10 Common Network Security Threats We Protect You From

Our company prides itself on maintaining the highest technical and analytical standards when it comes to all our services, from network security to setting up your remote IT support. The backbone of these services involves your IT infrastructure and the cloud hosting solutions related to it.

In the event that you haven’t moved your server backup and recovery to the cloud yet, we suggest doing it now. We have done, and are consistently doing, a number of cloud migrations for SMMEs. Our standard fiber quote for an SMME of anywhere in the range of 20 and 40 employees (dependent upon the fiber-availability of the area) is between R2500 and R5500 for a 20 to 50 Mbps line.

Most cloud solutions service providers decide to concentrate on businesses with 500+ staff where issues are prone to take hours or even days to troubleshoot, let alone fix. Our way to deal with this gross oversight of the needs of small businesses is to purposefully target SMMEs, with an eye on providing a high level of support and quick dispute resolution. We utilize numerous failover alternatives and back-ups on replicated hosted servers (for automatic failover), and 24-hour cyclic back-ups to an independent HSC data centre. We additionally follow Disaster Recovery best practice and our approach to data security is methodical, measured, and extremely meticulous.

Possible Cloud Deployment Models

There are four different types of cloud deployment models: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and community cloud.

Public Cloud – This type of cloud deployment supports all users who want to make use of hardware or software on a subscription basis. An example of this Gmail or DataFileHost.

Private Cloud – This is the IT infrastructure that is usually limited to one organisation. This is the deployment method offered in cloud solutions for businesses to control their data and keep it secure.

Hybrid Cloud – A mixture of public and private cloud deployments. This is usually for companies who need to scale their IT infrastructure quickly and supplement this using the resources offered by the public cloud, such as more space.

Community Cloud – This type of cloud deployment usually means multiple organisations are sharing computing resources, such as universities or police departments within a country.

The Benefits Of Using Hosted Infrastructure And Cloud Services

High-Level of Security – Data breaches are costly. Security is one of the essential aspects of cloud services for small businesses. We employ numerous methods to make sure that your data is secure at all times including monitoring your system for any errors or breaches, using malware, firewalls, and antivirus software.

Affordability – Since you are not hosting the applications on your own servers, you don’t need to stress over equipment upgrades, upkeep, or general overheads, for example, electricity, related to having your own servers.

Modularity – You can refresh and make changes to your hosted environment from anywhere in South Africa. You can likewise collaborate and work from anyplace. 

Increased Business Continuity – Since we offer you server cloud services, including an extra tertiary backup, you’ll have more than one server creating a redundancy situation; where any failure of the primary system will trigger an automatic failover system. This system limits downtime to seconds, and for the most part nobody working on the environment will know. You will always be alerted of any errors or system failures, and we will always check if the automatic failover has been correctly deployed. We’re able to perform critical system maintenance without affecting operations as there is no downtime.