Scale Computing’s N05 StorageNodes are a unified clustered architecture of both SAN and NAS arrays delivering enterprise features at an affordable price for the SMB market.
The N05 is the ideal solution for entry-level storage. With 2- 500 GB SATA disk drives, a single node stores .5 TB (1TB Raw) and has capacity to grow into the petabyte range. The N05 StorageNodes can also be mixed and matched with Scale’s S-Series StorageNodes, delivering a flexible, scalable solution for your growing storage needs. To add capacity, simply add nodes to the system. Data is automatically striped and mirrored across the cluster delivering migrationless scaling
The N05 includes enterprise-level features at no additional cost and is a true all-in-one solution at an affordable price.
Enterprise-Level Features included:
* Snapshots * Replication * Thin Provisioning * Storage Pooling * Operates with NFS/CFS/iSCSI * No single point of failure
Intelligent Clustered Storage
All of Scale Storage Nodes’ are built on Scale’s own ICS Technology, which reduce your costs, add convenience and increase control over your storage needs.
Increase Control
ICS is a true scale-out architecture. It uses software to create a global name space across all nodes in the cluster, thus creating a single cluster with virtually unlimited scalability. The N05 StorageNode allows scalability by as little .5TB per node at a time. Prevent underutilization and over- provisioning by purchasing only the amount of storage you need when you need it. Additionally, ICS contains its own block replication system. Each node contains the information necessary to access all data blocks simultaneously and can assume responsibility for any other node in the entire cluster, providing transparent fault tolerance at all times.
Reduce Costs
All Scale Computing StorageNodes include features and software expected for enterprise-level storage. The N05 Series provides the capacity needed for small-to-midsize businesses without sacrificing features. It is also compatible with the S-Series as a need for larger capacity presents itself. Additionally, unlike controller-based systems that typically are programmed to read only nodes of a particular density, Scale’s ICS can accept nodes of multiple densities to the cluster. Nodes purchased today will work with nodes purchased in the future, making the nodes future proof.
Please make sure to keep on calendar LightBound's next Lunch and Learn in September 2010. Topic will be Scale Computing along with LightBound's ability to do Scale to Scale Replication. LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed servers hosting, Shared Storage server, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.
LightBound is also expanding. Be on the lookout for our new state of the art 47,000 sq ft. Data Center coming out of the ground and available for occupancy in first or second quarter of 2011.
Light Bound can be your Virtual Service Provider. We help you answer that email and return the telephone call without worry.
LightBound is your Fonality Authorized Reseller for trixBox Pro Editions for VoIP PBXsolutions both hosted and premise based IP Based Telephony.
Fonality is updating its software to Version 5. Here are some of the highlights. Please contact me with questions.
Back end is now Asterisk 1.6 – this means a faster, more efficient call processing engine that can take advantage of newer multi-core and multi-threaded processors. In addition, there are new codecs available to us that open up a lot of opportunities for future enhancements.
Extensions / users:
Users – we realized at Fonality that more and more often, users have multiple extensions, so now, rather than having an extension assigned to a user, we have users who have one or more extensions assigned to them. This allows us to do some more interesting things in HUD and creates a more cost effective way for a user to have multiple extensions. Add user wizard – because of the new user based model, we now have a wizard for adding extensions. This allows you to (list out options). Extension Status – FONscore Fonality Professional and Enterprise – pick and choose your version Toll restriction – The ability to only allow certain dial plans to be dialed by certain users. ACD improvements: Queue autofill – rather than one call being distributed to an agent at a time, we can now pass calls to agents as they come into the queue, completely bypassing any music on hold if an agent is available.
Queue priority – The ability to prioritize one queue over another. This allows you to set up 'priority’ queues for special customers.
