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As an award-winning cloud provider in Birmingham, we offer companies a range of cloud solutions

Providing companies in Birmingham with cloud computing services that are reliable and cost effective, EBC Group are an award winning IT provider which can offer Cloud computing solutions that are fast, affordable and scaled to your exact business requirements.

IT is rapidly moving from a function that is run, managed and maintained by a company in-house to an outsourced service hosted in a secure environment and managed by a specialist provider.

Cloud computing services are attractive because they enable businesses to transfer the responsibility of running on-premises hardware and software to a specialist provider, who manage the hassles and costs that otherwise burden IT departments, such as software upgrades and hardware maintenance.

The benefits of cloud computing is currently driving adoption, especially in small to medium size businesses (SMEs), where there is often a lack of time and financial resources to purchase, deploy and maintain an infrastructure, software or storage.

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Why EBC Cloud?

From our privately owned data centres, in Birmingham, Halesowen and Bristol, an EBC Cloud solution will allow you to access your information and applications anywhere, at any time; providing unmatched flexibility. Our remotely located servers host your data, applications and software, providing instant access whether you are based in the workplace, or out on the road; with a Cloud solution, you simply take your office with you.

Providing real savings, our Cloud Computing service eliminates the need for costly hardware that would otherwise need updating and maintaining. In place of this, our Birmingham based team of experts continually maintain and monitor your Cloud service, with reliable 24/7 support, providing you with complete peace of mind.

As an integrated IT provider we provide a range of services for companies, including Birmingham IT Support, Connectivity and Telephony.

Features and benefits

Data centres

Delivered on our own 3 UK data centres

BT Partnership

Primary data centre situated at Birmingham BT Tower

Core Network

Access into BT’s Core Ethernet Network

Performance

High performance and ultra-secure

Latency

Unrivalled levels of low latency

Support

Fully managed 24×7 live support

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Specifications

EBC Group’s primary datacentre resides on one of the twenty UK BT core nodes, with direct low latency access in to BT’s 21CN network. EBC Group’s multiple datacentres are inter-connected by diversely routed ultra-high-speed fibre connections for resiliency, scalability and performance. Multiple internet breakouts co-exist in each location for maximum performance and availability.

EBC Group Group’s primary datacentre resides on the core node, meaning there are zero hops between EBC Group’s datacentre and BT’s core network, which significantly reduces latency. Our datacentres have the benefit of using multiple providers where the platform is agnostic and is determined by the provider’s compatibility.

EBC Group are a Gold Dell Technology Partner with our latest datacentre being a pure Dell EMC environment running on 14th Generation Dell EMC series servers. Utilising the very latest VMware based cloud virtualisation platform, EBC Group can offer scalable, high performance, geo-resilient cloud compute.

Multiple geo-located award-winning Dell EMC Hybrid storage arrays feature advanced automated tiered storage with automated failover technology to ensure client data is replicated in real-time across each datacentre. Intelligent deduplication and compression on both SSDs and HDDs make for great performance and maximum cost-savings.

Due to IO demand vs capacity the storage is configured with a hybrid approach making use of both solid state storage and spinning disks. This offers superior performance to an end user at far less costs than a typical on premise capital investment of this type.

EBC Group utilise a number of monitoring platforms to ensure a streamlined service guaranteeing the highest levels of uptime and performance. All hardware and network connectivity across all of our datacentres will be monitored and our datacentre team will be proactively alerted if there is an event outside of the defined tolerances. In addition to notifying the datacentre team, it is also used to notify clients via SMS alerts.

In addition to proactive alerts, it’s used as a reporting tool to present customers with easy to understand reports showing usage, trends, growth etc. Firewalling on a per client basis will be integrated into WatchGuard Cloud for visibility into inbound and outbound traffic. EBC Group at the service provider level will ensure the edge network is secured with decisions made based on the visibility available.

This enables EBC Group to obtain a high-level, aggregated “bigger picture” view of network activity that pinpoints top threats and trends, active policies and traffic patterns, and correlated views of top users and applications.

Datacentre backup and replication monitoring is integrated into Veeam’s Availability Console. Veeam Availability console is a central backup management solution which is used by EBC Group to monitor and report on client backups and replications.

Veeam’s Availability console is directly integrated into EBC Group’s service delivery system, which in turn automatically creates and assigns support tickets to ensure proactive resolution to backup issues are logged and tracked efficiently.

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