BlueFire Application Hosting

Leverage the BlueFire infrastructure to host your companies critical applications. BlueFire has close to 750 applications currently being hosted on our infrastructure.

You need to consider the implication and risk associated in your critical applications going down. Today in most offices, applications are delivered on single servers with no redundancy. This leaves critical applications at risk of failure in hardware, power, enviromentals at your office site which would all result in loss of money and productivity to your organisation.

Also, as your organisation grows, you may establish branch offices around the country and need to provide access to your applications from multiple locations. In addition, as you and your users travel they need anywhere internet, which enables access to your applications.

BlueFire can leverage multiple systems to provide highly available application services enabled to be accessable securely anywhere on the internet.

Access utility storage, managed database services, secure internet services, BlueFire Citrix and VMWare enviroment to deliver your applications back to your business when you need it 24/7 365 Days a year.

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Citrix Application Delivery

The ability to deploy applications using Citrix technology with guaranteed performance and delegated management tools to allow easy management, deployment and user satisfaction.

Leverage BlueFire infrastructure to deploy your applications.

Six Keys to Successful Application Delivery – BlueFire Application Delivery

To deliver applications to users with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost, IT must address six key points of presence between applications and users. In the diagram below, click on any of the six key points to learn more:

• Deliver Web Apps with Citrix NetScaler — Optimise all web applications with an integrated networking solution that accelerates performance, improves security, and substantially reduces load on servers.
• Deliver Windows Apps with Citrix Presentation Server — Save millions in management costs and eliminate data security risks by installing all Windows applications in the datacentre and virtualising or streaming them to end users over the network.
• Deliver Desktops with Citrix Desktop Server — Reduce the cost, management and security risk of desktop computing by delivering desktops virtually from the datacenter in a way that actually improves the end user experience.
• Enable Secure Applications Access with Citrix Access Gateway — Provide a secure single point of access to all applications that automatically customises access policies based on user scenarios.
• Accelerate Apps to Branch Users with Citrix WANScaler — Instantly improve the performance of applications delivered over the wide area network while reducing bandwidth by up to 75%.
• Monitor End User Experience with Citrix EdgeSight — Ensure applications are meeting business metrics at all times by monitoring performance from the user’s perspective.

Leverage the BlueFire Infrastructure to deliver your applications and work with our infrastructure experts to determine the best method of deploying your applications.

• Cortex – BlueFire Citrix Application Control Panel.

 

You have an IT environment growing at hyper speed or expanding and contracting nonstop. Scaling to meet your computing capacity needs is a given. Scaling your hardware costs that quickly or that often is not a given. Fortunately, our Dedicated Virtual Servers make cost-efficient scaling a practical reality. It's a smart approach to hosting—one that constantly helps you better manage your hardware resources. With Virtual Dedicated Servers, you get the most out of your servers and you only pay for the resources you're using at any given time.

BlueFire makes sure the solution works for you around the clock. The physical servers, the virtualisation layer and the virtual machines are all managed 24x7x365 by our Certified VMware experts.

So, you scale with your business and control your budget. All with a solution that delivers the support and expertise your business needs. In short, you accomplished what you set out to do—you got your money's worth without making sacrifices.

• Rapid VM Provisioning Makes Scaling Easier & On-demand Computing Capacity Possible so you can meet your performance and capacity needs at a moment's notice (with pre-defined Virtual Machines)
• The Security of Dedicated Virtual Servers provides greater peace of mind if you're concerned about the compromises, unanticipated traffic spikes and security breaches that have plagued some shared virtualization providers
• Automatic Recovery Keeps You Up and Running, delivering redundancy by recovering data from a second host machine (multiple servers and SAN required)
• Snapshots Provide Increased Data Protection during your OS and application upgrades
• Use What You Pay For and Maximize Your Hardware Investment by better utilising your servers through Virtual Machines
• Pay for What You Use with Utility Billing that only charges for your Virtual Machines when they are turned on
• Quickly Get To a Stable and Secure Virtualized Environment without investing your own time and resources to do it all yourself
• The BlueFire Virtualization Team, Staffed with Certified VMware Specialists, manages your physical server, virtualisation layer and virtual machines so you can make the most of your solution
• BlueFire 24/7 365 Day Support Working to Support You and your environment around the clock.
• Maximum Uptime with inbuilt high availability & SLA.
• Secondary Datacentre Delivery of Disaster Recovery Services available on Demand.

VMware – Benefits

Leverage the BlueFire Infrastructure to deploy your server environment.

Reduce IT Costs While Improving Flexibility & Responsiveness

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%
• Reduce energy costs by 80%
• Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
• Add high availability and redundancy into your server design.
• Save more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualised.
• Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better

Consolidate Excess Hardware & Increase Server Utilisation

Our Professional Services team can help you assess your IT environment to identify consolidation candidates and to calculate the potential savings from using virtualisation.

BlueFire provides your own delegated control panel to Manage Your Virtual Infrastructure from a Single Point of Control

• Accelerate provisioning time by 50-70%
• Manage virtual machines from a central location
• Monitor the performance of virtual machines and their hosts

Automate your Virtual Infrastructure to Ensure Peak Performance

With VMware, your IT organisation can deliver levels of performance, scalability and availability that are not possible with a physical infrastructure. Using VMware vCenter Server in combination with our VMware VMotion and VMware DRS products, your organisation will be able to:

• Avoid planned downtime with live migration of virtual machines
• Enable dynamic policy-based allocation of IT resources with automated load balancing
• Eliminate many repetitive configuration and maintenance tasks

Work with BlueFire to help your organisation leverage these unique capabilities as part of an ongoing strategy

Benefits of VMware virtual infrastructure for you business or organisation:

• Pool resources to better share and utilise available servers and storage
• Increase availability, automation and flexibility using building blocks of inexpensive industry-standard servers
• Cost savings of more than $3,000 annually for every workload virtualised
• Ability to provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks
• 85% improvement in recovery time from unplanned downtime
• 60-80% utilisation rates for x86 servers (up from 5-15% in non-virtualised PCs)

VMware How To:

Virtualisation is a technology which utilises a piece of hardware to emulate or "virtualise" hardware and create virtual machines with their own CPU, RAM, hard disk and network controller. This allows you to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time and hence increasing the flexibility and functionality of your hardware and therefore your business throughput.

The VMware approach to virtualisation inserts a thin layer of software directly on the computer hardware or on a host operating system. This software layer creates virtual machines and contains a virtual machine monitor or “hypervisor” that allocates hardware resources dynamically and transparently so that multiple operating systems can run concurrently on a single physical computer without even knowing it.

However, virtualising a single physical computer is just the beginning. VMware offers a robust virtualization platform that can scale across hundreds of interconnected physical computers and storage devices to form an entire virtual infrastructure.
VMware virtual infrastructure software is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Contact BlueFire to find out how VMware software can help consolidate servers, optimise software development and provide affordable business continuity.

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

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.