Classic Colocation with Cloud Services

Faced with rising support costs, an enterprise operating key systems wished to move from in-house servers to cloud services, but still need their own servers to support legacy applications.

Sovereignty over data is paramount, given the importance of their intellectual property and legal requirements under UK law. Solution – Avance cloud platform can offer a blend of colocation services in edge datacentres, with onsite access to agile (on demand) virtual compute and storage services, operating industry standard cloud tools.  Both colocation servers and cloud are contained within the Fortess Private Cloud, which manages firewalls policies controlling access to external services and networks to your DMZ . The on-site lab helped to test servers with access to all onsite services, prior to installation into live racks.  Avance skilled engineers with decades of experience were on hand to help with the transition and support of systems.  The 24/7 network operation centre was on hand within minutes with a remote hands service.

For IT support – Well known tools and operating environments helps reduce friction in the transition from in-house to the datacentre.  Extra hands familiar with the operating environment saves valuable time and money.

For financial controllers – Cost within the Avance Cloud Platform are predictable with adaptable contract term that give assurity.  Avance Cloud have a transparent, simple pricing, avoiding complex incremental price books for multiple cloud elements.