LONDON -- British authorities recently uncovered a terrorist plot to take out key Internet nodes in London*. In response to this and other growing threats such as climate change-driven natural disasters Interoute has launched a new Virtual Hosting Platform. As Europes largest network, Interoute uniquely provides a Geographic Failover capability to ensure that companies valuable business systems will keep working even if a disruption occurs in one location.
Modern networks are vital to most businesses not just ecommerce giants like Amazon, ebay or youtube, but also for all companies that use their IT systems as the backbone of their business activities. The failure of the infrastructure could quickly result in major revenue losses. The international consulting group Gartner estimates that the cost of IT downtime can run as high as 33,280 per hour**. For the rapidly growing mid-sized enterprise market in Europe, the resulting loss of business could run into Billions of Euros.
In the face of such a threat, Geographic Failover has been the most reliable way of safeguarding a company. But with the traditional Dedicated Hosting model, where companies have to essentially re-create physical back-ups in each location, this solution has generally been too costly for most enterprises. Thanks to Virtual Hosting, this important feature for business critical systems is now an affordable choice. If disaster strikes, the virtually hosted applications can very quickly be restarted on an alternative machine in a different location on Interoutes next-generation network.
Secure and resilient for mission critical applications
The Virtual Hosting platform in each location is fully redundant, offering high availability backed by strict SLAs. The functionality is very similar to managed hosting on a dedicated machine, and allows customers a choice of operating systems with full access to install applications. Instead of buying or leasing servers for multiple years, companies can deploy Virtual Hosting solutions for as briefly as a few months, allowing customers increased flexibility. Furthermore, the customers do not have to worry about hardware costs and delivery times: the virtual machines are housed in servers that are already in place in Interoutes data centres, ready to handle companies data needs. Indeed, a solution can be ready in as little as a single working day, following receipt of order.
