VMware Hosting

VMware Hosting

StratoGen are the UK's leading VMware hosting provider with more industry awards and product firsts than any other. From single virtual machines to dedicated private clouds, StratoGen delivers a powerful yet cost effective cloud hosting solution.

Agile VMware Hosting Provider

The StratoGen Cloud is engineered from the ground up to be extremely dynamic and resilient, allowing you to add more servers or resources instantly. Your whole hosted VMware infrastructure becomes fully adaptive to any commercial changes so you can focus on growing your business and not maintaining your server hardware.

A Better Cloud For Business

Deployed across our London, UK and Denver, US data centres, our vSphere 5.0 cluster is built on the very latest HP Blade servers, with disk storage provisioned on NetApp enterprise SAN units configured in RAID DP. Cisco firewall service and 100% uptime guarantee are included as standard.

Enterprise Benefits. Lower Cost.

By moving to the StratoGen Cloud you will get all the benefits of an enterprise class infrastructure for a fraction of the outlay. You can drive down costs by removing underutilised server hardware and focus on business growth. The need for capital expenditure is vastly reduced because the StratoGen Cloud offers a predictable, low monthly fee.

Disaster Recovery

StratoGen offer off-site replication targets for your critical data to provide an end-to-end infrastructure solution. In addition, redundant hot standby VMware servers can be configured in alternate data centres to enable not just data restoration, but to restore both applications and business services in the event of a disaster.

Who Benefits?

Software as a Service (SaaS) providers use the StratoGen Cloud to deliver the 100% uptime and instant provisioning needed for their software deployments. Small businesses use it to deliver an enterprise class infrastructure whilst keeping costs down. Larger organisations leverage the StratoGen Cloud to procure fixed cost infrastructure with guaranteed service levels.

Geographic Diversity

The entire StratoGen cloud platform is available in multiple London, UK and Denver, US datacentres allowing you to build out highly resilient private clouds with geographic diversity.

Seamless Backup

Our NetApp SAN units offer advanced snapshot features which work in tandem with VMware to provide a seamless backup solution for your entire cloud hosting environment.

SharpLock™ Security

The StratoGen VMware Hosting platform is one of the most secure clouds in the industry. Our SharpLock service offers a wide array of additional security features that are fully customisable to your virtual datacentre. SharpLock is included free of charge with all cloud hosting plans.

TECHIE™ Support

At StratoGen we believe you should be able to talk to a TECHIE whenever you need to, so we never use 1st line script readers or gatekeepers. StratoGen TECHIES are highly skilled engineers with VMware certification, and a strong pedigree in Networking, Infrastructure and Systems Administration; they know what they are talking about and love solving your problems. Our support helpdesk is available 24x7 by email or telephone.

High Availability Features

StratoGen utilise all of the enterprise VMware features including vMotion and DRS to deliver 100% availability across the entire virtualised IT environment. Our industry leading service level agreement offers your money back if we fail to deliver 100% uptime. In addition all our managed cloud hosting services include Cisco firewall provision as standard so you don’t need to support the network or hardware allowing your IT staff to focus on what they do best.

Technical Details

VMware Hosting from StratoGen is provided in the form of a virtual datacentre, giving you the flexibility to build out exactly the environment you need. However, unlike other cloud providers StratoGen also fully disclose the underlying hardware that makes up our platform.

Compute

The StratoGen Cloud Hosting platform is built on the latest HP blade servers, running Intel Xeon x5650 (Nehalem) processors. Each blade is configured with multiple 10Gb Network interfaces in a N+1 system that operates storage and connectivity.

HP Blade systems are recognised as the worldwide leader in enterprise class, high density computing.

SAN Storage

The heart of any cloud platform is the SAN and this is where StratoGen excel. We operate a very high performance NetApp storage array configured with multiple redundant controllers and 15K SAS drives in a RAID DP configuration.

NetApp are consistently rated as the leading storage provider in the enterprise market. StratoGen are a NetApp Gold Partner.

Network

Our multi-homed, all Cisco network has been designed from the ground up to be 100% resilient and fully scalable. Our core network is deployed in an N+N 10Gb configuration, which means failures of individual network components – routers, switches or interconnects, will have zero impact on the availability or performance of the network and your associated services.

Licensing

StratoGen offer the full range of Microsoft server software on a pay-as-you-go basis. Find out more about Microsoft licensing.

Other Technologies

StratoGen have a wealth of experience building out clouds with vendors such as Dell EqualLogic, and technologies such as global load balancing and WAN optimisation. Start a live chat now to see how we can help or take a no obligation, free 7 day trial.