Once you have a high-speed connection to the Internet, many things become possible. We offer a local cloud service to leased line customers to enable core IT services to be moved out of the workplace, while remaining a part of the your Network.
We can virtualise all of your office servers and re-locate them to a local cloud running at the far end of your leased line, but still within the confines of your local area network. Thus you retain speed and of access, privacy and systems compatibility, but you lose the need to ‘own’ your servers, have your a computer room, maintain server competent IT staff, hold server maintenance contracts etc, indeed most billing moves to a monthly basis and major capital expenditure becomes a thing of the past.
In addition, it makes your business portable, whether you need fast access for remote or home users, or whether you need to be able to move your office in a hurry. If your IT infrastructure isn’t based in your office and can be accessed from any controlled location, new office space or additional office space simply comes down to picking up your PC or device and walking.
The “cloud” in general has many advantages over locally hosted servers, however there are a few ‘cons’ which for some people can be show stoppers. In particular, once you commit your information to ‘the cloud’, you don’t know physically where it is, you can’t see it, and you’ve no real knowledge or control over who has access to it. And if ’the cloud’ experiences a problem, it’s generally a fairly complex affair that can take time to sort out, simply because of the scale of the operation.
Enter “Local Cloud”
All the features of the cloud with solutions to the aforementioned issues. We can “show” you the physical equipment your data will reside on, you will be able to control who has access to it, and services are compartmentalised in a granular scale meaning any potential faults are localised and easily fixed. Also you gain access to industry specific knowledge as to the best type of software for your particular company.
For more information, please feel free to get in touch, or alternatively, here are some links to industry news items that provide additional explanation.
