Collocation


When uptime, availability, and security matter

When to collocate?

  • Are your mobile knowledgeworkers having difficulty access your company's corporate office housed VPN solution?
  • Is your sales staff complaining about the sluggishness of the Sharepoint portal?
  • Are your remote workers unable to get consistent evening and weekend access to your corporate LAN due to power and connectivity issues at your office?
  • Are your customer or member intranets straining your office WAN link?
  • Is your data not replicated offsite due to costs constraints?

Then place your critical business servers in our always-up facility and keep your workforce productive and connected.


Why collocate with us?

Our Virtualization options allow for unmatched flexibility and cost effectiveness:

  • Server Virtualization:
    • Increased performance and uptime without additioal capex: your physical collocated servers can be augmented via clustering additional VM appliction servers, sharing the load with your physical boxes and providing for increased uptime via session/DNS/application level or load balancer clustering.
    • Graceful end of life: What happens when your collocated server reaches the end of the chassis' life yet the application is otherwise running strong and stable? Don't replace the server with another physical box: we can Phyiscal-2-Virtual migrate the server(s) without full rebuilds, allow your software and code to break free of an aging chassis; saving both capital costs and migration labor.

  • Firewall Virtualization: for organizations with in-house operations and network administrators, we can provide you your own "virtual domain" and login into our 12Gbps HA firewal cluster environment, you'll be sandboxed allowing controll of your own IP space, your own rules, and your own features; allowing for granular self service and control, without the up front costs of your own HA firewall cluster.

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  • Storage Virtualization: our SAN gateways, allow for different tiers of disk for different purposes, we can offer

    • SAS 15K Raid-10,
    • SAS 15K Raid-5,
    • FC-SATA 7.2K Raid-10,
    • FC-SATA 7.2K Raid-6
    • Each storage volume can be grown dymanically, with it's own snapshot and replication properties, independent of your other Storage as a Service volumes.

Our Networking provides superior flexibilty:

  • Multiple company specific VLANs (routed, NAT'd, DMZ) allow for a 'virtual rack' so that your physical (or virtual) servers can be configured in a best-practices arrangement, without needing to buy and collocate your own firewalls and switches.
  • Dual pathed from edge to node, dual edge switches, clustered firewalls, and blade based core switches allow for zero single point of failure for physical or virtual assets.
  • 6 Tier one carriers via multiple physical uplinks on our own BGP configuration with over 2Gbps of bandwidth on tap, allow for traffic bursting and diversity of route selection for least latency and highest performance.

Our commitment to Protecting your Data:

  • All of our storage infractructure is multi pathed and HA
  • Hosted VMs are locally backed up off our FC SAN to alternate SAN storage and optionally sent to our 2nd site > 1000 miles away.
  • Collocation customers can purchase Storage as a Serivce, and have their iSCSI LUN or NAS share, snapshot'd, locally replicated via synchronous writes, and/or asynchronously replicated over IP to our second datacenter as well.

 


 

 

Nuts and Bolts


Facility Details:

  • Northern Virginia Location
  • SAS-70 certification, 24x7 security and remote hands manned
  • True N+1 UPS and CRAC
  • Diesel Generators with multi-day fuel reserve in underground tanks
  • One of the original PAIX sites, highly connected
  • 5 providers of dark fiber and Ethernet connections to DC for your point-to-point L2 needs
  • 200 watts per s.f., 80+80 Amps @ 120V per rack supported. You can actually fill your racks!

Value Added Services
  • Enterprise Class SSL KVM over IP with virtual media
  • Enterprise Class smart PDU for remote reboots and by the outlet power draw
  • Netflow/sFlow bandwidth monitoring and metering
  • Storage as a service: NAS (CIFS/NFS) or SAN (iSCSI or FC) starting at 100GB to 16PB volumes, dynamically scalble, snapshots and offsite replication also available.
  • Our Managed Services