In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, businesses need agile, secure, and cost-effective IT infrastructure to remain competitive. For many businesses, managing complex IT environments while ensuring scalability can be a challenge. Enter Tarsus-as-a-Service (TaaS), a solution designed to simplify IT infrastructure, offering pay-per-use IT services that help future-proof businesses.
Here’s how Tarsus, in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Zerto, delivers flexible and scalable cloud infrastructure to South African businesses.
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What is Tarsus-as-a-Service
Why choose TaaS for your IT needs?
Addressing common IT challenges with TaaS
Future-proof your business with TaaS
Why TaaS is the best choice for IT MSPs
Get started with Tarsus-as-a-service
What is Tarsus-as-a-Service?
Tarsus-as-a-Service (TaaS) provides comprehensive IT as a service solution that includes infrastructure as a service (IaaS), backup as a service (BaaS), and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). Built on HPE GreenLake, TaaS offers businesses access to enterprise-grade infrastructure on a pay-as-you-grow IT model. This allows businesses to scale their operations without upfront capital investments.
Achieving this requires an ‘air gap’ to ensure that there is no direct or indirect connection between a computer or system and a network. After all, if the data can’t be reached, it can’t be corrupted or stolen.
Current best practice in regard to using storage as a way to foil cyber-criminals is for organisations to implement what is known as the 3-2-1 rule (sometimes referred to as the 3-2-1-1 rule).
With TaaS, businesses can access:
- Virtual Data Centers (VDCs): Host your operations with scalable resources and customisable environments
- Backup as a Service: Secure data through reliable cloud backup services, minimising risks.
- Disaster Recovery as a Service: Maintain business continuity with disaster recovery plans using HPE Zerto.
Why choose TaaS for your IT needs?
When compared to traditional on-premises infrastructure, Tarsus-as-a-Service offers key advantages:
- Cost-efficiency: Avoid high upfront IT costs. With pay-per-use IT, you only pay for the resources you need, freeing up capital for growth.
- Predictable billing: Rand-based billing eliminates currency fluctuations, offering stable, predictable IT costs for easy planning.
- Enterprise-level performance: Powered by HPE GreenLake, TaaS delivers server backup, reliable performance, and seamless integration, ensuring maximum uptime.
- Data sovereignty and security: Your data remains local, hosted in third-party data centres within South Africa, guaranteeing compliance and sovereign cloud security.
- Scalability: On-demand IT resources allow businesses to scale in real-time, adjusting to market changes without long procurement delays.
Addressing common IT challenges with TaaS
For businesses relying on outdated IT systems, managing costs, security, and scalability can be overwhelming. Here’s how TaaS solves these issues:
- Ageing infrastructure: with TaaS, businesses no longer need to worry about the cost and complexity of maintaining outdated systems. Transitioning to TaaS, powered by HPE GreenLake, ensures access to the latest enterprise IT as a service.
- Scalability: hybrid cloud solutions allow businesses to scale IT resources as needed, without investing in costly on-premises systems.
- Cost volatility: unlike hyperscale providers, TaaS offers Rand-based billing, providing local businesses with predictable costs and no dollar-based volatility.
- Data protection: backup as a service and disaster recovery plans ensure business continuity, protecting critical data from security breaches and disasters.
Future-proof your business with TaaS
TaaS doesn’t just provide immediate solutions; it prepares your business for long-term success by offering:
- Enhanced security: Frequent updates and advanced security-as-a-service ensure protection from emerging threats like ransomware.
- Business agility: With a scalable platform as a service solution, businesses can quickly adjust to changing market demands, improving flexibility and operational efficiency.
Operational efficiency: By managing your IT infrastructure with managed IT services, Tarsus allows your IT team to focus on strategic initiatives instead of maintenance.
Why TaaS is the best choice for IT MSPs
For IT MSPs, TaaS offers a seamless transition to cloud-based services while maintaining data sovereignty. The solution supports:
- MSP hosting: Leverage private cloud solutions for managed services.
- Security: Protect client data with disaster recovery plans and server backups using HPE Zerto.
- Co-location: use Tarsus’s third-party data centres to manage client infrastructure and storage needs.
Get started with Tarsus-as-a-Service
Transitioning to Tarsus-as-a-Service is easy. Tarsus Distribution partners are equipped with the necessary tools to assess virtual resources and migrate clients using HPE Zerto. Here’s how it works:
- Assess your IT needs: calculate the required virtual resources.
- Deploy resources: log into the TaaS portal and request resources.
- Migrate data: seamlessly migrate data to the TaaS cloud environment. needs.
- Scale on-demand: adjust resources as needed through the self-service portal.
Ready to learn more?
Contact us today to discover how Tarsus-as-a-Service, powered by HPE GreenLake, can help your business adopt IT consumption models that reduce costs and increase agility.
Let us help you unlock the full potential of IT as a service, ensuring your business stays competitive, scalable, and secure in today’s digital world.
