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Blue Central
BlueCentral now NEXONLeading provider of application hosting, managed infrastructure and mobile connectivity services for small and medium businesses, government, and enterprises.
IPMG owns BlueCentral.
* IPMG, a private group consisting of specialist media, print and interactive companies, has today thousands of employees.
IPMG was founded in 1887 and is still owned by the Hannan family. It now employs over 2,000 people.
IPMG is home to over 30 companies, and has offices across the country as well as internationally.
BlueCentral, a leading market-leading hosting company, delivers managed infrastructure and data center services to its customers.
* In operation successfully since 1997
* There are offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
+ 300+ Enterprise Hosting and Mobility Customers
*Services are provided from purpose-built data centers in Sydney and Melbourne
* More than 50 highly skilled and specialist employees.
Financial Profile
* BlueCentral, an operation business of the IPMG Group of Companies, is a part
IPMG's collective revenue exceeds $600 Million
* IPMG, Australia's most profitable privately-held and growing businesses is
BlueCentral, which is expanding rapidly and profitable, has no debts.
Priority 1 Support - Enabling business success
BlueCentral is committed to delivering support services to customers on a daily basis. This mantra, referred to as 'Priority One Support-Enabling Business Success', guides us every day. It is easy to do business with BlueCentral.
* We strive to provide solutions that meet the business needs of our customers and are both commercially viable and flexible.
* Our goal is to make it easy for customers to do business with us. We aim to provide solutions and services that enable our customers to use technology to increase their competitive edge and become more successful within their industry.
Check out our Accreditations
Our customers' data and infrastructure are managed according to global standards.
BlueCentral assists businesses to keep their eyes on the important things that matter most. We help them manage those aspects that don't contribute to competitive advantages. We help companies become more competitive through expert management of core platforms and their IT infrastructure. BlueCentral removes the increasing costs and pressures of managing support infrastructure teams from customers.
It allows them to concentrate on the areas of their IT platforms that are most important for business success, such as improving the functionality of key business applications and generating business intelligence.
BlueCentral customers who outsource some of their infrastructure management can use more resources and time to manage and improve the performance, output, and usability their most critical business applications. BlueCentral partners with our customers to ensure that their critical business applications receive the same quality management as the infrastructure on which they are running.
BlueCentral is committed to reducing risks in order for us and our customers to have a strong partnership. This is possible through various accreditations, certifications memberships, and technology partnership:
* ISO:27001 BlueCentral has infrastructure in data centers that have been certified to ISO:27001 information security standards. This is how we approach data management. It ensures that our customers' data integrity never gets compromised.
ASIO T4: Customer infrastructure is stored in data centres that have been certified. This certification ensures customer environments are always protected and can only be accessed by authorized personnel. ASIO standards ensure that all customer infrastructure meets and exceeds the strictest security requirements.
BlueCentral is Microsoft Gold Partner. BlueCentral has the required qualified engineers and support staff to not only hold the accreditation, but also to provide and support Microsoft hosted infrastructure services. They are available at all levels of support, engineering and post-sales.
BlueCentral's VMware Service Provider program: BlueCentral can support companies that consolidate dedicated servers and take advantage of VMware technologies. BlueCentral is one of the few service providers that has access to support and licensing programs.
* VMware Engineering and Sales Experience: All of our support engineers have been certified VMware Professionals, while all pre-sales consultants possess the necessary training and certifications in order to support and manage virtualised infrastructure services.
BlueCentral can help organisations meet the Payment Card Gateway Security requirements. BlueCentral offers managed hosting and infrastructure services to assist them in meeting their certification needs and ensuring their platform is PCI compliant.
* AIMIA* BlueCentral is an active member of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association. We actively attend AIMIA events to support organisations that provide digital media and services.
* Technical Expertise: To support customer platforms, you need to have a wide range of technical skills. Our engineers are certified in Redhat, CentOS, Redhat and Microsoft technologies.
BlueCentral builds strong partnerships and alliances in strategic technology. We work with key partners to provide innovative, cost-effective solutions that offer the highest value to customers. Below are some of the strategic partnerships we have with Fujitsu and Juniper.
Australian Hosting
BlueCentral offers business web hosting and dedicated servers as well as virtual servers and managed infrastructure (IaaS), to help with web hosting and online applications (SaaS), cloud computing, e-business and Internet applications.
BlueCentral offers business hosting services that are supported by Service Level Agreements (SLAs, or hosting SLGs). These agreements provide objective measurements of uptime and availability as well as incident management and reporting. We provide SLAs for managed components of customer installations. However, we also offer SLAs or SLGs to cover environmental services. We provide the necessary account management services and interaction with customers to ensure a comprehensive and complete service that is backed up by high availability.
Australian Hosting 101
Hosting provides computing services that are based out of a location where you can get computing solutions for your business without any hassles or up-front costs.