TTA SLA – How many calls were answered within X number of seconds? Reasons – You can now create reasons for your agents that they have to choose when logging out of the queue. These can now be reported on. ACD reports – new reports: Reason reports, SLA reports, export to CSV Other CP stuff Call quality reports Phone settings – download config via LAN or via Internet Enable firewall
HUD New supported OS’s – Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Windows 7
Linked HUD is here! Allows you to see call status, barge/monitor, view and join conference rooms, retrieve parked calls, add linked extensions to a queue, etc. New permission to block chat on a per user basis. HUDdy list – shows the people you talk to most often Location settings – set your location Transfer from on hold to another extension or voicemail box Agent log out reasons Agent per queue logout Whisper Notification when being barged or recorded Permanent agent different icon Readable server-side chat log Format.xml – stored server side, and allows for custom modification of dialing preferences and caller ID display HUD Queues New queue stats: TTL SLA, Duration, Idle, Calls, Avg talk time
Light Bound can be your Virtual Service Provider. We help you answer that email and return the telephone call without worry.
LightBound is your Fonality Authorized Reseller for trixBox Pro Editions for VoIP PBX solutions both hosted and premise based IP Based Telephony with Enterprise, Call Center and UAE (SalesForce and SugarCRM integration) editions.
LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed servers hosting, Shared Storage server, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.
LightBound is also expanding. Be on the lookout for our new state of the art 47,000 sq ft. Data Center coming out of the ground and available for occupancy in first or second quarter of 2011.
Light Bound can be your Virtual Service Provider. We help you answer that email and return the telephone call without worry.
LightBound is your Fonality Authorized Reseller for trixBox Pro Editions for VoIP PBX solutions both hosted and premise based IP Based Telephony with Enterprise, Call Center and UAE (SalesForce and SugarCRM integration) editions.
LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed servers hosting, Shared Storage server, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.
LightBound is also expanding. Be on the lookout for our new state of the art 47,000 sq ft. Data Center coming out of the ground and available for occupancy in first or second quarter of 2011.
While many people consider VMware to be a company that services the enterprise, the majority of our business, as much as 80 percent, comes from the SMB market and you, our partners, are the key driver into this important segment. As virtualization adoption continues to expand rapidly in the SMB space, VMware has taken steps to ensure partners servicing the SMBs have lucrative opportunities in a big growth market.
The SMB market is perhaps the most exciting and opportunistic in virtualization today, as the sector constantly looks for cost-saving solutions and VMware continues to provide virtualization packages that are affordable and robust. More and more SMBs are looking to the scalability and affordability of cloud, but may not realize that virtualization provides them with the best path to the cloud along with added benefits like consolidation, management, and automation of routine, time consuming tasks. We are also seeing that after the recession, more SMBs are considering the lifecycle savings of virtualization and see adoption and implementation of virtualization as a strategic business objective.
Light Bound can be your Virtual Service Provider. We help you answer that email and return the telephone call without worry.
LightBound is your Fonality Authorized Reseller for trixBox Pro Editions for VoIP PBXsolutions both hosted and premise based IP Based Telephony.
LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed services, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.
To build on VMware’s SMB offerings, we are excited to announce today a new promotion for SMBs looking for the most cost-effective and comprehensive virtualization solution on the market – the new vSphere Essentials Plus with vMotion. For SMBs with less than 20 servers, vSphere Essentials Plus provides a proven, reliable, industry leading virtualization solution. With vMotion, SMBs can now migrate VMs between physical servers with no impact to end-users – ensuring that applications have higher availability and the testing and deployment of apps is safe and seamless.
In this day and age where everyone depends so heavily on Technology. Isn't good to have one company that can provide ITManaged Services, Server Collocation, Web Hosting Services, Virtual Storage, Storage as a Services, VoIP PBX Solutions, Hosted VoIP PBX Solutions, Voice Services and Data Services.
LightBound can provide your Cloud Services, Data Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity to your Voice and Data services including Off Site Data Backup Services.
Light Bound can be your Virtual Service Provider. We help you answer that email and return the telephone call without worry.
LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed services, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.
LightBound offers virtual storage and hosted virtual servers. LightBound can combine managed services, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require, regardless of their technical expertise.
