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Hosted Disaster Recovery - Insurance for your business.
As if running a business wasn’t already hard enough, an unexpected disaster can be an absolute nightmare.
Power outages, flooding, fire or even a careless driver downing a telephone pole all have the potential to interrupt your daily operations, and the implications can be serious enough that many businesses never recover. Research firm Gartner estimates that two out of five businesses that experience a disaster will go out of business within five years.
Proper disaster recovery (DR) planning can help you beat the odds, but that planning must be done now and continually revisited to ensure it continues to meet changing business requirements. This takes a significant expenditure in money and resources, which is why many businesses – especially small ones with few in-house DR capabilities – often end up with inadequate DR policies and technologies. Sadly, many of those businesses only find out their policies are inadequate when it’s too late.
Because they shift computing and data management to a purpose-built facility designed to withstand any kind of disaster, managed services are an easy, effective way to improve any company’s DR capabilities. Having invested millions of dollars to build a redundant data centre environment that follows industry best practice, BlueFire is able to offer a suite of Hosted Disaster Recovery (DR) services that can help companies of any size get back up and running almost immediately in the event of a disaster.
Should your business be unlucky enough to suffer an interruption, your data and applications will be ready and waiting for you once you’re able to set up temporary office space. Send your employees home to continue working on their own computers, rent a managed office downtown, gather your staff in your living room or raid the local Internet café – it doesn’t matter how you get online, but once you’re there you’ll have access to the same data and applications you were using in your office – using nothing more than a standard Web browser. Just flip a switch, and the rest of the company can get back to work while you manage the disaster recovery effort.
DR is possible because BlueFire hosts its customers’ data, applications and even their desktops from its highly secure, fully redundant facilities in Sydney’s central business district. Specialised software ensures even data at small branch offices is stored on BlueFire’s ultra-reliable infrastructure. Supported by experienced staff 24x7, the facilities are protected against interruption with fully redundant power, communications links, equipment and data mirroring. So even if your office loses contact, BlueFire will be there, ready and waiting, to help ensure the continuity of your business.
The ability to failover, test, failback and give yourself peice of mind that your systems and data are safe in the event of failure.
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Fast, reliable recovery
BlueFire HOsted Disaster Recovery offers you a fast, affordable and complete recovery solution in a single, totally self-contained service. You can recover multiple physical and virtual workloads quickly. You can easily monitor and report on key workload replication and recovery functions. And you can rapidly recover workloads with one-click failover and flexible restore options.
Be protected in hours not days
The service packaging provides an easy-to-use and easier to deploy disaster recovery solution. Hosted DR includes everything you need for disaster recovery right out of the box and it can be configured and running in just a few hours.
Disaster recovery testing with the click of a mouse
Leverage virtualization for easy, one-click testing. Quickly create snapshot duplicates of the recovery archives, and boot them into safe sandbox test networks. Hosted DR provides an easy, fast—and more importantly, safe—testing mechanism.
Recover from an outage in minutes
Warm standby virtual machines deliver incredibly fast recovery performance by being booted in place. With Hosted DR, the recovery archives can be powered on and run directly off the BlueFire Cloud server enviroment.
Continuous Data Replication
- BlueFire MDR leverages managed application infrastructure and can provide near realtime backup of data from remote premises
- Continuous replication ensures business continuity by ensuring data at the backup site is always up-to-date
Fully Hosted Applications
- If your onsite application servers crash, business can normally stop
- BlueFire hosts applications from its data centre, providing easy access from any Web browser
- Staff quickly get back to business, helping customers and keeping the business running while the physical recovery effort is underway
Cost Effective Business Continuity
- Conventional DR strategies rely on buying and managing duplicate equipment
- Leveraging BlueFire’s investment in infrastructure, processes, systems and people provides 100% peace of mind at 50% the cost of doing it yourself
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Corporate Governance
- Ever more demanding corporate governance policies require businesses to have clearly delineated, effective DR plans
- BlueFire MDR satisfies these criteria with a secure, available and cost-effective solution guaranteed to keep the business up and running
Guaranteed Availability
- Experienced staff monitor and manage the service 24x7
- BlueFire Backup is backed by a contractual service level agreement (SLA) with clear financial penalties if BlueFire falls short
End-to-End Security
- BlueFire follows security industry best practices as defined in the Banking Grade Security qualification for Information Security
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Fast, reliable recovery
BlueFire HOsted Disaster Recovery offers you a fast, affordable and complete recovery solution in a single, totally self-contained service. You can recover multiple physical and virtual workloads quickly. You can easily monitor and report on key workload replication and recovery functions. And you can rapidly recover workloads with one-click failover and flexible restore options.
