McMillan Williams Solicitors deploys infrastructure at Interxion data centre to increase speed and reliability of its IT

CIO says Interxion understood business drivers and helped company to meet future growth plans

UK high street law firm McMillan Williams Solicitors is to deploy its infrastructure at Interxion's City of London data centre campus in a bid to speed up its IT and increase the reliability of its systems.

McMillan Williams (MW) Solicitors has experienced rapid growth in the past few years after becoming a limited company. In February, the firm received a £5m investment from the Business Growth Fund to continue its expansion - it hopes to grow from 20 branches to 50. The organisation wanted to ensure that it had an IT infrastructure that could cope with existing expansion plans and meet future demands.

After narrowing down the number of data centre providers to three, it chose Interxion.

"When we approached Interxion for help, they really understood our business drivers," said David Fazakerley, CIO at MW Solicitors.

"Our legacy infrastructure created challenges for staff, who had to deal with IT obstacles outside their usual remit. With solicitors billing by the hour and dealing with time-sensitive legal matters, a slow and sometimes unreliable IT infrastructure caused inefficiencies across the business," he added.

The data centre is part of an overarching IT transformation project: the firm has invested in and built its own cloud infrastructure, and moving to Interxion has enabled it to implement a new practice management system, real-time sales and billing reports and greater mobile working capabilities.

"By assisting us to review our infrastructure, Interxion has helped us to meet our future growth plans and give our solicitors time to focus on what matters most - providing an optimal service to clients in need'," said Fazakerley.

Interxion claimed that MW Solicitors has been able to track power consumption more effectively as a result of the "transparency" of its business model, resulting in a saving of about £8,000 a year.