iConnect

Customers Choose iConnect

iConsult’s flagship hosted product, iConnect, is growing from strength to strength. New clients are regularly signing up to iConnect to provide them with an entire hosted network in place of one situated and maintained in-house.

The beauty of iConnect is that it provides businesses with a fixed-cost, no maintenance solution to their network needs. It is particularly suitable for smaller businesses of up to 20 users, which find the costs of buying, installing and maintaining their own servers to be prohibitive. As access to your iConnect network is via extremely secure Internet connections, it also offers an excellent remote working solution for companies with branch offices or employees who travel a great deal. Authorised personnel are able to use iConnect from anywhere and at anytime as long as they have access to the Internet.

Over the course of three years, iConnect has proven to be more cost effective than the standard Microsoft enterprise solution for smaller businesses. With an expected three year lifespan for most physical servers, maintenance and replacement costs for in-house networks can be particularly high.

By using iConnect, all maintenance and licensing issues are dealt with for your company, by iConsult. This removes the variable costs associated with running IT networks and replaces them with a fixed cost that can be easily budgeted for.

iConnect is also made more cost-effective because companies share server space in our highly secure data centre, this uses the space more effectively, something that makes sense when you think that most businesses use only use a tiny fraction of the space available to them on their own networks – in some cases less than 20% of the servers processing power to boot!

Security is central to iConnect’s success and although physical server space is shared, it is impossible to access another company’s data as each dataset is held in its own secure area. In addition, the data centre which holds the iConnect servers, has been built specifically with security and resilience in mind. Not only is there is a three tier power backup system but dual routing of communication links into and out of the centre as well as redundancy in the air conditioning systems to ensure that over-heating of the servers is virtually impossible.

Along with your company network running all the applications that you need to conduct your business, iConnect provides an effective disaster recovery solution. As all of your company data is held in our secure data centre, should an incident deny you access to your offices or damage your computers, you can rest assured that it is held safely by iConnect, ready for you to access as soon as you are able to use an Internet connection – anywhere!