VIRTUAL HOSTING SERVICE

The cost of running IT in your organisation is not insignificant. Generally, across the board, organisations like yours are looking to cut costs, without sacrificing the ability of their IT departments to support their business and this typically involves reducing power and heating bills, the floorspace to house the computers and of course the staff headcount to manage the systems.

The concept of server and storage virtualisation has been mainstream for several years now and this has allowed organisations to reduce the footprint of physical hardware required very significantly in their own data centre. Server and storage virtualisation also allows organisations the ability to backup and restore complete environments in a way like never before.

The Xicon Solution

Xicon's Virtual Hosting Service gives organisations secure access to servers loaded with the latest software and applications on a pay-as-you-go model. This enables organisations to flex their computing requirements to meet the scalability and budgetary needs. Virtual servers can be accessed on the vSphere or Hyper-v platforms and managed by yourselves as if they are in our own data centre. CPUs, RAM and storage can all be added and removed on demand to meet the needs of the moment.

If the intention is only to require virtual servers in the event of a disaster recovery scenario, the required resources can be reserved. This reserve does still have a value and can be used for 2 restores per annum.