Servecentric Wins Tesco Diets Deal

 Move to Ireland With Servecentric Solution CutsTesco Diets' Hosting Costs By 34%

 

 

 

Irish-owned data centre managed services company Servecentric has won a three-year managed hosting deal worth €140,000 with online subscription based weight loss service Tesco Diets, which it expects will cut its energy costs by 70%.

 

 

Servecentric is providing Tesco Diets with a managed hosting infrastructure, direct access to global networks and 24x7 technical support to ensure constant uptime. It is also providing a range of managed services including monitoring and security.

 

 

The deal  is part of a broader IT development strategy aimed at facilitating Tesco Diets' continued growth.

 

 

Servecentric's solution has cut Tesco Diets hosting costs by 34%, and through its virtualised server environment expects to reduce power consumption by 70%.

 

 

The Tescodiets website receives over one million visits per week, and continues to introduce interactive applications  to enhance its users experience. It offers rich media applications like webinars and video testimonials in real-time to ensure a personalised, community-driven approach to weight loss is delivered to members.

 

 

The Servecentric managed hosting solution has enhanced the quality and reliability of the Tesco Diets website by removing interruptions like time delays and other latency related issues.

 

 

Denis Finnegan, Tesco Diets IT Manager said: "Tesco Diets is experiencing incredible growth due to our very active and vocal membership community endorsing our services. We constantly strive to provide a secure and fully functional website that brings like minded people together, offering them a professional and personal weight loss programme.

 

"With membership numbers increasing, we realised our IT infrastructure was critical to facilitate this growth. Servecentric has become a true IT partner, working with us to deliver the appropriate solution with a focus on the long term business objectives of the company," he continued.

 

 

Servecentric sales and marketing manager Helga Muir commented: "For hundreds of thousands of people, visiting the Tesco Diet website has become a daily ritual. As numbers increase and the breadth of services become more media rich, the IT infrastructure becomes critical to user experience and business performance.

 

"To be selected as Tesco Diet's IT partner during such an important period of the company's growth is a true endorsement of the quality of our service offering," said Muir.

 

Tesco Diets, part of the Tesco Group, is a leading provider of online personalised diet plans and fitness programmes. Devised by nutritionists, its plans are calorie controlled and enable members to lose weight healthily while ensuring they meet their daily nutritional requirements too.

 

 

To facilitate its rapidly growing membership numbers across Ireland and the UK, Tesco Diets made the decision to review its entire ICT strategy. This included the migration of its IT infrastructure from its previous US location to a European data centre. Servecentric was chosen based on its ability to offer a flexible, consultative and cost effective solution.

 

 

Servecentric is the only Irish and independently owned data centre managed services company that has been awarded the ISO14001 Environmental Management Standard. Servecentric's efforts to limit its environmental impact were a key selection criteria for Tesco Diets.

 

 

 

Other key factors  in Tesco Diets' choice were Servecentric's ISO 27001 (Information Security Management) and ISO 9001 (Quality Management) awards from Certification Europe.The Servecentric solution has allowed Tesco Diets to consolidate its entire IT infrastructure, delivering a centralised, scalable and intelligently designed network.

 

 

Tesco Diets offers personlised healthy eating & weight loss diets. diets offered include Light Choices, low Gi, low Fat & Mediterranean and health specific diet plans, such as gluten free. Each member is assigned a Diet Mentor when they join, so that they know a friendly professional is there to help and listen to them. The member support team replies to all weekly progress comments received, giving personal advice and encouragement needed to achieve goals

 

 

On registration, members create a personal profile to determine which diet plan is best suited to their individual needs. All plans are flexible to cater for individual tastes and lifestyle requirements.

 

 

Tesco Diets believethat successful weight loss is not just about the diet plan, but the support and encouragement available.

 

It has a vibrant and lively Community area, with over 45 support boards, regular online meetings with our nutrition and motivation staff.  and chat rooms available at peak times.

 

 

Servecentric is a wholly owned, privately  funded, Irish organisations established in August 2002.  Its headquarters are  in Blanchardstown Corporate Park in Dublin.

 

Pictured are Servecentric sales and marketing manager Helga Muir and Tesco Diets IT Manager Denis Finnegan

 

 

 

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