The Support Store hosts a range of software applications and client data in secure, professionally managed data centres and clients pay a monthly fee, per user, to access them remotely over a network connection - from their business premises, homes, or when travelling away from the office. Why not supplement your IT operations with your own dedicated IT department
Application Hosting is an especially attractive option to smaller companies because it makes the latest software available at an affordable price, and means companies never have to buy the software at all.
Running the applications remotely also means that a company never has to install or upgrade its software applications locally. It also means that a company can reduce the complexity and cost of the hardware it’s running. For example, one preferred method of connectivity includes providing customers with a Windows-based terminal. This ‘thin-client’ device has no moving parts and has an embedded operating system already configured to connect to a central data network operation.
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Some customers choose to keep selected applications running locally while also taking advantage of other applications that we host on our hardware. With both integrating seamlessly within a user’s existing Windows desktop environment the possiblities are endless being able to multi-task, getting more work done with just a few clicks! In most cases users will be unable to tell which applications are running locally and which remotely as all will be accessible straight from their very own desktop as if it was just installed on their local computer.
The appeal and demand for our Citrix XEN App and Xen Desktop hosted applications has increased substantially for many of our clients due to the current economic climate. capital expenditure is greatly reduced, costs are reduced and mostly fixed and companies are freed up to focus on their business not on their IT.
Performance is dependent primarily upon the speed of connection and the number of users who are connected. Cost savings gained from using our service more than justifies the installation of an SDSL or dedicated leased line to the Internet. Alternatively some clients prefer an on premise solution and opt for us to install our hosting platform on their site.
Q. Why does virtualization help disaster recovery?
A. In a standard disaster recovery environment, you have a primary data center and another location, with copies of your physical hardware, for site disaster recovery. If the hardware isn't the same at the two locations, you may have driver incompatibilities and problems restoring your backups.
With virtualization, your "hardware" is all virtual and completely separated from the actual, physical hardware in the host server. This separation means it's much easier to take a virtual machine (VM) and restore it to different hardware, as long as both servers are running the same virtual platform (hypervisor) and have comparable resources.
Another factor with virtualization is that you simply have fewer machines to worry about. If you go from 50 physical machines to 10 virtual servers, you've reduced the number of restorations you have to do by 80 percent.