In the old days of colocation, you had to colocate dozens of servers in a dedicated cabinet or cage to support an application. Today, virtualization technologies dramatically improve the efficiency and availability of resources by changing the old "one server, one application" model into "one server, multiple applications" mode of efficiency.
Every magazine and CIO are touting "Reduced TCO" with virtualization technology. But how does this actually translate into tangible monthly cost savings to you, when trying to colocate in a world-class datacenter for mission critical applications?
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Meet TowardEX QuantumColo™
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It's been difficult for businesses to colocate a few servers with virtualization technology without having to commit to a full cabinet or a cage in a colocation data center. What good is virtualization when it doesn't make one bit of difference for small businesses trying to virtualize their colocation installations? TowardEX QuantumColo comes to the rescue.
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QuantumColo has been developed from ground up with focus on customers looking to cut costs in colocation with virtualization. When you only need to deploy a couple or few servers with virtualization to support your application, it is clear that you do not need a full size cabinet or a cage.
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QuantumColo is flexible. It puts customer in the driver's seat for determining everything from physical rack space as low as 1U for colocating just one physical server, power, network connectivity and technical support services. With flexibility for customers in mind, QuantumColo is then backed by three pillars that we strongly believe in delivering world-class, second-to-none colocation to our customers.
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The Three Pillars of QuantumColo™
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Strong Network
The principal foundation of any IT hosting deployment is presence of a strong, reliable and fast network to support customer's business requirements and exceed expectations on performance.
The TowardEX Non-Stop Network is a mature, proven network platform that guarantees 100% Network Uptime without making a fuss and without adding loopholes like other providers. Our hardened carrier-class network infrastructure's record of uninterrupted service speaks for itself.Strong Data Center
The bedrock of IT foundation is a strong data center that is engineered to meet the standards required to support our Non-Stop Network. TowardEX chooses world-class, carrier-neutral facilities to build data centers to deliver QuantumColo service to our customers.
The 1 Summer Street facility which provides QuantumColo data center service in downtown Boston, is the largest and highest density data center in New England with SAS 70 Type II certification. The facility is home to the world's 32nd fastest super computer and over 40 domestic and international internet service providers and telecom carriers.
TowardEX's QuantumColo service with combination of our strong data center foundation uses a rugged platform design that is compliant with TIA/EIA-942 Data Center Standards. The QuantumColo platform is able to deliver Tier III reliability of 99.982% uptime on basic service, Tier IV fault-tolerant availability of 99.995% uptime on customers employing redundant power and network connectivity.Dedication to Customer Care
As a mature infrastructure provider, we know first hand that customers have entrusted us to run the very system of systems that their businesses rely on. We stand behind our products and commitments with great care and dedication to customer support. It is a key pillar in foundation of our services, and it is our belief that hosted environment is the last thing any of our customers would have to be worried about.
QuantumColo™ vs. Others
Hands down, QuantumColo is the professionally operated, mission-critical colocation solution with the lowest cost barrier to entry for SMB's.
QuantumColo™ DO-IT-YOURSELF or a
Typical Tier 1 Data CenterA Typical Tier 3 or Tier 4
Carrier-Neutral Data CenterEase of Growth on Demand
Ability to grow your deployment for as little as 1U.
Yes Yes No
One Provider, One Bill.
Internet, Colo, Remote Hands from one provider.
Yes No
No
EIA/TIA-942 Data Center Tier
Data Center uptime design rating.
Tier 3-4 Tier 1
Tier 3-4 Downtime-Per-Year Design Rating
Length of downtime risk per year.
48 minutes to
1.6 hour28 hours or longer
1.6 hour Hassle-Free Network Infrastructure
Just send us the servers, we'll worry about the network.
Yes No
No
Redundant Internet Connectivity
Multihomed mission-critical internet connectivity
Yes No
Depends on customer
IT budgetCost for adding redundant power
True, diverse A-B redundancy for every server.
and network to individual servers.
Low High
Medium
SAS 70 Type II Certification for
SAS 70 Type II compliance for mission-critical applications.
Data Center Environment
Yes No
Yes Cost barrier to entry in mission
QuantumColo™ is the easiest way to get you colocated.
critical datacenter for SMB's.
Lowest High; or Low with
significant uptime risks.Medium
We were extremely satisfied with the work performed by TowardEX. The engineer assigned to our project was very competent. He was also easy to work with and accessible when needed.
- Robert Faber
Director of Technical Support
Cumberland Farms, Inc.
