Cloud Computing

Data Center on Demand

DCoD is a portfolio of infrastructure services designed to deliver hosted solutions for business. This cloud platform can also integrate with current on-premise or hosted services to form a unified solution.

Why choose Data Center on Demand services?

• Fast, reliable infrastructure

• Scalable services that can be reconfigured after initial setup

• Pay for what you use, with the ability to add server capacity, processing power or storage

• Range of payment options, enabling a choice of reducing contract periods or price

• 30 day opt out evaluation

• Faster deployment

Data Center on Demand Solutions

Virtual Private Servers

Virtual Private Servers (VPS) provide true Cloud infrastructure with:

• Custom server configuration

• Business continuity

• Scalability

• Short-term configuration changes

• Automatic failover

• Image snapshot functionality

• Advanced server monitoring

We are able to offer any configuration, number and combination of VPS, to directly match your requirements.

Dedicated Servers

With a range of servers depending on the power that is required, most web-enabled applications can be hosted in a secure and reliable data center with fast access speeds and unlimited bandwidth.

Using our Dedicated Servers, you can operate your applications as you would on-premise while benefiting from managed infrastructure backed by a market leading SLA.

Network Solutions

DCoD provides comprehensive networking functionality to ensure that its hosted solutions can be integrated with on-premise or other hosted services.

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

DCoD provides VPN connectivity to provide secure access between hosted servers and servers in another location. Utilizing the VPN enables businesses to extend their network into hosted environments such as the DCoD.

Firewall

The Cisco firewall available to Virtual Servers within DCoD enables mission-critical applications and services to operate in a highly secure and reliable manner.

Virtual LAN (VLAN)

Include multiple Virtual Servers in a VLAN to enable them to share the same active directory, broadcast domain or network management. VLANs are required to deploy a Firewall or VPN.

Advanced Server Monitoring

Advanced Server Monitoring (ASM) is a comprehensive reporting and alerting solution providing critical information and pro-active alerts on key servers hosted within our data center.  Working across Dedicated and Virtual Server platforms, the ASM solution puts you in greater control and provides the levels of visibility and granularity to ensure you are best placed to optimize, support and ensure the availability of the hosted services.

Application Solutions

We offer key business applications within new or existing DCoD network solutions including clear licensing options.

Exchange

A flexible business communication platform can be provided using Microsoft Exchange 2010 that can be accessed anywhere and scaled to suit your business needs.

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 enables businesses to save money and time by increasing productivity. Consolidating intranet, extranet and websites onto a single, hosted platform in the DCoD means lower costs and increased flexibility.

Dynamics

Small and medium sized businesses are always looking for new ways to manage their customer relationships effectively.  Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a market leading customer relationship management solution enabling you to connect with your customers and profile their needs, leading to more accurately targeted communications and hence greater financial returns whilst improving customer service.

Other Microsoft Applications

• MS SQL

• Microsoft ForeFront

• Microsoft Office Communication Server

• Windows Remote Desktop

• Microsoft Office

Disaster Recovery

Our Business Continuity solutions provide a range of services to secure business-critical data from a secure backup service through to full Disaster Recovery.

To encompass every business’s requirements, our Disaster Recovery solution offers Advanced Backup, High Availability servers and a combination of both of these.

Combining the market-leading Double-Take software with our VPS, VPN, Firewall and VLAN, a complete Business Continuity solution can be built, enabling failover and resilient backup solutions to ensure that business IT functions are safe and can continue to operate, even during a significant on-premise outage or incident.

Online Backup

Not every business requires a full failover Business Continuity solution, and so we provide Online Backup as an alternative.

Utilizing our solution, small and medium sized businesses are able to backup key servers and computers to our data center protecting the data within them.

Combining the full Disaster Recovery service for mission critical servers, and the Online Backup service for the business desktops & laptops, we can easily provide a complete hosted Business Continuity service for all businesses.

For more information on our online backup service, click here.

Online Storage

For businesses that simply require a data storage solution in a secure, off-site location, we can provide Online Storage. This service provides fast, reliable and safe storage of any file type with multiple ways of uploading and downloading data.