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Cloud computing is the culmination of technologies which together form a highly available, resilient, secure and scalable outsourced platform.
The cloud model you choose will depend upon several factors: the size of your business, IT resources, time to market (speed of implementation) and security requirements.
UKFast offers the following cloud computing solutions for mission critical businesses:
Enables you to run web and applications on servers dedicated to you on a virtualised platform. However you do not share security or processing resources, meaning all resources are dedicated to your environment and secured behind dedicated firewalling. This isolation from other network users is key for maintaining high performance and high availability.
Has all the components described above and in addition, it includes dedicated servers which are used as standalone machines. This model blends traditional managed/dedicated hosting with virtualised cloud technologies in situations where resource hungry applications require very large allocations of memory and virtualisation is not an option.
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Data security is a growing concern for private, public and third sector organisations. Information held within the IT infrastructure is often sensitive or confidential in nature, meaning data loss, corruption or theft can have serious implications for those who have failed to protect their data assets.
Outsourcing your IT infrastructure to the cloud can be a daunting task; there is often a perceived risk associated with removing physical access to hardware. In reality, the actual risks can be far lower, compared to managing the infrastructure internally.
Hosting in secure data centre environments with redundant connectivity and enterprise grade switching, dedicated backup and dedicated firewalling ensure your data is safe. Plus you'll have highly qualified engineers on hand to fix problems 24/7 - all of which have been security approved by the police for additional peace of mind.
Even if your data is not particularly sensitive or confidential, what impact would it have on the end users if they couldn't access the information when they needed it? Information security also relates to data availability, so if 'always on' access to your data is essential then private clouds are the perfect choice, due to their highly resilient N+1 architecture.
Due to the shared security infrastructure or public cloud environments they are not always able to meet the tight security or availability requirements needed to run your business safely. In worse case scenarios DDoS attacks can flood shared switching and firewalling, impacting all of those behind these shared devices.
Private cloud computing however offers the same consolidation benefits of virtualisation but with tighter security, thanks to the closed internal network behind your own dedicated firewall and switching. The private cloud is the only cloud for mission critical applications and businesses, as it isolates you fully from any external network issues.
Built on Dell dedicated servers running Microsoft Hyper-V or VMware vSphere, our private cloud environments allow you to rapidly deploy new software and scale it as demand increases or decreases. The private cloud also increases reliability, performance and uptime whilst at the same time efficiently using available resources to maintain security and ultimately reduce costs.
Contact our system architects to discuss your cloud requirements today.