BlueCentral offers a variety of managed platform services, which include 'Selective Outsourcing. Below is a list of options for customers to choose whether to manage certain elements of their platform, or to concentrate on business applications by outsourcing the management of platform layers.
We offer managed colocation hosting with secure infrastructure (ISO 27001 certified in Sydney and ASIO T4 Certified for Sydney), in our Data Centre. This includes power, racks and Internet Connectivity Services. Our staff is available to support customers and provide assistance (at an hourly fee or as part of the initial installation fees).
We offer managed dedicated hosting, data center space, telecoms, dedicated physical server, dedicated virtual servers, shared storage, hosted SAN and hyper-visor provisioning. Operating system (OS), under Microsoft SPLA arrangements, support through partners, and hosted applications support via resellers and partners.
* We offer selected outsourcing services such as data center space, shared and dedicated infrastructure, IaaS support, or OS support. We have two data centers in Sydney and Melbourne that can be used for disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
* We offer the following web hosting services for corporate IT as an addition to our in-house IT services.
Hosting Services Overview for Web Hosting and E-Commerce Hosting. Software as a service, Business Applications & Colocation
All of our services are provided from highly-certified redundant data centres and include management services that extend from the data centre and power, cooling, redundancy, management to server hardware provisioning, management, management of operating systems, hypervisor technology licensing, management, management to management and storage services.
Our Fujitsu-owned Sydney Data Centre has been certified to ASIO T4 accreditation and ISO27001 by its owner. Bona fide customers can request copies of the security certificate for hosting.
These services can be combined to allow businesses to outsource specific aspects of managed infrastructure management to deliver critical business and online applications, or to source and manage co-location.
BlueCentral offers carrier-grade connectivity services via their mobile aggregation platform. Learn more about Mobile Connectivity Services.
BlueCentral Web Hosting and Colocation Services, Application Host, or Cloud Hosting in Australia: Why choose BlueCentral Web Hosting?
BlueCentral is a technology partner that offers a variety of solutions. Why should they be your hosting service supplier and technology provider?
BlueCentral's 10 years of experience in the SMB, Corporate and Government market has been going strong for more than a decade. Our team is highly skilled and has the skills, culture and systems to provide effective services right away. We are also constantly monitoring the market for new services to improve efficiency, address new business requirements, and lower business costs.
* Knowledge & Certifications: We adhere to international standards, guidelines, and meet hosting security accreditations in our processes for managing customer data. Our customers can rest assured that the infrastructure services we provide are managed efficiently and executed in accordance with all compliance requirements.
* We offer online tools that allow customers to monitor and view their servers from the Control Panel. This visibility allows for 24x7 monitoring of the hosting service to ensure that customers receive excellent customer service.
* Additional Services: BlueCentral is able to support customers' needs as they grow through partnerships with technology organizations, including data connectivity, advanced database management and mobile connectivity.
* Our Customer Support Centre is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We can provide support to customers 24x7 via our Customer Support Center and NOC. Our mission-critical infrastructure is constantly monitored, managed and supported by us at all times.
* 99.9% availability: We have designed our infrastructure and IaaS services to guarantee high availability. The Internet Gateway and core infrastructure are carrier-grade and have been designed with an N+1 configuration so that you can use your most critical applications without interruption. It ensures redundancy and provides multiple international routes and low latency for the fastest possible route to the Internet. All of our network paths are provided via high-speed fibre connections, which include hosted peering.
* Service Level Agreements, SLAs or SLGs: We are committed to Service Level Agreements. If you violate them we will pay you a clear and fair financial penalty. Our hosting services come with binding Service Level Agreements (SLA) and a Hosting SLG.
* Priority One support: The entire company is committed to providing customer service that is rooted in the "Priority One" culture. We provide a high level of customer service. Our employees are empowered to take decisions on behalf of customers.
BlueCentral has named account managers who work daily with customers to create new services and handle administration. This ensures that BlueCentral's interface to customers and BlueCentral is effective, efficient and well-managed. An aspect of our account management that means we are easy-to-do-business-with and keeps customers satisfied, is our around-the-clock accessibility and our ability to handle questions, concerns and requirements quickly and effectively.Your hosting Account Manager is the portal to all BlueCentral services.
BlueCentral is a world-class data center facility that manages the infrastructure. They are built to be available 24/7 and have the necessary certifications. Data and infrastructure security is also a top priority. This is essential for providing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or PaaS.
Australian Hosting 100%
Our web hosting company is 100% Australian owned. IPMG, our parent company is an Australian private firm that employs Australians. We keep all of our web hosting businesses in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne.
You control your Administrative Access via Web Control Panel
BlueCentral is able to meet your business hosting needs, including web hosting and business hosting. This is possible because we provide secure hosting both in Melbourne and Sydney. Installations take only hours, not weeks, or even months.