CloudServer by ActiveCloud (Softline)

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CloudServer is a service for renting computing power to create your own infrastructure in the cloud. The customer has the required performance servers and flexible infrastructure management capabilities.

2022

CommuniGate Pro as a Service Availability in ActiveCloud and ActivePartner

Cloud solution provider ActiveCloud on August 18, 2022 announced the addition of the "CommuniGate Pro as a Service" service to the ActivePartner Partner Program package. This will allow the provider's partners to offer their customers a domestic analogue of MDaemon and Microsoft Exchange "turnkey" and earn money on partner sales.

ActivePartner enables ActiveCloud partners to resell their ActiveCloud services and receive monthly partner payments. Partners of the program can be both integrators, developers, ON online services and applications, as well 1C as Franchisees and digital agencies, as well as IT consultants and. " programmers as CommuniGate Pro a service" is the sixth boxed solution formed by ActiveCloud within ActivePartner.

In the ActiveCloud cloud, CommuniGate Pro is deployed as a commercial SaaS platform. The service "CommuniGate Pro as a service" allows Russian commercial and state-owned companies of any scale to use corporate e-mail without the need to configure servers and administer. To get started, the client just needs to specify the name of the mailboxes and the amount of disk space required. The ActiveCloud command will configure the entire turnkey enterprise email infrastructure for the customer.

The use of CommuniGate Pro on the SaaS model significantly reduces the financial burden on the customer. He does not need to purchase server hardware and make a one-time payment when buying corporate mail. It pays only for the use of the software in equal instalments monthly.

It is important for a large company to work out in advance projects in the field of informatization, including those related to e-mail, to have a roadmap for the development of selected solutions. For this, ActiveCloud has all the necessary competencies. We can show customers what opportunities they will receive in the near future. We also guarantee that if the customer needs technical support of a higher level than the ActiveCloud team has, we will connect the vendor's experts to the work, "said Sergey Krutilin, CEO of ActiveCloud Russia.

Thus, ActiveCloud plans to fully integrate CommuniGate Pro with P7-Office. Customers will receive an analogue of some of the services that were available as part of the Microsoft Office 365 cloud office suite.

In addition, together with the Russian manufacturer Cyberprotect, the ActiveCloud team is working on a full-fledged backup, which Cyberprotect announced for CommuniGate Pro in early August 2022. So far, CommuniGate Pro as a Service clients can make permanent backups of corporate mailboxes based on the fault-tolerant backup capabilities of CommuniGate Pro.

Starting the 1C hosting service on ActiveCloud servers in a Linux environment

ActiveCloud, together with its partner Atevi Systems, is launching a service to place 1C products in its own cloud. This became known on June 14, 2022. Read more here.

2020: Compliance with personal data protection for the 2nd level of security

ActiveCloud confirmed the compliance of its cloud infrastructure with the strict requirements of Russian legislation on the protection of personal data for the 2nd level of security (US2), having withstood an independent audit and compliance assessment. This became known on September 25, 2020.

The most common the Russian level of security in the clouds is obviously in many cases insufficient for reliable protection and compliance with the requirements of the law. By placing their business applications in the cloud, customers become somewhat dependent on the provider's cyber capabilities, expecting a high level of protection by default. personal data Therefore, ActiveCloud decided to switch to a more complex level of security in implementation, which allows you to reliably store sensitive biometric information data and about the health of Russians in the cloud, - comments, Dmitry Yashin CEO of ActiveCloud in. Russia

Digital transformation is forcing companies to collect more data about their customers. To better serve your customers and offer the most products and services that meet their expectations, you need to know literally everything about the client. Transaction stories, profiles in social networks, data from state registers, photos from surveillance cameras, mobile tags and a lot of other information about consumers of the company are forced to collect and process. The strengthening of the role of the online component of the business in connection with coronavirus restrictions further accelerates the pace of data accumulation. The larger and more sensitive the information about the client, the higher the requirements for its protection are imposed by the law on the protection of personal data.

