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HYBRID ICT are a Corporate Cloud Services Specialist
HYBRID ICT has a strong track record in migrating small and medium sized businesses from legacy in-house (on premise) systems to public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud based solutions including Server-Services, Email Hosting, Data and Backup solutions.
What is Cloud Computing?
Simply put, cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, intelligence and more—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
You typically pay only for cloud services you use, helping lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change.
Top benefits of cloud computing
Cloud computing is a big shift from the traditional way businesses think about IT resources.
Here are six common reasons organizations are turning to cloud computing services:
Cost
Cloud computing eliminates the capital expense of buying hardware and software and setting up and running on-site datacenters—the racks of servers, the round-the-clock electricity for power and cooling, the IT experts for managing the infrastructure. It adds up fast.
Speed
Most cloud computing services are provided self service and on demand, so even vast amounts of computing resources can be provisioned in minutes, typically with just a few mouse clicks, giving businesses a lot of flexibility and taking the pressure off capacity planning.
Global scale
The benefits of cloud computing services include the ability to scale elastically. In cloud speak, that means delivering the right amount of IT resources—for example, more or less computing power, storage, bandwidth—right when it’s needed, and from the right geographic location.
Productivity
On-site datacenters typically require a lot of “racking and stacking”—hardware set up, software patching, and other time-consuming IT management chores. Cloud computing removes the need for many of these tasks, so IT teams can spend time on achieving more important business goals.
Performance
The biggest cloud computing services run on a worldwide network of secure datacenters, which are regularly upgraded to the latest generation of fast and efficient computing hardware. This offers several benefits over a single corporate datacenter, including reduced network latency for applications and greater economies of scale.
Security
Many cloud providers offer a broad set of policies, technologies, and controls that strengthen your security posture overall, helping protect your data, apps, and infrastructure from potential threats.
Types of cloud computing
Not all clouds are the same and not one type of cloud computing is right for everyone.
Several different models, types, and services have evolved to help offer the right solution for your needs.
First, you need to determine the type of cloud deployment, or cloud computing architecture, that your cloud services will be implemented on.
There are three different ways to deploy cloud services on a:
HYBRID ICT are Cloud Computing Specialists and a Microsoft Silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner.
If your company would like to explore moving your servers, storage, emails, databases and backups to “the cloud”, contact us for an obligation free quotation.
Public Cloud
Public clouds are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service providers, which deliver their computing resources like servers and storage over the Internet.
Microsoft Azure is an example of a public cloud provider. With a public cloud, all hardware, software, and other supporting infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud provider. You access these services and manage your account using a web browser.
A public cloud is where an independent, third-party provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, owns and maintains compute resources that customers can access over the internet. Public cloud users share these resources, a model known as a multi-tenant environment.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) are another leading provider of public cloud services.
Organizations all over the world recognise Microsoft Azure over Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the most trusted cloud for enterprise and hybrid infrastructure. AWS is 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server.
More than 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Azure. Businesses and organisations around the world—small and large, old and new—rely on Microsoft Azure to provide trusted cloud services.
HYBRID ICT can also supply Private Cloud solutions using clients own data centre or an HYBRID ICT Data Centre.
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Private Cloud
A private cloud refers to cloud computing resources used exclusively by a single business or organisation.
A private cloud is created and maintained by an individual enterprise. The private cloud might be based on resources and infrastructure already present in an organisation’s on-premises data center or on new, separate infrastructure. In both cases, the enterprise itself owns and operates the private cloud.
A private cloud can be physically located on the company’s on-site datacenter but some companies also pay third-party service providers to host their private cloud.
A private cloud is one in which the services and infrastructure are maintained on a private network as opposed to a public or hybrid network.
HYBRID ICT can also supply Private Cloud solutions using clients own data centre or an HYBRID ICT Data Centre.
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid clouds combine public and private clouds, bound together by technology that allows data and applications to be shared between them.
A Hybrid cloud computing model includes a mix of premises, private cloud and third-party public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms, giving the client the best of the two solutions
By allowing data and applications to move between private and public clouds, a hybrid cloud gives your business greater flexibility, more deployment options, and helps optimize your existing infrastructure, security, and compliance.
Microsoft Azure is the only consistent and comprehensive hybrid cloud. Go beyond connecting your datacenter to the cloud. Take advantage of the broadest set of hybrid capabilities and deliver true hybrid consistency in your applications, data, identity, security, and management across on-premises and cloud environments.
