Author: Lawrence Poynter

  • Delighted to welcome James Arbuthnot, MP

    Delighted to welcome James Arbuthnot, MP

    Exciting day in iOra on Friday when our local MP, James Arbuthnot, came to have a look around and officially open our new offices. A special plaque proudly displays the details of this event in our reception area. James Arbuthnot, in addition to his constituency duties, has sat on many Defence committees and therefore has a keen interest in companies supplying to the Defence industry. Following speeches by both James and our CEO, Philip Wye, the two men toured the office and met with a number of our staff in Customer Services, Sales and Development.

    James Arbuthnot was interested to learn how our replication and compression tool, Geo-Replicator, works by breaking down very large blocks of information across multiple documents and separating out any new updates from the existing information, then packaging, compressing and distributing it and finally reconstructing the revised and now up-to-date documents at the receiving end. iOra allows warfighters and HQ to have a single up-to-date view of operational  information – very important in military operations.

  • James Arbuthnot MP opens iOra’s new offices

    James Arbuthnot MP opens iOra’s new offices

    Hook, UK – 27 March 2015: James Arbuthnot MP officially opened iOra’s new offices today. iOra moved to Hook at the end of 2014, in order to continue to meet the needs of its current and growing customer base, having outgrown its previous  premises.  This is one of James Arbuthnot’s last duties as an MP before he retire. As well as being iOra’s MP, James Arbuthnot has always had a particular interest in defence.

    iOra’s replication and compression technologies have been selected by organisations that operate in the most demanding environments. iOra’s software ensures information consistency, guarantees regulatory compliance and enables organisation-wide collaboration minute-by-minute particularly for locations where the network is unreliable or intermittent – proven to send data on networks as low as 2kbps.

    Philip Wye, iOra’s CEO said:

    “iOra is honoured to have James Arbuthnot MP to open our new offices which, as well as being larger and able to hold our growing workforce,  are now better placed to do business in the UK’s Silicon Valley with its excellent transport and communications links.”

    He added, 

    “Our success can be attributed to a high investment in the design of our patented technology, the development of our UK technicians, and a team that understands how to win international business.”

    James Arbuthnot commented,

    “I am delighted to welcome iOra to Hook and to open their new offices here. It is always a pleasure to see high-tech, successful companies expand and create high value jobs in this locality. I look forward to seeing iOra’s continued success in the future.”

    For more information contact Vicki Kirk, Marketing Manager at iOra: 00 44 (0)1256 382750

    About iOra

    iOra software delivers guaranteed access to information across challenging and unreliable networks.

    iOra’s patented technology enables organisations with users operating in remote or mobile locations to have access to up-to-date business critical information. We are trusted by governments, military and global companies around the world.

    Our replication and compression technologies have been selected by organizations that operate in the most demanding environments, ensuring information consistency, guaranteeing regulatory compliance and enabling organisation-wide collaboration minute-by-minute.

    iOra’s products replicate data between Microsoft SharePoint servers, or by creating virtualised servers or web applications.

    iOra’s technology has been successfully deployed on tens of thousands of machines by customers, delivering data replication over bandwidths as low as 2 kbps to disconnected users.

    www.iora.com

     

  • Bob Legg of iOra speaking at Maritime CIO Forum

    Bob Legg of iOra speaking at Maritime CIO Forum

    The Maritime CIO Forum has been developed by Digital Ship to address the issues and trends that shipping technology professionals face in an increasingly changing and continuously developing business environment.

    The Maritime CIO Forum is designed to be a meeting point where you can share knowledge and collaborate with your peers on strategic IT & communications issues – and learn from other senior professionals in the shipping industry.

    iOra’s Bob Legg is speaking at the Maritime CIO Conference in Oslo on 3 June 2015. Bob will be talking about the challenges of deploying collaboration and cloud software over satellite links that fail at sea as well as the technology that is being developed to solve this critical communications challenge. The one-day Maritime CIO Conference is part of Nor-Shipping, the world’s leading maritime event week, which is now celebrating its 50th anniversary. iOra is taking part for the first time and has become a Platinum Partner for the event.

