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Vodacom Business Nigeria Managed Hosted Services Get Ready to free up your business. To succeed in today s world of dramatic and unpredictable change, every business needs to be a Ready Business. A Ready Business is flexible, fast and always connected, able to make the most of emerging opportunities and react swiftly to imminent threats. Vodacom Managed Hosted Services offer your business the use of powerful business infrastructure and software without costly upfront investment and maintenance costs. Regardless of your size or budget, you can enjoy corporate-grade solutions that are fully maintained, always updated, reliable and consistently available... Giving you the freedom to grow your Ready Business. The freedom to use the software and services that your business needs as you need them The simplicity of not having to install, manage and constantly upgrade The control that having access to the latest business technology offers your business 1
Why Hosted Services make perfect sense. Like all businesses, yours naturally wants the best infrastructure platform to operate on, and the most powerful and useful software to meet your business objectives. Too often these are simply out of reach they re too costly, too complicated, or require too many internal resources to manage. Are you Ready for in the cloud computing? Before the advent of high-speed networking and the Internet, the idea of sharing software and only paying for what you use, while someone else looks after the maintenance, was unheard of. Hosted Services in the cloud makes this all possible. What you get are direct cost savings and reliable access to the most modern business solutions. You no longer have to worry about system incompatibility, license renewals, incessant upgrades and making sure that the hardware keeps running. We will handle that for you. Hosted Services can solve these problems for you by providing affordable access to some of the very latest, most powerful and most popular business infrastructure services and software. We provide access to the software and our infrastructure is Ready for you to use. We host everything in our Data Center and give you on-demand access. We provide the infrastructure and software that you need, Ready-tailored to your specific business needs, and we look after it for you. You get all the Ready Business benefits without the cost and effort. 2
Vodacom Business Nigeria Managed Hosted Services Make sure your business is always secure. When your infrastructure platform and software are hosted externally, you ll naturally want the assurance that your business systems and data are fully protected. Be assured that no-one else can get access to your information, because everything is safe, as if it were on your own premises. We can give you that peace of mind. We ve built a secure data center designed from the ground up to incorporate the very latest in security technology. Be Ready for any threat. Physical security systems including locked and cordoned-off server racks. Virtual security is provided by a very high-grade perimeter firewall so that any intrusion is blocked long before it gets anywhere near your data. We employ the top specialists available to constantly monitor all threats, ready to neutralize them immediately. You are able to set your own access permissions and control who in your business can access your various systems and information. You also enjoy the very latest in data loss protection. Regular backups ensure full disaster recovery, and the entire data center is ringed with fire control technology. State-of-the-art redundant power supply systems take over in the event of loss of power, insulating you from the effects of power outages on your applications. You get full protection against intrusion and loss of information. We treat your data as if it were our own. Because, at the end of the day, we re only as good as our ability to completely protect the business services you entrust to us.
Get Ready to save on your infrastructure. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Network infrastructure is key the backbone of cloud computing. We offer a premium business-class infrastructure across the country. This includes a state-of-the-art data center comprising hardware, storage, backup, archiving and disaster recovery. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) allows you to locate all your server, communication and information infrastructure off-site. You no longer have to spend vast amounts of money and dedicate valuable resources to install and manage expensive onsite infrastructure. Think of how those funds, time and human resources could be better spent growing your Ready Business This infrastructure we offer gives you a wide choice of platforms (physical and virtual) in a variety of operating systems all the capacity, technology, security and flexibility you need on demand and always on. We guarantee you network power, excellent value, reliable service and constant innovation. The advantages of using Infrastructure as a Service over traditional infrastructure. Traditional Infrastructure Requires significant upfront capital expenditure Takes time to plan, implement and deploy Requires trained staff to manage, fix, upgrade and maintain Requires periodic upgrades, expansion, investment, maintenance and repair Requires your direct management Suffers downtime due to system incompatibilities, human error and power outages Requires insurance premiums for your premises Infrastructure as a Service No upfront investment Immediate implementation and deployment No staff or resource requirements Always functional and automatically upgraded, scalable to your needs, and maintained by experts Simply login and work Always available Safely maintained in a state-of-the-art data center
Vodacom Business Nigeria Managed Hosted Services Get Ready to enjoy continuity and full IT support. Vodacom Data Centers Our Infrastructure as a Service solutions are based on the purpose-built platform that our Data Centers provide. They are engineered for the highest possible reliability and fastest network connectivity, so that you can always access your services when you need them. Vodacom s Data Centers are managed facilities with high fault tolerance and full redundancy able to support critical business data, applications, e-commerce transaction systems, websites and networking technology. We put all our resources and expertise at your disposal from 24/7/365 support and data management to backup, disaster recovery, hardware monitoring and security management. We offer flexibility and scalability, allowing you to enjoy tailor-made infrastructure solutions that meet your specific business needs simply, efficiently and cost-effectively. 5
