Virtual Hosting Services
From our virtual, highly available cloud based VMware server farm, Virtual Data Centre Services provides services that offer you a low cost, high availability option for supporting your key applications (not just web servers).
Without the need for any capital investment, you are assured of an optimal, future-proof solution that ensures you only pay for the capacity you actually need, as opposed to what you think you might need at some point in the future. What’s more, our unique virtualisation platform means that not only is availability exceptionally high, but implementation is exceptionally quick – enabling us to provision your hosted solution within minutes – something which would take days or even weeks in the physical world.
LOWER COSTS
Using our virtual hosting services enables you to significantly reduce both IT infrastructure and support costs:
- Reduced need for capital expenditure / infrastructure investment.
- Lower IT resource and service costs, with less systems to administer and support.
- Reduction in server sprawl, leading to reduction in facilities costs.
- Less physical servers, resulting in significantly lower energy and cooling costs.
- No depreciation costs, without the need to replace obsolete hardware.
- Pay as you grow – only rent the level of server capacity you actually need.
HIGHER AVAILABILITY
All servers hosted with virtualDCS are on a highly available platform, in Tier 3 and Tier 4 data centres –
built using state of the art virtualisation technologies:
- High availability at a fraction of the cost of setting up a similar platform yourself.
- Benefit from virtualisation features, such as using cloning technology so that patches can be tested on copies of live systems quickly, and with no downtime for your users.
- Provision new servers within minutes, rather than the days or even weeks it would take in a physical environment.
REDUCED IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Having your systems hosted has a positive effect on your carbon footprint anyway, but utilising our virtual
platform, virtualDCS multiplies the positive impact by some magnitude:
- Energy costs and consumption reduced by 80% compared with physical hosting.
- Advanced resource and memory management features vastly improve utilisation and efficiency, keeping footprint, energy and cooling requirements to a minimum.
- Ability to automatically and intelligently power off unneeded physical servers without impacting applications and users
LESS STRAIN ON YOUR IT DEPARTMENT
Choose from a straightforward system co-location service, through to a fully managed hosting solution.
Whatever your requirements, the benefits are clear:
- All servers hosted with virtualDCS are fully monitored to ensure fast problem resolution and maximum system uptime.
- Choose from an extensive list of managed service options to tailor the service to suit your in-house resource and skill levels.
- No night-time call outs – we’re on standby 24/7.
- Let your IT team focus on your business applications, and not the infrastructure those applications demand.