No public company can afford to become an anti-hero of news portals due to the leakage of personal data without consequences. It hits both reputation and pocket. Therefore, companies are forced to make increasing efforts to protect information, and it is important for the cloud service provider to ensure a high level of cybersecurity of its IT infrastructure in order to meet customer needs.

2017: Cloud Storage Infrastructure Replenishment DSS QNAP

On September 19, 2017, ActiveCloud by Softline announced the replenishment of the cloud storage infrastructure, which performs the tasks of online storage of large amounts of data, file archives, backups and video recordings, with the QNAP ES1640dc storage system.

QNAP ES1640dc

The DSS are two equipped processorsIntel Xeon E5 controllers that operate simultaneously (active-active mode), as well as operating system QES () QNAP Enterprise Storage based on FreeBSD and ZFS. This allows for high utilization of disk potential and capabilities such as data compression and deduplication, a large number of snapshots for backup and recovery. The drive is compatible with platforms virtualizations based on current versions, and KVM. VMware vSphere Microsoft Hyper-V Linux

According to ActiveCloud, QNAP ES1640dc meets the requirements for fault tolerance and capacity for online storage of information that is not critical to the speed of access. The case has 16 disk bays with a 12 Gb/s SAS interface for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch HDD and SSD drives, their total capacity can reach 160 TB. Through 10 gigabit ports, the drive is connected to a data network and is used to store large cold data, as well as as DSS for backup and disaster recovery services (BaaS/DRaaS).

According to the head of the Russian representative office of QNAP Kirill Ivanov, two active ES1640dc controllers provide increased fault tolerance and information input-output speed. In case of loss of access through one of the controllers, the second takes over all tasks to ensure continuous reading and writing of files.

Among the similar solutions in configuration and performance, we chose DSS in terms of price/capability. We evaluated the ease of integration with existing infrastructure, the reliability of the ZFS file system, and storage compatibility with server hard drives from most vendors. Thanks to DSS, our customers can store and quickly access increased data in the cloud, "said Dmitry Yashin, project manager at ActiveCloud.

2012: "Clouds" ActiveCloud by Softline in the European Union

On June 7, 2012, ActiveCloud (Aktivkhost RU LLC) announced the launch of CloudServer (IaaS) cloud service in the European Union. By placing resources in data centers in Europe, the company's customers will receive protection of confidential information, Russian-language support for 24Kh7, execution of all documents in accordance with Russian law.

Since June 7, 2012, ActiveCloud customers, ordering the CloudServer (IaaS) service, can choose the placement of resources in data centers in Russia and Europe. At the same time, having chosen Europe, customers receive Russian-language support for 24Kh7, registration of all documents in accordance with Russian law, and, which is relevant for large international companies, an increase in the speed of access to resources for users from the EU zone. Customers are guaranteed complete confidentiality of their information - the placement of servers in the European Union protects data from unauthorized access and physical seizure of third parties.

ActiveCloud by Softline customers online through a convenient interface can order servers, building a full-fledged infrastructure in the European cloud, and scale it, increasing capacity tenfold. All elements of the system are completely duplicated, customers can: "simple" order, renewal, convenient payment, personal account from which you can manage services and where all services are displayed, statistics on the use of resources, current balance, payment center and technical support center.

A high throughput point-to-point link from the customer's office to the data center in Europe is possible at the customer's request. In addition, rental services ON and applications () SaaS located on are offered. servers

For cloud customers in Europe, a guarantee of service quality is provided - different levels of SLA: from the Standard to the Premium with a financial guarantee of service availability of 99.95%.

2011

CloudServer Capabilities and Benefits

(Data current as of September 2011)

• Get ready-made infrastructure of any complexity level in minutes with zero investment in hardware and software
• Lower maintenance costs
• Second-by-second charging and payment of only actually used capacity
• Failure Independence, 99.9% SLA with Financial Availability Guarantee
• 16 CPU cores, 32 GB RAM, unlimited disk space per 1 virtual server
• Modern complex of technical capabilities: management through a software interface, API automatic image storage, clustering, load balancing, etc.
• Advanced Security and Encryption
• Taking confidential information "outside," including to Europe, organizing secure access to resources from anywhere in the world

Visual form of service order in the form of a slider

Among the innovations of the summer of 2011 is a convenient order form (slider), which includes more than three hundred different configurations, new storage systems, a web interface and API, as well as a number of important business opportunities.

