The concentration of resources such as fiber, electricity, cooling, power distribution and backup in the data center yields significant efficiency gains and results in lower build-out and operational costs than maintaining an equivalent number of smaller computer rooms or data centers. Moreover, the personnel, processes and systems required to maintain large numbers of servers and networking gear, yield additional significant gains in efficiency when centralized, resulting in further cost savings.

Due to these factors, many Information Technology departments are choosing to outsource their infrastructure to specialists in order to concentrate their technology resources and staff on core business functions. For example, rather than an independent software vendor (ISV) hiring network engineers with skills necessary to maintain an enterprise level data center, the same company could instead leverage that same investment in additional software development resources yielding competitive advantages with improved products and unique features.

HostVentures Managed Infrastructure Services

HostVentures services provide the following functions to aid enterprises in their technology operations:

Assistance and procurement of data center resources

• Guidance in selection of co-location facilities
• Ensure proper sizing and configuration
• Advice on configurations of power, servers, networking

Full implementation of custom infrastructure

• Procurement and setup of racks/cabinets, power distribution
• Racking and installation of hardware
• Cabling and Cable Management
• Networking gear such as routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers
• Servers and Storage, e.g. rack mounted servers, blade systems, SAN's and Direct Attach Storage

Monitoring and Alerts

• 24/7/365 Customizable monitoring of servers and network gear
• Ability to monitor from multiple distinct points of presence
• Checks include network, disk space, cpu, io, application level, databases, and more...
• Automatic alerts and response
• Strong Service Level Agreements (SLA)

System Patching and Upgrades

• Support for all major operating systems and network appliances
• Operating system patches and service packs
• Firmware updates