Cloud Servers

What are Cloud Servers?

Cloud services come in many guises, from purchasing and leasing raw computing power and storage on which to build your own platforms and applications through to Vendors offering their software products as a service (SaaS)

Cloud Servers from Codestone were conceived to deliver all of the benefits of Dedicated Server Hosting whilst significantly reducing the cost and complexity. Unlike Dedicated Physical Servers, Cloud Servers are Dedicated Virtual Servers hosted on a shared computing platform using market leading delivery and management tools from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Cloud Servers are provisioned in secure, private areas of the shared platform ensuring that each customer's applications and data are only accessible to users and devices with the required permission.

What are the benefits of using Cloud Servers?

Cloud Servers offer all of the benefits of physical server hosting plus many more:

• High Availability - the Cloud platform is built so that it has no single point of failure unlike an on premise "1 server per application" solution. The data centre itself has redundant power, cooling, bandwidth and fire suppression, giving you unparalleled up time (99.9%).
• Disaster Recovery - Cloud Servers are accessible from any device, anywhere and over any connection, meaning critical services are still available in the event of a loss of the main business site.
• Improved Gearing - no depreciating IT assets on your balance sheet.
• Data Protection - all application data is fully backed up on a daily basis as part of the managed service.
• Faster Return on Investment (ROI) - No capital cost means you will start benefitting from the investment immediately.
• Managed Service - includes maintenance, back up and support giving the customer a "zero touch" solution.
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - no hardware or software upgrades needed so a dramatically reduced TCO is achieved.
• Environmentally Sound - reduce your company carbon footprint by deploying less under-utilised server hardware on premise. Our data centre infrastructure also uses the latest energy saving hardware to reduce power and cooling costs.
• Security - the Cloud platform is delivered from a secure, purpose built data centre with state of the art access security.
• No Capital Cost - all software and computing power is provided as a manageable monthly service (Opex not Capex).
• Future Proof - the service option will always be delivered on the latest version of vendor platforms and products.

Why Codestone?

Codestone is a leading Virtualisation specialist and as such we have a wealth of experience in migrating our clients from Physical to Virtual Servers for their "On Premise" systems. We are able to utilise all of our knowledge and experience to help you make a smooth transition from On Premise Systems to Cloud Servers and ensure a consistent and non disruptive experience to the end users. Unlike "hosting only" service providers, Codestone understands the challenges and concerns that businesses face when making the transition of their critical applications and data in a Cloud environment and is readily equipped to overcome those challenges with a tailored, solution based approach.