Hosting your servers in the cloud and adopting a thin-client model at the customer level means that you don’t need expensive network links to connect customer branch offices – you can provision low-cost ADSL links and still have access to a performance desktop environment by utilising Terminal Servers, Citrix Servers or Hosted Desktops.

With a virtualised solution, you no longer need to worry about upgrades, expensive hardware purchases or on-going maintenance costs. You get to continuously leverage the latest hardware and resources all for a low monthly fee.

Ipera manage all of your customer network links, and all of your servers from the Operating System down, allowing you to reduce the time you spend on support.

All Microsoft products hosted by Ipera can be purchased under the Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA), which allows you to pay by-the-month for Microsoft software. You only pay for the licenses that you use each month.

Let Ipera take care of server backups for you. For virtualised solutions, we perform a bare-metal backup of your server every night for no additional cost, and we can usually restore your system from scratch in under an hour. Advanced DR configurations are also available.

Ipera can provide a tape change service for collocated servers, as well as remote SAN storage for backups.

Ipera’s hosting platform is designed to be fault-tolerant and self healing, and we offer an SLA Uptime Guarantee with rebate if your service is not available 99.99% of the time in any calendar month.

For collocated servers we provide Diesel Generator and UPS backup, dual power feeds and multi-homed network connections for continuous failsafe operations.

Ipera have invested heavily in building an infrastructure platform that can provide rock-solid availability for all of our customers. When you buy a virtualised system from Ipera you get the benefit of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of investment in leading-edge equipment.

To build this sort of speed, redundancy and fault tolerance into an in-house network is often prohibitively expensive, or technically infeasible. By hosting your server on Ipera's network you get access to all of these resources plus more, and it is all included in your single monthly fee.

With a virtualised environment, RAM, CPU and HDD resources can be provisioned in real-time. If your servers require more resources we can easily upgrade your subscription with no system downtime or disruption for your users.

Your IT staff, or systems integrators can be given full administrator access to any servers that you host with Ipera.

Ipera's virtualisation platform runs on VMWare ESX, which includes V-Motion and High-Availability (HA) Architechture. Server failures can happen anytime - but downtime is a thing of the past!

Ipera take nightly snapshots of all virtual servers to allow for bare-metal recovery of all file system data. Snapshots are replicated to our remote DR site in the short-term and then archived to a tape library for longer-term storage and security. We can restore approximately 30GB of data from our DR site within an hour.

Ipera offer completely integrated full-spectrum IT solutions for small-medium size organisations right across Australia. If your client has remote sites or branch offices, we can easily provide remote private network links for secure access to your SBS/Terminal server, as well as any voice, data and internet services you may require.

Ipera also own and operate a fibre-optic network covering the inner-city Newcastle and surrounding areas. Here we can offer Gigabit Ethernet-over-Fibre WAN connections at extremely competitive rates.