IT Leaders Announces New Range of Hosted Services
After six months of development and refining of the new offerings, IT Leaders is proud to announce its new range of hosted services.
Operating these services from its own data centre in Varsity Lakes (Gold Coast, QLD), IT Leaders now has the facilities to offer server hosting in its racks.
Whilst it has highly competetive pricing in this field, and highly skilled server support and/or server management services, rack hosting is just the beginning. IT Leaders true specialisation lies in offering client businesses a true 'cloud computing' facility which totally replaces the need for clients to buy and operate their own servers.
InfoWorld once described Cloud Computing this way:
“…Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities."
What it means in plain english is that your local computers no longer do any significant work: all the load is shifted live to big powerful computers in the 'cloud' - which is data centers connected to the Internet.
Using IT Leaders state-of-the-art industrial strength Hewlett Packard Blade servers, IT Leaders can offer small to medium enterprises the rock solid server facilities that would cost them many tens of thousands of dollars to implement themselves, all at a low monthly fee with zero capital expenditure.
The virtual server offering includes:
- Secure data centre facility with diesel generator power backup and fire protection
- Flexible and instant hardware allocation - only pay for the hardware capacity your business actually needs
- Pay by the month software & hardware - no expensive up front software or hardware purchases
- Fully centralised architecture - access your 'desktop' from anywhere in the world, and your staff can work effectively and identically no matter when they are or how many office locations you open.
- Health monitoring & reporting of your server environment to ensure optimal efficiency for you and your staff.
- A range of support options to suit exactly what you need and your budget
- Automated offsite full backup and antivirus facilities that you never have to worry about
Contact IT Leaders today, the Leaders in virtual server services.
Local QLD IT Firm Reports 75% Growth
Local IT services firm IT Leaders is bracing itself for an even busier second half to the financial year, after recording record revenue in the first half of the 08-09 financial year.
General Manager Scott Jones attributes this to a combination of sustained service levels and a suite of new services and products.
"We generally grow by 50% each year mostly as a result of very good service systems that mean we very rarely lose a customer. We have had around 1000 business clients in South East QLD, to which we provided an array of IT products and network servicing." says Jones.
Jones says that this year has been different to the norm. He saw an opportunity at the start of 2008 to change the way IT was being used in businesses, and saw a way to put new intelligence into optimising businesses through their technology, rather than just supplying and fixing computer networks.
"We recompletely rearranged the business and invested heavily in World leading technologies for monitoring the health of our client networks. These systems alert us to impending failures, let us diagnose many issues instantly, resolve those issues without needing to send an engineer onsite, and conduct advanced monthly maintenance services without interrupting the client's staff."
Jones says that the new technology used by his firm allows them to also monitor and report to clients on what areas of their IT was working well, and what areas were causing productivity wastage in the business.
"In this economic climate, many smart business owners are realising the power of this information. When a business has 20 staff wasting even 5 minutes per day because computer systems are not suited to the business or not well configured, this is the equivalent of wasting 2100 hours of time per year, which is one entire staff member wasted" he says.
"What many companies don't realise is that the bigger they get, the more they need to focus on optimising IT, and managing it in such a way as to not only minimise the cost of the IT, but also to minimise productivity wastage. Computer power gets cheaper every year, but staff get more expensive. Even small companies can save thousands per year, or do without extra staff just by optimising their IT."
Jones attributes the additional growth of IT Leaders this year to the industry-leading nature of their DRIVE IT Management Plans and the new innovative direction of the company.
IT Leaders Selected as IT Provider for Innovative Queensland Mining Firm
Linc Energy (ASX: LNC www.lincenergy.com.au) has selected IT Leaders as it's IT provider.
IT Leaders daily duties under the agreement will include full IT Management services for each of Linc Energy's four locations. This will be done from the IT Leaders Network Operations Centre on the Gold Coast, and supported by it's branch locations in Brisbane and Ashmore.
Beyond that Linc Energy have requested that IT Leaders make recommendations for modernising and optimising their technology infrastructure. They are seeking rock solid reliability, high performance, and flexibility in design to be able to cope with extraordinarily high growth expectations. IT Leaders highly skilled project engineers are are up to the challenge.
