DIYIXIAN INSIGHT

SPCA, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The IT service provided by SPCA is crucial to the entire animal clinic in Hong Kong, Availability is one of the most important challenges they are facing. BizCON Disaster Recovery Technology providing SPCA a cost-effective solution in order to limit their budgets. At the same time, it also provided Disaster Recovery ability for the whole IT environment.

Disaster recovery process only takes few minutes to complete. In the past, it took more than 1-2 days to recover a system that using tape for daily backup. The administrative cost and transportation are also a concern of traditional tape backup. For this award winning Business Continuity Solution “BizCON”, it supports SPCA’s Hong Kong headquarters and remote office in Kowloon. All data and OS are backed up through BizCON over the IP network to the disaster recovery site. The solution can resume service immediately once disaster hits the production server.

The DR technology has few advantages that help the organizations. It reduces the heavy administrative cost for tape off-site. It provides a Total Solution for DR and business continuity with only the Block-Level Delta replication. With a low bandwidth requirement, businesses are well protected and SLA is guaranteed now.

In 2005, World Trade Organization “WTO” Conference held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. SPCA’s headquarters which located in WanChai had to be closed for a whole week. With BizCON technology, all data has been replicated to DR site located in Ho Man Tin. The IT systems were immediately available at Kowloon site to continue providing service to SPCA centers and all of the remote animal clinic.

In Corporation with Diyixian.com Limited ,BizCON has extended its award winning DR Technology to provide a Total Outsourcing Datacenter Management service, by consolidating common backup routine items, including real-time online backup, Point-In-Time versioning copies, disaster recovery and drill testing etc, to complete a total Internet-based outsourcing trustee.

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Reducing Daily Operation = Enhancing Service Level
 16 January, 2008 (Friday)
 2:30 to 5:30 pm
 Fujitsu Platform Solution Center
 10/F, Lincoln House, TaiKoo Place
 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay , HK
2187 7667 / hkmkt@dyxnet.com
CASE STUDY

HOSTING YOUR SERVERS IN INTERNET DATA CENTRE MEANS COST REDUCTION?
Proven by a True Story.

Introduction
“Keeping your servers & applications close to you” is a common practice of IT managers for easy access, better control and with no additional cost, but the true picture can be opposite. That’s why one of our Business Partners – J’s Consulting Company Limited (J’s Consulting) has advised one of its clients to host all of their servers in DYX IDC and achieve better Return On Investment (ROI).

J’s Consulting and the End-User
J’s Consulting is an IT consultation and outsourcing solution provider. From Network infrastructure, hardware purchasing & support, system solutions to project management, they cover every single point in customers’ IT needs.

The end-user is brand new Hong Kong-based company who wants to publicize an online lifestyle magazine for men, providing comprehensive information on men’s grooming ranging from skin care & hair issues to fashion & fitness, giving out life coaching information on health & wellness and catering hobbies & collections for men.

Main Customer Concerns
Nowadays new business is aiming for much better ROI which shortens the investment period and less needs on further capital sourcing. Therefore cost-effectiveness of one-time investment and ongoing expense are key elements for consideration. Furthermore, flexibility to cater for business growth and need for increasing services support level is important to business planning.

From product quality point-of-view, besides up-to-date contents, speed and availability of the web site are keys to attract and retain readers.  Therefore good network connection quality, high availability (24x7x365 online) and fast service restoration from outage are also of high importance.

The Solutions
End-user’s IT functions are all outsourced to J’s Consulting including support and consultation. Instead of hosting the servers in office, J’s Consulting proposed hosting in DYX IDC with the following reasons:

  1. 24x7x365 remote hand and hotline support
  2. High level of Service Level Agreement which guarantees the network uptime
  3. Optimal temperature and humidity for server appliances
  4. Flexible bandwidth plans with outstanding connection quality and instant upgrade possibility
  5. Outstanding connection quality with overseas, mainly the Greater China region

After first month of web site soft launch, good connection quality and high availability helped promote visit rate of more than 200,000 a month. Management team was pleased and wanted to upgrade the services for further business growth.

Overall, customer found that they have significant cost reduction from below:

  • No need for capex on building a standard computer room for in-house server hosting which should include enhanced air-conditioning, UPS, rack, raised floor, various detection & monitoring systems, anti-fire facilities as well as all related yearly maintenance charges
  • No need for additional electricity consumption for the servers and related systems, especially the over-night power consumption charges by the building management
  • No need for the extra office space for the servers
  • No heat generated from the servers hence less air-conditioning for the office
  • No need to ask staff to rush back to office for urgent mid-night reboot or simple diagnosis, hence less travel and staff compensation expense

Diyixian will continue to work closely with business partner to provide best-of-breed total solutions with high service level to customers.

If you have any enquiry about Diyixian’s ICT solutions or its partner’s IT solution & consultancy services, please contact your Account Manager or our Sales Hotline at 2187 7688.
TECH TREND

Diyixian will offer an advanced “Network Traffic Management Service” – OneNet Traffic

Diyixian’s OneNet Traffic service is a bandwidth monitoring and capacity management tools that optimizing network performance which already adopted by most enterprise customers. OneNet Traffic provides real-time network behavior and how traffic affects the network overall performance

What problems does OneNet Traffic solve?

One of the key issues in network management is knowledge of traffic and usage pattern. Capacity considerations affect investment decisions, policies, usage and consequentially the business as a whole. OneNet Traffic offers detailed information on network bandwidth usage pattern for traffic analysis, capacity planning and making policy decisions. By drilling down into the specific applications, users, ports or communication network users are able to determine the exact source of spikes and bursts. Therefore, managements are able to monitor and make decisions.

Advantages of OneNet Traffic

  • Offers an in-depth visibility on network traffic and usage
  • Provides detailed analysis report
  • Immediate alert and early problems detection
  • Flexibility
  • Manageability

Platforms: Windows & Linux

What network traffic data can offer?

  1. Source IP address
  2. Input and output
  3. Port number
  4. Layer 4 protocol
  5. Number of packet flow
  6. Flow in MB
  7. Time frame
  8. Source of AS
  9. TCP_Flag and TOS
JETSO ZONE
One Click for Remote Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution by Diyixian and BizCONLINE
Nowadays, more than half of the companies lost data in a disaster that never recovery. Therefore, if you can move your data where you need and when you need it with. DR is your answer

BizCONLINE is a Backup and Disaster Recovery Outsourcing Datacenter Management service, by consolidating common backup routine items, including real-time online backup,Point-In-Time versioning copies, disaster recovery and drill testing etc, to complete a total Internet-based out-sourcing trustee. In corporation with Diyixian.com Limited with world class Internet data centres and premium MPLS backbone around Greater China, enterprises can now be well protected and concentrate on their core business development by minimizing resource spent on managing backup operation.
  • All applications applied on or before 31 Mar 2009, will enjoy a 1-month free evaluation
  • All applications will enjoy a special discount for subscribing BizCONLINE Service after successful evaluation.
Terms & Conditions:
1. This promotion offer is valid until 31 Mar 2009 and is only offered in Hong Kong.
2. This promotion offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion offers.
3. In case of any disputes, the decision of Diyixian.com Limited should remain final.
* The RPO Time is subjected to variation in actual data size and bandwidth consumption
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Hotline: 2187-7667
Email: hkmkt@dyxnet.com
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