Virgin Money USA is a growing organization of approximately 120 employees. LightWire has worked with Virgin Money since its inception as a startup called CircleLending, Inc. CircleLending was recently acquired by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group in 2008, at which time it changed its name to Virgin Money, USA. The original company provided a mechanism by which friends and family can formalize loan activities amongst each other, an activity which today involves about $89 billion of private loans per year. More recently, Virgin Money USA purchased a commercial mortgage company called Lendia, and integrated that company into its operations.

LightWire began working with CircleLending in May of 2005, designing and building Virgin Money's original internal corporate IT, based on a basic Windows Small Business Server 2003 platform. Today, that environment has grown substantially, consisting today of approximately twenty physical servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2007, an iSCSI SAN, a VMWare ESX platform, numerous virtual machines, as well as approximately 120 desktops/laptops.

Additionally, Virgin Money leverages LightWire’s network monitoring platform and anti-spam services. LightWire functions as the "CIO" for the company, and recent projects, aside from the management of daily IT operations and end-user helpdesk, have included migrating the company from Windows Small Business Server to Windows 2008 and Exchange 2007, and the evaluation and selection of an external hosting provider.

Additionally, LightWire managed the integration of a newly acquired commercial mortgage business into the IT operations of the company. This project included conducting a domain migration for the acquired company into Virgin's domain, integrating a second office site into the network, and migrating their existing corporate data and email into the Virgin systems.

• LightWire Network Monitoring Platform
• LightWire Anti-Spam Platform
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 32-bit
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server R2 64-bit
• VMWare Server Platform
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Mac OSX Clients
• Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
• iSCSI Storage Area Network
• Centralized Desktop & Laptop Image management
• Centralized AntiVirus with Automated updates and reporting
• Remote User VPN Access
• Site To Site VPN Connectivity
• Core Router with Multiple IP Subnets for network segmentation