Cloud hosting
Cloud hosting benefits
- Manage all your IT resources from one central online portal
- Rapid scaling of capacity & resource
- Built in operational resilience and agentless backup
- Increased operational efficiency, with lean on-demand IT resources
- Reduced carbon footprint and energy consumption
Resilient cloud services with true network integration
As one of the few managed service providers with experience in both hosting and networks, Claranet has built its Virtual Data Centre with resilience and network integration in mind. Our enterprise-grade infrastructure configures into redundant clusters that carry spare capacity. Should a physical server fail, these virtual servers will automatically be brought back online.
Virtual Data Centre gives you greater freedom and security when configuring your networks in the cloud. Customers opting for a private cloud service can easily connect to Claranet’s QoS-enabled MPLS network - to deliver a secure, optimised and reliable environment. MPLS integration allows businesses to migrate applications to the Claranet Virtual Data Centre but still integrate those applications with existing services and networking.
Local accountability and ease of migration give you real control
Virtual Data Centre was designed to provide for ease of migration. You can migrate platform or location whenever you want, no matter which hypervisor and cloud hosting platform you may currently use. We understand that there may be different legal and regulatory requirements to meet depending on the countries your enterprise operates in. Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre adopts a local, in-country principle. Whichever country you take your infrastructure in, the hardware, support and billing will also be from the same country. For PCI-DSS compliancy and data security, this means that your data will meet your local country-specific data protection legislation.
Built on enterprise-class hardware
Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre resources are built on enterprise-class hardware, which means that the virtual infrastructure will deliver a high performance, reliable and secure platform for your applications. The new service has been designed specifically to replicate the internal IT infrastructure model, and provides IT Directors with the reassurance of a recognisable platform. Built in partnership with industry-leading vendors such as Dell, Netapp, Cisco, VMware and Microsoft, Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre is hosted in high-quality PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 certified data centres.
Your unique cloud portal
Virtual Data Centre is managed through a cloud portal, and gives your enterprise unparalleled control over your IT infrastructure and assets. It offers a single-pane-of-glass view, accessible from any network enabled device, from which you can manage both your private and shared platforms. From the single portal view you can see your cloud estate across Europe, and provision new servers and resources quickly and easily. You can merge your cloud servers into logical applications, template your servers for deployment into disaster recovery or European scale-out, and migrate from any existing cloud platform to your Claranet cloud with ease.
Create a more agile business
By monitoring your assets and usage via the portal window it is easy to make informed strategic business decisions. Pool your resources, change capacity or alter the distribution of computing resources as required: the portal view of Virtual Data Centre enables on-demand, self-service provisioning for computing capabilities as and when you need them. This ensures your business will never be caught short of resources in times of high demand or overspend on redundant resources when business is quieter.
Get in touch
We can build and manage a solution that suits your business needs. If you would like to find out more about our hosting and network services, please follow the link below to contact us.
