Cloud Services

  • STROBE Cloud … 100% owned, built and operated by us

  • Anything as a Service (XaaS)

  • Cloud Servers & Hosting

  • Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud Services

  • High Availability Compute Clusters

  • Managed Cloud & Cloud Migration Services

Why STROBE as your Cloud Provider?
Cloud Services
Cloud Computing Models
Anything as a Service (XaaS)
Cloud Servers & Hosting
Managed Cloud Services

Why use STROBE as your Cloud Service Provider?

Cost reduction … no investment in IT hardware & reduced labour to maintain onsite Infrastructure

Flexibility … no contracts, no minimum terms, unlimited data traffic, root access, highly customisable pay as you go computing
Scalability … we’ve got tons of capacity, only pay for the compute specifications you require & scale up as demand increases
Cost effective … we have a significantly cheaper cost base than the large Cloud providers & our Cloud stack is 100% Open Source … this is reflected in our cheaper price point. No charges for Server builds, configuration or migrations
Performance … enterprise class performance & rock solid stability
Availability … High Availability Clusters, fault tolerant Infrastructure delivering 99.95% uptime
Superior security … our advanced Cloud security features will safeguard your applications & data
Amazing support … optional expert management, immediate assistance, 24/7 advanced monitoring &  support

Control … we’re not middle-men selling someone else’s Cloud, the services we provide are 100% proudly owned, built & operated by us

One-Stop … all your Cloud Services from one provider … one single point of contact, ownership & accountability, XaaS, Cloud Servers & Hosting with plenty of Cloud management & migration expertise

STROBE provide innovative, ultra-fast, scalable Cloud solutions with flexible, cost effective pricing

Cloud Services

Anything as a Service (XaaS)

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)

  • Backups as a Service (BaaS)

  • Containers as a Service (CaaS)

  • Storage as a Service (StaaS)

  • VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)

  • Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

  • Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Cloud Servers & Hosting

  • Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

  • Cloud PBX & VoIP Services

  • Web Hosting

  • Dedicated Bare Metal Cloud Servers

  • Shared Cloud Servers

  • Email Hosting

Managed Cloud Services

  • Cloud Transformation Strategy

  • Cloud Architecture & Modernisation

  • Cloud Management & Governance

  • Private Cloud Design & Management

  • Cloud Integration & Migration

  • Cloud Security & Compliance

  • Virtualisation Management

  • Cloud Connectivity Management

Cloud Computing Models … Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud

Don’t get bogged down trying to determine which model might be the best fit for your business or Cloud migration … it’s our role to provide that recommendation

These Cloud environments can be self-managed or STROBE can provide full or part management as required

Public Cloud

Private Cloud

Hybrid Cloud
Scalable on demand
Most cost effective
Usage based predictable costs
No ongoing Capex
Least technical complexity
Highest reliability & availability
Most optimal asset & compute resource utilisation
High performance
Highly secure
Managed backups included
Managed Cloud Services available
Dedicated hardware / single tenant
Greatest flexibility & customisations
Most customisable Security
Most data control & Cloud environment visibility
Highest workload flexibility

    Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

We provide a highly reliable, highly available, high performance Infrastructure stack which is the foundation from which all our XaaS and Cloud hosting is delivered

Servers, Networks, Storage, Virtualisation, Databases, Security, Backups, Datacentre facilities are bundled into 1 simple service called IaaS

Reduce capital and operational cost while enabling IT productivity and correct sizing of your IT Infrastructure. Avoid the unnecessary costs of underutilised servers and over-specified capacity … only pay for what you need, when you need it and scale on demand should you require additional compute resource

IaaS management options include self-managed, part managed or fully managed and there are no contracts or minimum terms

    Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Includes all of the above IaaS services but with a focus around development and middleware

The customer focuses on developing their business applications without the cost of purchasing hardware, software licenses or having to manage the underlying Infrastructure, middleware or development toolsets

PaaS provides a platform for developing and managing applications

We use leading LXC and Docker solutions on top of our tech stack to provide our PaaS service. Combining our Cloud IaaS to provide all the compute, storage, middleware, databases and runtime you need to develop and host your applications

     Containers as a Service (CaaS)

If you’re not familiar with Containerisation then we’ll happily provide a recommendation if Containers are a good fit for your applications compared to a VPS

