16/02/10:
CLOUDprotect brightens up February skies
Security-as-a-Service through NRG and Astaro partnership
Network Resource Group's latest fully managed service, CLOUDprotect, is now live.
Developed through the Astaro and Network Resource Group partnership, the service provides full protection in the cloud.
Offering a simple and cost-effective solution to safeguard ICT infrastructures, CLOUDprotect provides full protection for network, email and web.
Monitored and controlled centrally by NRG and functioning on a fully virtualised platform, CLOUDprotect ensures round-the-clock high levels of security allowing IT teams to focus less on security threats and more on the benefits IT brings to businesses.
The union is part of NRG's drive towards cloud computing with Astaro's virtualised security solution providing a comprehensive platform to ensure the highest levels of service.
CLOUDprotect users can benefit from NRG's resources including their highly qualified support team, their pedigree in virtualisation and their extensive experience in providing managed services.
By using Astaro virtual appliances alongside its other virtualisation offerings, Network Resource Group can meet customer requirements extremely quickly; additional services can be opened up as customers require them, and for as long as they are necessary.
The service is offered at a cost-effective price, giving smaller businesses the opportunity to benefit from enterprise-level security. As a fully managed service, CLOUDprotect also removes management and training overheads, as well as electricity, cooling and storage costs.
Stephen Young, managing director of Network Resource Group, says of the service, “Our primary markets are the not-for-profit and social housing sector, and corporate SMB environments.
“The IT teams are normally small and responsible for managing a large range of IT projects and responsibilities.
“Using the Astaro virtual appliances, we can deliver a full range of managed security services that scale to meet the requirements of the business with no upfront charges. This new range fits in well with the other managed offerings that we have.”
Andrew Fourie, UK sales director for Astaro, says of the partnership,“Delivering security services in today's environment is all about flexibility and being able to meet customer demands.
“Network Resource's approach, based on Astaro virtual appliances, means that they can offer a complete stable of security functionality using one product, while customers can pick and choose what they need and have experts manage it on their behalf.
“This model of supplying security as a service is proving to be very popular, as it allows customers to avoid the upfront costs of buying in their own solutions while still benefiting from best of breed technology, support and management.”
As a fully managed service Stephen Young comments, “Monitoring this service to a large group of customers meant that we had to have a solid management platform in place. Because the ACC is available for free as a virtual machine, this meant that the level of investment required from us is lower, enabling us to provide the service at a competitive price-point”.
NRG are offering a free 30-day trial of CLOUDprotect. Visit http://www.sysonline.net/cloudprotect for more information or call 0845 630 0720.
For more information on Astaro, please visit http://www.astaro.co.uk.
