OnyxCloud | Enterprise Cloud Servers and Cloud Data Backups

CLOUD COMPUTING

What are Cloud Services?

Using such a service allows you to forget about physical IT hardware and its costs and for us to create a more robust solution with availability and resilience way beyond anything that can be accomplished on physical hardware.

These services allow business users to remove the excessive, and to a degree pointless, cost and trouble of IT operations and have Cloud Services provide the solutions their business requires and begin really utilizing the power of the internet a cloud computing. Over time though more and more business critical services have been provided via the web and that's really what cloud computing is all about. It's about removing the infrastructure and service provision from an internal to an external function and this makes perfect sense. Why duplicate costs and hardware. The investment in a highly resilient and secure network infrastructure has already been made - you just pay to make use of it.

Cloud Services Cost Benefits

In a traditional IT environment you have the capital cost of IT equipment, the cost of supporting and maintaining it and the cost of replacing / upgrading everything when it goes obsolete. In a cloud-based model you have no capital costs and the initial operational costs are zero since everything is provided as a service. Fixed monthly costs give you a stable based on which to plan for growth and avoid surprises. In the same way that you pay your electricity and gas bill, you will now have a computing bill.

Operational Benefits of Cloud Services

The operational benefits of cloud-based services are huge. Gone are the days when adding a server to your estate takes weeks. Within hours an entire cloud-based IT environment can be live and ready for use by you or your customers. Consider these advantages:-

• Near-instant server deployment significantly increases agility
• Managed or unmanaged service
• SLA-bound with guaranteed uptimes and escalation paths
• Hosted in our tier-3, ISO27001 accredited data centers
• Immediate software licensing with no cap-ex purchase
• Mix and match cloud and non-cloud services (e.g. OnyxApps on hosted physical servers)
• Data backups provided as a service with instant off-siting
• No more risk of tape degradation
• Perfectly integrates with our DR and business continuity services
• Significantly greener approach to IT
• Single point of contact for your entire IT service

What OnyxCloud services are available?

OnyxCloud is broken down into 5 cloud services:

		OnyxServe
		Managed and unmanaged virtual servers
		OnyxApps
		Pay-as-you-go hosted licensing services
		OnyxSecure
		Hosted security & environment protection
		OnyxSafe
		Enterprise-class on-line, off-site backups
		OnyxExchange
		Hosted collaborative e-mail services
		OnyxDesktop
		Designed to simplify the provision of services charged on a 'price per user' basis

You can use any combination of these services as part of a traditional IT solution or as an entirely cloud-based infrastructure. We can also advise on migrating to your own dedicated 'private cloud' as your infrastructure grows and develops.