Hosting
Castle Cloud Computing – Hosting
- Castle can host literally any application at our Data Centre
- Castle’s Hosting Readiness Assessment process collates all the required details in advance
Is it easy to move from a traditional on-premise IT infrastructure to Castle’s Cloud computing environment?
After undergoing Castle’s Cloud Computing Hosting Readiness Assessment, to determine the suitability of your infrastructure to operate in a hosted environment, Castle can transfer all of your computing needs to our Data Centre in a timely manner with minimum, if any, downtime.
Castle has both well trained application and technical resources to help make the switch painlessly, whether that is a complete move to Cloud Computing or a hybrid between on-premise and cloud, depending on your business objectives. Castle’s Cloud Computing Readiness Assessment provides all of the required information in advance of planning a transfer to Cloud computing.
How much does it cost?
The cost will depend on the range and scale of services required. Every Castle Cloud solution proposed to a customer will be specific to their needs and take into account the number of users requiring access to the applications, the volume of data involved, the amount of bandwidth required and other factors. Castle has a unique Cloud Computing Readiness Assessment process we complete for each customer prior to confirming a suitable solution, which is based on facts rather than assumptions. Thereafter, Castle will quote a fixed monthly fee based on a scoped solution that includes all technical and application support, which ensures an organisation pays for what it uses, and no more.
How will I be supported?
Castle includes all technical support costs within our monthly fee and support is provided directly from our own resources located in Bellshill and Edinburgh.
Where would my Company data be located?
Castle has invested in Two Data Centres located in Livingston and Newbridge, near Edinburgh where all customer data will be stored. Hosted solutions and data in one data centre is replicated to the second data centre each night for business continuity purposes in the event of a disaster. This service is known as a ‘Private Cloud’ solution as it’s configured and set-up only for your organisation and you know exactly where the data is stored. Castle can also provide Microsoft cloud solutions, such as Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint & CRM.
What Business Continuity plans or processes are in place?
One of the main benefits of utilising a Castle Cloud solution is the inherent business continuity capability built in to our solutions, such as instant failover if a physical server fails and having no single point of failure built in to our infrastructure. In addition, both data centre facilities offer unprecedented business continuity facilities to ensure maximum uptime, including smooth power supply, backup power generators, key card security entrance, internal and external CCTV, multiple communications connections with leading communication providers, resilient cooling equipment, high spec fire retardant capability, etc.
All of our customers’ systems are replicated either nightly or hourly (subject to agreement and the results of the Readiness Assessment) to our secondary data centre to ensure that if a catastrophic incident happened at our production data centre, a full system copy would be operational within hours from our secondary data centre. All of our Cloud solutions offer secure remote access to the applications, which can be accessed from any location with an internet connection.
Disasters come in many forms and don’t need to start as a big incident to quickly turn into a disaster. Whether it’s a full scale building fire or a power cut, it’s important you have a Business Continuity plan that can be put into action should a disaster occur. A simple burst pipe in a bathroom seeping under the floor can sometimes mean the electricity supply needs to be switched off in a hurry! This quickly leads to lost productivity and reduced customer service. With Cloud computing all systems can be accessed from another location, office or home instantly with no loss of data. Castle can provide a full consultation service to help build an appropriate Business Continuity Plan for your organisation.
Case Study
We were able to demonstrate to QAS COPAK that an outsourced partnership approach would deliver best value, while at the same time achieving all of their business needs. They can have absolute peace of mind that their systems are secure and can be recovered in minutes rather than days, or even weeks, in the event of a disaster of virtually any kind.
To find out more email us at info@castle-cs.com