Cloud Systems and Virtualisation

The use of off-site data centres makes sound commercial sense for many organisations. Hosted solutions remove the need to invest in expensive hardware that could subsequently become outdated, and they are capable of growing to whatever size and degree of sophistication is required. Moreover, they offer dependable protection against data loss and so they can form a crucial component of any disaster recovery strategy. Cloud-based systems yield a raft of important benefits – but savings, scalability and security are only part of the story, as you can see below.

Co-location

Co-location is an extremely cost-effective way of housing your server infrastructure in a state of the art data centre. Fully cooled and protected by a secure Cisco managed firewall, our chosen centres are equipped with all the facilities to exceed best practice and to meet future computing trends such as virtualisation, high density computing, cloud services and energy efficiency. Using these centres, you can take advantage some of the best IP networks in the market today, ensuring optimum connectivity and performance.

Virtualisation

With our 24/7 virtualisation solution, your organisation can benefit from a dramatic increase in the optimisation of existing resources and applications – thereby obviating the costs and disruption associated with the purchase and installation of expensive new servers. With a virtualised solution, you don’t need to replace or install anything; you simply expand the system and add more users as required. The result is lower costs, improved application availability and the ability to keep your IT simple.

Simple and secure

Using VMware, Zen Desktop, Citrix, Microsoft and Cisco technology, our solutions come pre-built and pre-configured to give you a simple but powerful virtualisation platform. It can be installed on your site or, for added resiliency and peace of mind, it can be installed off-site in a secure data centre. Benefits include improved system integration and ease of use, reduced complexity and greater efficiencies in terms of computing and storage.

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