Be protected in hours not days
The service packaging provides an easy-to-use and easier to deploy disaster recovery solution. Hosted DR includes everything you need for disaster recovery right out of the box and it can be configured and running in just a few hours.
Disaster recovery testing with the click of a mouse
Leverage virtualization for easy, one-click testing. Quickly create snapshot duplicates of the recovery archives, and boot them into safe sandbox test networks. Hosted DR provides an easy, fast—and more importantly, safe—testing mechanism.
Recover from an outage in minutes
Warm standby virtual machines deliver incredibly fast recovery performance by being booted in place. With Hosted DR, the recovery archives can be powered on and run directly off the BlueFire Cloud server enviroment.
Continuous Data Replication
- BlueFire MDR leverages managed application infrastructure and can provide near realtime backup of data from remote premises
- Continuous replication ensures business continuity by ensuring data at the backup site is always up-to-date
Fully Hosted Applications
- If your onsite application servers crash, business can normally stop
- BlueFire hosts applications from its data centre, providing easy access from any Web browser
- Staff quickly get back to business, helping customers and keeping the business running while the physical recovery effort is underway
Cost Effective Business Continuity
- Conventional DR strategies rely on buying and managing duplicate equipment
- Leveraging BlueFire’s investment in infrastructure, processes, systems and people provides 100% peace of mind at 50% the cost of doing it yourself
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Corporate Governance
- Ever more demanding corporate governance policies require businesses to have clearly delineated, effective DR plans
- BlueFire MDR satisfies these criteria with a secure, available and cost-effective solution guaranteed to keep the business up and running
Guaranteed Availability
- Experienced staff monitor and manage the service 24x7
- BlueFire Backup is backed by a contractual service level agreement (SLA) with clear financial penalties if BlueFire falls short
End-to-End Security
- BlueFire follows security industry best practices as defined in the Banking Grade Security qualification for Information Security
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- The process of restoring systems, data and infrastructure require supporting key ongoing business operations.
- What you need in order to protect your vested interests from unforeseen damage, loss, vandalism, or theft.
- An essential service provided by the experts at BlueFire to ensure peace of mind now, while minimising downtime, profit loss, and stress in the future.
- The process of restoring systems, data and infrastructure require supporting key ongoing business operations.
- What you need in order to protect your vested interests from unforeseen damage, loss, vandalism, or theft.
- An essential service provided by the experts at BlueFire to ensure peace of mind now, while minimising downtime, profit loss, and stress in the future.
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Mission
Deliver Enterprise IT Infrastructure as a Service to businesses delivering cost efficiencies, economies of scale, no single points of failure by leveraging best of breed systems with fixed costs with service level guarantees . The ability to leverage a little or alot based on your requirements in order to delivering a better and more cost effective IT environment than what they can do yourselves.
Established
- Market Leader in Managed Services in Asia Pacific Region
- 12 Years established experience
- Stable Profitable Business with 90% of revenues contracted monthly fees.
- Service Level Guarantees with Financial Penalties.
Industry Knowledge
BlueFire is marketing leading in the IT Infrastructure as a Service market place and has 12 years of experience in the delivery of these services.
Certifications
- Microsoft Gold Partner
- Citrix Gold Partner
- Citrix Ready
- VMware VSSP
- Symantec xSP
Experts by any definition.
Highly Trained, Certified Infrastructure engineering experts – experts by any definition.
Ownership - BlueFire is owned by Dimension Data.
Founded in 1983 at the inception of networked communications with a simple vision – to do great things - Dimension Data is a specialist IT services and solutions provider that helps clients plan, build, support and manage their IT infrastructures. Today we are positioned at the forefront of networking and communications in 47 countries around the world.
By continually building on our knowledge and expertise in IT infrastructure technologies, we have become a recognised global leader in the provision and management of specialist IT infrastructure solutions. We plan, build, support and manage IT infrastructure solutions that help over 6,000 clients achieve their business goals. Drawing on our experience in network integration, security, converged communications, data centres and storage, contact centre and Microsoft technologies, we deliver a full lifecycle of IT services.
Dimension Data at a glance
- Founded in 1983
- 2008 revenues of $4.5 billion
- Listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Securities Exchange Limited
- A client base that spans all industry sectors including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, government and education
- Over 11,055 highly skilled employees
- Established global footprint coupled with unrivalled experience in emerging markets
- Strategic partnerships with leading technology vendors, including Cisco and Microsoft
- Recognised industry leader with 56 industry awards in 2008
www.dimensiondata.com.au
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Delegated Management, Tools & Control Panels.
