Application Hosting Services
Servo's Application Hosting service enables you to completely outsource the design, configuration, management and operation of your business-critical applications along with reaping the benefits of adoption a 'price per client' approach.
Locating such applications within Servo's Hosting infrastructure allows most businesses greater performance, at a more predictable and often lower cost, with less effort, greater security and with higher availability than can be achieved in a local environment.
By utilising software models that compliment an application and service centric solution, Servo can provide a near Zero total cost of ownership service which allows our customers to concentrate on their core activity.
Application Hosting eliminates your need to commit time and resources to maintaining a server environment in your office. We relieve you of the worry and effort, while you enjoy the security of a full service guarantee and comprehensive back-up facilities. By outsourcing your applications to a Servo datacentre, you can focus purely on your business while Servo effectively becomes your IT department. With rapid response and high availability, we will take care of all routine issues, from patching and upgrades to data backups and anti-virus protection.
The service also allows applications to be replicated to other Servo Hosting sites for automatic failover in the unlikely event of a Servo site outage.
Servo's Application Hosting services: your key benefit
Reasons for the growing popularity of Application Hosting are varied. The most significant trends are reflected in business owners acknowledgement of budget and/or resource limitations, and in the desire for continuously-available applications. Servo can provide a near Zero total cost of ownership service which allows our customers to concentrate on their core activity.
By choosing Servo's infrastructural and technical skills for the management of all your applications and IT requirements, your organisation is freed to expand, grow and exceed your business expectations.
Further benefits:
- Less complexity for you; problems of self-hosting eliminated
- Costs saved via no capital investment and significantly reduced communications expenditure (including expensive leased lines or satellite links)
- Reduced business risk
- Better competitive performance
- Servo's access to fast communications can improve your system performance
- Performance and scalability planning enabled though systems monitoring
- Your applications optimised for availability, response, security, scalability and reliability
- Problems proactively resolved, with full customer access to error logs
- You may be able to benefit from a Software as a Service procurement model, saving you costs and/or cashflow
Ideal for:
Most organisations have critical business applications, or can lower productivity levels, if fundamental business services such as printing or email are unavailable. However, Application Hosting is ideal for organisations with the following characteristics:
- Single-site or location dependency which prohibits off-site replication
- Where infrastructure investment to meet business demands becomes disproportionate (especially in smaller organisations)
- Organisations nervous about 'DIY' system or location resilience due to cost and complexity
- IT infrastructures with single points of failure or with poor overall performance, but where owners are reluctant to invest in replacement infrastructure without a clear financial return.
Related Servo services:
Infrastructure Optimisation Assessment
Application Lifecycle Management
Why Servo?
We have made a huge investment in our four UK Hosting sites. Each features high-speed connectivity, data and application replication capability, redundant power and networks, onsite generators and a wide array of management software tools.
Servo's difference to competitors with similar technology investment lies in the way we help you progress from current to desired state. We achieve this via our infrastructure, our skill, our experience and a vigorous process methodology. Our thorough, well-implemented procedures give you 99.999% availability.
