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Wavex Technology Limited, founded by Gavin Russell in 1997 focused at delivering enterprise level IT services to businesses with up to 600 staff.

Head Office
Wavex has its main offices in Central London Livonia Street in London. Incorporated in 1997 Wavex now (2012) support 10,000 customers.

History
1997

Wavex was founded by Gavin Russell financed by the sales from software development projects that Gavin had created himself.

2000

Wavex first company in the world to solve the ILOVEYOU virus, releasing a fix to help businesses recover from the virus.

2001

Wavex achieved the number one organic listed position on most search-engines driving rapid growth.

2003

Wavex launched NETi (again designed and written by Gavin Russell), the first real-time company wide network interrogation application receiving accolades from various IT Outsourcing publications. NETi reduced troubleshooting time while increasing an engineers visability of a customers IT estate.

Wavex NETi receives acclaim from Network Computing Magazine.

Wavex published article for InformationAge on LAN technology.

Wavex interviewed by CNBC for business channel.

2005

Wavex launched its "Wavex portal", industry leading analytics helping customers better understand their IT estate. This included:-
 * Monthly audits of hardware and licenses.
 * Detailed financial analysis.
 * Call flow information.
 * User satisfaction reports.
 * Helpdesk pickup and response times.
 * Service-level related information.
 * Infrastructure reliability and uptime reports aligned to customers business hours.

Wavex receives recognition from the Times newspaper for its innovative and customer focused service offering.

2006

Gavin Russell invited onto the Telegraph newspaper "Toolkit" panel.

Wavex is finalist in CBI's Customer Excellence Award

Wavex wins Deloitte Fast 50.

2007

Wavex aquires CCT, increasing its volume of customers.

Wavex wins Growing Business Awards and Deloitte Fast 50

2008

Wavex launches MonX - pre-emptive monitoring software to analyse irregular server performance. Used by 100,000 servers world-wide.

Wavex wins Sunday Times Fast Track 100

2009

Wavex wins LDC-Real Business "HOT 100 Companies" and Sunday Times Fast Track 100

Wavex online presence and innovative services help underpin its growth.

2010

Wavex launches Life-Signs, a combination of flexible monitoring topology, robust monitoring engine, and advanced analytics to provide business level users insights into IT estate.

Wavex wins European IT Excellence award, Enterprise Solution Provider.

2011

Gavin Russell re-organises Wavex board, performing an MBO to focus Wavex at its core values. Mark Rendall, Linda Price join Wavex board.

Russell starts 2 year internal restructuring initative to bring a new range of innovative services to market.

2012

Wavex wins the Plimsoll Publishing Ltd "Outstanding Company" award, the accolade given to a very select number of companies in their individual industry sectors for outstanding financial performance.

Wavex launch new cloud services.

2013

Wavex is awards the TechMarketView "Little British Battlers"

Wavex is a finalist of the IT Europa "Solution Provider - Managed Service Solution of the Year"

Wavex is shortlisted in the CRN_Magazine awards.

Awards, accreditations and memberships

 * Winning the European IT Excellence award, Enterprise Solution Provider 2010.
 * The Sunday Times "Top 100 Best Companies to Work For" 2008,2009.
 * Deloitte "Fast 50" 2006, 2007 and 2008.
 * Growing Business Awards 2007.
 * The Sunday Times "Fast Track 100" 2007, 2008 and 2009.
 * LDC-Real Business "HOT 100 Companies" 2009.


 * Microsoft Gold Server & OEM + Silver Midmarket Solutions Provider, Volume Licensing, Software Asset Management and Mobility
 * Cisco Select Partner
 * VMware Enterprise Solutions Provider
 * Symantec Small Business Partner/Associate Partner
 * Citrix Silver Solutions Partner/Service Provider
 * Juniper JPartner
 * Double-Take Platinum Partner
 * Qlik Associate Partner
 * Riverbed Gold Partner
 * Palo Alto Gold Partner
 * EMC Affiliate Elite
 * Veeam Silver Partner
 * Dell Premier Partner