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08/04/2013 - reed.co.uk employs Google Apps

reed.co.uk, the UK’s leading recruitment website, has ‘Gone Google’ with Grove Group, a Google Enterprise Partner.
 
reed.co.uk has grown significantly from 25 to 250 employees since it broke away from the Reed Group in 2007. Mark Ridley, Director of Technology at reed.co.uk explains that “In the last year, we’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to completely review how technology can support our business. We have developed the concept of a ‘browser-first’ platform which places Google Apps at the very heart of our business”.


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08/04/2013 - Grove Group Supports Today´s Youth Through Silicon Aspire

Grove Group are delighted to be supporting the young entrepreneurs of today through Silicon Aspire. Silicon Aspire launched in February 2013 and is a business start-up hub for young entrepreneurs.  Philip Witheridge, CEO and founder of Grove Group has decided to support the program by giving new companies in the program a ‘Google Apps for Business’ License at an extremely reduced price.



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07/03/2013 - The Google Enterprise message to South African business

 

Grove Group, a leading cloud service provider in South Africa, is extremely excited to be co-hosting ‘Going Google Africa' with Google Enterprise and partners DotModus and 28East. The event will host CEOs and CIOs to demonstrate the critical role online solutions are playing in business, and the shift from personal productivity to collaboration across physical boundaries.

The ‘Going Google Africa’ event is part of a global Google Enterprise road show, with similar events taking place all over the world. November 2012 saw the first road show of its kind on the African continent being held in Kenya, while 19 March 2013 will see ‘Going Google Africa' taking place in South Africa for the first time.


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12/02/2013 - Grove Group kick´s off their Q1 event schedule with a bang!

Grove Group, a Google Enterprise Partner launches their 2013 Event Schedule on Valentine’s Day 14th February.

The event schedule kicks off in Cape Town and in London on the 14th of February, yes on Valentine’s day. Grove & Google will be covering Business, Social & Technology Trends for 2013 as well as investigating Google’s Enterprise and Social solutions.
 
The Cape Town event takes place at Grove HQ, in Woodstock Cape Town, on Thursday the 14th of February between 09h00 - 11h00. Registration from 08h15.


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12/02/2013 - Grove Group Launches Redesigned Website

Grove Group is pleased to announce the launch of a redesigned website ahead of the company’s busy event schedule for 2013.

 
The new website offers a visually appealing and streamlined user experience. The navigation is simpler and the services and solutions that the company offers are quick to understand.  In addition, key resources such as the video, customer case studies, news and events sections have been enhanced to ensure a more satisfying and engaging user experience.


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11/02/2013 - Global Media Group Goes Google

Haymarket, the global media company operating in over 40 countries worldwide, whose brands include What Car?, Brand Republic Group and Clothes Show Live, has appointed Grove Group as its Google Enterprise Partner. They will work together to revolutionise Haymarket’s communications and collaboration systems by deploying Google Apps for Business and Google Apps Vault in the UK and USA.



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14/11/2012 - Social, Mobile, Cloud: What matters most.

Cape Town, November 14th, 2012 - As we wrap up a week of Google and technology events, Grove Group, a Google Enterprise Partner is due to hold their last event in Cape Town for this year.  Over the past 6 months Grove has successfully hosted a number of events around the topics of Cloud Computing, Mobile and Social Business and as a consequence of their overwhelming popularity, Grove together with Google, will host one last session in Cape Town for this year.



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09/10/2012 - Grove & Google Host

Cape Town, October 9, 2012 - Grove Group, a Google Enterprise Partner hosts further roadshows around the topics of Cloud Computing, Mobile and Social.  Realising the need for further discussion around these disruptive technologies, Grove, together with Google, will be hosting another series of events starting in Cape Town on the 12th of October 2012.



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21/09/2012 - Grove & Google Three City Roadshow - The Future of Business is Social?

London, September 20, 2012 - Grove Group, a Google Enterprise partner hosted the last leg of their three city roadshow in London yesterday.  The events covered the subject of Cloud Computing, Social and Mobile and how these catalysts are changing the way organisations do business. The events were an overwhelming success with only standing room left at the beginning of each session.



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07/09/2011 - Google And Grove Group Event At One&Only Cape Town

Google and Grove Group will be holding an executive forum event at the luxurious One&Only resort in Cape Town on the 7th of September 2011 with special guest Sebastien Marotte, VP of Google Enterprise EMEA in attendance to support Google's entry into the African market. This two hour event will transform your understanding of cloud computing and is a not to be missed forum for CTOs, CIOs, CFOs and CEOs of businesses investigating the cloud.



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06/08/2012 - Grove & Google Three City Roadshow

London, August 6, 2012 - Grove Group, a Google Premier Enterprise partner, today announced its third quarter seminar schedule on the subject of Cloud Computing, Social and Mobile. Grove & Google will be hosting a series of events in London, Cape Town and Johannesburg over the next few weeks.



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29/05/2012 - Grove & Google win the Cloud Africa´s "Best Business Productivity Cloud Solution in Africa"

Grove are very proud to announce that Grove & the Google Apps for Business suite won Cloud Africa’s “Best Business Productivity Cloud Solution in Africa” award for 2012.



