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3W Infra: Bring-Your-Own-Drive Dedicated Servers

Package, deployed in data center in Amsterdam, CPUs, RAM, and network bandwidth but without pre-installed HDDs

3W Infra BV, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider operating from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with customers around the globe and more than 4,600 dedicated servers under management, announces the introduction of ‘bring-your-own-drive’ dedicated servers aimed at reseller hosting use cases.

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As company’s customer poll revealed that quite some clients globally want to have flexibility with regards to their storage infrastructure, these dedicated servers are delivered without pre-installed HDD drives.

The company focused on delivering custom-engineered hosting services around the world. With its data center presence in Amsterdam as well as ‘Remote Hands and Relocation Engineering’ services being delivered at the world’s main Internet hubs in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Germany, and London, UK, the firm provides its custom engineered IaaS hosting solutions to customers worldwide.

After interviewing several customers around the globe including companies from Taiwan, Hong Kong, France and India, the company learned that its ‘reseller hosting’-focused dedicated server offering could use a flexibility-boost. This has resulted in launching this ‘bring-your-own-drive’ dedicated server package. The server is a full-featured package, deployed in the company’s data center in Amsterdam. It will be delivered including CPUs, RAM, and network bandwidth but without pre-installed HDD drives.

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3W Infra DEDICADED Servers

Storage for virtualization
Storage plays an increasingly central role in the business model of cloud service providers and other virtualization-focused companies operating within the hosting industry,” said Murat Bayhan, founder and CEO, 3W Infra. “For companies that are reselling our IaaS hosting services it means that HDD drives including high-capacity SSDs have become a distinctive feature of their market offerings. It also means that significant parts of their margins may come from storage equipment if they invest in it themselves. The ‘bring-your-own-drive’ dedicated server package launched today will offer our reseller hosting partners the opportunity to enhance their margins.

The firm’s ‘bring-your-own-driv’ dedicated server package comes with he latest CPU and RAM technology and flexible month-to-month contracts. Users can send their own HDD drives to the firm’s data center in Amsterdam, after which the company’s engineers will integrate these HDDs into the dedicated servers. It will also be possible for users to let the firm purchase the HDDs for them so they’ll be able to profit from the company’s own supplier agreements. The firm will then keep ownership of the server and network equipment, while the ownership of these HDDs will be transferred to the reseller hosting customers. In case of ending the dedicated server commitment before end-of-life of the storage equipment, the HDDs will be unscrewed and returned to the respective owners.

The storage investments for virtualized platforms are on the rise for many of our reseller hosting customers,” added Bayhan. “This might be a burden for some of them, but many obviously see it as an opportunity to greatly increase their profits. Catering to the specific storage infrastructure and margin-enhancing needs of these reseller hosting clients, we are now offering these new dedicated server packages. The ROI for a HDD drive is relatively short, so these customers will be able to add good profit to their revenues very quickly.

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3W Infra Network

The ‘bring-your-own-drive’ dedicated servers will have access to the company’s proprietary global network with a capacity of currently 160Gb/s. The high-bandwidth network with global reach provides the firm’s dedicated server clients with redundant, low-latency network paths via Internet exchanges and tier-1 backbone providers.

 

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