As a provider of network infrastructure, Interoute has seen and been involved in the market changing from private networks to virtual private networks. Making that same change for hosting was a logical next step. For our customers with VPN networks our data centres are simply another location in their network. But wether you have an Interoute VPN or not why build your own computer rooms if we can make them available for you to use? Why buy computers when we can provision them for you whenever you need them, without having to worry about resource planning?
We have invested in an extensive virtual hosting platform with complete redundancy. It benfits from failover within each data centre, and we can even transfer virtual machines between data centres to make the failover geographic if you require it. Add to this the choice of service levels and resource guarantees we offer and we can create just the right virtual server your business requires, whether this is a replacement of a shared hosting service or as part of a complex solution.
But it’s not just about data centres. Because our data centres are an integral part of our pan European next generation network we can ensure control over the flow of data between your business, your customers and our data centres. Allowing you to manage your business more effectively and securely.
| 1 CPU, 1GB RAM | 2 CPU's, 2GB RAM | 2 CPU's, 4GB RAM | |
| 8x5 support, local failover | non critical web server |
Test and development application server | Siebel test and development server |
| 24x7 support, local failover | Customer portal web server | Database server | Application server |
| 24x7 support, geographic failover | e-commerce web server |
Critical database server | Siebel production server |
Examples of combinations of service levels and resources for specific servers
But of course these configurations are not set in stone. If you run a marketing campaign and expect more visitors to your website we can temporarily increase the performance of your server. And if that's not enough we can even add a second server and load balance between them, without having to buy any hardware and wait for it to arrive while your customers avoid your site because it is too slow.
Every virtual machine is completely separated from others to guarantee security. As is the case for all of our managed hosting services you have full administrator access to the operating system allowing you to run any application you require.
- Hosted on a redundant hardware platform with optional geographic failover and zero downtime hardware management.
- Managed virtual servers with guaranteed resources.
- Managed Windows or Linux operating systems, including patch management.
- Rapid deployment.
- Hosted on a redundant hardware platform with zero downtime hardware management.
- Easy integration in our MPLS VPN network.
- An optional virtual firewall and load balancing service is available.
- Can be combined with physical servers.
Virtualization Overview
Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility.Virtualization allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g., RAM, CPU, NIC, etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components.
Virtual machines are encapsulated into files, making it possible to rapidly save, copy and provision a virtual machine. Full systems (fully configured applications, operating systems, BIOS and virtual hardware) can be moved, within seconds, from one physical server to another for zero-downtime maintenance and continuous workload consolidation.
Benefits of Virtualization
Partitioning
- Multiple applications and operating systems can be supported within a single physical system
- Servers can be consolidated into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture
- Computing resources are treated as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner
Isolation
- Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected
- Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections
Encapsulation
- Complete virtual machine environment is saved as a single file; easy to back up, move and copy
- Standardized virtualized hardware is presented to the application - guaranteeing compatibility