Enventis brings added services and security to its cloud

Cloud service providers are starting to realise that the best chance they have of competing with the likes of Amazon is to provide additional value-add services on top of raw resource provision, with the latest to take steps in that direction being Minnesota-based Enventis, which focuses on the business and broadband communications sector.

It has announced the launch of an expanded business cloud services that include Cloud Compute, Data Protection and Cloud Wi-Fi. In addition, the company’s SingleLink unified communications service has been enhanced to provide even greater customer benefits.

“We are very excited to bring enterprise-class, cloud capabilities and features to business of all sizes”

“We are very excited to bring enterprise-class, cloud capabilities and features to business of all sizes,” said John Finke, president and chief executive officer of Enventis. “We understand the complexity of the cloud and are able to provide businesses reliable and scalable cloud solutions with greater flexibility and superior support. This is another important step for Enventis and our company’s ongoing transformation as we add cloud services to our offering to meet the needs of our customers today and tomorrow.”

With Enventis Cloud Compute, business customers can now provision their resources on demand with flexibility, agility and within a highly available and scalable hosting environment. Business of all sizes can leverage Enventis’ state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to meet their needs, without investing in costly storage and server equipment.

Cloud Compute also ensures compliance with regulations, such as Safe Harbor, PCI, HIPAA and the HITECH Act, for the highest data integrity.

Enventis Data Protection is an end-to-end, fully managed solution with integrated backup and seamless disaster recovery. Enventis offers businesses complete support, training, reporting and ongoing management to ensure that critical data assets are not compromised mitigating company risk and providing relief to an IT team from unnecessary stress and strain. Enventis’ Data Protection services offer full adherence to HIPAA, PCI and Safe Harbor requirements.

The Cloud Wi-Fi offering is a powerful and secure cloud network solution that provides businesses hassle-free control over devices and applications, in a cost-effective and simple manner. With a growing reliance on mobile devices and the increasing trend for users to bring their own device, managing a business network is becoming more complex and costly. Enventis Cloud Wifi offers unified visibility and control of an organisation’s wireless network via a single dashboard with automated network monitoring and alerting, which gives you the information you want, while eliminating the need to manage the solution.

As a package, Enventis Cloud Servicesis aimed at offering businesses reliable, agile, yet simple-to-deploy solutions backed by a partner with the expertise to ensure a smooth migration and maximum cloud benefits.

Enventis SingleLink is a centrally managed and hosted, unified communications solution that improves an organisation’s communication experience and ultimately creates efficiencies and improves productivity. Enventis developed SingleLink twelve years ago and is expanding the solution to offer a more powerful set of features, including unified messaging, video, contact centre, visual voice mail, instant messaging and mobile applications. Businesses get all of the benefits, without the upfront and ongoing investment of premise-based solutions.