Medium & Large Business

Reduce server growth and increase resource efficiency

In most companies, server environments can be characterized similarly – constantly growing and widely underused. If you find yourself directing precious time, money and resources to acquiring and managing servers that only support specific applications, you may want to consider alternatives. TELUS Virtual Server is a hosted offering that enables you to share network and hardware resources with other TELUS clients. You maintain your own private and secure environment, but benefit from reduced capital costs, capacity on demand, minimal management requirements and high application availability.

• Avoid unused server resources by leveraging a pooled environment operated in a TELUS state-of-the-art data centre
• Adjust server capacity dynamically as business needs change transforming capital expenses into predictable operating expenses
• Reduce the IT management burden by relying on the skills and expertise of TELUS professionals
• Reduce your carbon footprint and improve resource utilization for increased environmental responsibility

Key Features and Benefits

With a hosted virtual server solution, you can improve resource utilization while achieving high availability and environment isolation. While multiple clients share hardware and network resources, your environment remains private and protected. Using a virtual server approach improves application performance through targeted resource allocation, avoiding the availability issues associated with planned and unplanned downtime. And it brings disaster recovery within your reach by simplifying planning, testing, failover and recovery.

• Rapid provisioning of additional server capacity
• Uptime and service levels agreements designed to meet your business needs
• Daily server backup
• Ongoing hardening, management and patching for standard operating systems including Microsoft® Windows Server and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
• 24/7 TELUS monitoring, performance degradation/outage alerts and customer support
• Integrated with other TELUS Managed Hosting offerings including dedicated server hosting, application and database management, enterprise storage and collaboration solutions