The new suite of Xerox cloud services aims to help Irish small-and mid-sized businesses access services previously available only to global corporations.
Xerox will sell them through its value-added resellers and include infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for midrange and Intel systems, cloud backup, and disaster recovery services.
The idea is to ensure that a company’s applications, data and IT platforms are secure. These services are priced to serve the target businesses with annual revenue of €7.6 to €190 million.
“Cloud technology is often presented as a complex, ‘big company’ infrastructure solution,” said Ken Stephens, senior vice president of cloud services at Xerox. “But, in fact, managing IT operations in the ‘cloud’ is just as relevant and affordable for smaller companies and can have even more of an impact. Expanding Xerox’s IaaS and backup and recovery services to small firms are the next step toward offering a full suite of business cloud services that they can access on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model.”
This could be a smart logical move by Xerox, particularly with the growth of cloud space as a technology. It should give the company more opportunities to sell additional products and services to this market.
New services include:
• Xerox Cloud IaaS for midrange and Intel systems.
• Support for the conflicting demands of multiple operating systems, databases, legacy applications and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
• Secure cloud services via five global data centres that house multi-tenant technologies and virtualised LANs.
• IaaS is quickly installed and ready to use with an on-demand “click and pick” provisioning process.
• The IaaS ensures complete tracking, auditing and reporting capabilities.
• Cloud backup and disaster recovery service.
• Recovery of data, applications and operating systems on a server can be restored in less than 24 hours.
• An affordable approach for enterprises and small to medium firms needing remote backup and disaster recovery at a monthly, utility-based price, where the customer pays only for what they use.
• No long-term contracts required.
• The business cloud infrastructure used for corporate enterprises also is available for small to medium firms.
• Data backup is replicated, secured, encrypted and conducted daily.
“No matter the size, scope or location of a company, there’s a common denominator: how to manage costs and risks. Xerox delivers a utility model approach, intense security controls, systems and data redundancy, even a customised company-wide disaster recovery plan,” added Stephens.
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