4. Why Cloud Services?
● Access from everywhere
● Secure and scalable services for your business
● More resilient and reliable services
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5. Speakers
1. Telephony DR solutions for Housing Associations
Richard Bligh, Gamma Telecoms
2. Data Protection & Back up solutions for
Housing Associations
Jason Reid, CloudXL
3. A customers view
Chris Thorpe, Newlon Housing Trust
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7. Phone Numbers in the cloud ?
Imagine
your HA being able to
take any call, on any number,
on any device, anywhere in the
UK - at a lower cost than you
currently pay
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8. How can we deliver this vision ?
● SIP
● Inbound Call control
● CloudXL mobile
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9. BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Public
Phone
network
DSL Direct
Internet or
YOUR PREMISES FLOODING IN
Ethernet
LONDON LONDON Connection
ALTERNATIVE PREMISES
MANCHESTER
12. MULTI SITE LINE RATIONALISATION
Glasgow
30 Channels
0141 xxx xxx
Manchester 100 Channels
60 Channels 0141 xxx xxx
0161 xxx xxx IP Network 0161 xxx xxx
0121 xxx xxx
0207 xxx xxx
ISDN
CENTRALISED
Birmingham PBX’s
30 Channels
0121 xxx xxx
London After
30 Channels
0207 xxx xxx
Rationalisation
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13. So How Can These Solutions
Save You Money ?
● Lower costs of connectivity
► ISDN versus SIP
● Less hardware needed at sites
► Reduces investment and depreciation
● Lower maintenance costs
► Less to maintain in fewer places
● Lower calling costs
► We combine fixed and mobile to create
your own “on net” service
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15. Data protection in the cloud ?
Imagine
a service that allowed you
to recover 1TB, 10TB or
100TB in under 5 minutes,
delivering backup and disaster
recovery as one.
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16. Why are we different ?
● Convergence of backup and disaster recovery
► Rapid recovery with long term retention
● Single pass incremental backup
● All backups available as full recovery points
● Traditional restore and instant availability
● Complete environment recovery within the Cloud
hiveDR, next generation data protection
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17. What is hiveDR ?
Recover files and applications
Recover 1TB, 10TB or 100TB
fully in under 5 minutes
Recover individual servers
Remote Access
• At home
• Internet Café
• Remote Office
• Serviced Office
• DR Site
• Anywhere…
Your Office
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18. The benefits of hiveDR
● One solution, total protection
► Protection for Physical & Virtual platforms running Windows, Unix or
Linux OS and applications
● 95% faster, 99% more reliable
► Incremental backup with changed block tracking
● Extending Disaster Recovery to single systems
► Rapid recovery of single servers or individual volumes
● Reducing your TCO for data protection
► Removing the overhead of backup/tape management and the need for
investment in duplicate equipment or standby DR sites
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20. Newlon Housing Trust
1 x Data Centre 45+ Servers 5.5TB Data
600+ Users
50 x remote offices Virtualised Continued Growth
protected by
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21. In Summary
● Cloud services offer Housing Associations a greater
degree of flexibility, peace of mind and cost savings
● Users demand for mobility is driving the adoption
of cloud services
● Software, Hardware and Telephony are all moving
to the cloud
● CloudXL is a new business combining IT (NRG)
and Telecoms (Actimax)with a strong pedigree
in providing services to HA’s
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2 Variants of the SolutionCo Location Co Location Services – Host your own dedicated PBX in a Gamma Data Centre , with SIP Trunking “built in” Advantages Business Continuity , cost of ownership reduction , an easy step to cloud based services Virtual PBXs Hosted Virtual PBX – Dedicated PBX on a hosted infrastructure, mid market PBX in a highly resilient and pay as you grow environment – Option 1 in Q2 – Option 2 in Q4