HYBRID ICT can also supply Private Cloud solutions using clients own data centre or an HYBRID ICT Data Centre.
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Azure
Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure) is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
Azure provides Software-As-A-Service (SaaS), Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-AS-A-Service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.What can I do on Azure?
Azure provides over 100 services that enable you to do everything from running your existing applications on virtual machines to exploring new software paradigms such as intelligent bots and mixed reality. Many teams start exploring the cloud by moving their existing applications to virtual machines that run in Azure. While migrating your existing apps to virtual machines is a good start, the cloud is more than just "a different place to run your virtual machines". For example, Azure provides AI and machine-learning services that can naturally communicate with your users through vision, hearing, and speech. It also provides storage solutions that dynamically grow to accommodate massive amounts of data. Azure services enable solutions that are simply not feasible without the power of the cloud.A general overview of what you can do in Microsoft Azure.
Azure is a little word for some pretty complex and vast capabilities. So, to keep things simple, let's break them down into 8 main categories.- Compute services
- Cloud storage
- Networking
- App hosting
- AI
- IoT
- integration
- Security
Azure services
| Avere vFXT for Azure | Run high-performance, file-based workloads in the cloud |
| Azure Active Directory | Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on |
| Azure Active Directory B2C | Consumer identity and access management in the cloud |
| Azure Active Directory Domain Services | Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers |
| Azure Advisor | Your personalized Azure best practices recommendation engine |
| Azure API Apps | Easily build and consume Cloud APIs |
| Azure API Management | Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale |
| Azure App Service | Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile |
| Azure Archive Storage | Industry leading price point for storing rarely accessed data |
| Azure Artifacts | Create, host, and share packages with your team |
| Azure Automation | Simplify cloud management with process automation |
| Azure Backup | Simplify data protection and protect against ransomware |
| Azure Batch AI | Easily experiment and train your deep learning and AI models in parallel at scale |
| Azure Blob Storage | REST-based object storage for unstructured data |
| Azure Blueprints | Enabling quick, repeatable creation of governed environments |
| Azure Boards | Plan, track, and discuss work across your teams |
| Azure Bot Service | Intelligent, serverless bot service that scales on demand |
| Azure Cache for Redis | Power applications with high-throughput, low-latency data access |
| Azure Content Delivery Network | Ensure secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach |
| Azure Cosmos DB | Globally distributed, multi-model database for any scale |
| Azure Data Box | Secure, ruggedized appliance for Azure data transfer |
| Azure Data Lake Storage | Massively scalable, secure data lake functionality built on Azure Blob Storage |
| Azure Database for MariaDB | Managed MariaDB database service for app developers |
| Azure Database for MySQL | Managed MySQL database service for app developers |
| Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Managed PostgreSQL database service for app developers |
| Azure Database Migration Service | Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud |
| Azure Databricks | Fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform |
| Azure DDoS Protection | Protect your applications from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks |
| Azure Dedicated HSM | Manage hardware security modules that you use in the cloud |
| Azure Developer tool integrations | Use the development tools you know—including Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Maven—with Azure |
| Azure DevOps | Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software |
| Azure DevTest Labs | Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts |
| Azure Digital Twins | Build next-generation IoT spatial intelligence solutions |
| Azure Disk Storage | Persistent, secured disk options supporting virtual machines |
| Azure DNS | Host your DNS domain in Azure |
| Azure File Storage | File shares that use the standard SMB 3.0 protocol |
| Azure Firewall | Native firewalling capabilities with built-in high availability, unrestricted cloud scalability, and zero maintenance |
| Azure Front Door Service | Scalable, security-enhanced delivery point for global, microservice-based web applications |
| Azure Functions | Process events with serverless code |
| Azure Information Protection | Better protect your sensitive information—anytime, anywhere |
| Azure IoT Central | Experience the simplicity of SaaS for IoT, with no cloud expertise required |
| Azure IoT Edge | Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to edge devices |
| Azure IoT Hub | Connect, monitor and manage billions of IoT assets |
| Azure IoT solution accelerators | Create fully customizable solutions with templates for common IoT scenarios |
| Azure Key Vault | Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets |
| Azure Kinect DK | Build computer vision and speech models using a developer kit with advanced AI sensors |
| Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Simplify the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes |
| Azure Lab Services | Set up labs for classrooms, trials, development and testing, and other scenarios |
| Azure Machine Learning service | Bring AI to everyone with an end-to-end, scalable, trusted platform with experimentation and model management |
| Azure Managed Applications | Simplify management of cloud offerings |
| Azure Managed Disks | Persistent, secured disk storage for Azure virtual machines |
| Azure Maps | Simple and secure location APIs provide geospatial context to data |
| Azure Media Player | A single player for all your playback needs |
| Azure Migrate | Easily discover, assess, right-size, and migrate your on-premises VMs to Azure |
| Azure Mobile Apps | Build and host the backend for any mobile app |
| Azure Monitor | Full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network |
| Azure NetApp Files | Powerful, hybrid network file system (NFS) file shares |
| Azure Notification Hubs | Send push notifications to any platform from any back end |
| Azure Pipelines | Continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and cloud |
| Azure Policy | Implement corporate governance and standards at scale for Azure resources |
| Azure portal | Build, manage, and monitor all Azure products in a single, unified console |
| Azure Queue Storage | Effectively scale apps according to traffic |
| Azure Repos | Get unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repos for your project |
| Azure Resource Manager | Simplify how you manage your app resources |
| Azure Scheduler | Run your jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules |
| Azure Search | Fully-managed search-as-a-service |
| Azure Security Center | Unify security management and enable advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads |
| Azure Sentinel | Intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise |
| Azure Service Health | Personalized guidance and support for when issues in Azure services affect you |
| Azure SignalR Service | Add real-time web functionalities easily |
| Azure Site Recovery | Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service |
| Azure Sphere | Securely connect MCU-powered devices from the silicon to the cloud |
| Azure SQL Database | The intelligent, relational cloud database service |
| Azure Stack | Unlock innovation with hybrid cloud applications |
| Azure Storage | Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage |
| Azure Storage Explorer | View and interact with Azure Storage resources |
| Azure Stream Analytics | Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices |
| Azure Test Plans | Test and ship with confidence with a manual and exploratory testing toolkit |
| Azure Time Series Insights | Explore and analyze time-series data from IoT devices |
| Azure Traffic Manager | Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability |
| Azure Web App for Containers | Easily deploy and run containerized web apps that scale with your business |
| Azure Web Apps | Quickly create and deploy mission critical web apps at scale |
Microsoft Office
Hybrid ICT are your local Australian Authorised Microsoft Office experts for supplying, licensing, installing, migrating, fixing and troubleshooting all versions of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft Office includes a suite of programs including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint as standard with some versions including one or more of the following programs: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Entourage etc.
Currently support versions of Microsoft Office are:
- Microsoft Office 2021 (Runs on Windows 10 only)
- Microsoft Office 2019 (Runs on Windows 10 only)
- Microsoft Office 2016 (Support ends 2025)
- Microsoft Office 2013 (Support ends 2023)
- Microsoft Office 2010 (Support ends 2020)
- Microsoft Office 365 (All versions, runs on Windows and Mac operating systems)
Support for Microsoft Office Versions 2011 (For Mac), Office 2007, Office 2008 (for Mac), Office 2004 (for Mac), Office 2003 and earlier has ended and continuing to use these versions renders devices open to security exploitation (hacking), data-loss, printing and formatting issues and will not run on Windows 10 or newer Mac OS versions.
Hybrid ICT have a great deal of experience in migrating of older versions of office to current versions, including data migration. However, corrupt files saved in older OS formats (such as emails saved in Entourage files) may not be recoverable.
Supported versions of office can usually be reinstalled providing clients have the original installation disks, a valid license key or access to their Microsoft Account and the version being installed is on a compatible operating system.
Office 2019 is available as an outright purchase and maybe a solution for those organisations not yet ready to embrace Cloud-Computing.
Office 2019 is the most expensive upgrade option available, does not offer any cloud storage options such as OneDrive or SharePoint, will only work on computers running Windows 10, does not offer an upgrade path from earlier versions and will need replacing every 3 years.
Alternatively, Microsoft Office 365 Business versions are purchased on a monthly or annual subscription basis which is constantly being updated and patched to the latest Office version and includes cloud features such as OneDrive, Skype and Teams and 1TB of cloud-storage per person. Some products include an Exchange Online Mailbox with up to 100GB of mail storage.
