Case Studies

Blinkbox is the UK’s leading Video-On-Demand movie & TV website, with one million unique visitors per month (as of November 2009). Since its launch in April 2008, the company has amassed a catalogue of over 7,000 of the world’s best film and TV titles, with additional content becoming available every month. blinkbox is the only service of its kind to have a combined free/pay platform, allowing users to stream or download paid-for feature titles alongside free, advert-supported TV and film content.

When looking for their chosen hosting provider, blinkbox wanted a company who could not only host on-demand video and TV but really understand their business needs. They required a service that could cope with the increase of their users whilst maintaining its quality at all times. Qube’s reputation for delivering and being able to easily cope with rapidly growing on-line businesses made them a good choice for co-location.
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders is a well known industry body representing mortgage lenders in the United Kingdom. Its members consist of banks, building societies and specialist lenders who represent 94% of mortgage lending in the UK. Qube has been managing the CML's virtualized Microsoft Windows Server based web, database and back-office systems and networks since 2004.
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Forward3D, previously known as TrafficBroker, is at the forefront of a new generation of pure performance-based search agencies. Its technology-led approach is at the cutting edge and offers a range of opportunities that other, more traditional search specialists, cannot. Since 2008, Qube has been providing TrafficBroker/Forward3D with a superior, scalable hosted platform, allowing them to focus on their core business whilst knowing Qube is taking care of their critical connectivity, networking & server infrastructure, all securely housed in one of the UKs leading and most reliable data centres.
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JustGiving is the UK’s largest online fundraising platform and has helped over 10 million people raise over £540 million for over 8,000 charities since 2001. JustGiving processed more than £180m of donations in 2009 alone and during the process has become a household name. Qube manages the hosting infrastructure that has been instrumental in helping JustGiving achieve its goals of widening the user base and growing the business by 40 per cent since setting up.

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Qube has come to the aid of tens of thousands of people living with multiple sclerosis by becoming the new host of the popular social networking site 'Jooly's Joint' (http://www.mswebpals.org). Established in 1995 by Julie Howell, Jooly's Joint (which is also known as MS Webpals) has for the past 16 years provided essential emotional support and friendship for people living with MS, a degenerative condition of the nervous system that affects more than 100,000 people in the UK.

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One of the world's oldest domain registries, CentralNic supplies domains at a growing number of extensions, currently numbering 26 and including .US.COM, .UK.COM, .CN.COM, AND .LA, sold via an integrated global network of 2,000 registrars and over 100,000 resellers. CentralNic's powerful registry engine has a fifteen year track record of uninterrupted secure supply of domains, supported by innovative marketing and personalised customer service. Qube manages the hosting infrastructure for CentralNic's registry system, providing a secure and stable platform for CentralNic's operations and future developments.

Gavin Brown, CTO at CentralNic, said:
"CentralNic is one of the leading contenders to provide registry services to the next generation of Top Level Domains. In order for us to meet the stringent security and service levels required of TLD registries, we needed to be sure that our registry system was in the best possible hands. When it was time for us to move from our previous colocation provider, I looked at the various options, and found Qube to be head and shoulders above their competitors: not just in terms of technical capabilities and infrastructure, but they were also the right fit for our company: people who cared as much about our network as we do."

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