Fordway - Data infrastructure specialists

 “The implementation went smoothly and to plan, which proved to us we’d made the right choice in selecting Fordway as our supplier.

There are many prospective suppliers of the kind of integration and development services that Fordway provides but all too frequently what you get isn’t always what it says on the tin. A highly professional sales pitch team does not always translate into a successful implementation. 

What we needed for this project was a reliable, safe and committed partner, not just a supplier. With Fordway, what we saw was what we got”

“We wanted a world class solution and that is precisely what we got. 

Fordway pointed us in the right direction, employed their industry knowledge to identify the right technologies and provided the essential consultancy and support – in partnership with us throughout every stage of the project.

For users, it has been a seamless migration. Improvement of the environment has been up to tenfold”

“Our new SAN has been instrumental in reducing our IT capital and operational costs.  It also ensures that our systems are better protected from potential downtime and data loss. 

Fordway has provided us with an extremely cost-effective solution, ensuring that the maximum amount of profit is donated to our global initiatives. 

We therefore regard this as crucial in enabling us to adapt to rapid business growth and change – ensuring our long-term survival and continued success in tackling poverty”

“As a public sector organisation, Hillingdon is committed to driving sustainable, more environmentally friendly practices, and our green IT initiative enabled us to reduce our carbon footprint by 20 per cent over 18 months”

“This award is a credit to Fordway, who helped us create an energy-efficient, highly sustainable data network

We have a company-wide green initiative and this project has enabled us to make a substantial contribution by reducing our power consumption and hence our impact on the environment”

“Right from the outset Fordway worked in partnership with LCC and instilled confidence. Storage Area Networks can be complex – and integrators who claim it is all simple and easy, do neither themselves nor their clients any favours.

Fordway took us through the complexity and ensured that we always understood what they were doing – before they did it.  They were competent, thorough and flexible, certainly a company I would recommend”

“Fordway’s design met our operational criteria; the delivery was completed professionally and to schedule.  The solution has met expectations; it does everything Fordway said it would. 

The endorsement of this solution is simple, the University has continued to invest in this initial phase designed, supplied and implemented by Fordway”

“We have worked with Fordway on many previous occasions and fully trust them to provide us an effective solution”

"We realised that we needed a faster, more reliable IT infrastructure.  Without it we wouldn't be able to support new ways of working for our staff, which is a key element of enabling us to provide improved service for customers"

“The migration was handled smoothly, to plan, timescale and budget, with Fordway, ITNET and ourselves working together closely.  With the implementation of SMS the management and distribution of applications to desktop clients is so much easier.  Our new storage area network has consolidated the number of servers and has given us considerable cost savings. 

The migration was handled by Fordway professionally with a high level of technical expertise and project management ability.  I would have no hesitation in using Fordway again for any future projects”

“Fordway dotted all the i’s and crossed all the t’s.  From the outset, their presentations were always extremely professional. They configured everything in the UK and shipped it lock, stock and barrel to Saudi Arabia. This was an elegant solution for us.

We had to get the necessary infrastructure up at very short notice – which Fordway was able to achieve.  We are now considering the same solution at some of our other international sites on a case by case basis – with Fordway providing support remotely”

“Fordway made the strongest case for how they could put the whole thing together – and we liked their proposition foundation of providing an integrated solution, rather than merely offering product sell.  What also resonated strongly was their demonstrable conformance to ITIL best practice for project development. Previous experience had taught us that an ounce of expertise is worth a pound of product.

The implementation was conducted smoothly and to plan.  The bottom line is that we now have full visibility of everything on the network.  Improved control and management is building up significantly increased levels of business confidence – and reduced costs”