Exploring our high performance Private Cloud solutions.
With cloud computing increasingly dominating the server industry, 100TB is forging ahead with its own high performance private cloud solutions. With fully customizable hardware specifications and the same level of control as a traditional bare metal server, our cloud environments are equally well suited to storing sensitive customer information or hosting multiple virtual machines.
Each private cloud is hosted in one of 100TB’s four data centres (from London to Salt Lake City via Amsterdam) or in one of eighteen additional centers around the world belonging to our associates at SoftLayer. The specifications in each data centre include physical and biometric security layers, full power redundancy plus constant CCTV monitoring and staffing by engineers. These latter characteristics reflect the round-the-clock technical support on offer via email, phone or live chat.
With data security and customer service taken care of at the outset, each private cloud offers a fully isolated environment using the finest Cisco networking infrastructure to deliver optimal performance with minimal fuss. A user-friendly application-programming interface allows customers to configure and orchestrate their servers according to demand levels, and everything from the storage to the hypervisor programs are at your exclusive disposal. Data is completely isolated in each private cloud to ensure peace of mind, while a wide variety of predefined operating system templates cater for Linux, Windows or FreeBSD-based appliances.
Since bandwidth is a crucial component of any private cloud, 100TB offer an industry-leading 1PB of bandwidth to customers on our 10Gbps network. A petabyte is 1,024 terabytes, which should be sufficient for even the most data-hungry applications. Our name reflects the amount of bandwidth that every customer receives as standard, with Cisco and Juniper routing equipment minimizing data transfer times throughout our 2.8Tbps of global network capacity.
Another vitally important attribute nowadays is security. The steps taken to protect our international data centres are outlined above, while features such as two-factor authentication are standard throughout 100TB platforms. We can provide unlimited SSL certificates, and our enterprise-grade hardware firewalls help to deter unwanted attention in tandem with Arbor PeakFlow protection against distributed denial of service attacks. These have been in the news again recently due to concerted malware attacks on MySQL database servers.
As for the hardware installed behind this iron curtain of security, it includes premium products like the latest Intel Xeon CPUs and Samsung SSDs. Server hardware is provided by SuperMicro, while SATA and SAS hard drives are supplied courtesy of Toshiba and Western Digital. The use of such premium hardware explains how we can promise a 99.999 per cent service level agreement on our premium networks, with automated real-time reporting and monitoring of each private cloud.
Despite taking many steps to streamline and minimize the complexity of setting up a private cloud (or migrating from an existing provider), 100TB recognize that some customers will still need expert assistance. With that in mind, we have a team of solutions architects on hand to create an optimal environment to suit the requirements of any client.
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