virus and spam technology, SSL access for remote working, Blackberry Enterprise Server support, 250 GB of online back up, disaster recovery (DR), Internet connectivity and prepaid engineer time. This is all backed by service level agreements to ensure and guarantee IT availability.
Based in Soho, London, JFL is a specialist recruitment and search consultancy for the communications sector covering PR, corporate communications, public affairs and publishing. Founded in 1972, it employs 11 staff and is Investor in People rated and an approved corporate member of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation. In 2011, JFL placed 166 candidates in a range of companies including Cartier, Ernst & Young, the Financial Services Authority, Red Bull, Unilever, and key agencies such as Grayling, Hill & Knowlton, Manning Selvage & Lee, Ketchum Pleon and Weber Shandwick.
JFL first started working with Oncore IT in 2004, making the latest support contract the third to be signed between the two companies.
As part of the new contract, Oncore IT has upgraded JFL’s hardware installing new PCs, servers, and firewall, while increasing its ADSL bandwidth capacity and shifting the business to the latest version of Microsoft’s Small Business Server. The new higher spec hardware also supports Bond Adapt, specialist software for the recruitment industry, the uptime of which is crucial to JFL’s business. It lists all candidates and their CVs, status in the recruitment cycle, vacancies to be filled while providing comprehensive search facilities so that people can be quickly matched to job opportunities available.
Outsourcing IT management to Oncore IT has meant access to broad team of IT professionals who are totally infrastructure focused, with JFL able to capitalise on these skill sets as well as the considerable investment made to locate in highly secure data centres to ensure a robust DR solution.
