The expertise, environment and support your mission critical applications need.

Organisations are increasingly relying on complex, web and inward facing applications to provide mission critical business services to customers, partners and staff.

BSG has a proven track record of designing, deploying and operating high performance, reliable, multi-server solutions on a range of platforms that let your business grow and communicate. Hosted in a secure and robust Tier 1 data centre environment, our complex solutions provide you with fully redundant and scalable network access that ensures availability and cost efficiencies.

All complex hosting solutions include the range of managed services shown with our single dedicated server offering, plus a wide range of managed services that provide security, network and support services, which can ensure application availability all the way to the users environment.

Benefits include:

Expertise: Our experienced and qualified engineers will design and deploy a solution to meet your needs from a range of platforms, with software and hardware from leading manufacturers. Our range of products and services including clustering, load balancing and managed firewalls will ensure your applications operate at the optimum level. The skill sets within BSG enable us to provide installation, configuration, support, troubleshooting and vendor independent purchasing advice on the following disciplines:

Hardware Support
Communication & Network Infrastructure
Network Analysis & Troubleshooting
Operating Systems
Security
Business Continuity
Directory Solutions
Messaging and Collaboration Solutions
Systems Management and Software Delivery Solutions
Application Development
Web Servers
Database
Business Applications
Project management
Design
Education

Environment: Our own test centre and 14,000 sq feet of Central London warehouse ensure that a hassle free rapid deployment or relocation can be achieved. We have an environment to house your applications that ensures redundancy from the highest level:

• Geographical load balancing - Having Multiple Tier 1 data centre partners enables BSG to provide a dual data centre approach with clients' applications being hardware load balanced to give the ultimate in business continuity.

• Non stop infrastructure - client servers sit in a proven environment that has been designed to run at 100% availability. The environment consists of WAN, LAN, BackUp and Security

For further information see: Infrastructure

Support: Hosting Services provides support that goes far beyond that provided by the traditional ISP to offer true application support that can extend beyond the data centre all the way to the user's desktop:

• Proactive Monitoring - Hosting Services can create a bespoke set of server, network and application monitors providing detailed, real time reporting, available via a browser based interface.

• Proactive Application Security - Hosting Services will monitor and manage all aspects of the environment's security, reporting all recommendations of change to the client.

• DBA Resource - client's data applications can be managed by BSG's highly skilled data centre DBAs who ensure the optimum performance of the applications.

And it doesn't stop at the data centre. For over a decade BSG has been providing remote and on-site support for WAN's, internal LAN's, servers and desktop. We can ensure that when you turn on your computer, not only does it work, but that you and your staff can access the application stored in your data centre. All this comes through one Service Level Agreement (SLA) and one point of contact.