In a short span of time, many SME organizations have realized the strategic importance of placing all or part of their IT function and business processes into the hands of a specialist managed services provider. This allows them to concentrate on what they know best - their core business.
Some of the key areas where many SME customers are looking for support is in security, collaboration and disaster recovery of critical systems and resources.
On the other hand, several VARs and System Integrators are realizing that their typical business models of reselling products and solution are not enabling their business to grow beyond certain size. They are highly affected by commoditization of various technologies and product that they were selling. The margin on sales is ever reducing making it difficult for them to grow their businesses. New entrants or smaller firms in VAR/SI business are squeezed from both sides, customers as well as vendors. They have been looking for alternate revenue generation avenues and managed services can turn out to be boon for them. However, in the current environment they need to invest a lot to start offering these services.
Here is good news for all those aspiring to become managed services providers in the areas of security, collaboration and disaster recovery solutions; Elina’s unique and highly integrated business gateway and business server platforms with a powerful and self-contained VirtualPresence remote monitoring and management application now allows any aspiring VAR/SI to turn itself into a managed services providers with very little investment.
Elina solutions for managed services deliver:
A unified and scalable edge platform to offer enterprise grade security, voice and back up services
Easy and remote configuration of all services from a central NOC
Complete monitoring of resources in enterprise and connectivity/Bandwidth
Ability to provide Quality of service guarantees on applications and services
Bulk configuration and hierarchical management of entire customer base
Software updates and patches delivered easily
Security assessment and patches provided by Elina
Reduces site-visits or on-site deployment of personnel
Low Capex and lower Opex
Scale functionality for customers without any fork-lift upgrades of edge devices
Scale number of customers without having to significantly invest further