I spoke with a potential customer this week who is interested in hosting SQL, Sharepoint, and smart mail servers at our data center using the LightBound Virtualization services. Initially they were interested in only managed server hosting, but realized the hardware cost and maintenance would be a challenge to maintain. I was able to provide a solution using our virtualization and cloud services that would meet both his performance and budgetary needs.
LightBound will be doing a Lunch and Learn on June 16th at 731 W. Henry Street. Come see the new evolution in VoIP PBX solutions and how LightBound is adding Hosted VoIP PBX solution to our stable of Cloud Serves including Virtual Servers, Virtual Storage, Managed Services.
We will be doing a live demostration of our Hosted VoIP PBX solutions and how if can make your organization more productive.
LightBound has been the leader in Indiana Internet Services since the early 90's.
Look forward to seeing you at our demo of Hosted Voip PBX Services.
Historically, ergo back in the days of physical servers, I often commented that Disaster Recovery in preparation of Business Continuity is much like a dog chasing its tail. Server Collocation was often employed to have backup servers at a remote location. Well, congratulations - you've just doubled your workload, not to mention increases your costs, possibly more than two-fold. So here's where I say welcome virtualization services and cloud services! Storage Area Network Solutions (SAN's) paved the way for multiple server hosts to be able to easily and seamlessly share storage, and with boot from SAN technology, you can now replicate the data, including OS and App, to another location at the block level. No muss, no fuss. No more having to manage an entire mirror of your server infrastructure. No more installing every patch twice, no more having to upgrade your applications to the next version twice. No more having to troubleshoot twice. No more having to pay for the number of licenses you need- what? You guessed it...TWICE! Good news.
When SunPorch, the leading manufacturer of ready-to-assemble sunroom kits, needed call center capabilities it thought outsourcing was the only option. Fonality said no way! Beating bids from Avaya, Cisco and 3Com, Fonality’s PBXtra Call Center and HUD Agent improved SunPorch’s marketing and customer service programs while saving the company 100K in advertising costs. Oh yeah, it saved the day after Hurricane Ike and also paid for itself in three months.
SunPorch is the leading manufacturer of ready-to-assemble sunroom kits. To provide better customer service in its Westport Connecticut-based sales office, SunPorch needed call center capabilities that would allow calls to be routed to the appropriate person or department, and cost-effectively scale as its staff grew. SunPorch selected Fonality’s PBXtra Call Center and HUD Agent software to replace its legacy PBX system. Outsource? No Way.
“Initially we thought that the only call center solution we could afford was to outsource to a third party,” said James McFarland, IT director at SunPorch. “With PBXtra Call Center we were able to keep our call center operations in house, which meant we could provide higher levels of customer service and maintain better control of our sales and marketing efforts.”
In addition to Fonality, SunPorch also looked at call center systems from Avaya, Cisco and 3Com. According to MacFarland, “the main driving factor for purchasing Fonality over the alternatives was essentially lower costs. PBXtra Call Center paid for itself in the first three months by eliminating the need for expensive consultants to set up and administer the system. Fonality does an awesome job of pre-configuring the system and the phones— all you have to do is plug everything in. I had the whole system up and running in less than one day.” Saving $100K on Advertising Costs
The Fonality phone system is delivering significant value to SunPorch’s advertising programs. According to Leo Mueller, director of marketing at SunPorch, “because of Fonality, we can be much more nimble and responsive to our market. PBXtra Call Center helps us maximize the return on our advertising expenditures by reducing sales leads not associated with a lead source. We can quickly and easily assign a different phone number to each ad, which allows us to automatically record where a caller learned about SunPorch without having to ask them.”
This simple approach to tracking advertisements has returned some significant returns. SunPorch now clearly understands how specific advertisements are performing and can easily make decisions that directly impact the bottom line. “Thanks to PBXtra Call Center we’ve been able to more accurately target our advertising dollars and have reduced our annual overall expenses by $100,000,” said Mueller.
