Managed Cloud Hosting

• Availability

A managed cloud is centered around a very high availability architecture with redundancy built in across multiple hosts, the storage and the security. This gives failover protection as well as the ability to maintain and update hardware without a maintenance window.

• Network Security

The same security and network environment found in private cloud solutions can be had here too. This is achieved with dedicated and secure VLAN’s, IDS/IPS and firewalls and can be used with any cloud servers.

• Failover and Balancing

Automatic failover and resource balancing can be achieved between hardware hosts which is taken care of at the virtualization level. This lets the servers take full advantage of the high availability characteristics if any hosts were to fail.

• Hybrid

Sometimes applications and databases can’t get enough performance from a virtual server and this is the ideal time to use a dedicated, physical server in conjunction with the virtual ones. This creates a really powerful hybrid system with all the benefits of both a physical and virtual server in the same, sleek system.

• Cost

It’s been shown that managed cloud systems are often just as cost-effective as public ones. While you can’t buy servers per hour this way, longer-term enterprise applications rarely need it anyway.