There are different use cases for VPS vs Containers and given Virtualisation and Containers are complementary (as opposed to competing technologies) it’s prudent to review what fits best for your requirements. To muddy the waters even further we also provision Containers inside VM’s where it makes sense

Containerised applications share the operating system kernel with the other containers. They are typically lightweight, requiring minimal compute resource and because they don’t have their own OS they’re very fast to load

Containers are highly portable and offer the best density on a hardware to application ratio … this delivers great scalability and ensures they’re a viable proposition particularly with application development. They are quick to deploy and their small footprint means they’re a cost effective alternative to a dedicated VPS

Just as Virtualisation demonstrated that you don’t require an entire Server to run a single application, Containers demonstrate you don’t have to run an entire Operating System for each application

    Backups as a Service (BaaS)

Server customers receive daily managed backups with optional custom retention periods … however, if you’re not a server customer you can still utilise our Cloud Backup (BaaS) offering with your own customised scheduling and backup retention periods

Our BaaS service can backup any data from anywhere and it does so efficiently behind the scenes without over utilising your Network / Internet bandwidth

Data restores are conducted periodically to ensure your data is recoverable whenever you require it and backup data is replicated to a 2nd offsite location to ensure your data always resides in 2 physical datacentre locations

All data resides in New Zealand so restores are low latency and you don’t have to concern yourself with any data sovereignty compliance issues

Managing backups is an arduous, time consuming effort to get right … offload your backup maintenance and management to us and eliminate the operational overhead of managing your own backups

We typically see businesses fall into 1 of the following 3 categories regarding backups

1) They do not have any backups … they’re aware they should but don’t know where to start

2) They do have backups but they’re not monitored, not confident that all relevant data is being backed up, no-one is familiar with the scheduling or how long their backups are retained for

3) Backups are being managed in-house but the customer never does test restores or the customer has previously had a requirement to restore data but that restore process was unsuccessful

Data residing on our Backup clusters is highly available with enterprise class redundancy to protect against hardware failures

Backups are the 1st step in any disaster recovery strategy … we can ensure you sleep well with the knowledge that your data is available to be restored if required

    Storage as a Service (StaaS)

As a storage service provider we provide Cloud based Storage as a Service for Block, Object and File storage

A customer rents storage space on a pay as you go basis saving the capital expense of deploying storage arrays and avoiding the operational management of those storage solutions

Data transfers are unlimited and you only pay or what you use (per GB)

We provide a platform to access your stored data whenever you need to … whether your data be on hot, warm or cold storage, it’s always secure and available when you need it to be

Our Enterprise class storage clusters are resilient to any hardware failures, they’re monitored 24/7 and we manage the Infrastructure to ensure excellent performance for Read / Write / Latency & IOPS

Enquire today about how our Storage as a Service can mitigate your disaster recovery risks & save your capital investment

VPN as a Service (VPNaaS)

Secure your business communications with our Cloud VPN service

VPNaaS is a very cost effective way to provide peace of mind with encrypted, secure connectivity for your business locations

VPNaaS routing, authentication, tunnelling, VPN protocols and end to end connectivity are managed and monitored 24/7

Client based VPN’s are also catered for to provide secure remote access to your business LAN or Cloud applications

Cloud Servers & Hosting

As well as our Anything as a Services (XaaS) offerings we provide the following Cloud Servers and Hosting services

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Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

Cloud PBX & VoIP

Web Hosting

Dedicated Bare Metal Cloud Servers

Shared Cloud Servers

Email Hosting

Managed Cloud Services

Already engaged in Cloud Services and require some assistance? It makes sense that as a Cloud Services Provider we also offer management of other Cloud services, not just our own

We can provide partial or full management of your existing Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud services including expert consultancy on how to get the best experience and optimised performance from your Cloud provider

Migrating your on premise IT to a Cloud service can be a daunting prospect … its certainly no easy task but with the right migration ownership the transition can be a lot less painful that you’d imagine. Each migration is thoroughly planned and project managed to provide the most non-disruptive experience as possible

We’ve been doing this for a fair few years now … we’ve built and maintain our own Cloud and we provide Cloud support and guidance on a daily basis. This hands on experience ensures we’re well placed to support your Cloud solutions … from migration of your first Cloud service to Infrastructure management to Multi Cloud performance optimisation