Office 365 Business Versions
- Office 365 Business Enterprise F1 (2 GB Mailbox, 2 GB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps)
- Office 365 Business Essentials (50 GB Mailbox, 1TB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Teams etc)
- Office 365 Business Premium (50 GB Mailbox, 1TB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Teams etc Office Desktop on 5 PC/Mac)
- Office 365 Enterprise E1 (50 GB Mailbox, 1TB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Teams etc)
- Office 365 Enterprise E3 (100 GB Mailbox, Unlimited Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Teams etc Office Desktop on 5 PC/Mac)
- Office 365 Enterprise E5 (100 GB Mailbox, Unlimited Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Teams etc Office Desktop on 5 PC/Mac, ATP, Power Bi etc)
In addition to Office 365, Microsoft also sell a product which combines Office 365 and Windows 10 Pro called Microsoft 365 Business and productivity programs such as Microsoft Project, Visio, Skype, SharePoint, PowerBi, Mailbox archiving etc.
Microsoft 365 Business
With a subscription to Microsoft 365 Business, you can run your organization in the cloud and let Microsoft take care of the IT for you. It can manage devices, protect against real-world threats, and provide the latest in business software.
With a monthly or yearly subscription, you get productivity apps, like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, business-class communication with Outlook, Teams, and Yammer, cloud storage with One Drive and SharePoint, plus business apps that help you reach and work with your customers.
In addition, you get Windows 10 Pro with updates. You get the tools to update, manage, and protect your computers and devices, including the devices your employees bring to work. You can install Office apps on these devices, safeguard their data, and lock them down if they are lost or stolen.
When used together, you can grow your business with the latest cloud software and world-class protection by Microsoft.
If you are having issues with the set up bigpond email on office 365, Gmail email on office 365 or and other email accounts, please contact us.
For a FREE assessment, our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Microsoft Hosted Exchange (Office 365 – Exchange Online)
Need to Access Your Email at Anytime, Anywhere and on Any Device?
If the answer to the above question is a resounding “Yes” and you want e-mails to seamlessly and instantly sync between all your devices, with spam and malware emails already removed (Yes, even on your phone) then you only have but one-choice.
HYBRID ICT are your local authorised Microsoft Cloud Partner experts in setting up and maintaining business-grade email systems (including email migration services)
Our services include initial consulting and email migration from any on-premise Exchange or other hosted environment to Microsoft Hosted Exchange (Office 365 – Exchange Online)
Hosted email is delivered to all your devices from state-of-the-art datacenters throughout the world via the internet. It enables your desk-less workers and employees working remotely to be productive on the go, wherever they are, from any device or operating system.
Advance your business’s communication and collaboration capabilities through shared calendars, contacts and tasks and let your team work together in a way that is instantly familiar.
Benefits of hosted exchange email include:
- Industry-experts who take care of maintenance, updates, upgrades, and security
- A protected email communication system with premium anti-virus and anti-spam
- Financially backed 99.9% uptime guaranteed for your email, plus IT level web and 24/7 phone support
- Retention of important information and documents over time with email archiving and compliance capabilities
- Automatic back-ups in geo-redundant datacenters
Hosted email solutions are designed to reduce infrastructure provisioning costs, management costs, and total cost of ownership giving you the ability to predict and plan your IT costs on a month to month basis.
Microsoft Hosted Exchange (Exchange Online) can be purchased per-mailbox on a monthly or annual subscription as follows:
- Exchange Online Plan 1 (50 GB Mailbox only)
- Exchange Online Plan 2 (100 GB Mailbox only)
- Office 365 Business Enterprise F1 (2 GB Mailbox, 2 GB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps)
- Office 365 Business Essentials (50 GB Mailbox, 1TB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps)
- Office 365 Business Premium (50 GB Mailbox, 1TB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Office Desktop on 5 PC/Mac)
- Office 365 Enterprise E1 (50 GB Mailbox, 1TB Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps)
- Office 365 Enterprise E3 (100 GB Mailbox, Unlimited Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Office Desktop on 5 PC/Mac)
- Office 365 Enterprise E5 (100 GB Mailbox, Unlimited Cloud Storage, Office Web Apps, Office Desktop on 5 PC/Mac, ATP, Power Bi etc)
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Email Migration Service
Hybrid ICT can migrate your emails to Microsoft Office 365 (Hosted Exchange) and data files to SharePoint/OneDrive, with minimum disruption to your business and staff during the transition.
Why trust Hybrid ICT to migrate your business to Office 365?
