Find the top vendors for your colocation, cloud hosting, desktop as a service, disaster recovery or hyperscale managed services needs.
CloudSquad has a database of the leading colocation data centers across the country, the top traditional cloud hosters, and companies that provide managed services on top of the major hyperscale clouds. Once you share your requirements with us, we can identify for you a shortlist of potential vendors that are likely to be the best matches for your project. From there you will interview them, and select the vendor that you are most comfortable with. We have done the research, so you can hone in on the best fits without having to do an exhaustive search yourself.
Colocation
A colocation center (also spelled co-location, or colo) or “carrier hotel,” is a data center facility in which a business can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. Many colocation providers sell to a wide range of customers, ranging from large enterprises to small companies. Typically, a colo provides the building, cooling, power, bandwidth, and physical security while the customer provides servers and storage. Customers retain control over the design and usage of their equipment, but daily management of the data center and facility is overseen by the multi-tenant colocation provider.
Cloud Hosting
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the internet. IaaS quickly scales up and down with demand, letting you pay only for what you use. It helps you avoid the capital expense and complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers and other data center infrastructure. Each resource is offered as a separate service component, and you only need to rent a particular one for as long as you need it. In addition to virtual servers, some vendors also offer physical servers as options within their IaaS. This is often needed for applications and databases that are more resource-intensive or legacy applications that do not run well on virtual servers.
Hyperscale Managed Services
The major Hyperscale IaaS Clouds are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. These Clouds are do-it-yourself affairs, which can be difficult for businesses that do not have a large IT staff or who prefer to hire developers on staff instead of systems administrators. There are companies that specialize in offering Cloud Assessments, Cloud Migrations, and on-going Managed Services for organizations that want to move their data to a hyperscale cloud but do not have the resources on-staff to do so.
Desktop as a Service
A cloud desktop is a cloud computing solution that lets you access your desktop, files, and business apps in the cloud. It allows you to work on any device from anywhere, as long as you have internet connectivity.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery is the restoration of systems to a given point in time when the systems were functioning within an acceptable loss of data or functionality Company policies dictate the specific aspects of the recovery process such as system priorities, maximum thresholds of loss, and maximum time to operational readiness.
Disaster Recovery includes both business processes and technology. Technology recovery can occur at different levels: applications, systems, and data.
Applications can be restored on server systems for access through local or virtual infrastructures. Applications can also stream core application code from a centralized system with the presentation of the application on the guest device. Local resources such as printers, drives, and other network resources are available to the guest device. In either case, applications can be reinstated individually or as part of a whole system restoration.
Systems, which can include various server types, can be restored through use of backups taken prior to the outage.
Finally, the data is the information that either the applications or systems access. It too can be restored from backup at a point in time before the outage.
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