Virtual Hosting at Datanet

Datanet’s world class VMware cloud and VMware hosted virtual servers.

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Helping Your Business

In the five years ITM have used Datanet for its co-location services, I have found them to be a pleasure to work with and a very good extension of my IT teams.
Mike Angelides
I.T. Manager

Choosing Datanet: Your local data centre experts. Colocation in Tier 3+ data centre with easy access to London.

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Datanet’s Unique Cloud Solutions

Take advantage of Datanet’s world class VMware cloud and VMware hosted virtual servers.

Not sure what you need?

From the longest serving hosting & VMware provider in the UK – let us help you decide which VMware solution best suits your business.

Datanet’s Virtual Machines Platform Benefits Package Options

VMware Hosting at Datanet

Datanet’s Cloud solutions are based on VMware’s industry leading technology and optionally include a Windows or Linux operating system.

Some key benefits include:

Reduce hardware costs while ensuring your critical applications remain available and responsive
Guaranteed connectivity with 10Gbps connections to the Internet via redundant links
Delivered from our highly secure, sustainable, London Edge data centre in Farnborough
Consolidate IT infrastructure, save power and remove capital investment

Datanet’s Virtual Machines

All of our Virtual Machines benefit from:

High availability, automatic failover

Scalability: Processor cores, speed (GHz), RAM (GB) and disk space (GB)

Burst capability: to handle peak requirements

Advanced business continuity available at a lower cost

Energy and cost efficient

Pay only for the computing capacity you require

Data centre VMware hosting infrastructure managed by Datanet

Based on multi-node clusters using the market leading VMware hypervisor with vSAN SSD high performance storage architecture

Service delivered from our Ark Farnborough data centre – 15 minutes outside the M25

Power efficient and eco-friendly data centre

ISO 27001 certified

Multi-site solutions

Talk to us about multi-site solutions.

Platform benefits

Datanet Enterprise Cloud Platform built on VMware.

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Delivered from our Secure Sustainable and Resilient platform:

Resilient Power, Cooling and Network
Delivered from our highly secure, sustainable, London Edge data centre in Farnborough
High Availability with automatic failover as standard – all servers, switches and routers used in our Enterprise Cloud Platform are dual PSU and include multiple network connections for resilience
High performance networking – the virtualisation hosts are linked with multiple 10Gb connections to our core network ensuring great connectivity and network performance for your applications
Monitored and managed by our UK Support team

Anti-DDoS protection within our core network
Internet Firewalls as standard provided using VMware NSX
Enhanced security options available
Generous traffic allowances
IPSEC VPN tunnels supported as standard
Custom network topologies to accommodate private VLANs, DMZs and point to point connections
Public Cloud connectivity to AWS, Azure and GCP
Friendly helpful support

Offsite backups as standard – daily backups with 30 days retention using Veeam Backup & Recovery to our remote data centre provides peace of mind
Additional backup options allow for longer retention, increased frequency and additional backup locations
Replication options allow your most critical data assets to be protected within seconds
Talk to us about multi-site solutions for the mission critical services that can never go down

Our high performance storage supports over 150,000 IOPS using VMware vSAN and our Enterprise NVME SSD Storage
Capacity tier storage available for lager storage volumes at a reduced cost with lower performance requirements

Operating System and Application Licensing taken care of:

We provide your Microsoft Windows Server via our Service provider licensing
Other applications can be licensed with easy to manage monthly licensing

Flexible customisation

Talk to us about additional options including:

Dedicated Fortinet Fortigate UTP firewalls
Multiple fibre based connectivity options
Private circuit access
Public Cloud Connectivity
Direct connections to your Ultra 1/3rd rack or Ultra Full rack containing your own hardware

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Server Package Options

1. Hosted Virtual Machines

Hosted virtual server machines deliver better availability than dedicated servers because they can provide high availability (HA) by migrating from one host server to another with no down-time.

Virtual Machine sized to your requirements on our fully managed platform
No egress traffic charges
30 days of offsite backups
Available individually or grouped as a project

2. Managed Private Cloud Platforms

A private platform monitored and managed by Datanet’s experienced engineers includes all the benefits for our shared platform but with added benefits:

Dedicated hardware to meet your exact specifications
Options for specialist hardware
Greater flexibility and licensing/compliance options
Shared management model if required
Can tie in with your existing DR or management solutions
Cost advantages for some requirements

3. Dedicated Virtualisation clusters

Many organisations are happy managing their own VMware or Hyper-V platforms but don’t have a suitable location for the hardware. Take advantage of the facilities provided by the Ark Data Centre including:

Resilient Power, Cooling and Network
Delivered from our highly secure, sustainable, London Edge data centre in Farnborough
High capacity network with all the major provides on campus
Ideal for Hybrid Cloud deployments with connectivity available including Azure Express Route, AWS Direct Connect and other Public Cloud providers

With the added benefits of:

Datanet will take care of the hardware and network requirements whilst you have all the flexibility of your own Virtualization Platform
Dedicated hardware to meet your exact specifications
Options for specialist hardware
Datanet’s engineers look after the complexities of hardware maintenance including component replacement, upgrades, etc.
Perfect for global organisations who have a remote IT team

We can help you with what you business needs

4. Colo or VM? Have both!

Do you have a requirement for Virtual Machines alongside your existing or specialist hardware but don’t have the compute capacity or skills to manage VMware?

Utilise our VM platform alongside a dedicated 1/3rd rack or Ultra Rack but have the advantage of dedicated 1Gbps or 10Gbps network links directly to our VMware platform
Reduce your capital outlay
Use our VMware platform to provide HA or additional capacity as required
Benefit from our high Performance vSAN storage

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Datanet – Helping Your Business

Datanet is the London Edge Sustainable Data Centre for your rack, colocation and hosting requirements. We blend everything you need into a simple affordable All-In-One package with our large 47U cabinets, diverse power feeds and dual redundant 1Gbps or 10Gbps Internet connections as standard.

Find out more about how Datanet can help your business. We’re here to help.

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To find out more about your hosting options and how Datanet can help, call us today or send an enquiry. We’re here to help.

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