DBSi ~ Managed Hosting, Disaster Recovery, Data Center Services

Financial Benefits

How much would it cost your company every hour your IT systems are inaccessible or inoperable?

In today’s world where IT systems are the life blood of business it is essential that your systems provide continuous availability to your customers and internal users.

The Negative Impact of Annual Increases

A five-year contract that a healthcare provider had signed with one of the “old guard” service providers was up for renewal and the director of information technology needed to get a handle on costs fast. Fees were rising, and an auto-renewal clause was about to lock the company into another rigid five-year contract.

When the company contacted DBSi, we pointed out that the 8% annual increase in her contract (standard among other providers) would result in a final-year monthly fee that was 57% higher than her first year monthly fee.

We then showed her that because we could keep our fees fixed through the contract period, we’d save her more than $225,000 over the life of the contract and provide more flexible terms to allow the agreement to mold to their needs versus that of the service provider.

Clients hosted at DBSi have experienced 100% availability in regards to infrastructure systems such as power, cooling, and network. Joining this level of availability with our innovations in disaster recovery architectures allows our hosted and external clients to recover quickly to ensure their customers experience minimal disruption in the event of a man-made or natural disaster.

It’s a sobering fact that 70% of businesses suffering a large data loss go out of business within the first three months. You literally can’t afford to house your systems in an environment that does not provide the security and availability infrastructure to ensure your service levels are met. But do you really need the headaches and lost time of trying to manage your technology and protect your data yourself especially if it’s not a core competency of your business?

Technology Revolution
Data centers used to be islands of stability from a business perspective. Their costs and the technologies within them were predictable. This has not been the case for more than a decade, IT infrastructures are changing faster than they can be built. It takes a company that has technical agility, a common-sense approach to business relationships, and the pulse of the industry to know what to build and the ability to spread those costs over multiple companies to provide the economy of scale that result in reduced costs per client. DBSi is that company.

Consider this: If you need an extra 1,000 square feet of data center space, expect to invest up to $1.5 million or more. With your business changing literally week by week, do you really want to invest that much capital in real estate that may be obsolete in 24 to 36 months?

DBSi has broken the mold for how data centers are built to accommodate traditional and high-density infrastructures while controlling the cost normally associated with the task. This saves you time and provides you long-term assurance that your growth and changing needs will be met well into the future. Contact your local DBSi account representative or e-mail us to learn more.

But beyond cost savings, you need security, flexibility–and the freedom to adjust service offerings and hardware requirements on your terms. Unlike the inflexible national service providers, we offer simple contract terms and conditions, annual technology adjustments, rehearsal flexibility, and 24×7x365 support for your hosting/recovery requirements.

Why is DBSi’s contract philosophy important to your bottom line?

LONG-TERM COST SAVINGS
If you sign a $5,000 per month contract for five years with an industry standard 8% increase per year, you will pay $52,000 more than you would if you had a fixed rate DBSi contract. Additionally as a DBSi client you have the flexibility to adjust your service option down by up to 10% annually, which could mean an additional $54,000 savings or $106,000 over the course of a 60 month/$5,000 per month contract.

AMPLE REHEARSAL TIME
An extra hour during rehearsal even if it’s unplanned for could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars in the event of a declared disaster; contact us to learn how. But if you’ve ever worked with one of the rigid old-guard recovery providers, you know the frustration of being forced to leave the facility when your time is up before the problem is solved. We believe there’s no value in a rehearsal that’s cut short because your contracted time is up before you solved a critical issue. With DBSi, you can stay until you get it right. And we’ll help.

FLEXIBLE CONTRACTS WITH NO AUTO-RENEWAL
Early notification of contract coming to term; unlike the “old-guard” providers DBSi believes it is better to have a client stay because of a conscious decision rather than being held captive to inflexible or auto-renew contracts. Because many auto-renewals also include the original equipment and terms in place when the original contract was written it can cost tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade the contract after the fact. Contact us to learn why.

To learn more please contact DBSi at 610 691-8811 or e-mail us.