We have specialist expertise with OpenStack, Proxmox, CloudStack, Ceph, Hyper Converged Infrastructure, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, VMware & XenServer

If you’ve got your own Cloud services with AWS, Azure or Google then we’re pretty handy with those environments as well

FAQ’s

We’re small enough to offer that personal touch, immediate responsiveness and local NZ based support. Our support engineers are also the ones who would have deployed your service so they have an intricate knowledge. Being NZ based provides performance and low latency benefits you simply can’t achieve with offshore public cloud services … lastly we’re super easy to do business with and agile enough to provide custom solutions

A Public Cloud is provided by a 3rd party Cloud Services provider – like us. It is used by general public businesses. This is the most common Cloud adoption

A Private Cloud is provided by a business for their own internal, private use … example being a traditional onsite premises datacentre or IT comms room. A private Cloud can also be externally hosted at a remote Datacentre or with us for example. This is the least most common Cloud adoption

A Hybrid Cloud is a blend of Public and Private Clouds … both remote Datacentre and on premises combining to create a mix of both 3rd party provider and internal, private use. This is gaining in popularity but nowhere near as popular as Public Cloud option

Our feasibility assessment would provide recommendations on which model best suits your business and IT requirements

Fair enough, it is a fundamental shift from the traditional approach to IT and computing and frankly it’s a new IT offering that requires training. You need to partner with a provider who will manage your Cloud migration for you and that starts with a feasibility assessment. We bring your IT staff along on the journey, they’ll learn a lot as each new Cloud deployment requires a formal migration project depending on the scale

Common concern but what we find is (a) onsite local servers are very rarely secure, and (b) customers new Cloud Servers are built with custom Security hardening so they’re in fact way better off from a Security standpoint. This is a recurring theme, we’d be happy to discuss this in more detail and describe the Security options available on a new Cloud service

Absolutely, as a minimum all customers’ services are monitored and we manage the Hardware, Networks, Internet Services, Storage, Backups and Datacentre environment. In addition to that we can provide partial or full management of your Servers, the Operating Systems, Databases, Application support, Security, Migrations, Patching. For only a small monthly charge you can bundle the management responsibilities with us. Contact us to discuss a tailored management package – they’re super cost effective and frees up valuable time and resources

No, far from it. Several NZ based IT providers tout Cloud Services as Office 365 … this is wrong. The range of our Cloud Services offering includes: Physical, Virtual & Container Servers, Cloud hosted applications, test, development and database platforms, PBX & Enterprise VoIP, Cloud Backups, Cloud hosted VPN, Web and Email hosting, Cloud Firewalls, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Cloud Security Vulnerability scanning, Cloud storage, Cloud Disaster Recovery and obviously all the Networking, Security and high availability cluster resources

Office 365 is a Microsoft service – yes is can be described as a Cloud Service … but NZ IT providers are simply managing that service on customers behalf and as you can see from above there is a lot more to Cloud than Office

Sure. We offer all types of trials for those who aren’t quite certain and want that quality assurance. From VoIP to VPS, we encourage a trial period if you’re a potential new Cloud customer

One monthly invoice, one all-inclusive fixed charge. No surprises so it’s perfect for low, predictable cost of ownership and Opex management. The fixed charge includes unlimited Internet data usage, power and all datacentre facilities

No contracts, no minimum terms. Come and go as you please without being locked in. In fact this is exactly how some customers use our Cloud Services … on top of their existing services they’ll buy some test / dev Compute for a specific project and repeat the cycle when required

Public Internet circuits into the Datacentres are all Gigabit so no problem on our side. Its highly likely you wouldn’t even need to upgrade Internet bandwidth on your side but we’d review that for you. We’re also an ISP and offer all types of Internet links, the best Cloud Services performance you’re going to get will be on-net with us as our Internet Service Provider … that ensures direct hops to the Datacentre, simplifies routing and provides end to end visibility and manageability

For sure, no problem to deploy site-to-site VPN’s … we even host our own VPNaaS servers if you’d like to use those

Correct, it is but we don’t provide any SaaS applications … that are just not our core business. Example: Xero is a SaaS provider whereas we’d host your line of business applications

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