Group Services

RapidSwitch is a division of the iomart group plc, a specialist provider in managed hosting. As part of a group we can bring a number of benefits – for example more competitive pricing through increased buying power and the ability to offer multi-site solutions in the group’s 5 owned datacentres, but one significant added advantage is an escalation path for when your business grows into and demands an enterprise grade hosting platform.

There is no need for a costly migration between datacentres or service providers – the pathway can be seamless, and offers up a wealth of new opportunities.

SaaS

Our Cloud Hosting solutions are ideal for SaaS deployments. Offering unrivalled scalability, reliability, and performance - all key features when running SaaS deployments, our product ranges provide multiple options when building your SaaS platform. All of our solutions offer a highly optimised and customised physical hardware platform and an award-winning network. In addition, our cost control through datacentre ownership and finding the best value for money infrastructure means you won't find a more cost-effective way to deploy your SaaS offering.

SaaS deployments need a technically focused approach in order to optimise the application performance. We will take the time to understand your application's needs and utilise our extensive knowledge and experience of hardware and system configurations to maximise performance and offer the best return on investment.

IaaS

Usually seen as Enterprise-level equipment for most solutions, removing the need for dedicated hardware offers up a realm of opportunities within a cloud environment. The message is consistent with the rest of the Cloud advantages - no capital investment required, flexibility in the service, and the solution is far more scalable.

The implementation of IaaS as part of a wider solution is something to consider carefully and we recommend you contact us to discuss how best to deploy IaaS instances within a Cloud environment.

Business Continuity

High Availability solutions, achieved through load balancing, cloud platforms, virtualisation, or a mixture of all three are key to ensuring that your business services are not affected by patching, updates, and upgrades.

Continued profitability of a business relies as much upon cost control as it does upon revenue growth. Business continuity plans ensure that hosting costs – direct and indirect – are limited, predictable, and controllable. Stability and certainty give a business the confidence in its platforms and a solution built with business continuity in mind reassures significant stakeholders in the business, as well as improving the manageability of the server estate.

Use us as consultants in the field to provide friendly advice and help architect a solution that suits you.

Disaster Recovery

Using our five UK datacentres we are able to offer multi-site disaster recovery plans, with features that are as simple or as complex as the solution needs to be.

Features such as High Availability, Heartbeat Monitoring, and Data Backup and Replication enable a whole platform to either continue in the event of an unplanned failure, or be fully restored quickly and efficiently following a failure, all with no or minimal loss of data.

With our scale, multi-site presence, significant partnership arrangements and access to expert knowledge and skills we are able to advise on a number of options for disaster recovery solutions.