Flexential Tampa Data Center Consulting ServicesProgent's latest private cloud hosting site is located in Tampa, FL, at the Flexential Tampa North Internet Data Center. Like Progent's Sacramento California data center facility with private cloud hosting service, Flexential Tampa North is a high-end colocation site, featuring on-premises 24x7 staffed personnel and offering full N+1 redundancy throughout all vital components at both the data center level and in Progent's own network and server environment. Flexential's location and high-capacity, resilient Internet backbone permit low-latency access to the east coast of the U.S. and to Central and South America.

Progent's private cloud hosting services offer great value to organizations of all sizes looking for the affordability, reliability, and minimized hassle of using a world-class facility while avoiding the restricted customization and impersonal service common to public clouds.

Flexential Data Center Private Cloud Services from Progent

Progent's Private Cloud services utilize the Flexential Data Center in Tampa Florida

The 60,000 square foot Flexential facility provides world-class features for power and cooling, physical security, compliance, and connectivity. Highlights include:

Data Center Facility Power & Environmental Control

  • 2N UPS backup
  • 3 MW critical load uninterruptible power supply (UPS) capacity
  • 150 watts per square foot power density
  • N + 1 cooling redundancy
  • Hot/cold aisle airflow
  • 100% power SLA
  • 1.75 power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating
Data Center Facility 24x7 Physical Security
  • Round-the-clock security and technical staff
  • DFA access security
  • Biometric scanners
  • Monitored security
Data Center Connectivity
  • Fiber network implemented using connections from leading national ISPs
  • Core network is built using 10/100 Gbps network backbone
  • 3 Terabyte total network capacity
  • ISP-neutral blended, actively managed and monitored IP Bandwidth
  • Redundant, auto-rerouting connections ranging from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps
  • Automatic Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS protection
  • Termination points for subsea cables to Asia-Pacific and S. America
  • Cloud connectivity to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud
Data Center Compliance
  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliant site
  • Yearly independent audits for SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3; HIPAA; ISO 27001; SSAE 18
Progent's hosting environment leverages advanced cloud-smart management platforms from Microsoft such as Hyper-V replication, Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager. Progent's initial system for private cloud hosting services includes:

Progent's Private Cloud Deployment Infrastructure

  • Eight Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V hosts
  • 224 Intel Xeon processor cores
  • 6.1terabyte of memory
  • 67TB of RAID 1+0 SSD storage and 288TB of RAID 6 rotating disks
  • Cisco Nexus 10G/40G dual redundant switching deployment
  • Servers feature redundant 20G of connectivity spanned across dual redundant Cisco switches
  • Fully redundant non-stop availability Cisco ASR 1000 model router network architecture utilizing 8 separate appliances
  • Progent is a direct participant in the worldwide Internet backbone, advertising the company's own IP space via BGP using our assigned Autonomous System Number (ASN) 54695
  • 21 Gb of 3x redundant fiber Internet connectivity performance to Lumen, Cogent and Telia's tier 1 global networks
  • On-premises and off-site backup, replication and emergency restoration of all private cloud virtual servers
Progent utilizes the Flexential Tampa colocation center mainly to deliver private cloud services. Progent maintains a team of network consultants based in the vicinity of Tampa, and Progent can also provide online support from Progent's countrywide roster of Microsoft-certified experts, Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers, ISSIP-CISSP-certified security experts, Hyper-V and VMware virtualization specialists, and veteran DRBC preparedness consultants. Progent can also help you to design and implement a migration to the Flexential facility with services like planning solution architecture, recommending hardware components, system configuration and testing, troubleshooting, streamlining online management, and training your IT staff.

Popular Use Cases for Progent's Private Cloud Service
Progent's private cloud is an attractive option for businesses who want a more specialized system and a less fragmented working relationship than is achievable with public clouds like Amazon AWS, Azure, Google, and Rackspace Technology. Common uses for Progent's private cloud service include:

  • Windows or Linux virtual servers hosted on Progent equipment with full backup and emergency restore standard
  • End-to-end VDI/hosted application environments for businesses who intend to "move everything" to the cloud
  • Affordable/low-commitment colocation of client-owned server hardware and infrastructure from a single 1U server on up
  • Failover replication of on-premises servers to disaster recovery host site
  • Remote backup and replication. Progent is particularly competitive for storage requirements over 10TB.
  • Customer-hosted VoIP servers for nationwide/regional multi-site organizations
  • Centralized VPN access hubs for national or regional companies
  • Temporary virtual or physical servers required for short-term projects, testing, solution piloting, evaluations, etc.
  • Server hardware provided and supported by Progent dedicated to one client. Managed/controlled either by customer, by Progent, or co-managed.
  • Emergency servers required to get back online quickly after unforeseen events like ransomware attacks, hardware breakdown, natural catastrophes, fires, etc.
  • Migrate servers for M&A, change of ownership, etc.
How to Find Out More about Progent's Private Cloud Hosting
To find out more details about Progent's Private Cloud Hosting and to learn the ways Progent can help your business to cut network management costs, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.