Minimize the Required Maintenance with an Intel Cloud Hosting Solution
Racksquared’s Intel Cloud Hosting solution leverages industry leading technologies from Microsoft, VMWare, Dell, IBM, and HP. Combining those technologies with our robust network infrastructure and 24x7x365 management and monitoring, it allows you to focus on what matters to your customers, not on the underlying infrastructure.
Don’t be limited by the physical resources you purchased.
Intel Cloud Hosting can be custom configured with the resources your business needs including:
- Processor, memory, storage, and operating system version to your specification
- Firewall and bandwidth options available.
- The ability to dynamically increase and decrease resources.
Stop managing and monitoring physical hardware.
Intel Cloud Hostio Stop managing and monitoring physical hardware. ng gives you access to experts that handle all day-to-day support of your environment including:
- Basic management and monitoring.
- Installing patches and upgrades.
- Rent applications rather than purchasing them.
Reduce your concerns of hardware failure and data loss.
Intel Cloud Hosting minimizes these risks by incorporating repetition and fast recovery by:
- Distributing server data across redundant servers and networking
- Automated backups and snapshots
- Keeping the servers on private subnets with firewall
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Hyper-V Environment
The Racksquared Intel cloud environment is a Hyper-V environment designed with multiple servers in a cluster that work together to host virtual machines. It is designed so that if one server fails, its workloads automatically move to another available server, helping maintain performance and minimize downtime.
We handle all windows licensing, Hyper-V maintenance, and support so you can focus on your applications and business needs.
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Flexible Hardware Configuration
With our Hyper-V cloud solution, you can configure a virtual machine (VM) with the specific processor, memory and storage resources you need today and then grow those resources as business requirements change.
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High Performance Storage
To enhance the performance of your application, we have implemented a Fibre Channel backbone between our Hyper-V servers and our IBM Flash storage SANs. This fiber backbone and flash storage combine for faster I/O, recovery and backup. Customers often report improved application performance after migrating to the cloud.
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Production Data Replication
Your data is stored on an IBM Flash SAN that replicates to secondary IBM Flash SAN at a geographically diverse data center. This happens as close to real-time as possible providing two copies of production data and reducing the chances of data loss. In addition, the primary SAN is highly available to a third IBM SAN that is on prem and can provide instant failover in the event the primary SAN fails. This SAN configuration provides 100% data availability and helps prevent data loss.
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Enhanced Data Backup and Recovery
Data backup is included with all cloud hosting implementations. We work with you to implement your backup schedule in our environment utilizing Veeam.
Immutable backup in CMH, we do monthly backup to tape and those are taken offsite for 12 months and do a yearly that is taken offsite for 7 years.
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Robust Network Infrastructure
Our business is keeping your business up and running. To do this our network infrastructure has to be fully redundant and self-healing. We have high-speed internet connections from multiple providers, entering the facility from diverse locations. Once inside, we terminate into hardware that immediately creates diverse paths from the telco d-mark to the servers in the racks. Those diverse connections aren’t just in the data center, we utilize the same philosophy between our data centers, ensuring they are always connected.
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Secure, Reliable, Resilient Environment
The Racksquared Data Center’s are everything you would expect from a data center. Our environment is designed with a minimum of an N+1 configuration to ensure that in the event of a failure, your business continues to run without interruption. When it comes to security, we combine physical and logical security, with processes, procedures and policies that protect our business and yours. Annual 3rd party audits are performed to make sure we maintain SOC2, HIPPA and PCI compliance.
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Tried and True Migration Process
If the fear of migration is holding you back, know that we have a staff of subject matter experts to lead the process. Our team of network, storage, and Windows admins are here to make this process go smoothly. We create customized migration plans that meet the timelines and business requirements of each customer. Once we have the infrastructure in place and you have completed testing, we will schedule a cut-over date that minimizes business impact.
“Racksquared’s Intel Cloud hosting gives me the ability to easily add cloud servers and then adjust the resources as our business requirements change.”
- Ryan Jones - CEO - American Benefit Corporation
The trusted data center partner behind successful businesses
Delivering expertise, technology, and a secure, reliable, resilient environment
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