Infrastructure Solutions. Let s have a look at the specific IaaS solutions that we can offer you and how your business can benefit from them. Managed Hosting The freedom to control your own hosting environment. A Ready Business is always open to change so we offer a wide choice of managed hosting services and the flexibility to change your hosting set-up as you need to. From highly cost-effective basic hosting to the full control of placing your own servers right on our network backbone, we can cater for everything from a small brochure website to complex high-end online business and e-commerce applications. Your online business applications reside on our high-speed all-fibre network, so your users and customers enjoy fast performance. Solutions Vodacom Lodged Hosting Vodacom Leased Hosting Vodacom Virtual Hosting Data Management Solutions Data is the lifeblood of modern business. That s why it s critical that data is stored securely but is also easily accessible. This poses a challenge for many businesses. Investment into data storage systems is both expensive to set-up and difficult to run, with on-going upgrades. And if some unforeseen disaster occurred, you d have to do all the recovery yourself. Vodacom s Cloud Data Management Solutions take care of all of this. You don t have to build your own data back-up or storage infrastructure with its associated software, hardware and resource costs. Managed Storage A highly scalable, secure and cost-effective business storage solution that makes it simple for you to store your data onsite or off-site. Reliable data storage is becoming increasingly important as more and more business information exists electronically. This presents an ever-growing challenge for businesses to manage data storage flexibly, efficiently, securely and cost-effectively. Vodacom s Managed Storage Solutions take this weight off your shoulders. Managed Backup Get the reassurance that your business data is safely backed up and always accessible. Simple and reliable business data backup is something every business needs. But it can be costly and it requires highly focused management and resources. Now you can take the simple, more affordable route to data back-up; take advantage of Vodacom s Managed Backup Solutions and let us take care of it for you. Avoid the impact of data loss or disaster with tailored backup and storage solutions you can rely on, at affordable prices. 6
Vodacom Business Nigeria Managed Hosted Services Managed Disaster Recovery. Your business depends on data we can design a digital disaster recovery system you can depend on. With businesses becoming increasingly dependent on data, IT systems and networks, the spectre of digital disaster is a contingency that everyone has to plan for. According to the size of your business and the nature of your business activities, this could not only become expensive, but also complicated. You may only need to protect important business information. You may need to safeguard mission-critical online apps, systems or transactions. Either way, we understand that your business depends on reliable disaster recovery. Tailored to your specific needs, our recovery services are both trusted and affordable. We have a fully-managed disaster recovery service, built on our hosted infrastructure platform and housed in a state-of-the-art data center. We replicate your data and systems for instant switch-over in the event of a disaster, ensuring the continuity that keeps you in business. At the same time, we set about recovering and restoring your data. We consult with you to make sure that you get the disaster recovery solution that suits you, and define specific service level processes and requirements for recovery. Using these, we can create a disaster recovery strategy that you can rely on. This will give you the freedom to conduct your business knowing that not only are you as fully protected as possible, but that the disaster recovery process will be simple and efficient. 8
Equip your business with world-class software at affordable prices. Software as a Service (SaaS) Buying, maintaining, upgrading and securing all the software that your business needs to operate optimally can get very expensive. Large businesses and corporates often have to run entire IT departments for this purpose and the best software to accomplish business objectives is often simply beyond the means of SMEs. Against this background, Software as a Service makes perfect sense. Large companies can get all the advantages of powerful enterprise software without the huge expense of buying and maintaining it themselves. SMEs are able to afford powerful software that would otherwise be out of reach. We have the software installed. We maintain and manage it. We renew the licenses, do the upgrades and ensure that it is fully secured. You simply lease it from us at an affordable monthly fee Ready to use as your own. SaaS gives you the freedom to opt for the best software that your business needs and access it from anywhere. 8 Give your Ready Business the leading edge in managed networking solutions. Contact Vodacom Managed Networking Services today: +234 1 700 7000 vodacom.com.ng
Vodacom Business Nigeria Managed Hosted Services Get Ready for safer communications. Hosted Mail and Messaging Services Our hosted mail and messaging solutions give your business control over its communications. From Microsoft enterprise email software suites to basic hosted email and anti-spam protection, we can cater for all sizes of companies. You can run your entire business email and other collaboration services off our platform. The freedom to choose is yours. You have full administrative control over your email and messaging services. You ll save on hardware costs as we supply all the servers and hard drives. You won t have to pay for the software. And, because they re fully managed services, you won t have to manage and maintain them yourself. Your email and messaging is protected by high-level security. The hosted software runs in our ultra-secure data center and the highest commercial security encryption protects the transmission when you send and receive. You can run a Microsoft Hosted Exchange and SharePoint on our infrastructure to serve large numbers of users. Our solution features a BlackBerry enterprise server for the integration of your business emails, allowing your workforce the freedom to operate without location limitations. Whatever your size, your business can get the exact type of email and messaging solution it needs. One that runs efficiently, is fully secured and supported and that is very cost-effective. Managed Mail and Messaging Solutions Microsoft Hosted Exchange Hosted Lync Hosted SharePoint 9
Put a stop to dangerous spam. Today, a large percentage of any business incoming email is spam. More than just a nuisance, it s both a potential legal liability and a major productivity drain on corporate IT departments and users alike. An effective anti-spam protocol scans for spam and viruses before forwarding clean, non-spam and non-infected messages to the corporate email server. 10 Give your Ready Business the leading edge in managed networking solutions. Contact Vodacom Managed Networking Services today: +234 1 700 7000 vodacom.com.ng
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