Who is BlueFire
Founded in 1996, BlueFire has grown through a network of referrals based on relationship and good quality of IT service. Established to service the IT needs of Asia Pacific SMBs, BlueFire has grown consistently year on year as a growing number of customers recognise that there is a better way of managing technology. As subject matter experts, we deliver IT capabilities more efficiently, cost effectively and with higher availability than our clients
can do themselves.
Our services are backed by the peace of mind that comes from our long-standing relationships with key best of breed vendors. We hold a range of industry certifications, including Microsoft Gold Partner, Citrix Gold Partner, Symantec xSP, Kaseya Service Provider, VMWare VSSP and additional endorsements such as verified Citrix Ready status.
BlueFire is also a telecommunication aggregator for a number of telecommunications carriers including Optus, SingTel Asia, Powertel-AAPT, Uecomm, Soul and PIPE Networks. These relationships allow us to provide secure, business-grade redundant private WAN links to any location – and the list continues to expand with new brand office deployments in the UK and USA.
Enterprise Technology, Now
As one of the Asia/Pacific region’s fastest growing managed service providers, we know how to get key business applications up and running, and keep them that way.
Operating from redundant geographical data centres in Sydney Australia, London UK and Minneapolis USA specifically built for the purpose, we already provide hundreds of SMBs like yours with easy access to BlueFire’s multi million-dollar infrastructure. This gives them access to a range of strategic point services or end-to-end solutions including productivity applications, email, desktop services, voice over IP (VoIP), backup, disaster recovery, and security services.
We utilise world’s best practice in everything we do. This includes ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) IT management foundations, enterprise monitoring and management systems, reporting and logging capabilities, Banking Grade Security qualifications for Information Security, and an extensive range of industry-leading tools that help us proactively identify and eliminate potential performance issues.
We’ll use our extensive experience in IT management to ensure that your IT infrastructure has the right solutions, available for use at any time. That way, you can focus your own experience, time and resources on running your business as effectively as possible.
Managed Services - The Future of IT
As defined by organisational leadership expert Dr Gerard Macioce, “managed services” is the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations. The managed services market is currently undergoing explosive growth worldwide as more and more companies recognise the appeal of letting an outside expert do the heavy lifting.
Growing recognition of the value of managed services has made it one of the IT industry’s shining stars. According to IDC, Asia/Pacific sales of managed security services alone are expected to grow more than 17% per year, almost doubling from US$604m in 2008 to US$1.1b in 2012.
The regional managed services market as a whole is expected to grow from US$23.3b in 2006 to US$36.2b by 2012, while sales of value added managed application services will double, to US$12.6b, in the same timeframe.
That’s a lot of pent-up demand, and it paints a bright future for companies considering whether now is the time to embrace managed services. BlueFire already services thousands of users every day, and is fast approaching tens of thousands of users at hundreds of corporate customers in dozens of countries across the Asia-Pacific region. BlueFire continues to expand this footprint with planned expansion into the UK and the US as clients open new offices in these locations.
Your Strategic Partner
No matter what your business is or where, we can help it run better. We become part of your team, a trusted advisor, a partner and a strategic asset to your organisation.
If you’d like to spend less time worrying about your IT, come talk to us about how managed services might fit into your business. We’ll keep the technology running and working for you – so you can focus on what really matters to your business