How Safe Is The Cloud?

Like several new technological advances the cloud has been greeted with some apprehensiveness, with most people's issues regarding it centred on the protection of their information. As a trusty provider of cloud services we tend to take these issues terribly seriously, significantly because the name of all cloud suppliers relies on providing the perfect levels of service to their customers.

Cloud suppliers have taken each measure attainable to confirm the privacy and security of their customers' information when it is keep in cloud solutions.

How do cloud solutions keep your information secure?

Physical security is certified to Tier three information Centre requirements, which suggests that all access has got to be requested by e-mail from an authorised domain and an authorised list of contacts pre-setup. Any access that is needed onsite is only granted with use of the access code and picture card ID. All racks are kept secured and information Centre employees only open racks on request to authorised personnel.

All information keep with in cloud solution is two-way replicated, that means there are constantly two copies of the information on completely different physical storage devices. Additionally as being two-way replicated, all information is also saved daily offsite to a geographically separate site. This implies that all customers' data is keep on a more robust infrastructure than they already have on their own sites.

Even though a managed IT services supplier is storing data for clients all ownership rights are fully retained by them and at the completion of a contract if the information is to be transferred elsewhere, they can offer copies of all the virtual machines holding their data.

The entire infrastructure is totally owned by the cloud provider therefore none of the cloud environment is keep on any other company's systems. All access to the Cloud service is provided via secure VPN connections or through private WAN's that are put in situ either by the company or among their preferred partners. Additionally as providing such increased security levels, Tier three data Centre requirements also guarantees availability levels of 99.982% therefore you will be able to rest assured that your data is going to be accessible whenever you require it.

What are the benefits?

- The managed cloud solution provides a variety of advantages for customers:

- There is no one point of failure within the cloud environment.
- The environment runs on superior, best-of-breed technology.
long operational costs instead of massive capital outlays every three - five years that means financial directors can budget ahead.
- A totally versatile standard approach means that you can increase and reduce the environment on a monthly basis, in line along with your changing needs.
- 24/7/365 management is provided to clients by a team of VMWare certified engineers.

With the managed services solution every virtual server will be totally managed 24/7/365 by a dedicated team of Microsoft certified engineers, who can even call on specialists in other fields for example Citrix, Novell, Cisco and checkpoint.

A hosted virtual environment also provides clients with protection from threats that can arise on the internet and from inside your own network, this is guaranteed by best-of-breed Cisco and checkpoint firewall and IPS devices