Managed Hosting & Cloud Services

The Gartner 2011 CIO Survey reveals that almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five years.

What do we offer?

A complete solution that enables you to reduce capital expenditure and cut operating costs while benefiting from the highest levels of speed, application and systems performance, availability and security.

How do you benefit?

Dedicated personnel and data centres including five main hosting centres built to Tier 3 standards operating 24/7 mean you can work smarter and greener, improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions, make better use of available space, improve governance and compliance, ensure business-critical systems availability, maintain a place at the forefront of new technology without keeping expensive kit and personnel in-house - and focus on core business rather than IT provision.

Customers who have benefited from ICM's Managed Hosting & Cloud Services include: 2Plan, Advantage Healthcare, BAXI, BEST, Eveden, Heron Frozen Foods, Staffcare & Synapse.

What our customers have to say

ICM ensured the right technical specialists were always available when we needed them. This continuing commitment is why Baxi Group and ICM have been partners for so long.

- Luke Vanhegan, IT Development Manager, Baxi Group

What's covered?

Key offerings include:

• Managed Hosting
• ICM Cloud Services
• Hosted IP Telephony
• Remote Monitoring & Management
• Managed Storage / Storage as a Service
• Managed Backup / Backup as a Service
• Managed Security
• Co-location Services
• Platform Replication
• ICM Data Centres

We are also uniquely placed to deliver world class Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services.  This includes Work Area Recovery (WAR) services from a network of 18 UK based Business Continuity Centres.

ICM Managed Hosting and Cloud Services are ideal for organisations faced with:

• Running out of power in their data centre; ageing servers in need of a refresh
• Unpredictable growth rates that make it hard to plan and gauge future demand
• The need to ramp up IT services and performance to 24/7 availability
• Risk of key IT staff and skills leaving the business
• IT resourcing and support costs that are no longer sustainable
• New business requirements, ventures, mergers and acquisitions
• Moving premises - and no desire (or cap ex budget) to create new data centres or server farms

Click here to download a copy of our Managed Hosting & Cloud Services info sheet.