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Company History
Centralis Ltd. is an award-winning, independent I.T. company specialising in infrastructure design, optimisation and deployment.
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2008
Centralis Harvester 4.5 certified "Citrix Ready". Centralis commence collaborative project with Citrix and Microsoft to create cost-effective and scalable virtual desktop solutions using Citrix Provisioning Server together with XenDesktop, XenServer and Microsoft HyperV. Centralis invited as guest speakers at the Butler Group 2008 Master Class seminar on Infrastructure Virtualisation & Optimisation.
2007
Microsoft Gold partnership status awarded. Centralis appointed as the UK's first Thinstall Platinum Partner. Harvester 4.5 launched, including the new read-only "Auditor" version. Centralis awarded "We Bring out The Best in Each Other" IT Supplier of the year by Centrica for consultancy and managed services around mobile working and desktop solutions.
2006
Centralis is appointed as a Citrix Platinum Solution Advisor, reflecting the company's commitment to providing customers with end to end solutions across the full Citrix product suite. Centralis is also appointed Citrix NetScaler "spearhead" partners, giving early adopter access and pre-release training for the Citrix Application Networking Group products. Centralis announces top-level partnerships with WYSE, VMware, AppSense, ScriptLogic and Macrovision.
Centralis sponsor Citrix iForum Edinburgh demonstrating virtualisation and streaming technologies for VMware and WYSE, together with the newly released Harvester 4.0.
2005
Centralis is appointed as a "spearhead" partner, giving early adopter access and pre-release training for the Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise products. Standard Life and Bracknell Forest Borough Council present case studies on Centralis projects at iForum Edinburgh. In a busy year for software development Centralis release Harvester 2.0 (Citrix farm management for XP FR3 - Presentation Server 3.0), Contex 2.0 (new Novell Citrix integration tool) and PrintHere (location based printing and Citrix integration for Novell's iPrint).
2004
Centralis sponsors Citrix iForum Edinburgh to launch Harvester, the first commercial software developed using the Citrix SDK. Centralis receives the Best Citrix Solution 2004 at the Citrix Solutions Advisor Awards for the Citrix Access Solution project at Cardiff University (a project which also won the UCISA award for IT excellence). AXE 3 is launched, introducing a new set of eDir publishing tools and the first real integration between ZENworks and Citrix published applications. Centralis software sales reach 300,000 user licenses.
2003
Centralis becomes the first company in the UK and EMEA to be awarded the status of Citrix Managed Consulting Provider, and join the Novell ISV (Independent Software Vendor) programme, launched in November. BUPA present a case study on their common infrastructure project with Centralis at Citrix iForum. RSA appoint Centralis as an advantage level partner. Centralis co-sponsors BrainShare 2003 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA). AXE 2.0 is launched, featuring improved ease of use, new integration with eDirectory, new rules for Windows XP and full compatibility with ZENworks 4.
2002
AXE FR1 launched, introducing file version profiling. CLAM 1.5 launched, featuring improved central management and integration with Citrix NFuse Classic. Centralis co-sponsors of BrainShare 2002 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA), Citrix Solutions Summit (Florida, USA), and Citrix iForum (Northern Europe). Citrix choose Centralis as NFuse Elite Champion Partner. Novell award Centralis Business Expert status under PartnerNet 2002/3. First Reseller in Israel appointed.
2001
Centralis awarded Premier Business Alliance Partner status by Citrix. Requested by Novell in the US to demonstrate integration with Citrix solutions at their premiere event - Novell BrainShare 2001, Salt Lake City in March. Centralis Contex for NT and AD launched to provide improved Citrix Novell Integration. Toolkit software awarded Novell "YES Tested and Approved" certification. Demonstrated eDirectory, ZENworks and Citrix MetaFrame XP integration at BrainShare Nice, Citrix iForum and Networks Telecom 2001. Centralis appoints first international resellers in Europe and the USA.
2000
Awarded Solutions Partner status by Novell, gave demonstrations and technical breakout sessions on Novell / Citrix integration at key industry events including Novell’s European BrainShare 2000 and Citrix Northern European iForum. Awarded Certified Consulting Service Provider status by Citrix. Centralis launch integration software, including AXE, Lyncx and the TCS Snapin, all currently featured on the Novell “Cool Solutions” website.
1999
Awarded Business Expert in Consulting by Novell, designed and ran the Citrix / Novell integration road show at Networks 99, a live showcase demonstration sponsored by Novell, Citrix and Compaq. CLAM 1.0 launched to provide locked down PCs for accessing Citrix solutions.
1998
Awarded Citrix Gold Solutions Provider status by Citrix, ISO9001 (Quality) & Investor in People status, changed trading name to Centralis.
1997
Awarded Novell Consulting Partner & Microsoft Solutions Provider status. Moved to new HQ offices in Warwickshire, UK.
1996
Company formed by the team responsible for completing UK-wide network architecture design and developing software distribution and management solution for two UK Times Top 100 utility companies with a total of over 20,000 users.