Managed Hosting Service for Corporate Libraries

Our investment strategy is to deliver new and affordable solutions using best of breed technologies and services to corporate libraries. Our Managed Hosting services complement IT departments who can remain focused on their core competencies rather than managing a library system that is low down on their priority list.

All organisations are seeking to enhance efficiencies, reduce ownership costs, improve service quality and ensure business continuity in their Library and IT infrastructure environments.

Soutron’s fully managed services offer streamlined, scalable and highly secure library management systems within a secure IT infrastructure, network and storage facility.

Soutron’s data center is located in VSNL's high performance, high capacity, and high reliability global communications backbone. VSNL is a global Managed Hosting and Storage Services supplier that operates world class data centres in New York, Singapore and London. By choosing to host your application with Soutron you get all the advantages of a world class service and facility.

Soutron’s Managed Hosting Solution is for corporate libraries of all sizes. Why are more companies turning to this form of service when they have perfectly good internal networks?

1. IT Support.
Typically a library management application is a low priority in terms of all of the systems that an IT department has to support. By implementing the library system on an external hosted service all matters relating to IT become simplified. There is now one place to call to sort out any service provision and no waiting for IT to get round to your system needs. All you need is a browser and access to the Internet and you and your library are in business.

2. Cost savings.
Updates and enhancements to library management systems are immediately applied without any additional internal involvement or support costs. Soutron does not have to support the upgrade and implementation of software on internal servers and that savings are passed on to you the client. So you save twice, once from internal recharge costs and then from lower support fees. You no longer need to find money for a server on which to locate the library system nor have that server managed and backed up.

3. Disaster Recovery and Backups.
In the event of a disaster your systems never go off-line. The Soutron solution is based on a network of global data centers. It combines Data Center facilities, a global network, LAN infrastructure, security and server systems in a fully managed, bundled solution, backed by a 24x7 Managed Services Operations Center with the highest levels of technical expertise. You don’t have to think about backup procedures and what happens if it all goes wrong. You get peace of mind and you are free from attending meetings about your IT provision.

4. End User Access.
You are now on a global network that is faster and more reliable than any network a small company can manage or afford. So this means that you can be secure in the knowledge that your users will have unfettered access and bandwidth to your library resources.


Soutron's Managed Hosting Solution has been proven in use over the past 18 months with large global firms operating across 22 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East. The procedures and security provisions are practiced and proven. Staff are expert in the Microsoft technologies and networking technologies that underpin the service as evidenced by our Microsoft GOLD Certified status.

Enterprise customers looking to consolidate, expand, centralise or globalise their IT infrastructure are ideal candidates for this service. One client who uses this service and operates globally stated the reason for using the service is because it was faster to implement systems using our external hosting resources. If it had been done internally it would have led to serious delays in a very important project.