Cloud Services

With Microsoft Azure you can gain a competitive edge and keep your business moving forward without breaking the bank. Azure helps you bring products and services to market quickly. You can run your operations more cost-effectively, paying only for what, not for what you don’t. And you can free up budget to spend on other business needs by eliminating the cost of infrastructure hardware.

Choose your own path to the “modern business”, with a flexible cloud platform that offers the following features:

• A 99.95% monthly SLA
• Enterprise-level security used by many of the world’s largest organizations today
• The ability to use any language, framework, or tool to build applications
• Unlimited servers and storage

Only Microsoft offers a flexible platform that lets you choose the path that’s best for your business, whether that’s on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid combination. Azure is a core part of this overall vision that helps you make the cloud a seamless part of your IT.

Office 365, the fastest growing commercial product in the history of Microsoft, fits the way you work. Using the familiar Office apps you know and the power of the cloud, Office 365 lets you work virtually anywhere, anytime, across your devices. No matter how you access and use Office 365, you receive the same seamless experience and enterprise-grade security to protect your business and customers. There are no big upfront costs and no worrying about upgrades. Just the tools you need to do what you do best. Online or offline, your team can work together to get more done using fully-featured Office apps accessible on PCs, Macs, smartphones, and tablets.

Office 365 gives you the ability to:

• Deliver your best work with new and innovative features throughout each Office application.
• Stay connected and save important emails with business-class email and up to 50GB of mailbox space.
• Protect your business and employees from malware and spam with always up-to-date security and email protection.
• Store, sync, and share files with OneDrive for Business and 1TB of space.
• Collaborate with team members and join online meetings with one click from your preferred mobile device.
• Gain peace of mind with a financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Get the most from your investment and run your business the easy way with Office 365.

Choose your own path to modern, with flexible, familiar, and trusted solutions from Microsoft for your business.

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

For the Business Owner

IaaS is a new type of technology which has the capability to provide you with cost effective infrastructure and rapid access to storage, networks, and other building block computer resources over the cloud.

IaaS allows you to pay only for IT resources your business requires while obtaining higher service levels. It enables your business ICT environments to grow on demand, while reducing operating costs and capital expenditure.

IaaS is your ICT infrastructure hosted on the cloud allowing you to pay for services on a monthly basis.

Benefits include:

• Low upfront costs
• Affordable monthly fees
• Business continuity from high availability data centre services
• Add/remove users and services on-the-fly
• Lower electricity costs
• Lower maintenance and support costs
• Peace of mind

For the IT Manager

Having IaaS implemented in your department is advantageous to you in a multitude of ways as it enhances the overall performance of the department and reduces costs.

IaaS helps you minimize complexity as well as streamline and simplify infrastructure management while providing you with total cloud control, enabling much higher operational agility for critical applications as well as traditional IT environments.

With IaaS in place, you require no maintenance or additional costs for local infrastructure, you can manage infrastructure remotely on Virtual Private Servers and add/remove users, services, resources, functionality, licenses on-the-fly.

Furthermore, it allows you to quickly plan, set up, deploy, manage and support complex application environments delivering a unique foundation for a truly self-service IT organization. This enables business users to fulfil their IT demands, improving the overall quality of the user experience. It helps maximize return on investment by ensuring the entire cloud lifecycle is controlled efficiently and cost-effectively.

SaaS (Software as a Service)

For the Business Owner

SaaS is a software delivery model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or service provider and made available to customers over a local network or the cloud, typically the Internet.

SaaS is ideal for critical business applications such as Email, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management Information Systems (MIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Accounting, Human Resource Management (HRM), Content Management (CM) and Service Desk Management.

It can greatly reduce up-front costs so any business can get up and running in no time. Furthemore, it reduces maintenance and support costs, and services, licenses, and users can be added/removed on-the-fly.

For the IT Manager

SaaS is an effective cloud-based application delivery solution which reduces implementation time and cost.

SaaS provides easier administration, automatic updates and patch management, compatibility, easier collaboration, and global accessibility.

Most applications can be delivered over the cloud, although the most critical are the ones which will provide the most benefit. This is due to the low setup and support costs as well as by the high availability of the services offered by Data Centre environments.

Webhosting

Chrisons provides shared or dedicated web hosting servers at very competitive prices. We cater for Windows as well as Linux based development platforms. The Data Centres in which our webhosting servers are located provide high physical as well as network security.

Our customers are provided with their own Control Panel to manage their webhosting service as well as add/modify/delete email accounts on-demand.

Several packages and plans are available, each tailored to meet your particular needs and budget.