Additionally, Mueller recognizes that PBXtra Call Center has indirectly improved SunPorch’s sales program. Since the Fonality call center system has been providing the company with better data and management has been able to make more accurate and focused decisions about where to advertise, SunPorch has increased its lead acquisition by 10 percent. “It’s amazing. Even though the downturn in the economy is impacting customer purchasing decisions, we’ve still seen an increase in the number of home owners interested in our product.” New Revenue and Better Customer Service
PBXtra Call Center has also helped SunPorch define new revenue-generating marketing campaigns, including new offerings to its existing customer base. This previously untapped group was the ideal candidate for product upgrades, but SunPorch couldn’t move forward on this type of campaign without Fonality. With PBXtra Call Center, SunPorch was able to set up specific call queues for current customer marketing programs that rang into five remote phones at its factory and then rolled over to the Connecticut headquarters when calls to the factory could not be answered. These capabilities made it possible for the company to efficiently sell to and support its most important audience.
PBXtra Call Center’s call queues have been a big help in improving SunPorch’s overall customer service. “PBXtra’s call queues and music on hold with sales voice-overs reduce the number of abandoned calls we receive. The queues let callers know how much longer they have to wait, which makes it less likely that they will hang up, and music or sales information on hold helps keep them entertained while they are waiting,” said Mueller. He has also been impressed with Fonality’s reporting matrix, which helps SunPorch monitor call center performance and adjust accordingly to improve the customer experience. In the Wake of Hurricane Ike
Mueller gained extra appreciation for PBXtra Call Center after Hurricane Ike knocked out power to the company’s Louisville factory.
PBXtra Call Center’s unique hybrid-hosted Anywhere Management feature enabled Mueller to remotely access the call center system and record an emergency greeting in less than 10 minutes without hiring an expensive consultant. PBXtra Call Center allowed SunPorch to quickly implement a professional recording in response to the emergency, which helped maintain customer service levels and ensured calls could be redirected to the company headquarters for handling.
“The remote management of PBXtra Call Center is terrific,” said Mueller. “It gave me so much flexibility to make sure our customers were taken care of, even during a natural disaster.” PBXtra and HUD - Essential Business Tools
In terms of its technical abilities, McFarland has been equally impressed with Fonality. “There are so many great things about our PBXtra system. The voice prompts, call queues and powerful web-based configuration are all fantastic. HUD helps us to enhance communication within the office, since we know whether someone is on the phone or not. We also like HUD’s drag-and-drop call transferring capabilities and its integration with caller ID on the PC desktop. Also, the PBXtra system easily integrated with the rest of my IT infrastructure, something I couldn’t do if I was working with a proprietary phone system.”
Mueller sums up how SunPorch feels about Fonality. “It’s simple — Fonality enables us to better serve our customers. PBXtra and HUD are essential business tools for our company — I don’t know how we lived without them.”
LightBound utilizes Fonality for both our premise based VoIP PBX solutions and our Hosted VoIP services. Our managed services can be added like Shared Storage Server, Collocation services, Cloud Services and many more that make LightBound a leader in Virtual Network Services in Indiana.
LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed services, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.
LightBound now has a direct fiber connection to the Chase Tower in downtown Indianapolis. The direct fiber connectivy enables tenants in the building to take advantage of LightBound's suite of services such as hosted virtual server, cloud services, hosted VoIP PBX Solutions, virtual storage, and off site data backup service. Customers can connect to the fiber for $995 per month which provides a 100 MB connection to the data center bundled with 10 MB of Internet with bursting capability. Hosted VoIP PBX solutions through Fonaliy are available starting at $34.99 per seat monthly for 5 users and as the number of users increases the prices drops to $18.99 per seat for 51-99 users! If you are a business owner interested in hosted voice service check out Fonality for Executive video. This is a great service to help with business continuity planning as customers can either host their critical IT and voice services at the LightBound data center or backup critical data to Lightbound's storage as a service platform. LightBound also has a business continuity.disaster recovery center with 32 seats each with a computer and a phone that can enable a company to minimize disruption of business operations in the event their building is not available for use. Contact your LightBound account manager for more information on this new service!