BlueFire provide delegated management tools to allow our clients to self manage, administrate and have visibility to the functioning performance of their infrastructure service.
Environmentals
- Environmental control units that give a 100% SLA-guaranteed temperature and humidity within a certain range, plus the most advanced pre-action fire-suppression systems available.
- Raised floors and zone-4 certified for earthquakes.
- Dual-feed 12KV power supply from PG&E, plus N+1 redundancy with redundant power feeds.
- UPS modules and PDUs with static switches on front end and emergency redundant back-up diesel generators.
- Fully-redundant, roof-mounted, 1500-ton, Liebert system with common ducting, plus security via the elimination of water-filled piping from the datacenter space.
- CRAC units in the electrical and UPS rooms.
Security
- All premises are closely monitored and guarded, 24x7x365, with sophisticated pan/tilt CCTV covering every part of the facility and security guards posted at all entrances.
- Access to servers is restricted to a limited number of authorized engineers and security is strictly enforced using the very latest technology, including man-trap technology, motion sensors and controlled ID key-cards.
- BlueFire has many customers who demand high security, including financial services clients, hedge funds, pharmaceutical companies, lawyers & accountants.
Data Center and Collocation
BlueFire is a leading IT infrastructure provider delivering highly scalable hosting solutions. Our state-of-the-art data center achieved ISO 27001, reflecting a consistent, reliable and secure operating environment to support customers worldwide.
24x7 physical security with guards, cameras and biometric monitoring keeps.
BlueFire Primary Datacentre – Optus Tier 1 Datacentre is certified under ISO27001 (Information Security Management Systems ISMS, certification for EXPAN™ Co-location services at its Ultimo Data Centre in Sydney).
ISO 27001 is a globally recognised standard governing security of information and network systems. Optus’ accreditation follows a thorough assessment of its hosting services including the identification and implementation of rigorous controls to meet the information security needs of its corporate and government customers.
Connectivity
- National MPLS Network across Australia.
- BlueFire Data centre’s have 8 x Carrier Connections – Optus, Uecomm, Digital River, PIPE Networks, Pacnet, Powertel, AAPT, Soul & Telstra Services.
- Redundant Internet Services provided by Optus, Uecomm & Digital River.
- Dark Fibre connects multiple datacenters & available across Australia.
Infrastructure
- Compliant State of the art data centre.
- Enterprise Class Hewlett Packard Blade Servers.
- Nightly backup & Disaster Recovery Services.
- Proactive monitoring of servers, devices and backup systems.
- State of the art security, content security – anti-virus, spam & patches, intrusion prevention and layer 7 data analysis.
- Redundant high speed Storage Area Networks (SANs)
- Hardware maintenance & Upgrades Included
- Secure access controls to data centre: two factor authentication, biometric scanners.
- 24 x 7 x 365 Network Operation Centre (NOC) – Service Desk.
- Backup power systems and built-in redundancy.
- Minimal Latency and no single point of failure.
- Adheres to Microsoft best practices for infrastructure deployments.
- Active Passive cluster server configuration for ultimate resilience, plus seamless failover when a cluster node is unavailable or taken offline for maintenance.
- Redundant and load-balanced servers increase reliability.
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Mission
Deliver Enterprise IT Infrastructure as a Service to businesses delivering cost efficiencies, economies of scale, no single points of failure by leveraging best of breed systems with fixed costs with service level guarantees . The ability to leverage a little or alot based on your requirements in order to delivering a better and more cost effective IT environment than what they can do yourselves.
Established
- Market Leader in Managed Services in Asia Pacific Region
- 12 Years established experience
- Stable Profitable Business with 90% of revenues contracted monthly fees.
- Service Level Guarantees with Financial Penalties.
Industry Knowledge
BlueFire is marketing leading in the IT Infrastructure as a Service market place and has 12 years of experience in the delivery of these services.
Certifications
- Microsoft Gold Partner
- Citrix Gold Partner
- Citrix Ready
- VMware VSSP
- Symantec xSP
Experts by any definition.
Highly Trained, Certified Infrastructure engineering experts – experts by any definition.
Ownership - BlueFire is owned by Dimension Data.
