Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) opens up the reach, coverage and performance of Australia’s largest communications network and makes it available to your organisation on demand. You get immediate access to powerful, state-of-the-art data centres, shared or private servers and highly secure storage based in Australia. Scale up. Scale down. Opt for private, virtualised or shared infrastructure. Match security levels to your needs and be confident about business continuity with Telstra’s carrier-grade disaster recovery. You only pay for what you use by the month. You can quickly configure servers and storage with advanced online tools for service monitoring and management. You can focus on growing your business and your IT department can spend more time driving innovation and less time troubleshooting.

Hybrid Cloud is giving any business the ability to utilize their current Infrastructure and Private Cloud environments with the Public Cloud. Sometimes certain workflows and applications require dedicated hardware, optimising performance while also utilizing the cloud environment. This, in turn, reduces overall running costs and total cost of ownership, giving many businesses flexibility to grow. Hybrid Cloud also gives your business’ workloads the ability to move seamlessly between the two platforms, granting much more flexibility and deployment options, tailored to your business.

Virtualized Servers hosted in the cloud can access much greater pools of computing resources than are commonly available to on-premise servers. Resource pooling and a self-managed, dynamically optimized environment dramatically increase IT performance. Virtualization that leverages secure cloud-based resources helps avoid unnecessary infrastructure investment and technology lock-in. The result is lower total cost of ownership to the end users. Elastic Computing enables clients to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, as opposed to hours or days. CustomTec can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously.

CustomTec’s Cloud Office is primarily focused around the Microsoft suite of cloud services with the flagship product being Office 365. Clients will be able to pick the services which best fit their need for Email and Calendar services, Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Online Meetings or even Email archiving. Clients can also resolve their licensing compliance by taking on Enterprise SKUs which include full licensed copies of Microsoft Office 2010. All Office 365 services link in with Microsoft Office 2010 products, but there are also Office 365 web applications, which further extend this offering to allow users to create or edit documents and send emails from anywhere in the world via a web browser.

CustomTec’s Co-Location service, provides hosting at our datacentre facilities at Equinix, Mascot. Your servers will be protected by 24×7 security, fire protection, redundant links to multiple carriers and power backup (battery and diesel generators). CustomTec also can provide additional hosting services including: – Public DNS hosting – Email scanning for viruses and spam – Website hosting – Disaster Recovery servers – Firewall hosting

BackUp-as-a-Service (BaaS) is the smarter way to back-up your business. Instead of spending thousands on tape drives, tape and backup software BackUp-as-a-Service takes a local snapshot and then transfers the data offsite to a secure datacentre. The entire process is managed and monitored by CustomTec. Restores can be done quicker than before and you can be secure in the knowledge that last night’s back was done.

Hyper-convergence is a type of infrastructure system with a software defined architecture that integrates compute resources, storage resources, virtualization and networking into a hardware box supplied and supported by a single vendor such as HyperFlex from Cisco. This software defined architecture us to quickly and easily add resources to the existing infrastructure but simply connecting another node to the cluster. New nodes are automatically added to the cluster once discovered and workloads are redistributed across the new resources without requiring manual intervention.

SmartDR is a cost effective disaster recovery service for business critical servers. All businesses rely on Servers. Most businesses have a backup plan but few have a recovery plan, let alone the ability to test it. A disaster doesn’t have to be as dramatic as the Brisbane floods. It can be as simple as a power outage or a failed hard disk.

SmartDR provides a cost effective solution, providing many financial benefits such as;

– Pay by the Month (OPEX)
– No need to fund expensive DR Facilities
– Minimal capital expenditure
– No requirements to manage or monitor, it is all done by us!