Our track record for one:
- 429 Mailboxes migrated to Office 365/Hosted Exchange
- 76 Companies trust us to manage their Office 365/Hosted Exchange infrastructure
- 15+ Years of experience in the IT industry
- Microsoft Accredited Cloud Partner (Silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions)
What’s included in Hybrid ICT’s Office 365 Migration services?
- Discovery – investigating current host, number and size of mailboxes in use and in need or archiving, current office licensing, data/files to be migrated.
- Proposal – discussion and agreement with client regarding best-practice and economics of solutions available, security and backup options, timeframe and feasibility of planned migration
- Purchase – Office 365 & Hosted Exchange licenses purchased on your behalf
- Account Setup – Office 365 account setup and user creation.
- Email Migration – Migration of existing mail files to Hosted Exchange mailboxes
- File Migration – (Optional) – Files migration and document sharing platform setup using SharePoint/OneDrive
- DNS Changeover – Redirect mail to new Microsoft Hosted Exchange mailfiles
- Finalise – Handover and basic Office 365 admin training to the key staff in your organisation
In order to minimise the downtime to your business we perform the Office 365/Hosted Exchange migration out of business hours at night or during weekends.
Most migrations take place within a few days and are dependent on:
1. Number and Size of mailboxes and files to be migrated to the Cloud.
2. Your Internet Speed
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Cloud Data Storage
Hybrid ICT deal with many forms of cloud data storage, some you may already be using without being aware of the fact.
Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox are all examples of Cloud Data Storage, usually for personal use.
There are many business grade cloud storage facilities available such as:
- Private cloud storage on your own private-cloud (cloud-based server)
- Public cloud based co-located server using programs such as
- Dropbox for Business
- S3 from Amazon
- iDrive
- pCloud
- Mega
- Box
- NextCloud
- Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint and Azure
All the above are paid services on a monthly or annual subscription.
Microsoft has by far the largest cloud-storage client base with a claimed 50% of all worldwide major corporations including the vast majority of the Fortune 500 companies.
Office 365 Business Licences include SharePoint which is the Microsoft cloud company file storage product that businesses should use rather than OneDrive which is for personal use.
Microsoft offer 1TB** of cloud storage with most Microsoft Office 365 subscription* without the need to pay any further cloud storage fees.
Some Office 365 subscriptions offer unlimited cloud storage.**
Microsoft Office 365 Cloud storage can be utilised by:
• Microsoft OneDrive or (OneDrive for Business – formerly SkyDrive)
• Microsoft SharePoint
Data, backup and program files can also be stored in the cloud using Microsoft Azure
Why three products, what is the difference between OneDrive, Sharepoint and Azure
Microsoft users have the choice of storing data in OneDrive, SharePoint or both or on an Azure cloud server.
In short
- Use Microsoft OneDrive (if running Office 365) for personal or for drafts and working documents.
- Use Microsoft SharePoint (if running Office 365) for documents that will be shared amongst people in your organization.
- Use Microsoft Azure for SQL, Database, Program and data files (other than Office documents)
The following offers a more detailed explanation.
When to save documents to OneDrive
- You don’t plan to share them.
- Documents you place in OneDrive for are private until you share them. This makes OneDrive your best option for draft documents or personal documents that no one else needs to see.
- You plan to share files individually and with a limited scope or lifecycle. For example, you’re writing a blog post that may not be associated with a project, and you’d like a few colleagues to review it before you post it. In this case, you expect people to use the document once without needing additional storage or context information. All they need is a link to the document and editing permission.
- You can’t identify an existing team site where your document belongs, and you don’t think the purpose of the document warrants creating a new one.
When to save documents to SharePoint
- You want team members to recognize the document as being relevant to an ongoing project.
- You want to spread ownership and permissions across a wider collection of people. If a document is important to the success of a project, it’s a good idea for there to be people other than yourself who can control what happens on the site.
- You want permissions to be granted on a site basis, instead of on individual documents. If people have access to the team site, then they have access to documents stored in the site.
- Other project-related documents are already saved to the team site library, and others expect to find it there.
*Note this does not include SharePoint Online kiosk plans including Office 365 F1 and Microsoft 365 F1.
