Hosting

January 13, 2010 - 17:40 — Rick Burgess

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Waarom zou u de hosting uitbesteden? Omdat het logisch is. Hoe verder u uw onderneming stroomlijnt, hoe duurder en complexer de IT-infrastructuur. Ook uw personeel moet over meer expertise beschikken om uw ICT te kunnen beheren. Het probleem is dat deze experts vaak ook sneller naar een ander bedrijf vertrekken. Dit betekent dat u dan ook expertise en continuïteit verliest. Door uw hosting uit te besteden, bent u verlost van deze zorgen en maakt u tegelijkertijd een van de beste zakelijke beslissingen die u ooit zult maken.


Uitbesteding hoeft helemaal niet te betekenen dat uw onderneming niet meer flexibel is. U moet ervoor zorgen dat de prestatie en schaalbaarheid van uw systemen hoog blijven zonder daar controle en responssnelheid voor op te geven. Dat is waarom Interoute u een uitgebreid assortiment aan hostingservices biedt. Zodoende kunt u zelf bepalen welke service-elementen u in eigen handen wilt houden en welke u aan ons team wilt uitbesteden. Of u nu een kleine, grote, groeiende of veranderende onderneming hebt, onze flexibele oplossingen bieden de ideale balans tussen controle en prestatie.

Managed Hosting enables your business to rapidly deliver complex IT solutions, while reducing costs and the operational burdens of supporting multiple technologies around the clock.

 

By leveraging the skills and experience of Solution Architects, Project Managers and Engineers, solutions are robust and delivered to demanding standards.  Services benefit from a dedicated 24x7 team of engineers who ensure that the solution consistently delivers the required business functionality, backed up by ITIL certified Service Managers.

 

Hosting addresses a wide range of requirements, from web applications and databases to e-commerce and globally load balanced, multi-site disaster recovery infrastructures. Solutions are delivered in secure data centre facilities, and are part of Interoute's next generation IP network; providing access to huge bandwidth capacity to the internet or a private network. ISO27001 certification along with support for a range of security capabilities, ensure that systems are suitably secured.

 

  • 24x7 monitoring of hardware, operating system and application health
  • Secured data centre facilities
  • Support for a range of hardware, software and applications
  • Multi-site disaster recovery options
  • Virtualisation or dedicated hardware
  • Intelligent storage capabilities
  • Reduce capital expenditure and operating costs
  • Fast implementation means cost savings realised immediately
  • Bound by commercial contracts and service level agreement

The following is for guidance only as each data centre's specification varies.

 

Power supply

8 Megawatts of city power (SIG), drawn through a reversible underground cable from a modern substation about 1 km from the site

 

 

Power distribution

220V AC at 1500W/m², distributed via dual independent circuits to rack level.  Currents up to 32A per rack

 

 

UPS system

4 x 2'500 horsepower rotary UPS / diesel generator combinations (N+1 redundant).

 

 

Fuel supply for generators

40'000 liters on-site, allowing 26 hours' autonomy at full building load. Additional fuel supplies are nearby

 

 

Air conditioning

Data room temperature and humidity controlled by 60 air handlers on redundant chilled water loops.

 

 

Heat disposal

12 dry coolers on roof (N+1 redundant)

 

 

Fire detection system 

Double loop optical smoke detection system

 

 

Fire suppression system

Inergen gas automatic fire suppression system

 

 

Building / infrastructure monitoring 

Central computerised monitoring systems for technical alarms for access controls, video cameras, fire detection/suppressions alarms, water detection

 

 

Security systems

Site controlled 24x7 by video cameras (CCTV) and patrolling security guards by night

Zoned access control via key-card (5 "rings" access)

Intrusion detection

 

 

Fibre entry

Double entry points on both North and South side of building

 

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