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