Business vs Enterprise Comparison

To suit your business requirements, we offer two different levels of services – business and enterprise class support. The table below illustrates the different support levels between the two classes.

BUSINESS LEVEL
ENTERPRISE LEVEL

Business SLA

  • 100% network and data centre uptime guarantee
  • 60 minute component or server replacement guarantee
  • Up to 100% of your monthly solution cost credited if we fail to meet our SLA

Industry Leading Enterprise SLA

  • 100% network and data centre uptime guarantee
  • 60 minute component or server replacement guarantee
  • Up to 300% of your monthly solution cost credited if we fail to meet our SLA
  • Stricter timescales and more generous compensation than all our major competitors

Support with Passion

  • Unlimited 24/7 telephone support for critical issues
  • 30 minute critical response time
  • Unlimited support tickets can be raised each month
  • Dedicated customer service team, including sales, solution architect and tierless technical support / system administrators

Pro-active Support with Passion

  • Unlimited 24/7 telephone support for critical and impacting issues
  • 10 minute critical response time
  • Unlimited support tickets can be raised each month
  • Face to face meetings arranged where reasonable to discuss major implementation roll-outs or service issues
  • Dedicated customer service team, including sales, solution architect and tierless technical support / system administrators
  • Project management, migration management and one-to-one solution design consultancy with dedicated solution architects
  • Pro-active monitoring and capacity checking of your solution platform
  • Rapid escalation to senior management team in the event of critical service incidents

Security

  • Automatic security patches available on both Windows and Redhat Linux operating systems
  • Managed Cisco firewall/VPN appliances (optional)
  • Enterprise Anti-virus software included on Windows platforms
  • On demand security auditing (charges may apply)

Security

  • Manually supervised security patching completed on both Windows and Redhat Linux operating systems and supported applications (e.g. SQL Service and Exchange), to a customised schedule if required
  • Managed Cisco firewall/VPN appliances (optional)
  • Enterprise Anti-virus software included on Windows platforms
  • Monthly security auditing and investigation of any detected vulnerabilities
  • Intrusion detection (optional)

Server Management

  • Operating system installation and basic configuration changes
  • Installation of application software purchased as part of your solution

Pro-active Server Management

  • Operating system installation, advanced configuration changes and management
  • Installation and basic management of application software purchased as part of your solution
  • Full pro-active server management
  • Managed capacity planning and load testing on your platform
  • Regular reviews of the general performance and reliability of your solution
  • SQL database set-up, architecture design and performance optimisation

Additional Managed Services

  • Cisco firewalls
  • Load balancing
  • SSL acceleration
  • Direct attached storage

Additional Managed Services

  • Cisco firewalls
  • Load balancing
  • SSL acceleration
  • Content Delivery Network service and management
  • Enterprise shared or dedicated SAN infrastructure
  • Virtualisation (VMWare, Citrix XEN or Hyper-V) design and management
  • Managed network connectivity services (such as point to point fibre links to your internal infrastructure)

Back-ups

  • Daily back-ups (optional)
  • Unmetered data backed up (fixed price)
  • 7 days standard retention
  • Advanced full system snap shot technology
  • Allows bare-metal server restores

Back-ups and Business Continuity

  • Daily back-ups (optional)
  • Unmetered data backed up (fixed price)
  • 30 days standard on-site retention
  • 90 days weekly snapshot off-site retention
  • Advanced full system snap shot technology
  • Allows bare-metal server restores
  • Multi-data centre automatic fail-over solutions (optional)

Monitoring and Reporting

  • Ping monitoring every 5 minutes, pro-active investigation of down alerts
  • Up to 3 standard services monitored (e.g. http, mail, etc) and alerts by SMS and email

Monitoring and Reporting

  • Ping monitoring every 5 minutes, pro-active investigation of down alerts
  • Unlimited standard services monitored (e.g. http, mail, etc) and alerts by SMS and email, with pro-active investigation on any down alerts
  • Advanced Application monitoring with in depth reporting
  • Hardware performance monitoring and reporting with pro-active investigation of any issues

 

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