Solutions > Managed Systems Availability
IT Service Continuity
Features:
- Business Impact Analysis of loss of IT Service performed to prioritise the services to be recovered.
- Maintenance of plans through regular tests, reviews and updates
- IT Service Continuity plan that is fully integrated to the Business Continuity plan
- Standby Services hosted in one of Proximitum’s world class Data Centres’.
Benefits:
- 24 x 7 real time monitoring of Standby environment ensures availability when required
- Environment remains up to date, through regular testing.
- Reduced business disruption. Services are recovered in business priority order.
- Increase in IT understanding of business impacts and priorities.
Availability Management
Features:
- 24x7 monitoring and support to guarantee the availability and security of your infrastructure
- Optimisation of systems availability to meet your Service Level Agreements
- Production of a Availability Management Plan
- World class Data Centres available to deliver enhanced service
Benefits:
- Cost effective solution to suit your budget - migrates the need to employee a dedicated in house team to monitor applications and systems availability
- Migrate risk to a third party specialist who focus on the guaranteed availability of your applications 24x7
- Reduces the need for purchasing and maintaining expensive equipment
- No need to worry about space availability costs, asset depreciation and the high risk of post purchase dissonance
- Reduce your company energy bill – IT infrastructures consumed around 7% of the UK’s electricity in 2006 through maintaining and cooling IT environment’s. Proximitum can help reduce your energy bill, carbon footprint, efficiently cut costs, improve competitiveness and help safeguard profits
Capacity Management
Features:
- Delivery and maintenance of the Capacity Plan
- 24 x 7 monitoring of system thresholds
- Access to the latest technology trends
- Improved optimisation of existing infrastructure capacity
Benefits:
- Deferred expenditure – proactive monitoring and tuning reduces unnecessary purchases
- Reduced risk of performance problems and failure
- Reduced expenditure as a result of more economic use of IT resources
- Improved understanding of the existing and future business requirements
Managed Hosting services
Features:
- Fully protected data centres using Checkpoint, Sonicwall and Alteon Firewalls – with McAfee Internet Security
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (see Managed Network Connectivity) provides a redundant failover connection to ensure all information is fully backed up
- Systems are managed remotely by skilled analysts using state-of-the-art monitoring tools
- Data backups using EMC storage (world leaders in storage solutions) for the utmost in storage management, systems backup, data protection and recovery
- Net-Runna offers a complete backup and restore in the unlikely event of disaster – also provides individual restores for files and folders rather than administering a complete backup
Benefits:
- Reduce the need for hardware, software, monitoring tools and support overheads demanded by managing business critical applications and infrastructures
- Reduce your energy bill and carbon footprint by off shoring the need to power your IT infrastructure in house
- Uninterrupted service that gives you peace-of-mind and helps you to focus on developing your business
- Highest level of protection against data loss, malicious damage, file corruption, viruses and power failure
- Proactive service that anticipate problems before they occur
Managed Network Connectivity
Features:
- Connect multiple offices, remote/home workers, customers, suppliers and other business associates.
- Faster connection speeds as your network is channelled through our Data Centre.
- Accommodates both voice and data traffic across a single connection
- Eliminates point-to-point connection i.e. the number of destination ‘hops’ that it takes data to pass before it reaches its destination – the result being a much faster connection
- All applications, databases, servers and websites are protected by firewalls and strict security policies in place with the guarantees of a secure private network, making it completely inaccessible from unknown outside sources
Benefits:
- Connect multiple offices, remote/home workers, customers, suppliers and other business associates.
- Allows businesses to deliver data across an ‘any-to-any’ Virtual Private Network (VPN) which means that only one access line is required for each site in the group to link to all the other sites within the network
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) to guarantee the reliability and availability of your network - experienced service engineers provide peace-of-mind that your network is available 24 hours a day
- In the event of network failure, connection and traffic is automatically rerouted to an alternative backup path
- Bandwidth can be easily increased to match the demands and requirements for network traffic
Proximitum provide a number of cost effective solutions to optimise your IT Infrastructure and deliver a high level of availability to your systems at a cost effective price. With each of these services your existing Service Level Agreements are reviewed in parallel with current delivery to ensure the systems are available when the business requires them. As with other Proximitum services, the solutions can be delivered either within your existing premises or one of our Data Centres.
IT Service Continuity
Proximitum will work with you to deliver an IT Service Continuity Plan that is integrated into your Business Continuity Plan, thus guaranteeing that the required business systems can be recovered within the necessary timescales. Plans are maintained through the process of regular testing and integration into your Change Management system.
features and benefitsAvailability Management
Proximitum provide Availability Management Services to ensure that the IT Infrastructure is delivered to the business at the times required in the most cost effective way. Working together with your business the Availability Plan will address the reliability, security, maintainability and the required availability of systems.
Capacity Management
The Capacity Management Service will plan and implement the appropriate IT Infrastructure capacity requirements to match your existing and future business needs. Working with your organisation we will deliver a Capacity Plan to ensure the existing and future infrastructure capacity and performance requirements are provided in the most cost effective manner.
Managed Hosting services
Proximitum deliver hosting services from within two world class Data Centres' in London and Slough. Services delivered vary between Production and Standby (divided between the two Data Centres') or as a Standby only for Business Continuity. Managed Hosting can either be on a shared or dedicated server basis.
Managed Network Connectivity
Proximitum enhances security and reliability in terms of provisioning and managing your businesses Network Connectivity. Our Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) connectivity enables workers to securely communicate across a single connection at high speeds. The dedicated MPLS path allows businesses to connect multiple sites into a central communications network.