SERVICES ABOUT US INSIGHTS CONTACT US BLUE CHIP CLOUD Our hybrid cloud approach Built with security, performance and speed of delivery at its heart Moving to the cloud can be a complicated and potentially daunting task. If you have IBM Power Systems, Microsoft Windows and Linux the number of providers you can engage with gets ever smaller. Throw your Legacy Operating Systems into the mix and your initial instincts may draw you to the conclusion that you will end up with a Hybrid Cloud Solution, with systems still running locally. But at what cost? Hybrid clouds tend to have higher operating costs due to the amount of data being transmitted from Public Cloud providers making budgeting these variable costs a lottery. Blue Chip Cloud has been designed from the ground up to not only provide the maximum level of resilience and security but with the flexibility to provide solutions for your entire infrastructure stack, including your Legacy Systems. Blue Chip Cloud can host IBM Power Systems alongside Microsoft Windows and Linux all at a fixed cost, allowing you to set budgets that you can stick to. RESOURCES OUR UNIQUE APPROACH TO CLOUD CONTACT US TODAY EXPERTS IN MISSION CRITICAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE IBM IAIXWINDOWS AND LINUXMULTI-CLOUDAVAILABILITY ZONES IBM Power Systems and the IBM i operating system are a very powerful combination, but that comes at a price. Buying and running an IBM Power System for your peak business usage means wasted compute power and money for much of the year. As well as purchasing the server, you must ensure hardware maintenance is up kept up to date and optimise the environment it is in. Then you need to factor in high availability and disaster recovery. You also need to scope out test and development environments, and don’t forget the legacy system you have been meaning to migrate away from for the last few years but is still essential to the business. Catering for all these scenarios usually means your valuable IT resources are more concerned with keeping the lights on, over service improvements. Blue Chip Cloud is extremely flexible whatever your requirement. It’s a highly secure and resilient environment to run your production workloads with the ability to scale resources for peak consumption, even as a HA or a DR target. Our flexible cloud can utilise storage or software replication between Availability Zones with no data egress charges. It can spin up test and development environments on demand and even run your legacy workloads. Whichever way you utilise the power of IBM i, Blue Chip Cloud can help, empowering your team to take your IT to the next level. OUR UNIQUE APPROACH TO CLOUD SOLUTIONS Blue Chip Cloud is built with security, performance, sustainability and speed of delivery at its heart. Our solutions combine the confidence and peace of mind of working with an environmentally sympathetic highly secure facility for mission-critical IT infrastructure, with all the agility and speed of response that you would expect from a cloud solution. Delivering IBM platforms alongside Microsoft and Linux. CONTACT US THE PERFECT BLEND OF PRIVATE AND HYBRID CLOUD SOLUTIONS We’re constantly innovating to provide our customers with the best solutions, including implementing a software-defined approach in our data centres, to deliver a next generation managed service. As a result, we can offer businesses the right blend of private and hybrid cloud solutions to meet their needs. Blue Chip’s multi-platform solution delivers x86 (Windows/Linux), Z Systems and IBM POWER (IBM i & AIX) from our Tier III and Tier IV Design, PCI-compliant facilities. We’re also swift to build environments, ensuring customers reap the most reward from their IT solution far more quickly. AGILITY, COST SAVINGS AND PEACE OF MIND Certified to the highest security standards, and with the ability and reach to connect you to other cloud providers, our world-class UK Tier IV & Tier III data centres provide the best location for your most important applications. This means you can benefit from all the agility, cost savings and technological benefits associated with a cloud solution in a safe, secure and risk-free environment. We can provide locations in any global region for private, multi-tenant and public cloud solutions. We are on-net with over 90 data centres and have the capability the ability to link with cloud and SaaS providers of your choice. We already support clients in over 180 countries via our cloud services and remote management across a wide range of sectors, supporting our customers’ mission critical IT workloads. X86 CLOUD FOR WINDOWS AND LINUX WORKLOADS BUILT FOR SPEED Because we take a software-defined approach, we can deliver built environments within 48 hours. We’re proud of the high level of automation we have constructed within our UK-based data centres, which enables us to deliver incredibly high service levels, as well as providing unrivalled testing facilities for our customers. CONTROL YOUR COSTS We know that processing requirements change depending on business requirements. We also know that as more organisations undergo AI testing and experimentation, this will become evermore variable. That’s why our customers can match their processing requirements to demand on an ongoing basis – saving costs whilst protecting customer experience. SECURE YOUR DATA Our data centres are regularly audited and certified at the highest security levels, including SOC2 and PCI for managed services, which means that we adhere to the stringent security criteria mandated by the Payment Card Industry. We also deploy a vast range of security software to protect customer data, from anti-DDoS to additional firewalls. Our in-house experts are accredited to build zero-trust environments and have earned security qualifications of the highest echelons. REDUCE YOUR DOWNTIME With Blue Chip Cloud, you have a platform with outstanding resilience. Every aspect of this service has been designed to ensure the high availability of your data, providing unparalleled uptime. Our staff are on-site 24/7, providing expert hands and eyes in the Network Operations Centre. BURST INTO PUBLIC CLOUDS Our hybrid cloud service enables businesses to drive their own cloud solution; we can connect to other public cloud providers as chosen by our customers for those workloads that are less critical or sensitive, keeping critical infrastructure firmly under wraps within our own data centres. SCALE TO FIT YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS Choose the service and technical elements that are most important to you, using our extensive offerings of options. From operating systems to processing capabilities, you can tailor Blue Chip Cloud to your specific needs. HYBRID CLOUD RESOURCES ALLARTICLESCASE STUDIESEBOOKSINFOGRAPHICSVIDEOS AND ANIMATIONS TUE 14 SEPTEMBER 2021 The cloud for banking and other highly regulated businesses THU 9 SEPTEMBER 2021 What does cloud control mean to Blue Chip? 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