Managed Hosting
Business Challenge
In addition to all the challenges faced “during the day” by our clients, there are two major challenges that constantly “lurk in the background” that must get addressed – business continuity/disaster recovery & the constant cost and pain of updating end-of-life server hardware.
These are challenges because they represent very significant costs to the business that in many ways feel out of sync with the operations of the business. That is, upgrading servers is a capital cost that doesn’t always feel like it is contributing to the improvement of the business. The capital costs associated with preparing your systems for a major disaster are the same.
Ideally, we would remove the capital cost associated with both of these as it affects cash flow and instead make these costs a recurring, measurable cost of the business. Moreover, to make sure your business benefits from the best available technologies to reduce these costs and to reduce the risks assosciated with their use would be ideal.
Details of Service
MikeTango has invested in creating a private virtualized infrastructure for the exclusive use of its clients and its own internal systems. It is based on the virtualization server and storage technologies used by much larger organizations that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive to our typical clients.
Our clients can “virtualize” their existing servers and move them to MikeTango’s high performance “private cloud” system. This system operates in a secure data centre that you would connect to directly from your office, or for your remote clients, through the internet through a secure VPN connection.
MikeTango would continue to manage your virtualized servers on your behalf, ensuring they operate without hardware or related interruptions. We ensure your data is backed up and secure, there is sufficient power available even through power outages, that servers are upgraded and managed, and you are protected against any hardware failure.
By adopting this service, you will have effectively eliminated the significant costs for infrastructure end-of-life upgrades as well as the significant capital cost of adding to that infrastructure for new applications. In addition, while realizing these savings, you will continually benefit from a more secure, better managed infrastructure that, until now, was not available for smaller organizations.
Obviously, this is a big step and involves more details than are listed here. Please contact us to find out more, or check out our managed hosting FAQ
Business Advantage
By subscribing to MikeTango Group’s Managed Hosting service, you will:
- Eliminate capital cost purchases for infrastructure – you will never buy or lease infrastructure hardware ever again.
- Reap all the benefits of a typical collocation service in a datacentre, including redundant UPS, backup generators, proper HVAC, 24x7 onsite physical security personnel, etc.
- Have high availability protection for your applications via redundant servers and automatic failover of these servers (this service alone has been beyond the reach of most of our clients due to cost).
- Realize even better performance and flexibility than any comparable infrastructure purchased on a comparable budget.
- Have an infrastructure that supports your on-going growth in an incremental way. For example, adding additional servers to support new business functions is simple, fast, and can be done with no additional capital expenditures – it is done through an incremental increase in your subscription fee. This makes evaluating and managing the cost of new business functions simpler and substantially cheaper.
- Never have to manage backup systems or tapes again.
- Contribute to environmental savings by reducing the use of power, cooling, and battery backups by sharing these with all our clients, and reducing the overall number of infrastructure devices being used.
- Experience the same care and responsiveness from MikeTango that you have always received.
While this service changes the way you acquire and manage your infrastructure, you still have the on-going need for care of your systems. This is what MikeTango has always done for you, and will continue to do.