Customized Private Rack Solutions

Rely on a proven track record for deploying complex, customized Private Racks

Private Racks are ideal for larger environments that need a "built-to-order" solution designed to meet specific, complex requirements. We have a proven history of deploying complex, customized networks, network and power redundancy, and high-performance SAN solutions. We deliver multiple-site redundancy with global load balancing from our Houston and Dallas datacenters.

  Key Benefits of Private Rack Solutions

Scalability and Customization - A private rack allows you to quickly respond to changing business needs. Whether you need additional servers at a moment's notice, or a new, secure network for internal communications, we can quickly and professionally deliver the best solution for your business.

Access to Advanced Security and Hosting Technologies - A complete hosting solution for complex environments requires advanced firewalls, load balancers and storage solutions. Private Rack solutions allow you to take advantage of these advanced solutions across their multi-server applications.

High Availability Options - Highly available IT configurations in Private Racks means there is no risk from a single point of failure. Continuity and system access are assured through optional redundant systems that rely on two of each component, often in different locations.

Geographic Redundancy - In a similar manner, our data centers and network nodes and tier-1 connections are dispersed among different suppliers and in different locations to assure that in the event of a of an equipment or network failure, other resources are immediately available to ensure continuity.

Unlimited Server-to-Server Transfer - Multiple servers within the same Private Rack have dedicated and unlimited connectivity so you don't have to pay for bandwidth between your servers.

Reduced Risk of Bandwidth Overages - Private Rack solutions allow customers to pool bandwidth across all of the servers in the environment. No longer do you have to play the guessing game of which server will have a bandwidth overage, only to find other servers in your environment are below their limit. Pooled bandwidth lets your servers share the bandwidth that comes included with every server.

Load Balancing:

• Assures redundancy and scalability
• Manages spikes in traffic
• Enhances performance
• Prevents abuse and attacks

Firewalls:

• Protect servers from intrusions and threats
• Block malicious traffic
• Secure remoteconnections
• Help meet policy & compliance requirements

  Private Rack Space Options
Half-Cabinet - Our half-cabinet comes with a 100mbps network uplink, a 24 port Cisco Catalyst 2960tt switch and 17U of usable rack space for servers, storage devices and additional network gear. Upgrades available for gigabit switching and uplinks.

Full-Cabinet - Our full-cabinet comes with a 100mbps network uplink, a 24 port Cisco Catalyst 2960tt switch and 39U of usable rack space for servers, storage devices and additional network gear. Upgrades available for gigabit switching and uplinks.

Enhance Your Private Rack Solution with Flexible Options

  Network Load Balancing Improves Performance
Network and server load balancing allows you to add redundancy and scalability to your Private Rack network more easily, which is critical to any well- designed and functioning application. Load Balancing enables a group of servers to intelligently distribute service requests made to a single domain name or address, which ensures significantly greater performance from your servers. You will receive:

Ability to Scale - Load balancers allow you to manage your IT infrastructure more efficiently as traffic volumes increase.

Flexibility - Load balancing and failover services are built-in to a single appliance, which allows you to expertly balance your need for both performance and redundancy.

Expert Management - Our experts set up, configure, monitor and maintain the load balancers, including firmware upgrades.

An Extra Level of Security - Load balancers control the amount of traffic a particular server receives, which prevents abuse and attacks, and increases the availability of applications without blocking legitimate traffic.

Load Balancer Management - Complex network configurations require expert management available at a moment's notice around the clock. Our highly skilled load balancer management team is available 24x7 to support your specialized deployment.

  Firewall Solutions Reduce Risk
Why risk intrusion or threats to your servers that could compromise the confidentiality and integrity of your data when you can easily implement our firewall solution? Our security experts configure the firewall to meet your needs, ensuring an extra layer of defense for your servers. Key benefits of our Firewall Solutions include:

Expert Deployment and Management - Our certified security experts are available 24x7 to set up, configure, monitor and maintain firewalls including firmware upgrades.

Blocking Malicious Traffic - Firewall services ensure that traffic designed to compromise your site is blocked, while enabling your employees, customers, users and partners to access your hosted application seamlessly.

Secure Remote Connectivity - VPN services through a firewall appliance secure communication privacy with IPSec VPN functionality, and provide strong encryption and authentication.

Meeting Compliance Requirements - Load balancers control the amount of traffic a particular server receives, which prevents abuse and attacks, and increases the availability of applications without blocking legitimate traffic.

Load Balancer Management - Compliance mandates such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard require a firewall for the protection of critical data.

  Direct Attached Storage:

• Add drives and devices only as needed
• Easy server expansion & low-cost clustering
• Available for any Private Rack
• Ideal for database and large file storage

  Storage Area Network:

• Unlimited storage and flexibility
• High-performance storage platform
• Ideal for transaction processing databases

  Direct Attached Storage Provides Added Capacity
Direct Attached Storage (DAS) is an extremely versatile dedicated solution that addresses many storage problems. Its most common uses are server expansion and low-cost clustering. For instance, if your server is running out of space, adding a DAS that can support up to 15 drives could be the perfect solution to your capacity problems. Application and database throughput is increased with the higher spindle count a DAS provides. Key benefits of our DAS solutions include:

Scale As You Grow - Drives and devices can be added as your needs expand, keeping initial costs low so you don't pay for more than you need.