CloudServer is a service for renting computing power to create its own flexible infrastructure in the cloud (IaaS), the widest possible management capabilities of which are achieved through the use of advanced technologies and a convenient web interface. CloudServer allows you to get both a single server and a remote data center in just a few minutes.

Among the main advantages of CloudServer is the flexibility of the service for the tasks of any business: up to 48 GB of RAM (up to 96 GB on special demand), 16 CPU cores per 1 virtual machine, while the number of machines is not limited. The introduction of second-by-second charging allows you to fully control costs and pay only for the resources actually used. Infrastructure management is possible both through the web interface and through the software interface (API), significantly expanding the capabilities for developers. The procedures for paying for the service and scaling resources are fully automated.

Among the innovations of CloudServer is a convenient and visual form of ordering a service in the form of a slider, which will help you select the necessary parameters (more than three hundred configurations) and immediately calculate their cost (operating system, RAM volume, number of CPU cores, IP addresses and Internet channel with the necessary parameters and guaranteed bandwidth). An important feature of CloudServer is the ability to choose the type of storage system (DSS ) based on arrays from SATA, SAS and SSD drives. Storage variability enables optimal performance for both static documents, web servers, and applications, as well as specific and high-load projects. A special option allows you to activate machines with the selected settings immediately after payment.

Special attention is paid to safety. In addition to using a virtual network for each client (VLAN), data mirroring, and backup (snapshots), the CloudServer web interface provides the ability to configure high-availability clusters with different load balancing algorithms. These features enable business continuity at all levels.

CloudServer is great for hosting content projects, databases, and business applications such as 1C, Sharepoint, and more. For organizing access to desktop applications, this solution perfectly complements the accompanying ActiveCloud service - a remote desktop service (DaaS), which provides 24-hour access to the client's workplace, documents and applications from anywhere in the world where the Internet is available.

When you first order CloudServer for a year, all customers receive a 10% discount. Ordering a service for two years provides a 20% discount. In addition, to evaluate the work of the new service, the company provides additional features: demo access and free transfer of an existing project to the CloudServer.

Enterprise Hosting Services

The Softline Cloud Services project, which offers Solution SaaS to corporate users in the domestic and foreign markets, began in May 2011 to provide enterprise hosting services to its customers. CloudServer from Softline - a fault-tolerant industrial hosting service - has the following characteristics: possible performance - up to 16 cores per virtual machine; branded hardware only: IBM, HP, Supermicro, Cisco, NetApp; non-standard solutions: SSDs, storage and channel encryption, dark fibers; 20 man-hours per month of non-standard administration work; Unlimited traffic and connection to 1Gbps port Data center that meets the requirements of Tier 3 standard: redundancy of power supply, cold supply, telecommunication inputs, a set of technical safety equipment; the ability to use VPN and GRE to connect to services.

Softline's CloudServer solution comes in two versions: Standart and Bare Metal. CloudServer Standart is suitable for almost any project, and Bare Metal is specially designed for specific and especially resource-intensive projects.

The cost of CloudServer service from Softline includes: selection of a hosting site (, Russia Netherlands, CIS), connecting CloudServer to a port of 100 MBit/s or 1 GBit/s, unlimited traffic, viewing external traffic statistics, mail management, 2 static IP addresses (possibly from different subnets of class C), license for any version Microsoft Windows of Server 2003/2008/ 2008R2.

In addition, the company will be able to choose an operating system (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc.), rent Microsoft software and access servers via KVM over IP to install any hypervisor and virtualization system.

Starting the CloudServer service

Since March 2011, the CloudServer virtual machine infrastructure service began to be provided by ActiveCloud.