Sun Apparel and Fonality Simplify Multi-Office Communications
Offices in California and Hawaii sound like a businessperson’s dream. But for Sun Apparel, multiple offices meant expensive logistical problems when it came to phone communications. Sun Apparel turned to Fonality PBXtra for a VOIP PBX system to make three offices work as one. Since deploying PBXtra, communications are up, long distance costs are down and the company’s offices are dreamy once more.
Sun Apparel manufactures and distributes t-shirts, casual sportswear, caps and accessories throughout the western United States. With three locations — its corporate headquarters in Fullerton, CA and distribution centers in Hayward, CA and Honolulu — the company’s management understands the pain points felt by a multi-office business. That’s why improved interoffice and external communications were top of mind as the apparel company prepared to move into a new corporate headquarters location. Armed with three shiny new Fonality PBXtra servers, the company was ready to say goodbye to phone system problems. Manageable, Open Source Telephony
As the move neared, a bid from its existing phone vendor missed the mark. “I was completely dissatisfied with the proposal from our previous phone vendor,” said Steve Gulsvig, Sun Apparel’s IT consultant. “The solution was antiquated and was going to cost almost $40,000 for just one location. It also required us to pay an expensive service fee every time we wanted to add a new employee, make a change or move an employee within the office.”
Gulsvig, an early adopter of IP phones for personal use, began searching for a new phone system that could help Sun Apparel communicate internally, as well as with customers, suppliers and other business associates. He was intrigued by open source PBX telephony but, “without a full IT department on staff, Asterisk was too much of a risk. I wanted something that ran on Asterisk, but that had a visual interface so that I didn’t have to write any code.”
A quick Google search later and Gulsvig found Fonality. “Fonality PBXtra is based on open source, but has a great user interface and a hybrid-hosted architecture that actually makes Asterisk useable — it was the clear choice for Sun Apparel,” said Gulsvig. “Fonality had a great track record and PBXtra’s price point for its extremely deep feature set was incredible.”
Fonality’s positive reputation in the IP-PBX market wasn’t the only thing that caught Gulsvig’s attention. “Deploying a PBXtra system was so simple! Since the phones come pre-configured from Fonality, we were able to get all of our locations up and running very quickly.” He was also impressed by the fact that he could easily add new long distance plans and VoIP accounts, and set up dialing rules to define when calls should use each of them. Eliminating Inter-Office Long Distance Costs
Sun Apparel’s interdependent offices require that company managers frequently communicate about issues such as orders processed through the corporate headquarters or the amount of inventory that has been shipped to the Hawaii office. Before PBXtra, managers often wanted to quickly pick up the phone to confirm inventory or ask questions of colleagues, but avoided it because of the expensive long distance charges between the three offices. Instead, managers consulted the inventory application, which did a good job of keeping track of products and orders, but did not account for real-time changes.
That all changed when Fonality entered the picture. “With PBXtra, all calls between our offices run over our VoIP network, which has completely eliminated long distance fees between our offices. That’s a huge benefit for a company with multiple offices!” said Gulsvig. “PBxtra has also helped improve budgeting. Instead of a guessing game, our phone system is now a consistent line item every month. It makes budgeting so simple.”
Eliminating long distance fees wasn’t the only benefit specific to multi-office locations, according to Gulsvig. “PBXtra allowed us to seamlessly link together our three offices so that we operate as if we are in one physical location,” said Gulsvig. Because of PBXtra’s four-digit dialing, our managers and employees can communicate more efficiently with one another.”
Gulsvig’s overall thoughts on Fonality? “Fonality gave us 10 times the functionality of other phone systems at 10 percent of the cost. Our PBXtra system is so flexible — we can add phones, make changes or move extensions quickly and easily.”
