Aggregated Infrastructure
Sometimes you need the service but simply can’t afford the investment, regardless of our many Financing Packages. It would be really neat if you could take the aggregated utility model you’ve built in-house and extend that to sharing infrastructure with other third parties, sharing the cost and driving value.
This is exactly what Union has done with its Shared Services. We have built processing, storage, and backup infrastructure at our datacentre in Kent that can host important services for our customers on shared infrastructure in a secure and cost effective manner.
Backup
If you are looking for a way to backup satellite office to a secure datacentre against a service level guarantee then Union has a range of shared infrastructure based managed backup service solutions to meet your needs. Union can even cater for those offices with low bandwidth connectivity.
Archiving
Keeping data available for user access but in line with regulatory and statutory compliance policies can be expensive. Why not ask Union to host your archive data? We can address file and email archiving by pointing your office resident applications at our shared infrastructure, thus keeping your primary infrastructure investment to a minimum.
Replication
Unfortunately Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives are not always satisfied by budget. Meeting some objectives means replicating data off-site and more often than not to an identical system, hus doubling costs. Union has solutions that can replicate data from heterogeneous platforms to our shared storage infrastructure that can make meeting these objectives affordable.
Dynamic DR
If you’ve replicated your data to our shared infrastructure then why not host idle machines and applications in the form of Virtual Machines on our shared and virtualised processing platform? This can then be extended with our Virtual Workspace Recovery service to provide dynamic DR services to business users anywhere in the world.
Capacity on Demand
Union is taking shared and aggregated infrastructure to a new level. By encapsulating your own datacentre infrastructure and processes within a virtualised operating system you can create an on-premise service oriented cloud that can be augmented by Union’s own off-premise cloud of aggregated and shared infrastructure. This brings new horizons of capacity on demand and reality to the vision of tomorrow’s datacentre. For more information see our Cloud Computing pages.
