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Cloud & Hosting

Cloud hosting solutions using the latest, best of class technology and fully supported by our expert engineers.

Within Cloud & Hosting:

Overview

Our Cloud hosting solutions provide powerful, secure and scaleable virtual hosting for your business. Transfer your IT infrastructure to the Cloud, with a cloud hosting solution that ensures market leading benchmarks for performance, reliability, security and uptime.

Access the latest enterprise grade technology with no capital investment; reduced administration and running costs; improved business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities and enjoy cutting edge security – all with the peace of mind that comes with knowing your cloud services are being looked after 24/7 by our expert engineers.

Hyper V-Cloud

Dedicated cloud servers with market leading benchmarks for performance, reliability and security, with 99.99% availability – guaranteed!

VMware

High performance and flexible bespoke cloud hosting solutions using the latest VMware technology.

Virtual Private Servers

Secure, powerful and scaleable virtual private servers for your business.

Private Cloud

Bespoke private cloud solutions for clients with the highest requirements for performance, security and compliance.

Dedicated Hosting

Excellent value, high performance and fully supported – choose from our dedicated server hosting solutions.

Hyper V-Cloud

Perfectly suited to the demands of small and medium size clients, the Hyper-V Cloud provides a high performance, reliable and secure platform for our ‘Datacentre on Demand’ services and is also ideal for hosting virtual Windows environments. We can build your Hyper-V Cloud servers just the way you want them, allocating hard disk space, RAM and CPU cores as required. Our fully customisable approach allows you to start small and increase resources or deploy additional virtual servers and network components when required. You have total control of your cloud infrastructure with full admin-level root access.

"Until recently, considered for small and medium size clients, with the launch of Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V has moved fully into the Enterprise space. " John Dryden,
CTO, IT Lab

VMware

We understand that no two companies are alike. By taking a consultative approach we can deploy cutting edge, VMware UK Cloud hosting solutions that are tailored to your exact requirements. Whether performance, availability, security or compliance are your primary concern, our expert team can deliver exactly the right UK Cloud hosting at an affordable cost. Our high-performance VMware UK Cloud hosting can be scaled up and down as required with full redundancy and 99.5–100% availability guaranteed. We deploy market leading Cisco firewall technology and offer a suite of managed security services.

Virtual Private Servers Our Hyper-V Virtual Private Servers (VPS) allow you to build powerful, secure and scalable virtual hosted solutions tailored to your exact requirements. They are designed for the most demanding databases, applications and websites and offer all the flexibility of a dedicated server or your own on-premise physical server. Our Virtual Private Servers use the latest virtualisation technology, the Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, RedHat, CentOS and Ubuntu, to provide unparalleled flexibility and resilience at a reduced cost. Other operating systems are available on-request. With our Virtual Private Servers you get total control with full admin-level root access.

Private Cloud Our private cloud solutions provide a dedicated, physically isolated and secure platform based on the latest, best in class infrastructure from VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Created in consultation with our expert team, our private cloud solutions are cutting edge and infinitely customisable, delivering industry leading benchmarks for uptime and availability. Combining redundant networks, storage and compute resources with intelligent management systems ensures that your private cloud is available whenever you need it. Dedicated and physically isolated, private clouds provide the best security and meet the strictest regulatory compliance standards.

"Our private cloud solution has provided a stable working environment for our head office and call centre users, creating efficiencies and helping workflow." Adam Powell,
Co-founder, QMetric

Dedicated Hosting

A variety of dedicated server hosting options, from excellent value entry level dedicated servers to high capacity dedicated hosting solutions. We use the latest Intel Sandy Bridge and Xeon processors for all our dedicated server hosting with unlimited bandwidth and a 100Mbps high-speed connection to ensure your dedicated server can keep up with demand.

Choose from the latest Windows and Linux operating systems, including Windows 2008 Web Edition, Windows 2008 Standard Edition, Windows 2003, Linux Red Hat Enterprise, Ubuntu Linux and CentOS, with MS SQL pre-installed. Control every aspect of your dedicated server from a web browser with full BIOS access.

"We employ the highest levels of security for our dedicated server hosting, with 256-bit data encryption and back up to secure UK data centres." Sanjay Mistri,
Senior Consultant, IT Lab