Gulsvig is equally excited about the business results related to deploying PBXtra. “PBXtra has helped improve the relationships between our managers because it has allowed them to have constant communication and operate more fluidly. We are also able to project a more professional image to our customers and suppliers because, with PBXtra, it is so easy to upload custom messages about holiday closures, sales, etc.”
Gulsvig continues his praise of Fonality, particularly for multi-office companies. “Fonality PBXtra is a terrific product for any company that is looking for a feature rich communications system. Especially for growing businesses with multiple locations, PBXtra adds tremendous value for a minimal cost.”
LightBound, your Virtual Service provider, can combine your managed services, voice and data services to provide you with a seamless Cloud Service that is economical and provides the business continuity that all businesses require regardless of their technical expertise.
LightBound is an Indiana VoIP provider that is now offering a complete hosted VoIP service service. If you are looking for VoIP PBX Solutions and don't want to invest a lot of up front capital this is the service that you have been looking for. A hosted VoIP service is a great part of a Business Continuity solution that can help keep your business up and running in the event of business disruption at your office. The LightBound hosted voice fits directly inthe Cloud Services model that many customers are looking for today. If you have been looking at outsourcing management of services to a provider of virtualization services, replication of critical data to a off-site virtual storage or off site data backup service, why not consider moving your phone system to a provider of hosted VoIP PBX solutions like LightBound. The service starts at 5 users and will scale up to 100 users. The hosted service uses Fonality trixBox Enterprise Edition which provides an award winning user interface, HUD, to help improve productivity. See HUD for Employees or HUD for Executives for all the productivity enhancement the your business can benefit from. If your organization outgrows the hosted application and you need an on premise VoIP PBX Solutions its an easy transition to a dedicated Fonality VoIP server for your business. LightBound can simplify the operations of your business by being a single source for Internet Service Indiana
Listed below are the answers to the questions I posed in Part 5 as applicable to LightBound's Shared Storage Server (s) and Hosted Virtual Server.
1.Where is the data?
All shared storage server (s) are managed within LightBound's secure datacenters in central Indiana.
2.Who owns the data?
The customer owns the data. LightBound has no rights to in any way modify, share, disseminate, or otherwise manipulate the data without the express permission of the customer.
3.Is the data backed up?
All LightBound Storage Area Network Solutions incorporate a thorough analysis with the customer to ensure that critical data is protected through backup and replication processes, aligned with the customer’s needs.
4.Can the data be extracted?
Yes, the customer is provided the means to extract their data upon request.
5.Are the data and servers volatile?
No, servers can be inactive or restarted at any time without loss of data or virtualization services.
6.Who has access to the data and servers?
Access is restrictive to only the customer and their affiliates. Unless providing managed cloud services, LightBound does not nor have access to the customers critical data.
Are you overburdened with IT and telecom responsibilities and don't have enough time to take care of applications that give your business a competitive edge? Do you currently have to manage the PBX, firewall, conference bridge, fax server, call center, and unified message on top of all the various business applications servers? Are these services that your company sells of offers as a service to your customer base? If not you should consider going with hosted VoIP PBX Solutions and SIP service from VoIP service providers. This will allow you to free up time to concentrate on applications specific to making your business more profitable and productive. LightBound offers hosted VoIP PBX Solutions based on Fonality trixbox, which features the award winning HUD (Heads up display) that works in conjunction with your desk set to enhance productivity. By going with a hosted solution it removes the need for you to keep on top of the latest technology through upgrades and new technology acquisition. LightBound takes care of the updates plus all the moves/adds/and changes. The hosted solution also falls under a operating expense, so it provides a predictable monthly cost that CFO's like. It also avoids a large capital investment that CFO's don't like. A hosted VoIP solution also provides an instant business continuity service for your voice services. If you would like to learn more about the LightBound hosted VoIP PBX please go to www.lightbound.net and sign up for one of our upcoming webinars.
