 Option 1 – Virtual in Cloud system - from £450+ per month Defence layer | Ultimate protection (shared). - Cisco ASA firewall - Redundant pair
- Intrusion detection system
- McAfee Active Virus Defence
- Annual security audits
- DDoS mitigation
- Juniper front edge router
- Gb switches
| Performance layer | Increased speed & performance (shared). - Layer 7 load balancing
- Caching server
- Latest generation Dell and HP server hardware
- Dual Quad Core Xeon processors
- 32GB RAM
- Rapid scalability
| Virtualisation layer | Choice of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation platforms. - Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Datacentre licenses with unlimited virtual machines
- Virtual machines with resilient storage, processing capacity and bandwidth
- SafeDNS for domain and DNS management
- Database serving MS SQL & MySQL clustering
Hardware: 1 x Intel E5620 Quad Core Xeon E5620 2.4GHz HP DL 380 G7 4Gb RAM 4 x 146GB SAS 15K RAID 10 | Storage layer | Scalable storage for your critical data (shared). - Highly resilient dedicated HP or Dell EqualLogic SAN
- Redundant RAID 10 storage array
- Storage options available from 50GB upwards
- SAS and SATA options available
| Backup layer | Business-critical Intelligent backup and restore solutions (shared). - vDR - VMware Data Recovery for virtual machines
- Hyper-V Backup snapshots
- Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) or Linux Bacula
- Regular system state backup and incremental backups
| Monitoring layer | Continuous monitoring of your cloud solution (shared). - Capacity threshold monitoring
- Proactive uptime monitoring
- Dashboard & alert control centre
- Cisco anomaly detection and traffic analysis
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