The Challenge
Are any of the following challenges affecting your server environment, thus impacting upon the requirements of your business?
- Increasing server sprawl, often in the form of new servers with disparate operating environments
- Rising capital and personnel costs to manage your server environment
- Reduction in data centre space, coupled with increasing power and cooling costs
- It is taking too long to develop, test and deploy new applications into the production environment
- The IT team spends too much time managing hardware issues instead of focusing on projects that add real value
- Costly and expansive disaster recovery plans, involving the replication of your entire server estate in a second location
The Solution
The stakes are higher than ever for delivering data from source to user in real time and with complete data security. Whether you're looking for simple collocation, complex managed applications or business critical network services BSG Managed Hosting from our Private Cloud network provides the multiple data centre presence and redundant network infrastructure your business needs.
Innovations in technology have produced a powerful set of enabling tools which are helping organisations drive capital and operational efficiencies. Consolidation, especially server consolidation, can reduce redundancy and replication from the IT bill.
By centralising your infrastructure into the BSG Managed Hosting facilities you can take the first step to reduce costs by reducing server sprawl. The benefits are less space used in your facilities, less capital cost of hardware, and of course less power and cooling headaches.
Grounded in the management processes defined by BSG's ISO27001 certification, BSG Managed Hosting infrastructure is supported by a state of the art Network Operations Centre (NOC), which is connected by a 24x7 monitored fault tolerant WAN to the 24x7 fault tolerant management LAN within the three BSG data centres.
The BSG data centres are next generation facilities, offering an unprecedented level of resilience in its physical construction, power distribution and environmental control. The BSG data centres are served by 5 major fibre providers and with uses the very latest cooling infrastructure to cater for higher density architectures. These features deliver best-in-class reliability (Tier IV = system + system) and scalability for you power needs. Combine this with the flexibility for you to choose from single racks or custom-built suites and an array of managed services options around connectivity, hardware and software; it's clear that BSG delivers maximum value for your budget.
By exploiting our expertise in virtualisation technology, such as VMware, Microsoft and Citrix, you get the capacity you need to run your business with the confidence that should you need more server power it is available, dynamically, to cope with sudden increases in load. Virtualisation has accelerated the movement away from single server systems, delivering much improved system utilisation, quicker application deployment, as well as benefiting from the built-in disaster recovery and business continuity advantages associated with it.
When it comes to virtualisation skills and capabilities BSG has accreditations, experience, and industry leading consultants focussing on the following technologies and vendors:
- Server and Storage Virtualisation utilising VMware, Microsoft and Citrix
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure utilising VMware, Microsoft and Citrix