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13/04/2012 - HBZ Bank Limited Goes Google

London and South Africa, 12 April, 2012 – HBZ Bank Limited South Africa (A wholly owned subsidiary of Habib Bank AG Zurich) recently upgraded their email solution from legacy Microsoft to Google Apps. 



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23/02/2012 - Grove Group chosen as accredited supplier to UK Government

Grove Group, Google’s Apps Premier Enterprise Reseller, has been chosen as an accredited supplier of the UK Government in each of the categories identified in the GCloud, namely: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Specialist Cloud Services.



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14/02/2012 - Grove Group Becomes A Google Apps Premier Enterprise Reseller

Grove Group announced today that it has become a Premier Enterprise Reseller of the Google Apps™ suite of communication and collaboration tools. This new designation from Google enables customers to more easily assess a reseller's expertise advising on and deploying Google products. Grove Group has moved from an Authorized to a Premier Reseller based on their expertise and success in helping customers deploy and use Google Apps.



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07/02/2012 - Elliott International, SAs leading removal and relocations company, has gone Google

Elliott announced today that they have entered into an agreement to provide all their employees the opportunity to be connected to a common e-mail, chat and calendar system (Gmail, Google Talk and Google Calendar), cloud collaboration tools (Google Docs, Google Sites, & Google Groups) and archiving tools (Google Message Discovery ) that will enable them to work together more effectively and ensure security and compliance.



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30/11/2011 - Grove Group Ranked 14th Fastest-Growing Technology Company in the UK in the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Grove Group today announced that it ranked Number 14 in the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years. Grove Group has grown 1716% since 2006 and expecting to continue with this rapid growth in the future.



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30/11/2011 - Mix Telematics Has Gone Google

Mix Telematics announced today that they have entered into an agreement to provide all their local and global employees (500 users in their Johannesburg office initially and a further 400 Cape Town and global office users migrating over the coming months) with the opportunity to be connected to a common e-mail, chat and calendar system (Gmail, Google Talk and Google Calendar), cloud collaboration tools (Google Docs, Google Sites, & Google Groups) and multimedia tools (Google Video for Business) that will enable them to work together and learn more effectively.



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18/10/2011 - Cell C Launches Corporate Intranet With Google Sites

 

Cell C, one of the leading mobile network operators in South Africa offering products and services to more than 7 million customers, have deployed Google Sites across its whole organization.


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18/10/2011 - Bateman Engineering Migrates To Google Enterprise Suite

Bateman Engineering, a leading engineering, project and equipment supplier to a variety of industries worldwide, approached the Grove Group to unify their communications and messaging using Google Apps and Google Message Discovery. Bateman had 18 Exchange Mail servers scattered on 5 continents across the globe that needed continuous attention and internal IT could not guarantee a 99.9% uptime.



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27/09/2011 - Google And Grove Group Event At Google HQ

Google and Grove Group will be holding an executive forum event at the Google HQ in London on the 27th of September 2011. This two hour event will transform your understanding of cloud computing and is a not to be missed forum for CTOs, CIOs, CFOs and CEOs of businesses investigating the cloud.



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04/10/2012 - Grove & Google Host Cloud, Social & Mobile are Revolutionizing Business

Cape Town, October 4, 2012 - Grove Group, a Google Enterprise Partner hosts further roadshows around the topics of Cloud Computing, Mobile and Social.  Realising the need for further discussion around these disruptive technologies, Grove, together with Google, will be hosting another series of events starting in Cape Town on the 12th of October 2012.



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24/02/2011 - Grove Group Pre-Sales have been awarded Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialists

Grove Group is proud to announce that all three members of their Google Apps deployment team have received the Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist qualification. All three members were part of the initial beta test group. Officially launched in late February Grove can now officially announce their certification status. The team individually took the 10th, 65th, and 69th position of test takers globally to pass the exam. All three certified specialists were members of the first 100 to be recognized worldwide in the new Google Certified Deployment Specialist program.



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19/11/2010 Grove Group is appointed Google Security & Compliance Authorized Distributor

19 Nov 2008, London. Grove Group today announced that they have been appointed as Google Security & Compliance Authorized Distributor for Europe and Africa. Grove Group is a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions across the EMEA. 



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21/08/2010 Grove signs to incorporate Software-as-a-Service Automated Pen Testing tool

A new era for Grove and Random Storm partners await. In an endeavour to enhance our SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) offering, 



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16/08/2010 - Google Apps a winner for Cape Nature - Groves Latest Partner (Government Gazette Insert)

 Google Apps a winner for Cape Nature - Groves Latest Partner



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03/06/2010 Growth of SaaS driving Grove´s Partner Program

03 June 2009, London. Partnering with Grove shows long term benefit according to the latest SaaS market predictions by Gartner.



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01/05/2010 Grove Group staff numbers increase

01 May 2009, London. At the end of the first quarter of 2009, Grove Group have hired no less than 10 new account managers and new support staff to accommodate the company's growth.      



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02/02/2010 Grove Group answers ITWeb Q&A

02 Feb 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa - Editor Leigh-Ann Francis interviewed Grove Group's Chad Bartlett, Head of Grove Group Sales SA for ITWeb's Managed Services & Outsourcing Newsletter.



