Dedicated SAN Hosting from Griffin

Our state of the art SAN system allows businesses to operate 100% of the time, with zero downtime. Even if a hard drive fails, a hot spare is used to ensure continuity and performance during repairs. 10GB of storage comes as standard.

The SAN stripes data across multiple hard drives, for maximum performance.

The SAN solution is RAID 50 and stripes data across 12 disks, 2 are hot spares and 3 are backup disks.

With traditional storage you need to plan for capacity, with our solution you buy what you need and can scale up when you need to.

More than any other networked storage solution, an iSCSI SAN delivers comprehensive security. By physically limiting access to iSCSI SAN devices and isolating SANs from public networks, data can be protected across all network paths. With the added security of iSCSI login authentication between initiator and target, businesses can be assured that data is accessible only to authorised individuals.

Our standby server option is built into SANServe 1 and 2 specifications. Should the primary server fail, we will transfer the server IPs to the standby server. Dedicated standby servers are available on request.

We offer 24 hour monitoring and management including implementation, operations, ongoing configuration management as well as additions and changes. You choose the rules, we will apply them. Full consultation is given to ensure the best rules are applied to your server.

We offer a range of services such as installing security patches and upgrades, server installation, configuration and management of operating systems and domain names.

You can monitor up to 5 ports on the server. It is tested every five minutes 24 hours a day and as the web master you can be contacted by SMS should a failure occur.

We offer secure access to your server via a control card, allowing you to reboot your Dedicated Servers at any time of the day or night.

When this service is applied, we will automatically apply security patches and upgrades to standard machine software as they are released.

The unique snapshot (point-in-time copy) creates an exact duplicate of data at a specified interval. This is a very quick way of restoring data and is referred to as a rollback.

You select the initial storage space that you require. Additional storage is available on request.

This allows you to rollback to a point in time without losing data, which is restored from the corrupted data.

We offer 24 hour monitoring and management including implementation, operations, ongoing configuration management as well as additions and changes. You choose the rules, we will apply them. Full consultation is given to ensure the best rules are applied to your server.

Dedicated servers are charged as per the server it is on standby for. For extra resilience a dedicated server can be attached to another SAN on the network. This configuration will require two volumes for snapshots and may use more bandwidth between sites.

Load balancing allows the distribution, processing and communications activity to evenly spread across a computer network, so that no single device is overwhelmed. If server requests are unpredictable, they can be sent to another server with more capacity in busy periods. Griffin use Zeus load balancers, one of the best solutions in the market today.