Business organizations increasingly are adopting managed services as an alternative to internally managing network, telephony and security services. Inherent flexibility and scalability appear to be important motivators for most IT executives surveyed on the subject, but shifting IT spending from a capex to a more predictable opex model and saving money are the key drivers.
In fact, managed services growth among businesses is expected to increase considerably over the next two years, according to a recent study by CompTIA, an IT industry association. Among current users of managed services, CompTIA reports, 46 percent have trimmed their annual IT expenditures by 25 percent or more as a result of shifting to managed services, and 13 percent have slashed annual IT expenditures by 50 percent on the functions they are outsourcing.
With those kinds of savings, it’s no wonder that Insight Research predicts the market for managed services to double from $140 billion to $266 billion by 2016. TelePacific recognized this trajectory several years ago and planned accordingly, making significant investments in our datacenter, managed security and data recovery solutions.
We have colocation facilities in San Jose, Sacramento, Santa Ana, San Diego and Las Vegas. We also operate two SAS 70 (transitioning to SSAE 16) Type 2 certified datacenters in both Sacramento and Santa Ana. Our two datacenters, one in Northern and one in Southern California, provide excellent geographic diversity and offer customers full and partial cabinets; complete ping, power and space including UPS; N+1 power and cooling; high-security infrastructure and procedures; customer amenities; “remote hands” services; and 24×7x365 support and access.
In addition, our OneSecure managed security services offer Internet security on demand to protect customers from online dangers. OneSecure provides six layers of network security:
- Firewall to lock or unlock ports to allow or prevent traffic into a customer’s network;
- IPS, which uses deep packet inspection to analyze network traffic and block packets known to match thousands of malicious code signatures;
- Gateway Antivirus to thwart attacks by checking all HTTP, HTTPs, SMTP and FTP traffic for malicious code embedded within the traffic and block access to infected sites;
- Web Content Filtering to help companies prevent unauthorized web browsing;
- SPAM Filtering, which passes all incoming email through a multi-layered SPAM filtering system that blocks or identifies/categorizes inbound SPAM; and
- Virtual Private Network, allowing individual employees, remote office location and/or suppliers to securely connect to the LAN.
We also offer RemoteStor data recovery services to protect customers from unexpected events such as disk crashes, server corruption, viruses and national and human disasters. Every night, RemoteStor automatically and securely backs up critical information over a customer’s existing Internet connection to our advanced storage infrastructure located in our datacenter facilities.
For more information about our datacenter, managed security and data recovery services, please contact your TelePacific representative.
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