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Fusion Business Solutions

Capacity Optimisation as a Service

Managed Service which collates on-premise and cloud server/storage utilisation and provides advice on maintaining optimal performance and availability for current and future services. The service has been design with the needs of capacity managers and business service owners in mind, helping them to drive efficiencies and support cloud migration initiatives.

Features

  • Assess future capacity needs
  • Solve existing performance issues
  • Scale into the cloud
  • Provide visibility and mitigate risk
  • Reduce costs

Benefits

  • Accurate and dynamic view of capacity requirements
  • Reduce service outages with accurately scaled resources
  • Maintain regulatory compliance
  • Manage capacity requirements across hybrid multi-cloud
  • Eliminate investment risk

Pricing

£10 to £40 a server a month

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at robin.booth@fusiongbs.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

9 6 6 9 8 6 2 1 3 5 9 4 3 2 8

Contact

Fusion Business Solutions Robin Booth
Telephone: +44208 814 4888
Email: robin.booth@fusiongbs.com

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
Our Service Onboarding, charged as a one off activity provides the following:
1) Review and assessment of the business outcomes from the capacity management function
2) Activation of the service in the cloud
3) Identification and onboarding of relevant data sources for capacity management function to support the business outcomes.
4) Provide access and credentials for access to the service
5) Engagement model
Planning service works with specific services
Yes
Hosting or software services the planning service works with
Capacity Optimisation as a Service

Training

Training service provided
Yes
How the training service works
Training can be provided if required. Please see our separate 'Cloud Training Support Services'.
Training is tied to specific services
Yes
Services the training service works with
BMC and related products

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
Yes
How the setup or migration service works
Capacity Optimisation as Service provides visibility into computing and storage consumption prior to any migration, enabling organisations to There are 3 elements that specifically assists with cloud migration: 1) Historical analysis of computing, storage and network consumptions to understand required cloud resourcing profile. 2) Scenario modelling and forecasting to assist with future business demands and its impact on the required infrastructure. 3) Forecasting costs of services in the cloud and recommending viable pricing options based on the cloud provider tariffs.
The service operates with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
No

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
No

Security testing

Security services
No

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
Yes
Types of service supported
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
How the support service works
Our support organisation has over 50 FTEs providing 24/7/365 support across 3 geographical centres.

Service scope

Service constraints
No.

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
The service offers a standard 15 minutes response time to acknowledge questions. Resolution times depend on the nature of the question.
The standard operating hours for the service are Monday-Friday 0900-1700 UK (excluding Bank Holidays).
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
None or don’t know
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
Basic support is provided at no extra cost and enhanced could be provided at extra cost.

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
BMC Software

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
BSI
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
Awarded Oct 18, re-accredited Sep 23
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Our Statement of Applicability is available on request. It includes the management of information security relating to the provision of services and IT operations. Applicability to services provided remotely or on customer facilities are subject to individual assessment.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type II
  • ISO 27017/27018
  • ENX TISAX Level 3

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

Every customer of Fusion's Cloud services receives additional environmental benefits, contributing towards overall achievement of net zero greenhouse gas emissions.  Our services are 'pay as you go', driving efficient use of resources for customers who buy only what they need and when they need it, whilst our hosting services enable consolidation of infrastructure bringing opportunity for CPU optimisation and to drive down energy wastage.  

We seek to encourage customers to transition to a lower carbon footprint by analysing existing services to target high power-consuming services for transition to our Cloud services, so we can model costs vs cloud-tariffs to demonstrate value for money and environmental benefit.

For our customers, and our own staff and suppliers, we support environmental protection and improvement through the delivery of our Cloud services, which enable efficient working practices - such as flexible home working, with efficient remote access to critical business applications and with remote support - resulting in a smaller overall carbon footprint and a reduction in end-of-life IT waste for all.

Pricing

Price
£10 to £40 a server a month
Discount for educational organisations
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at robin.booth@fusiongbs.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.