Dedicated Performance - SAS architecture is both highly available and extremely fast, SAS drives, optimized for performance applications, and Near-Line SAS drives provide capacity at a great price point.

Versatile - A single DAS can serve both database and large file-storage use cases, allowing you to mix both drive types and sizes, to optimize the device for your needs.

  Storage Area Network Handles Larger Demands
Adding bigger or faster hard drives to your server will get you only so far toward meeting the scalability, reliability or performance needs of mission-critical applications. A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a customizable solution that can include Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs), dedicated network switches and an enterprise-class storage array as required. This solution helps scale your application to support large volumes of storage without sacrificing performance or reliability, and delivers these benefits:

Scalability - The NetApp range is extremely scalable, from the entry-level 2000 series, right up to the enterprise class 6000 series, which holds 1176TB of data on a single array.

Performance - High-performance applications, such as transaction processing databases, require I/O that is simply not available through local disks - With a dedicated SAN you get special-purpose hardware designed for serving data — your application will experience higher I/O, less latency and provide a better end-user experience.

Availability - SANs can be configured with redundancy at every layer - from the HBAs and network switches, through the storage array itself - ensuring your application is always up and running.

Expert Management - Our certified storage experts setup, monitor and maintain your SAN. In the event of a problem, our team takes care of the issue and makes sure you are kept informed during the entire process.

  Storage Cloud:

• On-premise and cloud storage in a single account
• Free uploads
• Only geographically distributed cloud storage platform
• Ideal as a business continuity solution

  Content Delivery Network:

• Instant, higher speed content delivery
• Nodes in US, Europe, Asia, Australia
• Reliable partnership with EdgeCast
• Maximize number of concurrent users

  Storage Cloud Provides Scalable On-Demand Storage
Our Storage Cloud is a unique offering that combines the speed and flexibility of on-premise network attached storage (NAS) with global access and the usage-based billing model of a cloud storage product. Key benefits of Storage Cloud include:

Fast, On-premise Storage with Cloud Capabilities - Pricing competitively starts at a cost per GB with discounts as you use more. This on-premise storage is also accessible "via the cloud," which reduces server resource utilization and the need for a separate cloud account.

Get Data Closer to Your Customers - We offer the industry's only geographically distributed cloud storage platform or Storage Delivery Network (SDN). If you have a storage-intensive business or Website, data transfer speeds can be dramatically improved by storing data close to the user. With storage nodes across the U.S., in Europe and Asia, we make it easier than ever before.

Simple Management and Integration - With a single account for managing your hosted environment and cloud storage platform,Our Storage Cloud provides an integrated experience unmatched by other hosting or cloud storage providers. The standards-based Storage Cloud platform supports CIFS, NFS, FTP and HTTP, as well as an extensible API streamlining integration.

Cost-effective Disaster Recovery, Backup and Archiving Repository - Get data off your server and out of the data center to protect against all types of disasters, from human-error to loss of network connectivity and everything in between.

  Content Delivery Network Assures Global Reach
Content Delivery Network (CDN) service, delivered via our partnership with EdgeCast®, offers a superior, cost-effective global solution that gives our clients competitive advantages in the delivery of digital media. This world-class content delivery system provides with the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling your own content delivery network, while liberating you from capital investments and operational hassles.

Rapidly Distribute Web Content - Our CDN is an interconnected network of computers that rapidly distributes Web content to end-users by caching that data on multiple servers and delivering it based on the user's geographic location. Since the edge-caching servers are placed near end users, latency and delivery times are lowered.

Increase the Maximum Number of Concurrent Users - CDN dramatically increases the maximum number of concurrent users that can access your data. If your Web site resides on a server with a 1Gbps connection to the Internet, only a gigabit of data can be delivered per second. When your data exists on edge servers around the world the total amount of data that can be delivered to end-users increases by orders of magnitude.

Choose a Private Rack for Reserved Space to Grow

We provide the flexibility to build hosted configurations that can scale as your hardware needs grow. Our Private Rack solution provides dedicated and reserved cabinet space to configure highly complex hosted configurations. When you need the most flexibility to configure your hosted configuration, we have put together the best IT environment with the scalability to grow with your business.



This sample configuration highlights the ability to reserve cabinet space to scale your infrastructure and add multi-site redundancy.

Reserved Rack Space for Custom Configurations - Hosting servers in our Private Rack infrastructure give you the ability to reserve contiguous space for future growth. The included private back-end network ensures that all servers are able to securely communicate.

Geographic Load Balancing for High Availability - With dedicated hardware load balancers and global load balancing modules, private rack configurations can span across data centers to create a geographically redundant configuration.

High-Performance Cloud Features - Use the power of our geographically distributed Storage Cloud to serve files closer to your end users. Combine this with our CDN to maximize the end user experience on a global scale.

Private Rack Capabilities
Pooled bandwidth	Included
Private backend network	Available
Gigabit networking	Available
Cisco ASA firewalls	Available
Load balancing	Available
Direct Attached Storage (DAS)	Available
Storage Area Network (SAN)	Available
Storage Cloud	Available
Geographic redundancy	Available
Redundant power and network	Available
High availability configurations	Available

Private Racks are custom built environments that can accomodatethe most advanced and complex infrastructure configurations.