The SANServe solution has been built on a state of the art IP Storage
Area Network (IP SAN) which has recently been deployed across the
Griffin national MPLS network into three separate hosting centres. The
SANServe range of services has been developed in response to the demand
from resellers for a hosting solution to meet the SME IT Manager's
increasing need for SLA backed reliability whilst retaining the ability
to scale.
Adrian Sunderland, Technical Director at Griffin Internet:
"IP SANs are being used increasingly in the data centres of banks and
multinational corporations. Over the last six months we have made a
huge investment in this technology and our SANServe solution means that
the benefits of IP SAN are no longer out of reach for many of our
customers".
Griffin's SANServe solutions will enable resellers to take
advantage of the SME demand for highly available hosting solutions based
on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems. More and more SMEs
rely on their servers being online and available 100% of the time -
especially as more and more business is transacted via the web.
SANServe offers a lifeline to those IT Managers who struggle
to cope with managing and protecting the constant growth in data across
the organisation. Griffin's SANServe delivers a powerful, scaleable and
affordable national disaster recovery planning tool across multiple
office locations.
Adrian Sunderland: "Traditional backup solutions such as tape
are being shunned by SME businesses as they struggle to keep up with
the growth in data. Tape backup is so slow, more and more SME
businesses are discovering there isn't enough time to back up an entire
server overnight anymore - the result being that the server running
slowly when employees want to work on it because the backup is still
running. With the SANServe solution we can use 'Snapshots' to instantly
backup customer data as often as once per hour with no slow down"
Customers will have the option of having their data mirrored
between Griffin's three hosting centres in London, Derby & Leicester
and away from the head office to ensure that if a disaster does occur
then the business can be operational straight away without the loss of
any business critical information.
Deploying the Griffin's SANServe range requires minimal
reseller training whilst also offering great margin opportunities.
Whilst SANServe is an appropriate hosting and storage technology for the
SME market, many larger corporate organisations are also looking at IP
as an alternative technology over traditional fibre channel due to the
larger geographic distances over which IP can be used transmit data and
the cost advantages that this brings.
Griffin Internet offers sophisticated and affordable business
continuity solutions to the UK reseller community through its
multi-million pound national MPLS network. Griffin's national network is
one of one most technically advanced and is designed to deliver IP
based services solely to the business community. With zero congestion,
even at peak times, Griffin provides better Service Level Agreements
(SLAs) than competing IP network providers.