Lexel Clients

The Warehouse Group

"They listen to us and work with us to find the best solutions. The secret to their success is flexibility and agility."
Grant Lang
Infrastructure Architect

Hallenstein Glasson Holdings

"Lexel look after all our store computers and point of sale systems in almost 100 locations throughout New Zealand. Its a 7 day a week, 364 day a year job that requires fast response and attention to detail. Lexel have proven over the past 10 years to be both reactive and proactive, and they are a business partner in the true sense of the word."
Graeme Popplewell
Finance Director – Hallenstein Glasson Holdings

Stevens

"Lexel manages our point of sale system in 31 locations throughout New Zealand and has done so for the past 10 years ... Lexel has provided superior service during this time ... We consider them to be excellent partners; they are both attentive to our needs and are responsive to any feedback given.".
Brett R Nicholls
General Manager - Stevens

Vector

"Lexel go into bat for you. If there are issues with a vendor they'll deal with them. It removes stress from those relationships."
Craig Knox

L'Oreal

"What I like about Lexel is that as they have grown they've never lost sight of their values. They're efficient, friendly and honest, which is very important. If something's amiss, they'll tell you. As a customer you never feel like you will be lost in the pool. Even when key contacts are unavailable, someone is always there to help. Something will always be done."
Deborah Elsbury

Overland Footwear

"Lexel is very responsive. You don’t get bogged down in red tape or paperwork. When we lost our Point of Sale WAN, Lexel was there, working into the wee small hours."
Roy Urien

Hafele (N.Z.) Limited

"I have found Lexel to be competitive, friendly and efficient. Their service and knowledge is excellent."
Nigel Dunn

Turners Auctions

"Great service, super-friendly sales and account team. Highly recommended"
Jarrod Levet

Sky Network Television

"Total commitment. Goes the EXTRA mile. If I can’t find/do it, I'll find some one who can. It's never too much of a problem. Can be relied on to deliver. These are just some of the things that come to mind when I think of my experience with Lexel. In particular our Account Manager, whose level of customer service and commitment is unsurpassed. I highly recommend Lexel as a complete solution to any businesses procurement needs."
Noelene Shraga

Transfield Services NZ Ltd

"Lexel has been a business partner of Transfield Services NZ for some years. They are an integral part of our IT supply chain and have worked closely with us to deliver a high level of service to our business. We have found them to provide "value add" as a supplier, not just simply providing the day to day requirements, but working with us on new solutions as a real partner."
Alan Clist, General Manager Information Services

Adept Ltd

"We were very impressed with Lexel and how they had managed the infrastructure update. It made sense to start using their Managed Services – we’d get all the skill-sets we required from a provider that we trusted"
Carla Tewkesbury, General Manager

Client references, case studies

Restaurant Brands Case Study

Restaurant giant feasts on virtualisation benefits
Popular wisdom says that you can't have your cake and eat it too. But it seems the spectacular success of virtualisation has consigned this idiomatic proverb to the past, where once IT cost savings meant functional compromise. Using VMware vSphere 4, Restaurant Brands radically improved server and backup performance at a cost similar to replacing a standard server platform ...
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Adept Case Study

Adept chooses Lexel Managed Services to cure IT headache
Technology company Adept has found a way to get better value for its IT money. With expertise on tap, through Lexel Managed Services, risks are reduced and productivity is protected...
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The Warehouse Group Case Study

The Warehouse partners with Lexel for virtual desktop solution ('VDI')
One of New Zealand's largest businesses chose to work with Lexel to pilot and launch the country's most ambitious VDI project to date ...
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Otahuhu College Case Study

Innovative high school engages Lexel for ICT virtualisation project
With an ICT environment that includes more than 500 computers, Otahuhu College recognised that server virtualisation was the best way to solve performance, storage and fault-tolerance issues ...
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Media Design School Case Study

After more than a decade of growth, Media Design School, a leading producer of specialist digital artists and design professionals, was outgrowing its IT environment. Its backend technology was becoming increasingly stretched due to the increased sophistication of designm applications and the file sizes of student reels that included visually rich animation and visual effects movies and complex computer games requiring massive rendering power ...
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Fortinet Case Study

After a thorough search of firewall vendors in 2006, the Fortinet® FortiGate® appliances were selected because of the product lines' easy deployment scenario which allowed for multiple WAN connections no matter the size of the FortiGate appliance ...
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Orion Health Case Study

NetApp saves Orion Health 50% of storage space, reduces storage management and improves efficiency
The challenge: Rapid growth in storage requirements created storage restrictions, reducing productivity and increasing management requirements. Orion Health needed to streamline operations to ease pressure on data storage and maximise results. The solutions: NetApp data deduplication across 350 virtual machines, NetApp FAS2020 storage system with Data ONTAP 7.3 ...
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Southern Spars Case Study

MS Server 2008-R2, a Microsoft Global Case Study
Southern Spars wanted to expand its virtualization capabilities and simplify remote access, so it upgraded to Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows® 7. By using Hyper-V™ virtualization technology, Southern Spars has capacity to deploy 20 percent more virtual servers on the same number of physical hosts and will defer costly hardware upgrades. With the DirectAccess feature, mobile users can access company resources without a virtual private network ...
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Peter Baker Transport Case Study

Turning IT 'weak links' into strengths
With so much focus on ICT innovation and emerging computing platforms it's easy to overlook a central truth of the business computing age: IT performance is governed by the weakest link within a system of inter-related parts e.g. server virtualisation might offer better protection from hardware failures, but what does it matter if a failed communications link prohibits access to applications running on those servers?
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Hallenstein Glasson Case Study

Retail therapy - no time for POS headaches
Retailing provides a stark example of just how critical IT is to business. Unlike some other businesses, whose system users are prepared to cut the IT department some slack when things go wrong, retailers get about 30 seconds to clinch the sale, before it’s lost. The customer standing on the other side of the counter simply isn’t prepared to wait for delayed transaction processing.
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Lexicon Case Study

How virtual beats physical
IT is famous for poor capacity utilisation, particularly when it comes to servers, which often function at less than 20 percent capacity. Australasia’s leading environment design and creation company, Lexicon Group, faced two choices when it decided to upgrade its server environment: replace like with like, or consolidate and virtualise.
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URS Case Study

Fixing growth pains
Exploding corporate data is a fact of business life. In the land of digital files everything just gets bigger, which is often problematic for the people and systems tasked with managing data growth.

Finding available capacity gets harder, and managing data so its creators can retrieve files when they’re needed demands new processes and file management automation.
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