Founded in 1983 at the inception of networked communications with a simple vision – to do great things - Dimension Data is a specialist IT services and solutions provider that helps clients plan, build, support and manage their IT infrastructures. Today we are positioned at the forefront of networking and communications in 47 countries around the world.
By continually building on our knowledge and expertise in IT infrastructure technologies, we have become a recognised global leader in the provision and management of specialist IT infrastructure solutions. We plan, build, support and manage IT infrastructure solutions that help over 6,000 clients achieve their business goals. Drawing on our experience in network integration, security, converged communications, data centres and storage, contact centre and Microsoft technologies, we deliver a full lifecycle of IT services.
Dimension Data at a glance
- Founded in 1983
- 2008 revenues of $4.5 billion
- Listed on the London Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Securities Exchange Limited
- A client base that spans all industry sectors including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, government and education
- Over 11,055 highly skilled employees
- Established global footprint coupled with unrivalled experience in emerging markets
- Strategic partnerships with leading technology vendors, including Cisco and Microsoft
- Recognised industry leader with 56 industry awards in 2008
www.dimensiondata.com.au
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Delegated Management, Tools & Control Panels.
BlueFire provide delegated management tools to allow our clients to self manage, administrate and have visibility to the functioning performance of their infrastructure service.
Environmentals
- Environmental control units that give a 100% SLA-guaranteed temperature and humidity within a certain range, plus the most advanced pre-action fire-suppression systems available.
- Raised floors and zone-4 certified for earthquakes.
- Dual-feed 12KV power supply from PG&E, plus N+1 redundancy with redundant power feeds.
- UPS modules and PDUs with static switches on front end and emergency redundant back-up diesel generators.
- Fully-redundant, roof-mounted, 1500-ton, Liebert system with common ducting, plus security via the elimination of water-filled piping from the datacenter space.
- CRAC units in the electrical and UPS rooms.
Security
- All premises are closely monitored and guarded, 24x7x365, with sophisticated pan/tilt CCTV covering every part of the facility and security guards posted at all entrances.
- Access to servers is restricted to a limited number of authorized engineers and security is strictly enforced using the very latest technology, including man-trap technology, motion sensors and controlled ID key-cards.
- BlueFire has many customers who demand high security, including financial services clients, hedge funds, pharmaceutical companies, lawyers & accountants.
Data Center and Collocation
BlueFire is a leading IT infrastructure provider delivering highly scalable hosting solutions. Our state-of-the-art data center achieved ISO 27001, reflecting a consistent, reliable and secure operating environment to support customers worldwide.
24x7 physical security with guards, cameras and biometric monitoring keeps.
BlueFire Primary Datacentre – Optus Tier 1 Datacentre is certified under ISO27001 (Information Security Management Systems ISMS, certification for EXPAN™ Co-location services at its Ultimo Data Centre in Sydney).
ISO 27001 is a globally recognised standard governing security of information and network systems. Optus’ accreditation follows a thorough assessment of its hosting services including the identification and implementation of rigorous controls to meet the information security needs of its corporate and government customers.
Connectivity
- National MPLS Network across Australia.
- BlueFire Data centre’s have 8 x Carrier Connections – Optus, Uecomm, Digital River, PIPE Networks, Pacnet, Powertel, AAPT, Soul & Telstra Services.
- Redundant Internet Services provided by Optus, Uecomm & Digital River.
- Dark Fibre connects multiple datacenters & available across Australia.
Infrastructure
- Compliant State of the art data centre.
- Enterprise Class Hewlett Packard Blade Servers.
- Nightly backup & Disaster Recovery Services.
- Proactive monitoring of servers, devices and backup systems.
- State of the art security, content security – anti-virus, spam & patches, intrusion prevention and layer 7 data analysis.
- Redundant high speed Storage Area Networks (SANs)
- Hardware maintenance & Upgrades Included
- Secure access controls to data centre: two factor authentication, biometric scanners.
- 24 x 7 x 365 Network Operation Centre (NOC) – Service Desk.
- Backup power systems and built-in redundancy.
- Minimal Latency and no single point of failure.
- Adheres to Microsoft best practices for infrastructure deployments.
- Active Passive cluster server configuration for ultimate resilience, plus seamless failover when a cluster node is unavailable or taken offline for maintenance.
- Redundant and load-balanced servers increase reliability.
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CEO - Owner
Enterprise IT Infrastructure priced for SMBs
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IT Manager
Deliver better solution for our client with no compromise on technology.
LEARN MORE...
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User - Staff
Reliability – Access to your systems from wherever your staff is just so they can work when they need to.
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