IT managers know that their core IBM systems and servers are at the heart of their business operations. With limited staffing and workloads that are constantly changing, you need a technology partner that works alongside you at all levels — providing reliable solutions, expert consulting and responsive customer service. With more than 25 years of experience providing managed services for mission critical IBM i and AIX workloads, CloudFirst is proud to play that role. Learn more about our solutions.
Secure hosting for mission critical applications.
Move faster and eliminate the headaches and costs of legacy hardware by running your mission critical applications on our fully managed, highly secure, enterprise cloud. With 24/7 dedicated support from our IBM-certified staff, we proactively monitor and manage all aspects of your systems, freeing your staff to focus more on your business. Our IBM i cloud hosting solution provides scalable compute, storage, and network resources, replacing the maintenance and support costs of on-premise systems with a predictable monthly expense.
Secure backups that scale with data growth.
Our IBM i managed cloud backup solution provides built-in multi-site redundancy and client controlled encryption, job scheduling, retention and retrieval.
Guaranteed recovery services that protect your data.
Minimize the impact of unplanned downtime and reduce the recovery time of your critical data with our managed standby compute, storage and network infrastructure resources. Our backups are stored locally in our cloud and quickly restored to the standby systems, allowing you to quickly resume normal business operations in as little as eight hours.
High availability and business continuity.
Keep your business running at full performance during planned maintenance, unplanned downtime, or site disasters with our highly available replicated systems. With our full-time enterprise system, storage and network resources, you can transfer production workloads to our cloud with the flip of a switch, ensuring guaranteed uptime, backed by round-the-clock, proactive support by our expert IBM-certified staff.
Migrating IBM i Systems to the Cloud
Current State of IBM i Security in the Cloud
IBM i Backup in the Cloud
Getting Ready Guide
Guaranteed performance with the latest IBM i technologies and dedicated resources for your business.
Resources and performance are designed to seamlessly scale system, processor, memory and storage as needed.
Solutions are customizable to meet client’s unique requirements.
Get the enhanced security of dedicated, isolated network, compute and storage layers that are monitored 24×7.
IBM Support (SWMA) is included. Our specialists monitor and maintain the health of your system and are available 24×7.
Support levels available that include all PTFs and OS Updates.
Get licensed programs and
utilities from IBM and 3rd party application providers bundled with your hosted system.
Starting at $300 per month. Subscribe only for the resources and performance required and scale as needed.