Cloud Hosting
Carelink’s 260 NHS customers are now taking advantage of this recent advancement in the delivery of IT services by commissioning services on our high-availability cloud platform on the N3 network, to help meet the increased demands for fast, effective and flexible IT delivery.
The platform has been architected as a high availability solution, with redundancy and scalability built throughout to provide an enterprise class platform capable of hosting business critical applications. All of our services are delivered in line with the OGC ITIL framework and ISO 20000 and 27001 accreditation.
Carelink’s cloud services help our customers react swiftly, avoid costly up-front cap-ex and over-specification of environments, obscure complexity and provide choice. We provide a level of service abstraction which means our clients can focus on core business activities and apply internal resources in more valuable and efficient ways. Expenditure can be more predictable or reactive and usage-based; and savings on power consumption, space and cooling help organizations meet environmental objectives too.
- Right-size, rather than over-size
- No need to know exact scale requirements up front – perfect for new online service launches
- Offload your capacity and expansion planning to the service provider
- Mix and match virtual and physical machines on demand
The Key Benefits of the service include:
Cost effectiveness- Cloud computing delivers high performance lower cost hosting. The platform provides a high level of fault tolerance at a much lower entry cost than stand alone servers - running costs are lower due to more efficient power consumption and the need to invest capital in fast depreciating hardware assets is removed.
Improved reliability and availability- Recovery times and the impact of hardware and software failures are vastly reduced due to the robust architecture of the cloud platform. It can eliminate the requirement for down-time during routine maintenance and deployment, configuration and upgrading is faster and less disruptive.
Massively scalable & flexible- The platform provides a high degree of flexibility in terms of scaling resources, up or down, to meet your needs. We can quickly assign more storage, memory or bring new servers into load balancing as quickly as your requirements change.
Peace of mind- We take care of capacity planning and upgrades of the underlying hardware so it provides a future proof solution, where you don’t need to worry about hardware reaching end of life or running out of resources. All services are monitored 24x7 for capacity, performance and faults and are supported by an ISO 20000 accredited Service Delivery function.
