Infinitely Virtual Establishes All-Flash Data Center in Phoenix AZ

Infinitely Virtual has built a fast, secure, data center in Phoenix, AZ, architected around its new Juniper and AMD platforms implementing IV’s E.V.E. strategy and featuring all-flash tiers 1-3.

The Phoenix Data Center is scheduled to come online in September.

At the core of the Phoenix DC is E.V.E. 3.3, IV’s proprietary Enterprise Virtualization Environment, along with support for IV’s four-tier storage model from day one. Tiers 1-3 will implement an AFA system; tier-4 will remain on spinning disk. Tiers are separated by speed, tier-1 being fast (Higher IO/s) and tier-4 for archive storage.

“The Phoenix Data Center is a testament to IV’s growth, dynamism and customer focus,” said Adam Stern, CEO and founder. “As we have in Boston, MA, we’re adding value to our infrastructure and future-proofing our customers’ investment. The Phoenix Data Center upgrades our capabilities significantly, in areas that range from performance to storage capacity to security and more. While our roots are in Southern California, we’ve been fortunate to experience sustained growth and to gain a truly global footprint. We regard expanding to Phoenix as a vote of confidence in our model of meeting the hosting and infrastructure needs of small and midsize businesses.“

First rolled out in 2021, E.V.E. 3.3, IV’s ambitious infrastructure upgrade, is built in part around AMD Infinity Guard, a modern, multi-faceted approach to data center security.  AMD Infinity Guard delivers a set of modern security features that help decrease potential attack surfaces as software is booted, executed, and processes critical data. With its ZEN architecture, AMD processors are designed to be highly resistant to today’s sophisticated attacks, helping protect sensitive data, avoid downtime, and reduce resource drain.

“E.V.E. is a conceptual model that now ties security-as-a-process to the industry’s foremost hardware platform,” Stern said.

E.V.E. was designed with several goals in mind

• 100 % customer uptime
• Near-physical server performance
• Data protection
• Support for high value custom services
• Industry cost leadership
• Industry environmental leadership

E.V.E. consists of 3 major layers, each made up of four sub-layers. Each layer and sub-layer represents a basic building block of the environment. The major layers, from the bottom up, include the physical layer, the network, server and storage layer and the virtualization layer.