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At Maintel we understand how your business consumes technology makes a big impact on cost and quality of service to your employees and customers.
Therefore Maintel offers a wide range of choices to help your business choose the right cloud platform:
Virtual Private Cloud
Private Cloud is a type of cloud that delivers similar advantages to public cloud however it is about generating efficiencies by virtualising the platforms and infrastructure that you own rather than share organisations. These assets can be hosted in your own datacentre, or in a suitable co-location facility. The benefits? There’s the potential for lots more control and security, and it offers lower CAPEX and OPEX costs than a comparable, dedicated on-premise solution.
It's all about blending on-premise with cloud in a package that’s optimised for your business? Hybrid cloud uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms. A common scenario might see on-premise (or private cloud) blended with virtual private cloud: the workflow split could allow information to be stored locally, but manipulated or processed in the cloud. It’s perfectly possible to add public cloud to that mix too, with full cloud services integration. An example could be a public cloud CRM, integrated with a contact centre solution delivered as a virtual private cloud/on-premise blend.
Hybrid Cloud works for businesses that want to migrate to the cloud, but in a controlled and integrated manner. It’s also great for businesses that need to keep elements of their service on-premise – maybe because they need to deliver and demonstrate extremely high levels of security – but could benefit if some less sensitive elements of the system were delivered from the cloud.
Public cloud service is provided on software, platforms and facilities that are all shared with other organisations. The shared nature of the solutions makes it highly affordable and scalable – pay as you go pricing, and contracts that allow the service to scale month-by-month are big advantages to businesses experiencing growth or change.
Virtual Private Cloud solutions are also hosted in shared, third party datacentres but using a software instance that is dedicated to you, with access to just your business users. As with public cloud, the platforms and other assets in the datacentre are owned by the service provider, freeing the client from the hassle of hardware and software upgrades and so on. It’s generally easier for a business to achieve and demonstrate compliance to process, policy and regulation.