If you have a Compellent or Scale SAN and desire to replicate for business continuity or data disaster recover LightBound offers Storage as a Service to meet your needs. LightBound can be the one stop shop to accommodate as we have Indiana WAN services with multiple carriers to provide a large circuit directly from your office to our data center to provide backup needs. A large circuit is generally needed as 100 GB takes 2.2 hours to replicate your SAN. If you have a SAN with another manufacturer and would like off site data backup service you can use a backup application to a NFS or CIFS share to back up remotely. If you need to also need a server platform to recoer we also offer hosted virtual server platform that can be paired with replicated SAN or can be used to restore backup data. If you would like some more information plan on attending our lunch and learn in April or contact one of our account managers.
Private Cloud: Cloud services operated solely for one organization. These may be managed by the organization directly or by a virtual service provider and may exist off-premise or on-premise. Considerations for private cloud are while this type of service yields minimal risk, it may not provide the scalability and agility of public cloud services.
Public Cloud: Cloud services made available to the general public. Virtual storage and hosted virtual server(s) are owned by the virtual service provider. Considerations of this type of cloud services will be discussed in a my next blog, after which I will talk about hybrid cloud services.
Come hear about one of the most exciting stories in the technology industry in Indiana on February 10, 2010 @ 11:30 by attending LightBound's lunch and learn. Go to www.lightbound.net to register. Scale Computing has been recognized as one of the top 20 technology companies to watch in 2010. Scale is headquartered out of Indianapolis. LightBound is a Scale Computing partner having deployed their solution for managed storage services for use with managed servers hosting or server collocation. The Scale solution is a very cost effective solution for local storage (3 TB for $14K). LightBound managed storage services can facilitate a data disaster recovery plan through a high speed WAN connection to provide off site data back service to yield a very effective business continuity plan in event of a disaster. Come learn about what we have to offer!
LightBound offers Managed Servers Hosting as do several other Indiana Server Hosting companies. Why choose LightBound over others? See below for a few reasons:
1) LightBound has been supporting IP services since the mid-90's through their ISP service and has a fully redundant, high capacity Internet connection directly connected to the NAP, peeering with Equinix packet exchange. LightBound also has four connections to top tier Internet providers at the NAP so Internet service is going to be rock solid high speed internet in Indiana. LightBound has total control and visibility of it's Internet upstream connectivity. other providers may have several connections to ISP's. LightBound IS the ISP for managed servers hosting.
2) LightBound provides a flexible, customized server hosting rather than just a few options. You can choose bare-metal and work with your internal IT staff or IT consulting firm to provide OS, development or application platform, or LightBound can provide all these services.
3) LightBound deploys security technologies at the VM level to secure your managed server from other environments. This has been designed to satisfy compliance regulations. This provides the most cost effective model for the customer versus dedicating server blade in a chassis to each customer.
4) LightBound has Data Disaster Recover/Business Continuity service to provde computer and phone directly for your internal staff to get to managed hosting services with 32 seats ready to go and capacility for up to 60 workstations. No worrying about a third party to deliver this service.
5) LightBound has 19 telecommunication carriers with facilities in the data center. If your business has multiple branches and terminates circuits in the data center to get to the managed servers cost efficienciences can be realized by choosing from the manay carriers to get the best cost.
Are you looking for High Speed Internet in Indiana for your Server Collocation and Managed Servers Hosting? LightBound can take care of this for your business. Our Internet is not like the DSL or Cable Internet offering that you get at your home. We have a 24 x 7 x 365 data center NOC staffed around the clock.We are a top tier business Internet provider with direct links to the NAP in Chicago and Ashburn, VA with direct peering connection with Equinix packet exchange.Through this the server is one hop away from Internal networks at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and hundreds of others. We have two 2.5GB connections to the NAP, and each connection has two 1 GB upstream (for redundancy) to top Internet carriers.Our 2.5 GB connection to Chicago is also redundant with a diverse path.We have very large customers with high availability requirements so we have architected this network for premium service.That being said our pricing is not the cheapest, but we deliver the best value for your business, especially is your rely on High Speed Internet in Indiana.
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