American Internet Services Expands Enterprise HA Solutions

American Internet Services, Inc. (AIS), provider of enterprise data center, cloud and connectivity services in the western United States, has expanded its family of Enterprise High Availability (e-HA) solutions.

        AIS e-HA 2.0 consists of Local HA, Global HA,
     Local HA Bundle, Global HA Bundle and Total HA.


An addition to the AIS portfolio of Enterprise Managed Services (EMS), AIS e-HA 2.0 provides Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity through the use of enterprise infrastructure and by leveraging the company's redundant, geographically diverse data centers.

e-HA 2.0 consists of two basic services and several bundled services that utilize F5 global and local traffic managers for monitoring the state of the target servers and the location of the requesting client, and then directing traffic accordingly.

"Companies need the assurance of uptime along with the ability to fulfill their Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity requirements," said Tim Caulfield, chief executive officer at AIS. "What we've done with AIS e-HA 2.0 is expanded the offering to provide companies with a number of options that are scalable while removing the need for a huge CAPEX investment and the burden of management by their in-house IT team."

Highlights of e-HA 2.0:
The basic components of e-HA services include:

• Local and global load balancing technology
• High-performance private network between data centers
• Expert engineering and support staff
• Extensive transit and peering network
• Monitored and managed service

AIS e-HA 2.0 consists of Local HA, Global HA, Local HA Bundle, Global HA Bundle and Total HA.

AIS Local HA provides server-level load balancing and failure detection, custom service monitoring through the use of hardware from F5 Networks.

It is operated from two geographically diverse data centers (AIS San Diego and AIS Phoenix). It provides DNS-level load balancing and failure detection through the use of hardware from F5 Networks.

It combines AIS Local HA and AIS Global HA services into an integrated hardware solution designed for quick recovery and business continuity. It leverages the AIS private optical network that runs between the San Diego and Phoenix data centers - providing high-performance, secure connectivity that enables real-time data replication and service delivery from multiple points on the Internet.

Monitoring is provided by the AIS Operation and Control Center (OCC), which is manned 24x7x365, ensuring that a team of skilled professionals is available to provide personalized support and to troubleshoot/fix any technical issues that are encountered. The AIS commitment to using a people based approach is a key differentiator.

Pricing consists of a setup fee and a monthly service fee.