Small Business Networks
The Benefits of Data Centers
Internet Data Centers offer an attractive option for companies
with the need to host applications that are delivered to a
geographically dispersed user base.
For costs that are well within the IT budget of virtually
any small business (often starting as low as $100 per month),
companies can immediately enjoy the advantages of housing
their equipment in a professional-grade Data Center whose
benefits include Internet availability that usually exceeds
99.999% uptime, greatly reduced savings in management expenses
due to the elimination of common infrastructure failures,
lighting-fast Internet connections that are usually at least
60 times faster than the fastest Internet connections available
to most small businesses, the highest levels of physical security,
and electrical power that is immune to blackouts, brownouts,
and internal breakdown.
Data Centers offer useful features including "remote
hands" capability, a service in which Data Center staff
can provide rudimentary but valuable assistance such as pushing
a reset button or power cycling a server. This value-added
service avoids the cost of having your in-house support personnel
travel to the office to perform simple troubleshooting steps.
Better yet, such Data Center services are available on a 24x7
basis, 365 days a year, relieving stress and cutting expenses
by dramatically simplifying the logistics required to maintain
high network availability.
There are over 75 mission-critical class Internet Data Centers
in Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern California, and DCI's
Data Center consulting experts can help you select one that
meets the particular requirements of your business, including
geographic proximity, space, connectivity, affordability,
and value-added features and services.
For companies concerned about the risks associated with
potentially catastrophic impacts caused by major earthquakes
in the Bay Area, world-class Data Centers in the Sacramento
area offer close proximity to your business while significantly
reducing your network's exposure to damage from seismic events.
Internet Data Centers are especially appealing to small
businesses because of their affordability and feasibility
in comparison to taking a do-it-yourself approach. Trying
to build an in-house data center with even a minimum level
of fault tolerance by installing features such as a local
computer room generator for power protection, redundant air
conditioning systems, multiple Internet T1 lines, and a physically
secure infrastructure, is for most small businesses either
impossible due to facility limitations or financially prohibitive.
By using multiple data centers, businesses can enhance not
only fault-tolerance but also performance. For example, by
deploying F5 Network's BIG-IP controller in each data center
to load balance a farm of web servers, and then F5's 3-DNS
product at each data center, Internet traffic will be spread
automatically between multiple, geographically dispersed sites.
The 3-DNS routes web requests to different data centers based
on their proximity to the requester, availability and current
utilization/response times. This approach can accelerate application
performance by up to 3-times, ensure that priority applications
are served first, and offload expensive server cycles.
In addition to data center consulting, DCI's Microsoft and
Cisco-certified experts can help you create an affordable,
fault-tolerant network solution that addresses other critical
issues covering a broad range of infrastructure technologies
and processes including:
- Fault Tolerant Internet Connections
- Load Balancing
- Server Clustering
- Interoffice Connectivity
- Disaster Recovery
Why Choose DCI?
Because DCI is a Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner and offers expert application
support for a wide variety of business applications,
DCI can help clients in the Arizona, Southern Nevada, Southern California and Colorado Area, the California
Central Valley and the Monterey Peninsula find comprehensive
IT solutions that maximize the business value of your network.
As a Registered Partner for Cisco Systems,
DCI offers the services of Certified Professionals and Specialists
with expertise in designing, implementing and troubleshooting
networking solutions based on Cisco technology. The depth
and breadth of DCI's technical experience and DCI's familiarity
with the needs of small businesses make DCI the ideal partner
for creating and maintaining an affordable, high-availability
fault-tolerant network.
How to Access DCI's Fault
Tolerant Network Consulting
To contact a DCI consultant with expertise in fault-tolerant,
high-availability networks, call (866)666-7731 or
email information@dcicorporation.com.
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