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Using cloud infrastructure to support company
applications, rather than running servers either on
company premises or in colocation space in a data
center, reduces costs and increases fexibility. Capital
tied up in hardware is transformed into monthly
operating expenses. The company’s technology
investment is minimized and it gets access to the latest
technologies without having to worry about replacing
obsolete hardware or compromising on effciency by
using outdated servers.
The company benefts from the support of Pacifc
Controls’ highly skilled technical staff whose expertise
spans a number of technology domains. This saves the
company the trouble and expense of continuously hiring
and training IT staff, who are diffcult to retain. By using
Pacifc Controls reliable world class data centres, which
have a fully redundant architecture and no single point of
failure, the company’s mission critical applications and
infrastructure are ‘Always Up’. Freeing internal IT staff to
focus on IT activities that relate to the company’s core
business, rather than spending time on routine tasks
such as backup, storage, security and monitoring. If the
business expands and requires additional investment
in IT infrastructure, it can be upgraded very fast,
without having to worry about buying, deploying, and
maintaining new servers and managing the upgrade
process.
Pacifc Controls’ round-the-clock service desk ensures
24x7 operations and monitoring of your IT infrastructure.
The data centre is designed to deliver high availability
to meet the requirements of mission critical business
applications. This ensures that customers’ businesses
experiences near-zero downtime. With 24x7 physical
security, building management systems, fre and smoke
detection systems, CCTV monitoring and redundant UPS
and backup generators, customers’ critical data and
applications are more secure than in an in-house Data
Centre. Pacifc Controls provides guaranteed Service
Level Agreements (SLAs) that are easy to understand and
that ensure high quality of service.
By making use of Pacifc Controls data centres and IaaS
services, organizations can buy peace of mind, knowing
that their data is stored in multiple secure locations around
the globe and managed by state-of-the-art systems. They
can be assured that there will be almost no downtime
should a disaster occur.
Outsourcing the basic IT responsibilities also frees the
company’s own IT staff, who understand its business
best, to focus on tasks that bring more eyecatching
benefts. Tasks such as redesigning business processes
to make the most of the latest IT systems that can bring
competitive advantage and help to differentiate the
business through making the most of the potential of ICT.