A Ready
Business
rises above
infrastructure
limitations
Vodacom
Power to you
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Get Ready to free
up your business.
To succeed in today’s world of dramatic and unpredictable change,
every business needs to be a Ready Business. A Ready Business is flexible,
fast and always connected, able to make the most of emerging opportunities
and react swiftly to imminent threats.
Vodacom Managed Hosted Services offer your business the use of powerful
business infrastructure and software – without costly upfront investment
and maintenance costs. Regardless of your size or budget, you can enjoy
corporate-grade solutions that are fully maintained, always updated,
reliable and consistently available...
Giving you the freedom to grow your Ready Business.
• The freedom to use the software and services that your business needs – as you need them
• The simplicity of not having to install, manage and constantly upgrade
• The control that having access to the latest business technology offers your business
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Why Hosted Services make perfect sense.
Like all businesses, yours naturally wants the best
infrastructure platform to operate on, and the most powerful
and useful software to meet your business objectives.
Too often these are simply out of reach – they’re too costly,
too complicated, or require too many internal resources
to manage.
Hosted Services can solve these problems for you –
by providing affordable access to some of the very latest,
most powerful and most popular business infrastructure
services and software.
Are you Ready for “in the cloud” computing?
Before the advent of high-speed networking and the Internet,
the idea of sharing software and only paying for what you use,
while someone else looks after the maintenance, was unheard
of. Hosted Services “in the cloud” makes this all possible.
What you get are direct cost savings and reliable access to the
most modern business solutions. You no longer have to worry
about system incompatibility, license renewals, incessant
upgrades and making sure that the hardware keeps running.
We will handle that for you.
We provide access to the software and our infrastructure is
Ready for you to use. We host everything in our Data Center
and give you on-demand access. We provide the infrastructure
and software that you need, Ready-tailored to your specific
business needs, and we look after it for you.
You get all the Ready Business benefits –
without the cost and effort.
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Make sure your business
is always secure.
When your infrastructure platform and
software are hosted externally, you’ll
naturally want the assurance that your
business systems and data are fully
protected. Be assured that no-one else
can get access to your information,
because everything is safe, as if it were
on your own premises.
We can give you that peace of mind.
We’ve built a secure data center
designed from the ground up to
incorporate the very latest in
security technology.
Be Ready for any threat.
Physical security systems including
locked and cordoned-off server racks.
Virtual security is provided by a very
high-grade perimeter firewall so that any
intrusion is blocked long before it gets
anywhere near your data. We employ the
top specialists available to constantly
monitor all threats, ready to neutralize
them immediately.
You are able to set your own access
permissions and control who in your
business can access your various
systems and information.
You also enjoy the very latest in data
loss protection. Regular backups ensure
full disaster recovery, and the entire
data center is ringed with fire control
technology. State-of-the-art redundant
power supply systems take over in the
event of loss of power, insulating you
from the effects of power outages on
your applications.
You get full protection against intrusion
and loss of information. We treat your
data as if it were our own. Because, at
the end of the day, we’re only as good
as our ability to completely protect the
business services you entrust to us.
Get Ready to save on
your infrastructure.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Network infrastructure is key –
the backbone of cloud computing.
We offer a premium business-class
infrastructure across the country.
This includes a state-of-the-art data
center comprising hardware, storage,
backup, archiving and disaster recovery.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
allows you to locate all your server,
communication and information
infrastructure off-site. You no longer
have to spend vast amounts of money
and dedicate valuable resources to
install and manage expensive onsite
infrastructure.
Think of how those funds, time and
human resources could be better spent
growing your Ready Business…
This infrastructure we offer gives you a
wide choice of platforms (physical and
virtual) in a variety of operating systems
– all the capacity, technology, security
and flexibility you need – on demand
and always on.
We guarantee you network
power, excellent value,
reliable service and
constant innovation.
The advantages of using Infrastructure as a Service
over traditional infrastructure.
Traditional Infrastructure
Infrastructure as a Service
Requires significant upfront capital expenditure
Takes time to plan, implement and deploy
Requires trained staff to manage, fix, upgrade and maintain
Requires periodic upgrades, expansion, investment,
maintenance and repair
Requires your direct management
Suffers downtime due to system incompatibilities,
human error and power outages
Requires insurance premiums for your premises
No upfront investment
Immediate implementation and deployment
No staff or resource requirements
Always functional and automatically upgraded, scalable
to your needs, and maintained by experts
Simply login and work
Always available
Safely maintained in a state-of-the-art data center
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Get Ready to enjoy
continuity and full
IT support.
Vodacom Data Centers
Our Infrastructure as a Service
solutions are based on the
purpose-built platform that
our Data Centers provide. They
are engineered for the highest
possible reliability and fastest
network connectivity, so that
you can always access your
services when you need them.
Vodacom’s Data Centers are managed
facilities with high fault tolerance and
full redundancy – able to support critical
business data, applications, e-commerce
transaction systems, websites and
networking technology. We put all
our resources and expertise at your
disposal – from 24/7/365 support and
data management to backup, disaster
recovery, hardware monitoring and
security management.
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We offer flexibility and scalability,
allowing you to enjoy tailor-made
infrastructure solutions that meet
your specific business needs –
simply, efficiently and cost-effectively.
Infrastructure Solutions.
Let’s have a look at the specific IaaS solutions that we can
offer you and how your business can benefit from them.
Managed Hosting
Data Management Solutions
The freedom to control your own hosting
environment.
Data is the lifeblood of modern business. That’s why it’s critical
that data is stored securely but is also easily accessible. This
poses a challenge for many businesses. Investment into data
storage systems is both expensive to set-up and difficult to
run, with on-going upgrades. And if some unforeseen disaster
occurred, you’d have to do all the recovery yourself. Vodacom’s
Cloud Data Management Solutions take care of all of this.
