DATA CENTRE
and MANAGED SERVERS
Akita Systems provide clients with fully hosted and managed server services to reduce the risk of disruption to your business.Applications
This leading infrastructure can be used to provide hosted solutions and clients can also benefit from virtualization. This dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organization by providing you with an externally hosted virtual server environment in order to provide a more cost effective, stable, scalable and disaster tolerant infrastructure for the future growth of your company. Our solutions allow you to respond to market changes with dynamic resource management and can provide replication of the data to a secondary location.Managed virtual servers can be offered as bare bone solutions or fully managed running Windows Server, Small Business Server with other business applications. All our virtual server platforms are fully resilient and servers can be supplied in almost any hardware or software configuration. They are ideally suited to businesses requiring all the functionality of a server but without the initial purchase and running costs.
Utilising a data centre with the most impressive infrastructure and resilience, Akita offer an advantageous alternative to having a physical server on your site.
Quite simply, the software and applications from a server are transferred into the remote data centre which ensures that your business applications and files and protected by the most robust security and infrastructure including:
Quite simply, the software and applications from a server are transferred into the remote data centre which ensures that your business applications and files and protected by the most robust security and infrastructure including:
- Almost unlimited power and cooling.
- Three private sub-stations on site with twin EDF grid feed.
- Automatically activated diesel generators with priority refuelling contracts.
- Direct connection to the NTL / Telewest edge routers, 1 hop access to primary network backbone.
- Secured network connectivity via a newly deployed NEOS duct and fibre network.
- Equipment is fully fail-over capable and can suffer multiple concurrent equipment failures without issues.
- Free air / fresh air / chilled water cooling technology.
- Environmental monitoring systems incorporate temperature, humidity, leak and water detection systems generating real time SMS/email/pager updates.
- Advanced fire detection & suppression.
- Very Early Smoke Detection Alarm with power to systems remaining unaffected with no clean up required in the event of a fire.
- Independent monitoring systems are run in parallel to ensure the immediate detection of any fault condition.
- Physical security - fencing to all boundaries, 24/7/365 manned & patrolled external security, monitored infrared CCTV with internal patrols. A centrally controlled access system monitors, records and manages all aspects of access into the facility.
- Data floors protected by Photo, PIN & Card combination entry, requiring authorized users’ access card and matching unique code.
