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For many reasons more and more businesses are looking to move their servers out of the under stairs cupboard and Cloud Computing delivers an extremely cost effective, scalable and reliable solution for meeting this growing demand.
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Wednesday, 11 August, 2010
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Traditionally, voice resellers have struggled with hosting and yet as MPLS becomes the de facto standard to connect to 'the cloud' more and more data network RFPs are including this as a requirement. How can the channel avoid missing out on these high value long term contracts? Andrew Dickinson MD of Griffin investigates.
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Virtual SANServe Managed Hosting
Virtual SANServe is Griffin‘s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering based
on the latest cloud computing technologies. The service provides Partners with a
flexible and scalable computing platform that is suitable for hosting almost any
type of application.
The platform is built on the latest generation Intel Xeon processors, Dell blade
servers and Storage Area Network (SAN) technology. The service is powered by vSphere,
the enterprise grade virtualisation software suite from VMware.
Virtual SANServe provides Partners with one or more virtual data centres containing
any number of virtual machines.
Features
- High availability as standard
- Virtual machines migrated to backup host in event of host failure
- Each virtual data centre can be configured with the following:
- Custom firewall rules to the Internet
- Custom firewall rules to Griffin MPLS customer networks
- Private VLAN between virtual machines
- Each virtual machine can be configured with the following:
- 1 to 8 virtual CPUs
- 1GB - 32GB RAM
- 100GB - 2TB storage*
- Windows Server 2003, 2008, RedHat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu LTS / CentOS Linux
- Combine Griffin MPLS connectivity and Virtual SANServe to build 'private cloud' services
- Award winning carrier-class hosting platform and VMware market leading enterprise grade virtualisation software
*If you have higher storage requirements, please contact our sales team.
Benefits
- Faster set-up than traditional dedicated server solutions, saving Partners time
- Higher availability than traditional solutions, for a more reliable service
- Easy to upgrade and downgrade processing power, memory and storage
- Ability to switch off with a month’s notice in low demand period, to save money