ANS

ANS offer a complete range of managed service solutions to the business. These range from basic performance and network monitoring to full-service application and infrastructure management, problem diagnosis and resolution. We also provide full IT outsourcing solutions to help reduce your IT cost and also dramatically improve your productivity.

Key Benefits of the Managed Service and Outsourced approach:

• Reduce the cost of employing full time IT staff
• Avail of a wide range of IT skills from a fully qualified IT team
• Ensure a secure and efficient network environment
• Pro-active monitoring of you network to eliminate unnecessary downtime
• Automated patch and security updates to insure compliance and version control
• Support team to resolve any issues both onsite and remotely from our support centre

Computer networks are the lifeblood of many businesses. As experts in technology products, we can recommend appropriate network infrastructure and also hardware and software for your company.

See below some areas of our expertise:

• All Microsoft Sever and operating system platforms
• Firewall – Cisco, Watchguard, Netgear, Sonic wall and more..
• Email, backups, Database and software development
• Investment banking technologies – Reuters, Bloomberg, Swift etc..
• Citrix Metaframe

ANS offer a fully managed firewall service to our clients. Many of our clients recognize the need to have their data protected 24x7. ANS will implement and manage the appropriate security strategy for your business. We help by taking full responsibility for all aspects of network and data integrity.

This can be achieved through the use of:

• Firewall security which will safeguard your business and control access in and out of your network
• Firewalls we support;: Cisco, Watchguard, Netgear, Sonic wall and more
• Software updates – both Microsoft and third party
• Anti-virus solution which will protect server, workstations and email from the threat of a virus attack
• Data Backup: A robust backup system using tape drive and online systems

Advanced Networks Solutions can help you keep your IT costs down!

We will monitor your network 24/7 and advise you of any issues and take corrective action when needed. Using this proactive approach will ensure your network is runs properly and securely.

We have highly skilled engineers available to remotely monitor and resolve any issues you may have without the wasted time and cost of travelling to your site. Technology is changing everything around us, now companies are changing the way networks are being serviced.

And for those occasions that you need hardware repairs or an on-site service, and your company does not have any IT staff, we will dispatch one of our field engineers to your site right away.

Talk to one of our consultants today to see how we can tailor a program to meet your specific needs.

• Monthly cost - easy to budget
• An experienced support team
• One single point of contact for all your computer needs
• 24 x7 Server and Network Health and Monitoring
• Immediate support

A business continuity plan (BCP) or business process contingency plan (BPCP) -describes how an organization is to deal with potential disasters

Business Continuity has never had higher profile than recently. ANS provide a tailored Business continuity solution based on our client’s size, budget and availability requirements. This can range from simple tape back solution up to complex Business Continuity solutions. ANS understands companies' requirements for Disaster Recovery planning and implementation.

We have extensive knowledge and experience in this field and are ready to provide you with whatever DR solution suits you best so you can have ease of mind that in the event of a disaster your company will be secure.

We conduct business continuity plans using the following structure:

1. Business Impact Analysis – BIA is a management level assessment of financial and operational impacts that would result from a prolonged disruption of business operations.
2. Risk Assessment – Identifies potential risks a company may face. These include:
   • Natural disasters
   • Intentional manmade disasters (war, acts of terrorism, hacking, etc)
   • Accidental disasters (power outages, equipment failures, software errors, etc).
3. Risk Management – A plan should be written to recover and resume business operations based on the fact that the facility no longer exists. A disaster recovery plan should contain:
   • Documented procedures necessary to recover critical business functions;
   • A prioritization of recovery for processes and operations;
   • Contact lists of critical personnel – including vendors;
   • An inventory of critical equipment, supplies, computer equipment, software and documents;
   • Descriptions of the responsibilities and procedures to be followed by each continuity team.
4. Risk Monitoring - ensures that a business continuity plan is viable through testing, independent review, and periodic updating.

Online Backups

We provide remote backup of all your valuable company data. This is a method of automatically backing up your company data online to a remote storage centre. See below the advantages of remote backup over conventional tape backups:

Advantages of remote backup:

• Eliminates the expense and maintenance cost of backup tape drives
• Reduces the inherent weaknesses of disk or tape backup solutions:
  • Tapes and disks being corrupted
  • Tapes misplaced or damaged
  • Tapes not removed off-site or the backup process being overlooked.
• Reduces the need for non-IT staff to spend their valuable time on changing tapes or sending tapes off site.

This is all done securely using the very best encryption technologies.

Please ask us about this service and we’ll be happy to demonstrate its capabilities.