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01/10/2009 Grove Group officially launches their secure Single Sign-On (SSO) platform

01 Oct 2009, London, UK‚ Grove's customers across EMEA can now access their SaaS and Hybrid services on one single portal.        



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01/11/2008 Grove Group ends the quarter serving over 220 000 end users globally

01 Nov 2008, London. Grove Group operations have released favourable news on the current status of their clients and the number of end users on their books.



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18/09/2008 Grove signs as a Google Enterprise Partner

Grove Group is pleased to announce that they have signed as a Google Enterprise Partner.



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02/06/2008 Grove Group Cape Town moves into new offices

Grove Group caters to a world market and therefore as their client list grows so will corporate operations.



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We are proud to announce that our new website is now fully up and running.



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08/04/2008 Grove Group ends quarter serving over 150 000 end-users worldwide

Grove's reputation as EMEA's (Europe, Middle East and Africa) leading software-as-a-service provider has been confirmed with the current figures recently released from management in the UK. 



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12/02/2008 Tech 100 accolade awarded to Grove Group

The Technology Top 100 programme is focused on identifying the true role models who through innovation, tenacity and a passionate belief in people, have been able to take their organisations to new levels of competitiveness. 



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18/01/2008 Grove Group becomes a gold partner of ClearFormat

Grove is awarded Gold Partnership status by ClearFormat as both companies work together to optimize operations and services.



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24/04/2007 Grove makes impact at InfoSec with presence on Postini stand

Infosec Europe 2007, which was held from April 24th until April 26th, had 11,787 visitors, with 311 exhibitors and 247 press professionals occupying the floor at the Grand Hall, Olympia, London. Grove and Postini once again features in style.      



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22/03/2007 Grove opens offices in San Francisco

Now in the United States of America, Grove truly becomes a global force offering the best in software internet security. 



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19/03/2007 Grove adds Secure VPN solution to portfolio

Bringing more premium solutions into the Grove fold is a mission that Grove would never deter from. 



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10/03/2007 Grove signs agreement with NYC listed Manufacturing Company

Guess what!? We are now seccussefully on the move in the United States using our expertise from EMEA and now applying it into the Americas!



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09/02/2007 Postini awards Grove Postini Partner of the Year 2006/7

A hugely successful night for the Grove team as they have been awarded a strategic advantage over competitors as they are now Gold partners.



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01/01/2007 Grove signs partnership with Prolexic - DDoS mitigation MSP

Grove Group is on a path to assure clients that Grove and their partners offer the best software security services. This can only be done to incorporate strategically relevant and innovative partners in the Grove Group fold. 



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G4S leaps into the future by doing a PAN African deployment with Google Apps & Cloud Solutions

G4S, the leading international security solutions group, has appointed technology company Grove Group (+GroveGroup) to revolutionize its existing IT systems by deploying Google Apps for Business and Google Message Discovery (GMD) across the G4S Africa region. 



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Grove awarded FTSE 100 Company Postini Contract

Grove aquires yet another partner in its already strong corporate foundation

Grove recently signed a large, globally dispersed FTSE 100 company onto Postini. 



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Grove awarded distribution deal in Africa for Postini

Grove fully understands the African market and is therefore the leading re-seller of Postini services in this strong growing continent. 



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Grove expands team in Cape Town, South Africa

Grove extends its global reach by opening an office in South Africa's mother city, Cape Town 



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Grove makes impact at InfoSec with presence on Postini stand

InfoSec is one of the, if not the most sort after Security conference on the calendar and Grove is proud to have made an impact at InfoSec 2006. 



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Grove moves to new Flagship offices in Bond Street

Grove moves offices as they grow their operational capabilities and this new office in central London is a true gem. 



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Grove moves to new offices in Sydney Street

Demand for online software security is growing and to handle this demand and popularity of Grove  services, the main office has moved to a bigger locaiton. 



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Grove protects hotel chain from 2,3million emails an hour

A leading hotel chain have witnessed the Postini miracle happen as the security system stopped an huge number of spam attacks 



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Grove signs 50,000th end user

As the demand grows, so does our client base 



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Grove signs 10,000th end user

Grove and Postini are helping and assisting 10 000 end-users with premium email security and compliance solutions.



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Grove sees more Customers move to Postini

The Postini and Grove partnership has moved beyond small operations as the Grove team has reached optimum synergy as an organization.



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Grove Signs as First Main Postini Partner in Europe

Postini announces Grove as its main partner in Europe 



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Grove signs Email Branding solution

GROVE PARTNERS WITH CLEARFORMAT, November, 2006 - Grove – Leading Managed Security Experts - partners with ClearFormat Email Branding solution in a strategic decision to extend their product offering in catering for all email needs of businesses today.



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Grove signs key client on Hosted Exchange

A key client using a key service and a ... industry

Consolidation and disposals in the Defence industry has resulted in numerous companies divesting of smaller production and engineering divisions.



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Grove signs UK High Street Bank

The finance idustry needs the best IT software security and some clients realise that that is exactly what Grove offers. 



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