There’s never a dull moment when you run an ISP – Internet Service Provider business, speaking with clients on a daily basis you start to get a feel for what businesses need.
Our resellers have been screaming out to have a suitable platform to be able to refer clients that they think may be better suited directly engaging with our team. Other resellers don’t specifically want to resell hosting services and would like the option to simply refer clients to us directly. Then other SMB’s simply like to refer new business our way because of how we support and help their business grow and trust us enough to refer their friends, families and business associates to benefit from our services.
It’s been a while since we talked about what’s been happening behind the scenes at (vh). I’m proud to say we’ve been very, very busy planning our vision for amazing cloud services for your business.
Since the company’s inception in 2007, (vh)’s mission has been to accelerate the transition the cloud cloud helping future proof your business, evolve ideas and concepts and make the cloud easy.
Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming on our Roadmap for 2018 and beyond.
New Website And Branding
Release date:Currently rolling out
You may have started seeing our new logo in a few places, on the website, in email corespondense and within invoices. This is all part of our rebranding exercise that started in 2017 and has been coming together throughout the year ready for a fresh new look in 2018.
Bobi our new graphic designer has played a pivotal role in bringing us an updated and improved style, simplified modern logo and designing the new website.
Spectre and Meltdown Security Looking At The First Line Of Defence For Your Business; As the industry comes to terms with the logistics and scale of the Spectre and Meltdown issue we are starting to see some cracks in the wall from vendors on providing stable patches to counteract the potential stealing of sensitive data across the board.
If you’re not up to speed with the issue take a look at our previous post Spectre and Meltdown for a quick overview of the problem at hand.
It all sounds like doom and gloom at the moment while the industry scrambles to plug the holes in their row boats but are quickly running out of fingers. So what’s the end game here? What are we as service providers, business and consumers meant to do in the face of all this disruption and potential thieving of data?
Spectre and Meltdown Security | First Line Of Defence Options
First things first and that’s not to panic. The second is applying some common sense approaches to the problem.
The first line of defence is usually the best way to stop these things from spreading. Let’s tackle some common sense approaches to the problem.
If you’re interested in reading the article head over to SmartCompany, it’s quite inspiring and a good read with the video. Below is a quick link to the video.
It got me thinking about what we do here and how we help clients develop and deliver a successful cloud strategy that will change the way they do business.
Picking up from our previous post, here’s a link in case you missed it “Cloud Provider; Roadmap – Service Is Key!“, bigger doesn’t always mean better when it comes down to service. (vh) really offers a major POD – Point Of Difference in this area when it comes to personal and managed services.
Compare the Pair
Recently we reviewed the latest offerings from the big providers, in particular the VMware vCloud Air service offering. One of the major POD’s discovered is a lack of any managed services; they offer only add-on support for the vCloud Air environment.
Meaning? It means if you lack the technical expertise or in-house tech support staff to manage your environment you’re going to be in a bit of a pickle. But what if you really need this level of support?
Welcome to Velocity Host (vh) All-Australian Managed Services.
Head over to the MANAGED SERVICES product page to find out a little more about our managed services.
Cliche hand shake representing good service. We don’t work on a cliches just good service.
