UK-based hybrid cloud startup Zynstra has announced the launch of O365Connect, aimed at helping SMBs with a managed IT solution which brings the best of both on-premise and cloud worlds.

The product was developed in association with Microsoft – the name gives that one away – and HP, who is an OEM partner of Zynstra, and is aimed at businesses between five and 250 employees.

Zynstra O365Connect handles various tasks, from networking to file management, to Office 365, as well as maintaining a full backup of cloud-managed email and file data, plus providing a disaster recovery option in Windows Azure.

The partnership with HP doesn’t end there either, with all of Zynstra’s cloudy server appliances built on HP ProLiant servers, alongside Zynstra’s software to create the mix for IT workloads to be run in a virtualised Windows or Linux environment.

Nick East, Zynstra CEO, explained to CloudTech that many …