Servers

A Pathway to Software-as-a-Service

The benefits of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) are very appealing to both service providers and consumers. Code management and support are easier. Services can be instantly subscribed to as and when required, with no need for more on-premises servers to be installed.

C Infinity Launches New Private Cloud Platform

We are proud to announce that we have successfully upgraded our virtualisation and management platform that are key components to our Private Cloud dedicated server hosting service.

We run an Infrastructure-as-a-Service based in an Irish owned and located data centre, the number two data centre in Europe. This provides solution developers and organisations to build a Software-as-a-Service solution on an existing private cloud infrastructure in Ireland that is secure, fault tolerant and extremely reliable. read more

Part 2: The C Infinity Private Cloud VS the Rest

In the first post in this article we looked at how you could get high levels of hardware fault tolerance with a “statefull” application such as a database and how it was very expensive. In this post we will look at how the C Infinity private cloud can get the same results at a fraction of the cost and with greater functionality.

Part 1: The C Infinity Private Cloud VS the Rest

I don’t blame anyone for being confused about the server hosting options that are out there. It makes picking a mobile phone billing plan or reading a constitutional amendment look easy. I thought I’d take a few minutes to explain what some of the options are in the market and compare them with the C Infinity private cloud.

74% of IT Workers Should Look To the Cloud

ZDNet published results from a survey that showed 74% of IT workers are using at least 3 machines to do their day-to-day jobs. What’s really scary is that this doesn’t include servers that they are working on or PC’s that they are fixing. What’s going on is that testers need multiple test environments for various scenarios, developers need custom work environments and IT pro’s need to work in isolated environments or be able to manage many operating systems. This needs have evolved over time and the infrastructure required has grown organically until it gets to the point that there’s a huge environment that resides outside of the normal management systems.

Managed Server Hosting Availability Reports

We’ve been talking a lot about SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) in the hosting industry at work lately. As a hosting company, like any other company, you’re dependant on many things:

Power and Cooling: Our data centre provides and lives up to their 100% SLA with a dedicated substation and dual diesel generators. No outages since 2001 is a nice way to live up to a promise!
Internet connectivity: Again, we’re looking at a 100% SLA from our suppliers. That’s an enviable position; something you don’t get with a DSL or ordinary leased line. We monitor that closely and there’s been no outages yet.
Server Uptime: This one completely depends on manufacturer reliability, clustering, etc.

Coming Soon: Windows Server 2008 R2

The next version of Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 will be available soon as a platform in our managed server hosting offering. It is believed Microsoft will release it to manufacturing (RTM) it on July 13^th. Soon after that the hardware OEM’s will get it to develop their new products. The new server operating system will then generally available on October 22^nd. Thanks to C Infinity’s leading edge deployment solution and our involvement with new products, it will be available to our customers immediately after its release to the public.

New Managed Monitoring Services Launched

We have launched our new managed monitoring services that can help make you aware of every performance and fault issue in your IT infrastructure.

As a service provider we know how important it is to monitor every critical service within an infrastructure. It’s important to achieve the best possible uptime & availability not only for customers but also for employees who rely on internal IT systems.
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Microsoft Fix Internet Explorer Vulnerability

You may have heard or read about the new critical vulnerability that was found in Internet Explorer. We will be rapidly approving this fix after it is released tonight. We don’t believe it will affect any of our services however we feel it is prudent to approve this fix for automated deployment.