Jerome Mohamed re-joins Octavia Information Systems to bring data centre technologies to SMEs

06 November, 2008: London-based IT support and software development consultancy, Octavia Information Systems has appointed Jerome Mohamed as its new head of sales and marketing. He will be responsible for growing core elements of the business – including virtualised high-availability and business continuity solutions.

Mohamed moves to Octavia from web hosting and managed services provider Alentus UK where he managed the UK office after its acquisition of ISP Areti Internet in May 2008. Throughout this role he focussed on managed co-location, dedicated servers, leased line internet access, virtual/shared hosting, and specialist data centre virtualisation solutions.

In his new position at Octavia, Mohamed will use his experience of large ISP environments to roll-out a programme of delivering high-availability IT to SME’s.

Mohamed, comments: “I am returning to Octavia to expand our delivery of managed IT support and will be offering virtualised high-availability and business continuity solutions to SMEs – technology that has been previously reserved for enterprise-scale organisations.”

Prior to working for Areti, Cisco and Microsoft certified Mohamed worked at Octavia before leaving to begin working on an IT security venture. In his previous role as head of business development, Mohamed grew Octavia’s customer base from 35 to more than 100 – including bringing in art auctioneers Phillips de Pury & Company.

Octavia’s Chief Executive Officer, Giles Sirett, comments: “As someone who has been key in the growth of Octavia, we are all extremely pleased that Jerome is re-joining the company. His new wider commercial experience will be instrumental in our aggressive plans for growth.”