LONDON, September 21 /PRNewswire/ --     Simpson Spence and Young, the world's largest independent
shipbroking group, is ready to face an increasingly turbulent marketplace
having undertaken a complete technology refresh with their partner, BIS Ltd.
SSY's infrastructure is now hosted across resilient data centres and utilises
the latest in virtualisation technologies.

Martin Lusher, Director at SSY said, "SSY has moved from a
traditional single main site with remote disaster recovery solution using a
'one box, one role' setup to a fully virtualised and scalable environment.
Not only have we been able to reduce maintenance costs, we have also
increased our support cover with the BIS managed servers monitored 24/7.
Beyond this, we derive great comfort knowing that business critical services
and applications are now on a highly available system."

Andy Richer, SSY's Head of IT stated "I approached BIS to
design a high availability platform for our applications with inbuilt
"business continuity" and "disaster recovery". The solution also had to be
readily scalable and flexible. Using BIS designed replicated storage and
virtual servers, SSY now has an infrastructure that not only offers
robustness in the event of a disaster and high availability on a day to day
basis but also has the flexibility to react and respond rapidly to the
everyday needs of the business."

He continued "Whilst we only went live recently, I am already
seeing the benefits that working with BIS brings. They're available at the
end of a phone at all times, we're able to readily access their technical
expertise and all this is supplemented by their professional 24 hour
monitoring and support."

Samantha Keating, Sales Director of BIS said, "Not only have
we been able to provide SSY with a state-of-the-art system, we have also been
able to develop our relationship to the extent that SSY sees BIS as a trusted
partner. With BIS providing monitoring and support for the new environment,
Andy is now able to focus on the strategic IT planning that will drive his
business forward and the in house support staff can concentrate more on
supporting users and applications."

About BIS Ltd

BIS has been designing, building and managing IT
infrastructure solutions for over 10 years. As an independently owned service
provider, our UK based team of leading technical, project and operational
experts provide impartial advice on how best to meet your IT service delivery
objectives.

Information about BIS Ltd and its services can be found at
http://www.bis-internet.co.uk

About SSY

SSY combines over a century of traditional broking expertise
with technological sophistication and innovation. They take pride in a
pro-active approach to broking and advise their clients of future market
trends, developments and opportunities as well as anticipating their growing
and changing requirements.

Information about SSY and its services can be found at
http://www.ssyonline.com

For more information, please contact:

    Samantha Keating
    BIS Ltd
    Tel: +44-(0)20-7861-9322