Softline: Virtual Data Center

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• Data-processing center (data center)
• What is it IaaS

Virtual Data Center - IaaS service. Provides cloud infrastructure for self-management of processing and storage resources, network, and other computing resources based on the IaaS model.

2020: Confirmation of availability of cloud services at 99.982%

On November 6, 2020, it became known that the international certification company Uptime Institute once again confirmed the compliance of data centers based on which the Softline cloud is deployed with Tier 3 standard. A comprehensive audit showed that the availability of data centers is 99.982%, so the time of forced equipment outage will not exceed 1 hour 35 minutes per year.

Softline: Virtual Data Center. Photo: slideshare.net.

As explained, the company accompanies each project with a service level agreement - SLA. The maximum time of possible inaccessibility of the data center infrastructure does not exceed 1 hour 35 minutes per year, which corresponds to 99.982%. In addition, Softline provides financial guarantees for compliance with all SLA provisions.

The wide possibilities of SLA are due to the industry expertise of Softline. As of November 2020, the Softline cloud can provide proper performance. The solution is based on a certified platform, which FlexPod is based server on network equipment Cisco,,,,. Dell HP systems of storage NetApp software VMware Cloud suitable for hosting servers and, applications databases creating test environments and development zones, simplifying distributed infrastructure management systems and implementing -projects Internet.

Softline cloud is deployed on the basis of Tier 3 data centers. Among them are the data centers of Ixcellerate Moscow One and DataLine. In addition to the redundancy of critical units, the Tier 3 standard assumes the possibility of maintenance and repair without stopping the process equipment. According to the results of the audit conducted by the international company Uptime Institute, as of November 2020, all data centers where Softline places hardware resources confirmed compliance with Tier 3 level with an availability indicator of 99.982%. Softline uses these values ​ ​ when generating SLAs. As part of this agreement, to respond quickly to all customer requests, the company has formed a staff of qualified specialists for each software and hardware.

Softline can provide a geo-distributed cloud that is deployed on the basis of two data centers in Moscow and four more data centers dispersed by region. In this case, the IT infrastructure is mirrored on two sites at once. If one data center fails, the infrastructure will continue to operate in another without changes. With this approach, the SLA level can reach 99.99999%.

Geo-distributed cloud is optimal for companies specializing in Internet trading, the development of streaming services, the provision of communication services, and so on. For example, to organize the uninterrupted operation of a number of systems, the Sim Telecom mobile operator had to implement Active-Active replication, which requires two data centers. The task of the second data center was to ensure the fault tolerance of those business processes that need not an Active-Active cluster, but a switch to a backup site within 30 minutes. To solve the problem, Sim Telecom turned to Softline for help. Thanks to the help of the company's experts, the customer acquired capacity in two data centers at once, thus organizing a stretched cluster.

2017: Based on IXcellerate Moscow One

IXcellerate Moscow One and Softline have been partnering since 2014. During this time, Softline increased the customer pool and replenished the line of cloud services that were provided by the high level of SLA execution by IXcellerate Moscow One. The doubling of the resources of the Softline cloud platform and the active development of the provision of equipment and dedicated servers for rent have led to an increase in the sphere of cooperation between companies. Softline signed a long-term partnership agreement in the summer of 2017 with IXcellerate Moscow One, creating a physically dedicated area inside the IXcellerate data center to provide cloud services, as well as Colocation and Dedicated services.

This format of cooperation allowed Softline to get at full disposal part of the space in the data center for its own projects. Customers can now use the dedicated space to host their own equipment or install leased servers, which can be provided as soon as possible.

2016: Capabilities and features of the Virtual Data Center service

The "Virtual Data Center" service from Softline provides customers with the following services:

• Select virtualization systems (VMware vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V)
• different virtual machine parameters (number of virtual CPU processors, RAM and HDD disk space, OS type, security profile),
• Resource Consumption Limits
• other settings.

Softline Data Center, (2014)

Any server versions of Windows, various distributions of the Linux family can be used as operating systems. Virtual environment IT administrators can configure server networking, traffic filtering, and backup business-critical data.

Features

• Quick deployment of the service;
• Easy to maintain IT infrastructure
• Lower IT infrastructure costs
• Rapid capacity increase (change of VM quantity or expansion of resource pool) included in the service upon request;
• Access to the service from any point of the network where there is access; Internet
• 24-hour technical support;
• High reliability and availability of services;
• High level of security of information resources available in the data center.