**Calculating total Storage Allowance per Organisation or Tenant
Although each Office 365 individual user licence offers 1TB storage per person, combining licences over an organization (tenant) gives an overall storage allowance calculated as follow:
1 TB plus 10 GB per user license purchased.
Example scenarios of increased storage allocation
100 user licenses = Total tenant allocation of 2TB
5000 user licenses = Total tenant allocation of 51TB
100,000 user licenses = Total tenant allocation of 1001TB
To purchase unlimited OneDrive/SharePoint Cloud Storage, purchase a OneDrive Plan2, Office Enterprise E3 or Office Enterprise E1 license.
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Cloud Data Migration Services
Migrating files and data to SharePoint and OneDrive cloud data storage
Migrating small amounts of files and data to cloud storage facilities such as OneDrive and SharePoint can be achieved quickly and easily by clients.
However, migrating large amounts of data stored on a server, multiple-servers, Mac’s or NAS drive with a complicated file data structure requiring differing security access, is quite another matter.
Hybrid ICT have undertaken projects such as this for a number of clients and we are fully aware of the limitations and constraints that need to be adhered to.
Let Hybrid ICT examine your existing data storage structure and advise and quote on the best and quickest way this can be achieved.
Migrating Windows OS based data is easier than migrating Mac OS data.
Data migration from Mac OS formats to SharePoint/Azure/OneDrive is a different matter.
Mac OS is very accomodating in it’s naming conventions, SharePoint/OneDrive/Azure is not.
Certain characters and file extensions are not allowed and there are restrictions in total FilePath lengths.
Hybrid ICT are fully aware of the limitaions and can save clients many hours by adopting the most efficient approach based on our experience and knowledge.
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
Cloud Backup and Data Recovery Services
Today’s businesses need to rely on more accurate and reliable backup and data recovery solutions to ensure continuity in the event of a disaster.
Traditional backup methods, such as tape, disk, or online files only***, are no longer sufficient. In fact, leading edge business owners are finding them unacceptable, due to their inability to recover data quickly and mitigate downtime.
If you are a small-business, chances are you only need to backup your Emails and Data files (Word, Excel etc) this can be done very inexpensively from $3.50 per month per account. Please Contact Us for a free assessment and quote.
If your company needs to backup non-office data files such as accounting files and databases, then our recommended solution is to backup workstations to a local server and then backup the entire server to Microsoft Azure
For companies that need high availability, Azure Site Recovery offers an easy-to-use service for replicating physical, VMWare, or Hyper-V environments to Azure Virtual Machines.
Azure Site Recovery adds orchestration and different failover options in case of disaster. On the other hand, if you need to keep copies of your data or virtual machines, either on-premises or in Azure, you should consider Azure Backup.
Another alternative is to use an Intelligent Business Continuity (IBC) solution that will ensure data protection, data security, instant recovery, mitigate downtime and ensuring business continuity, such solutions are offered by Datto.
Why leading edge business owners are finding traditional backup methods such as tape, disk, or online files only unacceptable?
- Can take weeks to recover data after a disaster occurs, if the data is recoverable.
- High risk of failure due to heavy manual administration: 58% of downtime is due to human error*
- Difficult to test if a backup is working properly
- Time consuming and expensive to make a copy of, and store, backups in multiple locations. 61% of SMBs still ship tapes to an off-site location**
- Backup speeds are slower
- Difficult to prioritize important data, files and applications
- Physical to virtual conversions can be time consuming and have a high failure rate
- Data and backups are at risk when based in only one location, either local OR in the cloud
- Limited options for encrypting data, may not pass industry regulations (i.e., HIPAA, SOX)
- Tape failure rates can exceed 50%
- Potential for theft of loss of media
*“Enterprise Data and the Cost of Downtime,”
**InformationWeek
*** ADSL or slower
Azure Backup
Simplify data protection and protect against ransomware.
If your company runs fibre internet you can reduce data restoration time and reliability challenges with Azure Backup because it’s built into the Azure platform, with seamless support for virtual machines running in Azure and on-premises. Azure Backup is cost-effective because it doesn’t require any additional infrastructure, and helps to keep your data safe from ransomware with multiple authentication layers.
Hybrid Cloud Backup Solution
A Hybrid Cloud Backup solutions using dedicated hardware that backs up to the cloud, as offered by Datto, combine the best of both worlds. You can be up and running from a local backup in seconds and you can also rely on an offsite backup should the need arise but you will need to purchase or lease the backup equipment which can be rather costly.
For our rates, charges and terms, please contact us.
HYBRID ICT are a Microsoft Silver Small and Mid-market Cloud Solutions Partner and Apple Consultant Network Partner
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