Cloud Computing

Virtual Servers

ANLX Virtual Servers offer all the advantages of dedicated servers at a much lower cost due to the fact you share some resources, like CPU, on much larger clusters of servers. With a Virtual Server, just like a physical server, you have full root access and are able to install whichever software you like on to your system.

All our Virtual Servers also benefit from the fact they are hosted on a redundant cluster of servers using high-end, fault-tolerant, SANs. Servers are deployed in an N+1 Active / Active configuration and SANs have built in redundancy. Should any server node need to be taken out of service or fail your virtual machine will simply be migrated to another node within the cluster and just keep on running.

SAN Storage is provided using distributed redundant arrays on HP 3PAR StoreServ systems. HP 3PAR StoreServ’s mesh active controller architecture enables ANLX to deliver a “higher” form of HA.

Our VM Platform is built using HP Hardware, with Cisco & Juniper for switching & routing and is hosted within our suites in Telehouse North, Telehouse East, Telehouse West, Telehouse Metro & Equinix LD3 which are all linked by our own resilient 10Gbps network.

ANLX can deliver Virtual Servers from our XEN, VMware or Microsoft Azure platforms, with Windows or Linux operating systems. Our standard products run on a shared platform, with a guarantee that the CPU’s, RAM & HD space that you order is 100% available as there is no back-end contention on our platform. We can also quote for private hardware / platforms if that is a requirement, as well as any specific backup or management requirements.

For extra peace of mind, ANLX can backup of your Virtual Servers to a secondary location to a schedule that suits your needs.

Commitment to Quality & Information Security ANLX is working towards achieving ISO 9001 Quality Standard & ISO 27001 Information Security Standard certification and has adopted all the working practices required and recommended by the ISO standards.

ANLX Virtual Servers deliver:

• Speed to value: frees staff to focus on value creation thanks to immediately available, reliable and scalable infrastructure
• Business agility: matches your business needs through infrastructure resources and costs that scale up and down as required
• Cost reduction: eliminates CapEx and reduces like-for-like OpEx
• Reliability, privacy and governance: guarantees highly available, resilient and redundant infrastructure with variable service levels to suit your business
• Greener IT: reduces over-provisioning of server estates and the accompanying surplus energy consumption and carbon emissions