Wikipedia defines Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) as “the delivery of computer infrastructure (typically a virtualised platform environment) as a service.” (Wikipedia, December 16, 2008)
The mbits IaaS offering provides customers with:
- an on demand, secure, highly cost effective IT infrastructure environment.
- infrastructure that can be rapidly deployed, is highly scalable and offered as a managed service under a fixed monthly charge.
The customer in taking up the mbits IaaS service removes the need to
- purchase servers, storage, network equipment, OS and base software licenses.
- physically house equipment, provide connectivity, and secure resources and IT expertise for support and administration of the environment.
In short, mbits provides the physical infrastructure inclusive of the ongoing IT expertise to run and support it. The result is on demand infrastructure provisioned and delivered to the customer whenever and wherever it is required.
mbits IaaS comprises provision, access to and management of the following
Typical business needs which are driving takeup of IaaS
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Testing
- Application Development
- Application Performance Tuning & Testing
- User Training
- Pre-Production User Acceptance Testing
- Tender Requirements Development
- Website Development
- Issuing & Management of Tenders, RFP’s and EOI (packaged with mbits TenderingBITS)
- Emergency deployments and Tactical Field Operations
- System Integration & Commissioning
- Data Migration Data Mining and Analysis
- Data Archiving
The mbits IaaS offering is hosted out of the mbits Data Centre in Canberra and supported by the mbits Service Desk and Network Operations Centre also located in Federal.
The environment has been built in accordance with Federal Government information and data security standards: ISM (formerly ACSI 33) and the PSM for X in confidence data.
Each service is tailored to meet individual customer needs. The service is built on state of the art technology and supported by “on tap” IT expertise and support.
READ MORE... to review the key features of the service and benefits that can be derived through takeup of the mbits IaaS service.
