When your VS had 300, 200, 100 users it made sense to continue to maintain the staff knowledge and skills to operate your own VS.

As VS user populations shrink, however, and the day approaches when you will no longer need your VS, it becomes more problematic to operate the VS on your own premises, with your own staff. Turnover depletes the highly specialized knowledge required to smoothly operate the VS, and staff members don't wish to be tied to your legacy system. Inevitably, the quality of operation deteriorates, outages increase in frequency and duration. Even though the applications running on the VS may be crucial to the organization, the day to day priority received by the VS decreases, and the consequential risks increase.

If you have a small footprint VS or if you have VS licenses that could be used to move your applications to a small footprint VS, then you have the option to outsource the VS operation immediately and get the legacy issues out of your shop now.

We can host the following models of VS at our facility:

• VS5000
• VS6000
• VS8200

By special arrangement we can also host larger models:

• VS7000
• VS8400
• VS10000
• VS12000
• VS16000
• VS18000

The basis for hosting typically includes:

• You own or lease your VS and will retain ownership or responsibility for it
• Your VS is properly licensed
• You use Lightspeed or VS LAN Connection for desktop connectivity
• You will ship your VS and gateways here
• We will operate your VS and perform agreed-on backups
• Any aspect of VS operation can be arranged, including running and managing overnight batch cycles, shipping or emailing reports, shipping tapes, etc.
• Depending on the criticality of your use of the system we may require that you subscribe to Getronics maintenance
• Your users will connect transparently via a VPN link between our networks
• When you no longer need your VS we will dispose of it for you

Fact: It is very expensive in most companies to run a large VS for a small number of users

Fact: It is almost impossible to properly operate a VS in an environment where the VS has the lowest priority

Fact: Maintenance of a VS slated for replacement almost always deteriorates, resulting in instability, peripheral equipment failures, and endangerment of the corporate mission

Fact: We can replace your VS disk drives with RAID, greatly stabilizing the system and providing fault tolerance. This is difficult, expensive or impossible for you to do at your own site.

Prerequisites

• You should be using Lightspeed, VS LAN Connection or 2110 for desktop connectivity

• You should have VS licens(es) for one of the small VS model families (VS5000, VS6000, VS8200), whether or not you are presently using the licens(es) to run such a system

How to Proceed

2. We will explain exactly how outsourcing your VS wil work

3. We will determine the feasibility

4. We will quote you the price

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