Beyond staffing considerations, companies today are making every effort to sharpen their business focus by eliminating or outsourcing IT activities tangential to their mission. In an effort to stay focused on their own products and services, these companies are finding that a secure, reliable, and cost effective solution is to load their application on a First Option IBM i cloud server.

First Option IBM i Managed Hosting focuses on small to medium sized businesses. Many of these companies have legacy software packages developed in a programming language that they can not support. First Option hosting solutions provides a secure and reliable environment to install and execute your application. We also provide world class professional services to maintain and enhance your existing software. You can choose the level of service that best suits your business requirements.

Our data center provides a secure redundant physical environment. Our 24/7 help desk is staffed with highly trained individuals who execute your operational system tasks per your service level agreement.

Some of the advantages of IBM i managed hosting are the following:

• Saving money on costly hardware maintenance and upgrades.
• Internal staff can spend more time on core business activities that make your business profitable.
• Savings for facility costs which includes; space, electricity, redundant internet access and redundant fire suppressing and cooling systems.
• Valuable resources when your company needs them. If your company has a limited IT staff, we are your IT overflow valve.

What are some of the reasons customers choose IBM i managed hosting?

• Our customers want to concentrate on core business activities instead of IT activities.
• 24x7 support and monitoring.
• Maintaining and upgrading an IBM i is very costly and hosting suits their needs and budget requirements.
• Some of our customers want to get off the IBM i platform but do not want to change their application software.
• Security of knowing their application is hosted in a secure, state-of-the-art data center that is SAS 70 Type II compliant.
• A number of companies are “sun setting” their System i(AS 400) system and need to retain access to the data.

First Option offers our customers the choice of either a Dedicated or Shared Environment.

For more information please email sales@1stoption.com.

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