Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC)
Extreme availability, flexible cost models and highly scalable infrastructure
All Adapt on-demand and cloud services are built on our proprietary enterprise virtual data centre (eVDC), a production grade virtual server and storage platform that delivers both high performance and resilience without compromise.
Harnessing Adapt’s comprehensive portfolio of best-of-breed data centres and technology partnerships, the eVDC offers bespoke virtual colocation and managed services that scale perfectly with business requirements, giving organisations of all shapes and sizes access to high performance with dual site synchronous data replication and near-continuous availability.
The unified virtual platform is delivered from two physically distant data centre sites functioning as one logical entity: a state of the art Tier III data centre in London Docklands and a List X facility outside the M25, over 70 km away.
The eVDC meets all requirements for production and disaster recovery in a single service, utilising Adapt’s underlying infrastructure of high performing resilient interconnections and physical data centre space.
In addition, the eVDC delivers fibre channel presented, synchronously replicated Storage as a Service for customers with physical servers colocated in Adapt data centres.
Budget management
Built on a highly flexible 'pay as you grow' model, Adapt’s eVDC gives businesses of any size access to the benefits of virtualisation without upfront capital investment. With overstretched budgets and increasing reliance on IT services, organisations are always looking for ways to control costs and accurately predict and meet demand.
Adapt’s flexible OPEX-based cost models reflect utilisation, ensuring that you only pay for what you use and matching spend with evolving business needs.
Scalable infrastructure
In addition to flexible payment models, access to flexible infrastructure allows organisations to meet rapid growth and peaks in demand for services. The eVDC provides proximity to customers who have colocated physical infrastructure in Adapt data centres, functioning as an extension of the physical estate that can be easily scaled up and down as required with minimal impact on operations.
Disaster recovery
As organisations become increasingly dependent upon IT to deliver both internal and external services effectively, the complete loss of a data centre site can be disastrous.
Adapt can migrate operational virtual servers instantaneously between the two physical data centre facilities with no loss of service. This seamless integration meets many customers’ disaster recovery requirements automatically, negating the need to purchase additional DR infrastructure and associated support and licensing costs.
IT security and compliance
Adapt provides dedicated underlying physical hardware within the eVDC platform for customers who require greater security or isolation of their data for compliance or performance reasons.
eVDC customers can also be assured that data will remain in national data centres and will never be moved offshore, with support and management delivered by a UK based, dual site Service Operations Centre.
Data can be further isolated by provisioning virtual storage instances as well as dedicated physical spindles.
Unparalled customisation
Adapt’s unified virtual platform offers incredible scalability, very high performance and the capability to provision virtual servers with exceptionally granular levels of customisation.
Rather than choosing a micro, small or large option, Adapt’s eVDC allows you to control every parameter, ensuring that the service is precisely tuned to your requirements at all times, monitored and managed 24/7.
Virtual servers can be provisioned with a huge range of variable elements, including the number of virtual CPU, RAM, disk and network adapters. It is also possible to specify options for dual site Internet breakout, high availability firewalling, intrusion prevention and load balancing as well as additional security elements for PCI-DSS and other regulatory requirements.
In addition to the technical capability of the highly resilient infrastructure, Adapt has also built a service layer that delivers fully customisable management and monitoring down to the individual component.
Adapt develops a unique monitoring and response matrix for each eVDC customer, tailoring alerting thresholds and escalation to each defined service. The underlying eVDC infrastructure and customers’ virtual servers are managed by Adapt up to the operating system layer - applications, backups and batch processes can also be monitored and managed on request.
Key features
- High performance, high availability virtual servers
- High performance replicated Storage as a Service
- Dual site underlying infrastructure presented as one logical entity
- Continued service in the event of the complete loss of a data centre
- Data centres are located to satisfy compliance and DR requirements
- Full customisation of virtual server specification
- Full monitoring and management of virtual servers
- 24/7 SOC and transparent service management via Adapt’s proprietary portal
- All data is retained within the UK
- Hybrid solutions combining eVDC with physical data centre space and network services delivered through a single provider
Benefits
- Scales to meet both the smallest and largest compute and storage requirements
- Eliminates the need for DR; no additional licensing required
- Works with any VMware supported application
- Rapid deployment with individualised service delivery
- Tailored 24/7 management and monitoring
- Affordable enterprise-grade availability and performance
- Connect your physical, legacy infrastructure directly to your cloud platform, moving workloads between your private cloud and fully locked down, dedicated physical environments
