C Infinity is a member of Microsoft’s new BizSpark program to assist new start-ups with attaining an online presence. This program is designed to accelerate the success of these ventures.
As a partner in this program C Infinity will offer:
- Sponsorship to enter the program to qualifying companies.
- Hosting services for the solution.
The start-up will get:
- Software: You will get the development environment and your production licenses for immediate use with no up front costs.
- Support: You will get support for your technical solution through the MSDN service.
- Visibility: As a member of the program you will be visible to a global listing of potential clients, partners and investors.
Who Is This Available To?
The BizSpark program is available to companies that are sponsored by C Infinity and meet the following requirements:
- A private company building a software-based product or service
In business for less than 3 years. - Less than USD $1M in revenue (2-4 local variants exist).
- Participation lasts up to three years.
The program is available:
- BizSpark is immediately available worldwide in most countries.
- 82 countries have a Microsoft BizSpark Program Lead (“BizSpark Champs”) to provide support.
Why Choose C Infinity?
C Infinity understands the difficulties in starting up a new venture. Investment funds are directed into the business rather than technology and time is scarce. The company cannot afford to waste energy on trying to build up an on-site or in-house IT infrastructure. You probably don’t have the necessary skills and dealing with numerous IT consultancy firms at once is a challenge. Finally, you know that your technology solution is the bedrock of your venture. It must be secure, reliable and available to your clients when they need it, otherwise your company’s reputation and your investment are at risk.
C Infinity offers a 100% managed solution using the very best hardware from Hewlett Packard. This offers performance, scalability and reliability. The hardware is 100% supported by HP under a 24 * 7 support contract with 4 hours response times.
C Infinity has a unique understanding and insight into deploying and managing Microsoft technology. Using our virtualisation platform you can get online quickly and economically with no compromises. Our Microsoft System Center management platform offers you assurance that no health, availability or performance issues go unnoticed by ourselves or you. This includes all discoverable objects and classes including HP hardware, operating systems, virtualisation, services and applications. Our network is managed by MCSE’s, an MVP and a Cisco CCIE.
The foundation of the hosting solution is Ireland’s best and Europe’s second best data centre, DataElectronics (DEG). This “Tier IV” data centre in the west of Dublin has ISO certification, two diesel generators for alternative power supply and redundant power, network and cooling for every server in their facility. DEG is often referred to as the digital hub of Ireland because it offers the very best network connectivity in the country. It is on 4 of the Internet backbones and every network carrier worth mentioning is connected to the facility. DEG’s services are aimed at and used by huge clients such as government and international corporations including online services and financial organisations. C Infinity can offer an economic entry point into this enterprise level service for the start-up company.
DEG offers 24*7 security with cameras throughout the facility and a 24*365 multiple person on-site presence. This is important to C Infinity because many of our clients operate within regulated markets where data protection and security are critical. A security solutions weakest point is physical security. With DEG and C Infinity, you know your infrastructure will be secure.
What Does This Mean?
If you are a start up business seeking a technology solution C Infinity can offer you:
- Sponsorship and entry into the Microsoft BizSpark program.
- You gain access to Microsoft’s software, support and contact list within the BizSpark program.
- C Infinity provides a managed hosting service using the best products, partners practices and people. Our Microsoft System Center management platform is second to none when it comes to monitoring Microsoft technology and the underlying hardware. Microsoft wrote the expertise that monitors everything that Microsoft’s developers believe is important. And HP’s own expertise is used to monitor the hardware.
- You have a choice of physical or virtual platforms or even both for your solution.
- You gain access to an enterprise level hardware and management infrastructure that is otherwise not possible. You’re sharing the costs with firms that are similar to your own.
- Your infrastructure resides in a data centre that has not had a single outage since it was built in 2001.
- Using our consultative approach we will guide you on your requirements before anything is deployed. This continues after the deployment to ensure that your solution continues to evolve and grow with your business.
To put it simply, you focus on developing your business while C Infinity hosts, deploys and manages your IT infrastructure.
Summary
Your new venture is important to you and your shareholders. It’s success depends on a successful IT platform. Outages and performance issues will damage your solution’s availability and your reputation. Security issues can be terminal.
Microsoft’s BizSpark program offers you the chance to gain access to secure, flexible and reliable software, support and contacts.
C Infinity offers you a best of breed solution that an affordable entry point into an enterprise solution. It will ensure that your investment is safe and has the best chance possible to succeed.
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