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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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Server Management
- Operating system installation and basic configuration changes
- Installation of application software purchased as part of your solution
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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
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Additional Managed Services
- Cisco firewalls
- Load balancing
- SSL acceleration
- Direct attached storage
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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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