We are very excited to announce our nomination for ‘Best Green Business’ at the 2013 South London Business Awards.

This follows our success during the 2012 awards season, in which we took home the award for ‘Best New Business’ and a special commendation for ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ at the Sutton Business Awards, and a nomination for ‘Best New Business’ at the South London Business Awards.

We are hoping our unparalleled energy savings will take us to a victory in this category – it is fairly safe to assume that no other organisation in our class will be able to match our 250 ton CO2 saving each year. That’s equivalent to taking around 55 cars off our roads!

Wish us luck, and keep an eye on our Twitter account on the 4th of July for live updates from the gala dinner.

Netwise Hosting are proud to be hosting CommunityConnect Sutton, the first event of many to be held at the Netwise data centre facility in South London.

This is a free networking event for businesses local to Sutton and the surrounding areas, presenting attendees with the unique opportunity to tour Sutton’s only data centre. Come along to find out exact what we do and how data centre services can benefit your business in the future. It is also the perfect chance to meet fellow businesses and network, sharing contacts and information that will benefit the local business community.

When: 16th May 2013, 5.30pm to 7.00pm
Where: Netwise Hosting, Group House, 52 Sutton Court Road, Sutton, SM1 4SL
Cost: Free of charge, including complementary canapés and refreshments

Why come to CommunityConnect Sutton?

• An introduction to CommunityConnect.
• Meet important figures from Sutton; including the Council, South London Business, the Sutton Chamber of Commerce, local MP’s, Sutton Business Improvement District (BID), large and small business owners, and many more.
• Introduction to Netwise Hosting, with tours of the Boroughs only data centre facility – learning about hosting technologies.
• Learn about future CommunityConnect events.
• Make new business contacts, and network with fellow business owners.
• Enjoy a complementary glass of wine and some light snacks.

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If you would like to find out more and register for free tickets, please visit our events page.

As most of our readers will already know, Mayor of London Boris Johnson opened our data centre for us in May of last year during a visit to Sutton. This was a fantastic day for Netwise, and really helped in getting our name placed alongside some of London’s most important figureheads.

This has been further backed up this week, with a personal invitation from Boris Johnson himself to attend City Hall for a meeting to discuss future plans. Boris took a real interest in the progress of our business during his visit in 2012, and is very keen to meet again and catch up, sharing more stories on where we are now, and the details of what’s been happening since his last visit.

This week has seen the launch of a new operating system option on all of our dedicated server platforms. You can now select ‘Custom OS’ as an option during checkout, which will allow for the provision of your server with operating systems outside the remit of our most popular standard options.

This is ideally suited to customers with special requirements, or those with a need to run fully customised versions of operating systems for their end services to function correctly. We can provision servers with any OS, provided you make the required images and any associated licences available to our team during setup.

It is also the option of choice for those customers looking to take full advantage of our powerful new range of dedicated servers by virtualising the machines with the likes of VMware and Citrix.

If you would like to know more about the custom operating system process, please contact a member of our team.