What do you need to make your IT ROI efficient? Cloud SaaS or Storage? An IT Consultant? More Hardware?

Our experience tells us, you most likely need a little bit of some of these but not in a way you would expect.

Cloud technology is all pervasive so initially we looked at making low-cost high security cloud connector. However, after mulling this over for a while and looking at other potential markets, we came to the conclusion that the cloud and low-cost weren't the drivers the market needed. As with many companies, we needed several iterations plus the usual amount of mission creep to come to this conclusion.

We compared cloud solutions for comparison against our ideal solutions by analyzing the:

•  Easy installation and Ease-of-use
•  Features and benefits
•  Advantages and disadvantages
•  Crisis and recovery
•  Cost and ROI

The eureka moment came when we realized the important customer-drivers are "out-of-the-box" ease-of-use and low power combined with preconfigured features, such as privacy, security and connectivity which make difficult things, truly stress-free!

What do we mean by "out-of-the-box" ease-of-use combined with preconfigured features?

All our systems only require two settings to be changed in your (ISP) modem-router, followed by connecting to the same network and powering up.

There is your fully configured system. and you have spent less than 5 minutes getting it to work — how cool is that!

Our systems are so easy to install and use that they give you the feeling of being an IT Guru. So easy in fact, they make putting up a shelf look like rocket science!

Imagine not having a single piece of professional IT equipment and needing it yesterday. Then imagine everything from your LDAP domain controller to your administration workstation arriving preconfigured and ready to use. We are crazy you'd say. But we're not, this is what Inferno is all about. Secure plug and play from day one.

COVID and IC to go

Since COVID-19, everyone has heard about the world-wide integrated circuit shortage and the massive amount of cybercrime that has been propagated.

After many years of allowing IC production divestment to low-cost countries, the US and EU see now it as strategic! As of 2021, they have started to demand that new IC-fabs are built inside the borders of the respective areas.

During the COVID cybercrime pandemic, most people must now know that many companies, educational institutions and government departments have been breached including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, CISCO, the US DoD, DoJ, DoE, and NRC. The major arguments for cloud services are ROI and Security! If your data is stored with in Azure, AWS, Google cloud, it's more vulnerable than if you maintained control of it! Data centers have breaches and fires too.
If you didn't include a premium back-up plan in your package — you won't have any data so your ROI is going to be seriously impacted!

Related links:

•  Known data breaches
•  Known data risks

The ultimate "out-of-the-box" experience

Our preconfigured products provide the ultimate "out-of-the-box" IT experience. Designed to need less configuration than an IPTV box, from the "Track-Me-Not" Home Server, and private cloud servers (for your data, music, photos and video) through to full architecture solutions for SME's, SOHO's and home users. They are unmatched feature and quality packages.

Need style as well as features. So do we! Anyone can put a box together that is functional
Form is important. Brutalist "disco" boxes just show a lack of imagination so we've created some attractive standard and bespoke cases for our systems.

Ranging from our standard book style and signature Octagonal cases to logo and theme cases. All cases are made from eco-friendly laminated materials for strength and rigidity. In addition, they are guaranteed free-flow, noise for use with our low power (less than 20 W typical) systems.

Pricing overview

INFERNO^©™ system prices comprise:

Applications + Base Model + Optional hardware + Configuration

Applications: most are no-cost Open-Source community editions but may have costs depending on their license). See INFERNO^©™ Legal for detailed information on Open-Source licensing considerations.

Base model: retail price after adding operational costs,

Configuration: The key to INFERNO^©™ is the added-value installation and configuration operation. After answering some basic questions in our configuration definition tool, the systems are pre-configured to ensure when they arrive at your premises, they are ready for use.

Open-Source software is as safe as commercial software provided the correct level of security is applied. All Octagon INFERNO^©™ systems come with our standard security set up