Managed Hosting

The Challenges

Most SMEs have a back-office IT infrastructure that consists of one or more servers, a network switch or two, and a firewall/router. All of this represents significant cost to the business.

There's the initial capital cost of the hardware and software, large power bills both to run the equipment and for the air-conditioning it requires, and then there's the space it takes up - often a separate room. Plus there's the cost of ongoing management and maintenance.

There are other, less obvious issues that affect many businesses as well. Servers are universally powered on 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. However, in many office buildings the air conditioning is only switched on during business hours. Unless businesses install special air-conditioning for their server room the machines are often subjected to extremes of temperature during non-business hours - which can considerably shorten their useful life.

The Solution

IT Easy's Managed Hosting service provides the answer to these challenges together with a host of additional benefits. Our investment in enterprise-class data centre technology means that we can offer this capability to our SME customers at very attractive rates.

We offer application hosting, Desktop.AsAService and Exchange.AsAService to provide a complete IT infrastructure for your business - and all for a simple fixed monthly fee.

Managed hosting is not just moving your servers to our data centres - that's called "co-location" and we don't do that! Managed hosting is all about management. IT Easy will monitor, manage and maintain the hardware, and the software systems that support your business and provide a help desk service for your end users, so that all of the problems associated with IT move from your hands to ours.

Benefits

Managed hosting from IT Easy brings many benefits:

  • Cost Savings - no capital cost and attractive monthly fees
  • Security - our data centres are secured to the highest Australian Government standards and our systems are secured to the highest PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards, to ensure your peace of mind
  • Availability - keeping your systems running is our highest priority.
  • Scalability - scale up or down as your business requirements evolve
  • Risk Reduction - let the experts worry while you focus on your business.