Capital Internet in Atlanta to Offer DR Services With Colocation Facility

Capital
Internet in Atlanta, GA announces DR services to restore servers and data
infrastructure online as quickly as possible.

Companies hit hard by recent
weather-related catastrophes are reevaluating the location of their critical
data and servers.

Businesses rely on their information
systems to run their operations. If a data management system goes down due to
flooding, fire or lengthy power outages from storms, blizzards, hurricanes,
earthquakes, or other catastrophes, a company’s operations could be severely
impaired or shut down completely.

It is critical to implement a reliable
infrastructure for IT operations to minimize business disruption in the event
of a disaster. This might mean moving existing servers to a data center in a
geographic location that is less susceptible to natural disasters. A company
might also look to outsource data needs if capital is limited and skyrocketing
energy costs prohibit in-house data center expansion. Utilizing dedicated
servers and virtual private servers (or cloud servers), a data center will
provide and set up servers built to your exact specifications and lease them to
the company.

Advantages of utilizing a data center, in
addition to risk mitigation from natural disasters, also include lower costs
and better performance than operating an in-house network. DR services are
available to get servers and data infrastructure back online as quickly as
possible.

Hurricane Sandy, a 900-mile-wide superstorm
left a devastating path of damage spanning 15 states with sustained
hurricane-force winds of 80 mph and 13-foot flood tides, according to the
National Hurricane Center.

An estimated 7.5 million people on the
eastern seaboard lost power, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate as
coastal towns were ravaged, transportation disrupted, tons of snow dumped by
fierce storms, flooding rains, gale-force winds and fires destroyed homes and
claimed over 100 lives. Thousands of homes and businesses are still without
power.

The price of the damage from Sandy is epic:
between $30 billion and $50 billion, according to EQECAT, a firm that provides
catastrophe risk models for insurance and reinsurance industries.
Unfortunately, the damage and disruption may not be over. With more inclement
weather expected to hit the same region this week, attention is now focused on
a new developing Nor’easter off the Southeast coast affecting the Northeast
I-95 corridor, from the Poconos to the Catskills and New England.

Planning of your company’s IT hardware
and data management operations in the event of a natural disaster can be the
difference between your business completely shutting down or remaining active
in times of a catastrophe like Sandy.

What is a Data Center: A colocation
facility, which is also known as a data center, is a facility that provides a
safe and secure environment for a company’s servers and other computing
equipment. The colocation center or data center is equipped with clean,
reliable and redundant power and cooling for the equipment.

Data centers often operate more
cost-effectively because they serve multiple clients by housing servers from
many companies and investing in more energy efficient hardware and technologies
to keep equipment running 24/7.

One such company, Capital Internet, located
in Atlanta, Georgia is the longest continuously operating data center in Metro
Atlanta and has expanded to more than ten times their original data size since
the company was founded more than 14 years ago. Unlike other data centers, it owns and manages their own fiber optic network throughout the
metro Atlanta area, providing better speeds.

Capital Internet now offers DR services to
enable companies to get their hardware and data up and running after a
catastrophe strikes.

DR services backing up and protecting your
data is important, but it’s also important to be able to recover that data for your BC in the event of a natural disaster. Capital
Internet provides clients with an off-site backup and a location with space to
get IT systems backup and working in a minimum of time. Its backup
and recovery solution is easy to use and robust, and includes IT consulting work to help get servers and data
infrastructure back online as quickly as possible.

Ease of use with cloud backup and recovery solution,
you can reduce the amount of time it takes to recover lost data because it
requires minimal user intervention, making it reliable. You no
longer have to worry about sick days or forgotten backups.

Affordable with Capital Internet’s cloud backup
and recovery solution, a company can pay as it grows. You only pay for the
amount of data you need to protect in a month, however when you have more data
to backup, your solution will grow with you. With cloud backup and recovery,
there are none of the fixed costs that you encounter with traditional backup
solutions; the only factor that you need to consider is the amount of data you
are going to backup.

Your data is encrypted from the point it leaves your systems, during data
transfer and data storage, for speed and efficiency, saving bandwidth.
Capital Internet offers a secure environment in three locations in the country
that minimizes any type of security breach and maintains standards for
assuring the integrity and functionality of hosted computer environment,
accomplished through redundancy of both fiber optic cables and power, which
includes emergency backup power generation. The on-site generator has not yet
been needed but is kept maintained, and the uptime is 99.9%.

Capital Internet’s colocation
solutions are customized to give from a single server to a
full rack or multiple racks and bandwidth from 1 Mbps to 100Mbps and beyond.
All colocation solutions include at least a 100Mbps uplink with burstable
bandwidth, so you have that speed for your busier server times without
having to commit to a higher rate.

Capital Internet offers three different
types of colocation: traditional colocation, managed colocation, and hybrid
colocation.

Traditional colocation is the most common platform; your servers
are placed in our data center and managed by you and your team.

With managed
colocation, your servers are hosted in our data center and we manage them for
you, acting as part of your IT team.

With hybrid colocation, we help you
develop a solution that is right for your company and may include multiple
types of colocation, as well as dedicated servers and cloud servers.

Colocation offers a number of advantages in
time and cost savings. As your business grows, you can add more space as you
need it, instead of investing in additional capital expenditures. You also save
the time, trouble, and expense of hiring your own staff to operate and maintain
your system. Capital Internet delivers lower cost and better performance than
operating your network in-house. If you have a need to upgrade and your system
is in-house, you will incur additional cost, either by training employees or by
bringing-in outside consultants to help.

Dedicated Servers: Dedicated servers are
built to your specifications by Capital Internet and leased on a
12-month basis. Each dedicated server is used exclusively by you. A dedicated
server solution provides you with a dedicated IP address and full control of
the server, including root level access. Dedicated servers let you defray the
initial costs of new servers. They come with the level of managed
hosting that works for you, with a team providing maintenance and upgrades as
needed.

Cloud Servers: Cloud servers can be used for
everything from web hosting and email hosting to software development. They can
be set up quickly (usually within hours) and customized as your needs change,
so you don’t have to wait for equipment to be purchased or moved. Cloud servers
can be used as standalone servers or as part of your hybrid colocation
solution. Besides the ability to change the specifications of your cloud
server, there is also the flexibility to choose whatever OS and
software your solution requires. For flexibility, cloud servers
come with burstable bandwidth, which means you have all of the speed you need
for high demand times, without having to commit to higher levels of bandwidth.
You maintain control over your server at all times with a
web control panel, and if you need assistance, our expert support
team is here to help.

At Capital Internet, cloud servers offer the solution for scalable hosting. Due to the ability of cloud
servers to be ‘turned up’ and have their power increased, they are for
situations that require on-demand capacity as well as for BC and DR solutions.