Zest4 has migrated its on-premise estate to a co-location facility in Manchester following a link-up with Vapour Cloud.
As a wholesale provider of 8x8 cloud voice and with expansive growth plans, Zest4 invested in co-location using one of Vapour’s five ISO27001 accredited data centres, plus two managed circuits, high bandwidth connectivity both to the Internet and back to the core, and private access into Vapour’s Veeam backup.
Zest4’s Head of Technology Stephen Ridgway said: “To support a growing number of partners and deliver more functionality to our base it is crucial that our organisation is never held back by uptime constraints.
"Likewise, as a company with a keen eye on the future, we need to devise and roll out robust disaster recovery plans that will safeguard our business continuity should the unexpected happen. The move to a secure, private data centre made perfect sense.”
Tim Mercer, CEO of Vapour Cloud, added: “We’ve invested more than £2m in our MPLS networks to date and interconnect with all the Tier 1 carriers.
“The fact that these networks are owned, run and managed by our own engineers, gives organisations such as Zest4 the peace of mind that they are protected by a SLA-focused solution.”