Managed Internet Services is an umbrella term referring to the
provision and management of internet services, regardless of service type,
user scope or delivery model.
Although many other service types exist, the most common managed internet
services required by organisations today are webservers (including public
websites, restricted intranet/extranet sites and more complex applications
delivered to users via a web-based frontend, as well as automated
'web-services' which may not have any direct human interaction), messaging
(mailservers, listservers, newsservers, chatservers and inter-protocol
gateways) and directory servers (predominantly DNS servers and LDAP
servers). User scope may be public, or restricted (physically and/or by
authentication).
Delivery models include remote management of client infrastructure
(situated at a client site or third-party data centre), provision and
management of co-location services, and the traditional hosting model.
Regardless of service type or delivery model, effective, reliable and
secure operation of these services is vital for any organisation thta uses
them (and in today's world, that includes virtually all organisations).
Open source solutions with solid reputations for effectiveness, reliability
and security exist for all these applications. Open source software such as
the Apache webserver, Sendmail mailserver and BIND nameserver (amongst
others) have long been leaders in their respective fields, for just those
reasons.
saosce offer our clients assistance in the design
(including any custom software development)
and deployment of such solutions, based on open source software, either on
your existing infrastructure, on new infrastructure
sourced for the project, or on Saosce
infrastructure, professional ongoing management of the service, as well as
ongoing monitoring and maintenance
services.
For more information, or for a confidential discussion of your
organisation's managed internet services needs, contact
saosce today on (08) 8233 5933, or email us at
info@saosce.com.au.
