Service Offerings

Managed Hosts

Customized dedicated servers breed for one purpose - configured to serve you and your business needed. Supported round the clock by our engineering teams. We offer:

• Complete control over your operating systems, platform or software environments
• Server machines, desktop PCs and thin-clients, network equipment and other devices
• Certified personnel to support your every need.

Customize your applications today, or visit our pre-packaged hosting plans for more information.

Virtualization

8 to Systems offers virtualization services to assist businesses in optimizing IT resources, reduce operating costs and improve hardware efficiencies. The Virtual-8 services program contains specific areas that can be tailored to your business to scope cost reductions in line with recommendations in virtualization technologies, operational processes, CO2 emissions, hardware obsolescence. We believe in creating a value earned through the achievement of these goals. With Virtual-8, your business is well positioned to realize the projected TCO and ROI figures previously not possible. Let us help you today.

• Physical Virtualization. We offer Physical to Virtual server and desktop migration services. From data center servers, in-house legacy machines and desktop PCs or thin-clients, our teams are able to assist you in moving from expensive out-dated hardware to a consolidated platform, thereby reducing upfront server and desktop costs, lower IT maintenance headaches and dramatically improve end-user experiences.
• Storage Virtualization. Virtualization services relating to NAS, SAN and other direct attached storage are available. You can significantly improve your efficiency, simplify your operations and lower your TCO by implementing pooled, shared and centrally managed storage resources.
• Virtualization Lifecycle Management. Our teams in the region are trained and experienced in carrying out sizing, planning and in project managing your virtualization effort from inception to completion, and into daily operations and maintenance. We assist in rolling out the toughest and most demanding of virtualized platforms for most industries.
• Maintenance and Operations. We offer services for managing IT groups challenged with a lack of manpower, resources and time. Utilizing both on-premise and off-site teams, we are able to fully articulate the complexities in uptime, availability and reliability aspects of your daily operations.

Continuous Availability

In today's business environment, critical services such as email, accounting and other time-sensitive operational systems must be made available during operations. A failure to meet with uptime and data availability will result in lost opportunities and business. The Ready-8 Business Continuity program offers businesses the essentials in data, application and business availability, across both traditional and cutting-edge realms of implementations.

Be ready.

• Backups and restores. We offer services relating to tape, harddisk or removable media data backups. This offers you the fundamental in data security using a Recovery Point Objective approach, guarding your business against loss of operational information. Backups also provides greater flexibility in disaster recovery as tapes and harddisks can be shipped offsite.
• Server clustering. The fundamental of all server chaining, clustering allows your hardware to be grouped together for failover. Clustering protects against physical or virtual server failures.
• Replication failover. Featuring host or storage-based replication, we offer both synchronous and asynchronous replication to both local clusters and remote servers. With replication, no recovery time is required as with backup tapes.
• Continuous Availablility. Using a unique best-of-breed solution, our Ready-8 approach can offer you up to 99.999% of uptime, availability and reliability from your critical servers and operations. This translates to approximately 5 minutes of downtime per annum.
• Hot/Warm/Cold sites and servers. We offer you and your business physical alternative sites for business centers, operation centers and data center facilities in times of disasters using the concept of a Data Hotel and Server Hotel.

Cloud Computing

On-demand, scalable websites, application and storage hosting, supported round the clock by our engineering teams. We offer cloud computing services that scales vertically.

• ZERO server investments upfront
• Affordable, inexpensive hardware, software hosting
• Unlimited capacity as needed (pay-as-you-grow) on
  
  • Multi-Processor computing power
  • Memory real-estate
  • Storage resources allocation
  • Network & bandwidth throttling

Streaming

The latest in our Citrix technological offerings, Stream-8 represents the pinnacle of modern wireless transmissions for the commercial market. With improved speed, load-management and concurrent connections throttling, streamlined communications now allow more than just audio and video applications across conventional gateways.

• Application streaming and delivery (local and remote application virtualization)
• Voice over IP (LAN-to-WAN audio)
• Intranet media streaming (LAN-based audio/video)
• Internet media streaming (LAN-to-WAN audio/video)
• WAN-to-LAN data compression (Citrix-to-Stream8 handover)

Some instances of streaming applications may include graphics-demanding software such as 3D rendering (AutoCAD, Blender, etc).