At Bluestar we’re able to offer enormous flexibility to serve the needs of our customers and this principle also applies to hosting. We provide both fully hosted and cloud based managed services. We can also install, configure and support our solutions in your police data centre or police cloud accounts, working in conjunction with your in-house IT teams.

On Premise

For police organisations, on-premise solutions continue to be the norm, long after the ‘cloud revolution’. The main drivers remain security and, for many police forces, the incumbrance of a raft of legacy systems and the difficulty in provisioning and governing ‘hybrid’ cloud / on-premise integrations. At Bluestar we never lost our ‘infra’ skills during the rush for the cloud, so we’re adept at all these deployment axioms, from the ground up. We’ve maintained our ‘end-to-end’ commitment as a ‘one stop shop’ service provider since our inception over twenty-five years ago.

On-premise solutions remain attractive for many police organisations, despite cloud providers like Microsoft’s Azure, AWS and Oracle OCI platforms achieving appropriate security accreditation for police systems and offering a wealth of possibilities.

Once an on-premise (or ‘self hosted’) approach is agreed, we ensure we continue our ethic of close collaboration with the customer into provisioning, installation, configuration and support.

Managed Services – Hosted & Cloud

We also offer fully managed services for our solutions, either by the use of an approved cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or Oracle OCI, or by provisioning hardware at our physical site. As part of our managed services we take on the responsibility for capacity, infrastructure maintenance and more… All our managed services operate across secure networks, meaning you can be confident that your data is being held in a securely. And besides high availability solutions, we administer backup routines for disaster recovery. Every engagement is unique so discuss your requirements with us.

Cloud Migration

We can also provide transitioning services, to help you move your data and services – for example, away from self-hosted machines that are on-premise, into the cloud.

Access To Data

Our managed service applications have optional APIs allowing access to data and the integration of other IT systems, whether hosted locally or in a separate cloud platform.

Bluestar pricing is customised to each customers requirements, we can cater for per user licences, functionality based licences, site-wide licences or any combination, please contact us for more information.

Summary

• Flexible – your choice between managed or self-managed, cloud or on-premise
• Managed Services are
  • Secured
  • Resilient
  • Expandable – as service level requirements change
  • Protected – with backups and disaster recovery plans
• Transitioning – services available
• Data access – APIs for greater integration, wherever the solution is deployed