    The conference will be addressing major challenges that the shipping industry is facing right now covering topics such as how to turn big data into big value, Collaborating Across Distributed Teams and Supply Chains, and how to future proof your IT infrastructure to name a few.

    We will be sharing Bob’s Slide presentation after the event so please come back to view.

  • CommunicAsia 17-20 June, Singapore

    CommunicAsia 17-20 June, Singapore

    iOra Partner, Cappow, exhibiting at CommunicAsia Event: 17-20 June, Singapore

    Cappow will represent iOra at the CommunicAsia Event in Singapore signing up new partners, managing relationships and supporting the sales effort for the Australiasia region. Cappow will be on the iOra stand, BJ5-04, at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, B2.

    Cappow works with iOra to provide sales support to our customers in the Asia Pacific region and ensure close working relationships with implementation partners across the region to ensure iOra customers have local support far beyond implementation.

    CommunicAsia is recognised by industry professionals as the stellar event for the region and focusses on the dynamic info-communications technology industry. CommunicAsia 2014 will address the entire ICT ecosystem from 4G/LTE, AR and Innovations, Content Security Management, Mobile Apps, Mobile Broadband, RF and Cables and so on.

    iOra is well-placed in this arena to showcase our patented technology that enables organisations with users working outside of the corporate network in remote or mobile locations to have access to up-to-date business critical information.

    iOra technologies are trusted by Governments, Military, Oil & Gas, Commerical Maritime and Global corporates around the world. iOra products replicate data between Microsoft SharePoint servers, or by creating virtualized servers or web applications for mobile users employing iOra’s patented compression technology. The technology has been successfully deployed on tens of thousands of machines by customers, delivering data replication over bandwidths as low as 2kbps to disconnected users.

  • From the very first SharePoint to now

    From the very first SharePoint to now

    Here at iOra, we’ve been working with SharePoint ever since the first release of SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and SharePoint Team Services (STS) in 2001. We thought you might like to look back on the history of iOra and SharePoint and how we support each update to SharePoint as it is launched by Microsoft.

    In 2001, SPS and STS, marketed under the same brand name but barely integrated in approach, were still very basic compared to today’s SharePoint. So we at iOra gave SharePoint users the ability to view their SharePoint sites offline via our “Mobile Intranet” product (now the Server-to-Laptop functionality of Geo-Replicator).

    In 2003, Microsoft released their second version of SharePoint: a much more integrated system, though built for full fat corporate networks. We recognised the need for enterprises to make their SharePoint server data available to offline users and there was also a growing need to make the data available to geographically remote users by providing local, replica SharePoint servers. Our compression and replication know-how could clearly benefit organisations by reducing the time required for those non-local users to access crucial information. It was a situation that was perfect for the use of our Epsilon engine: lots of data, often updated, needing to be sent from one bandwidth-limited location to another.

    When Microsoft released SharePoint 2007, the growth of SharePoint was phenomenal. Here at iOra, we upgraded both our Server-to-Laptop and Server-to-Server solutions, adding Server-to-Virtual Server for good measure. With Server-to-Server, we now not only replicated SharePoint documents and list items but the whole SharePoint structure that held the data.

    SharePoint 2010 improved the document management and CRM that SharePoint provides. We now replicate SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 sites for organisations all over the world, to servers and laptops on both land and sea. We’ve been making SharePoint global for over a decade now, and we continue to innovate in the collaboration without the Cloud environment. Today, we’re working hard to add even more support for SharePoint replication, as well as thinking about the next version of SharePoint and beyond. We continue to work  with Microsoft updating and renewing our Gold Partner status.

    SharePoint is virtually in our DNA! More information here.

  • Digital Ship Athens 2013

    The Maritime Communications and Information Technology Conference and Exhibition covers the latest developments in satellite communications, software technology, navigation tools and electronics, to help keep shipping companies running more safely and efficiently. The event includes keynote speeches from senior shipping company technical and IT managers.