Profile:
Conxion Corporation
Conxion Corporation
offers a SureMove to Managed Web Hosting
Companies looking for an alternative
to their colocation hosting provider don't have to find another
colo provider. And they don't have to bring the apps in-house
either.
Conxion
Corporation has launched a new service designed to help
companies move from their current colocation service provider
to Conxion's fully managed hosting service.
Conxion's senior director of product marketing, Phil Simmonds
says SureMove eliminates a major barrier facing many companies
by allowing them to turn over their existing servers to a
Conxion managed hosting facility.
"One major roadblock has been, "but I have all this equipment
that I have already on my books… and it's depreciating." Conxion
can now leverage that negative to a positive, preserve that
investment, and provide the proven total cost-of-ownership
savings that managed hosting has over co-location or in-house
solutions." Simmonds says the plus has turned many heads and
turned many "on-the-fence" prospects to "very interested"
prospects.
Andrew Schroepfer, President of Tier 1 Research,
notes that there is a significant shift towards managed hosting services.
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"Customers are now more fearful than ever to merely outsource
for colocation since the colocation business models are all
appearing to be in trouble," he says. "Even though all are
not in trouble, customers are making outsourcing decisions
based on value added services to either augment or enhance
their internal IT staff."
Thus far, no one has provided a way for customers to preserve
their investment in their current hardware. And there hasn't
been a structured transition plan for moving that hardware.
SureMove is the type of offering that Conxion has been considering
for some time. In fact, the company has even provided a similar
service to high-end customers in the past.
"What we are doing is learning from our experiences, creating
scalable, repeatable processes and offering the fruits of
that labor to our customers," explains Simmonds.
SureMove allows customers to move their Compaq, IBM or Sun
servers to a Conxion data center, where they receive the same
level of service as any other fully managed hosting customer.
Conxion checks all the hardware, and if necessary, it is upgraded
before deployment.
Tier 1's Schroepfer says customers shouldn't worry about
giving up control by migrating to Conxion's fully managed
hosting service.
"The risk in selecting a managed hosting provider that does
not offer the client a window (web portal) view into their
infrastructure performance exists, but most providers are
adding this capability, meaning that the client gains MORE
control and visibility than without the use of managed services,"
he states. "Conxion, as an example, has a partnership with
Totality, which provides this benefit for customers."
Conxion SureMove starts at $500. per month, per server.
The company estimates customers who make the move can expect
to see a reduction of up to 55% of their total hosting costs.
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