You don’t have to build your own data back-up or storage
infrastructure with its associated software, hardware and
resource costs.
A Ready Business is always open to change – so we offer
a wide choice of managed hosting services and the flexibility
to change your hosting set-up as you need to.
From highly cost-effective basic hosting to the full control
of placing your own servers right on our network backbone,
we can cater for everything from a small brochure website
to complex high-end online business and e-commerce
applications.
Your online business applications reside on our high-speed
all-fibre network, so your users and customers enjoy fast
performance.
Solutions
• Vodacom Lodged Hosting
• Vodacom Leased Hosting
• Vodacom Virtual Hosting
Managed Storage
A highly scalable, secure and cost-effective
business storage solution that makes it simple
for you to store your data onsite or off-site.
Reliable data storage is becoming increasingly important as
more and more business information exists electronically.
This presents an ever-growing challenge for businesses
to manage data storage flexibly, efficiently, securely and
cost-effectively. Vodacom’s Managed Storage Solutions take
this weight off your shoulders.
Managed Backup
Get the reassurance that your business data is
safely backed up and always accessible.
Simple and reliable business data backup is something every
business needs. But it can be costly and it requires highly
focused management and resources. Now you can take the
simple, more affordable route to data back-up; take advantage
of Vodacom’s Managed Backup Solutions and let us take care
of it for you. Avoid the impact of data loss or disaster with
tailored backup and storage solutions you can rely on,
at affordable prices.
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Managed Disaster Recovery.
Your business depends on data – we can design a
digital disaster recovery system you can depend on.
With businesses becoming increasingly
dependent on data, IT systems and
networks, the spectre of digital disaster
is a contingency that everyone has to
plan for. According to the size of your
business and the nature of your business
activities, this could not only become
expensive, but also complicated.
You may only need to protect important
business information. You may need to
safeguard mission-critical online apps,
systems or transactions. Either way, we
understand that your business depends
on reliable disaster recovery. Tailored
to your specific needs, our recovery
services are both trusted and affordable.
We have a fully-managed disaster
recovery service, built on our hosted
infrastructure platform and housed
in a state-of-the-art data center.
We replicate your data and systems for
instant switch-over in the event of a
disaster, ensuring the continuity that
keeps you in business. At the same time,
we set about recovering and restoring
your data.
We consult with you to make sure
that you get the disaster recovery
solution that suits you, and define
specific service level processes and
requirements for recovery. Using these,
we can create a disaster recovery
strategy that you can rely on.
This will give you the freedom to
conduct your business knowing that
not only are you as fully protected as
possible, but that the disaster recovery
process will be simple and efficient.
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Equip your business with
world-class software at
affordable prices.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Buying, maintaining, upgrading and
securing all the software that your
business needs to operate optimally can
get very expensive. Large businesses
and corporates often have to run entire
IT departments for this purpose and the
best software to accomplish business
objectives is often simply beyond the
means of SMEs.
Against this background, Software as
a Service makes perfect sense.
Large companies can get all the
advantages of powerful enterprise
software without the huge expense of
buying and maintaining it themselves.
SMEs are able to afford powerful
software that would otherwise be out
of reach.
SaaS gives you the freedom to opt for
the best software that your business
needs and access it from anywhere.
We have the software installed.
We maintain and manage it. We renew
the licenses, do the upgrades and
ensure that it is fully secured. You simply
lease it from us at an affordable monthly
fee – Ready to use as your own.
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Give your Ready Business the leading edge in
managed networking solutions. Contact Vodacom
Managed Networking Services today:
+234 1 700 7000
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Get Ready for safer
communications.
Hosted Mail and Messaging Services
Our hosted mail and messaging
solutions give your business control
over its communications. From
Microsoft® enterprise email software
suites to basic hosted email and
anti-spam protection, we can cater
for all sizes of companies. You can
run your entire business email and
other collaboration services off our
platform. The freedom to choose
is yours.
You have full administrative control
over your email and messaging
services. You’ll save on hardware
costs as we supply all the servers
and hard drives. You won’t have to
pay for the software. And, because
they’re fully managed services, you
won’t have to manage and maintain
them yourself.
Your email and messaging is
protected by high-level security.
The hosted software runs in our
ultra-secure data center and the
highest commercial security
encryption protects the transmission
when you send and receive.
Whatever your size, your business
can get the exact type of email and
messaging solution it needs. One
that runs efficiently, is fully secured
and supported – and that is very
cost-effective.
You can run a Microsoft® Hosted
Exchange and SharePoint on
our infrastructure to serve large
numbers of users. Our solution
features a BlackBerry® enterprise
server for the integration of your
business emails, allowing your
workforce the freedom to operate
without location limitations.
Managed Mail and
Messaging Solutions
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• Microsoft® Hosted Exchange
• Hosted Lync
• Hosted SharePoint
Put a stop to
dangerous spam.
Today, a large percentage of any business’ incoming email
is spam. More than just a nuisance, it’s both a potential
legal liability and a major productivity drain on corporate IT
departments and users alike. An effective anti-spam protocol
scans for spam and viruses before forwarding clean, non-spam
and non-infected messages to the corporate email server.
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Give your Ready Business the leading edge in
managed networking solutions. Contact Vodacom
Managed Networking Services today:
+234 1 700 7000
vodacom.com.ng
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Give your Ready Business the leading edge in managed networking solutions.
Contact Vodacom Managed Networking Services today.
+234 1 700 7000
vodacom.com.ng
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