Flexential Tampa Data Center Consulting ServicesProgent's newest private cloud hosting site is located in Tampa, FL, at the Flexential Tampa North Internet data. Like Progent's Sacramento California data center facility with private cloud hosting, Flexential Tampa North is an advanced colocation site, providing on-premises 24x7 trained staff and including full N+1 fault tolerance across all vital systems at both the data center level and in Progent's own network and VM environment. Flexential's location and high-performance, non-stop Internet backbone permit low-latency access to the east coast of the United States and to Central and South America.

Progent's private cloud services offer great value to businesses of all sizes looking for the affordability, availability, and convenience of sharing a world-class data center facility while avoiding the technical restrictions and anonymous service common to public clouds.

Flexential Data Center Cloud Hosting Services from Progent

Progent's Private Cloud hosting services use the Flexential Data Center in Tampa

The 60,000 square foot Flexential facility provides high-level features for power and environmental control, physical security, compliance, and Internet connectivity. Highlights include:

Data Center Power & Environmental Control

  • 2N UPS backup
  • 3 MW critical load UPS capacity
  • 150 W per sq. ft. power density
  • N + 1 environmental control backup
  • Hot/cold aisle airflow
  • 100% power SLA
  • 1.75 Power usage effectiveness ratio
Data Center 24x7 Physical Security
  • 24-7 security and technical staff
  • DFA access
  • Biometric scanners
  • Monitored security
Data Center Connectivity
  • Fiber network built with connections from leading nationwide providers
  • Core network is based on 10-gigabit and 100-gigabit backbone
  • 3 Terabyte combined network performance
  • ISP-neutral blended, proactively managed IP Bandwidth
  • Backed-up, auto-rerouting connections from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps
  • Automatic Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS defense
  • Termination points for submarine cables to APAC and South America
  • Cloud connectivity to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud
Data Center Facility Compliance
  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant facility
  • Annual independent audits for Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3; HIPAA; ISO 27001; SSAE 18
Progent's hosting service incorporates key cloud-smart technologies from Microsoft such as Hyper-V replication, Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and Data Protection Manager. Progent's initial infrastructure deployment 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 RAM
  • 67TB of RAID 1+0 Solid State Drive storage and 288TB of RAID 6 spinning disks
  • Cisco Nexus 10G/40G dual redundant switching infrastructure
  • All servers have redundant 20G of connectivity across redundant Cisco switches
  • Fully redundant 100% uptime Cisco ASR 1000 Series router network architecture incorporating 8 separate routers
  • 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 gigabits of 3x redundant fiber Internet connectivity capacity to Lumen, Cogent and Telia's tier 1 global networks
  • Onsite and remote backup, replication and emergency restoration of all hosted cloud virtual servers
Progent makes use of the Flexential Tampa data cener facility primarily to deliver private cloud hosting services. Progent maintains a group of network experts working in the Tampa area, and Progent also offers remote support from Progent's nationwide team of Microsoft-certified experts, Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers, CISM and CISSP-certified security experts, Hyper-V and VMware specialists, and veteran disaster recovery/business continuity planning experts. Progent can also help you to plan and carry out a migration to the Flexential data center with services such as planning solution architecture, recommending hardware, system setup and validation, debugging, streamlining remote management, and educating your network support team.

Popular Use Cases for Progent's Private Cloud Service
Progent's private cloud is a great option for clients who need a more customized environment and a less fragmented professional relationship than is possible with public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google, and Rackspace. Popular uses for Progent's private cloud service include:

  • Windows or Linux virtual servers hosted on Progent infrastructure with total backup and disaster recovery standard
  • End-to-end VDI/hosted application solutions for businesses who want to "move everything" to the cloud
  • Low-cost/low-commitment colocation of customer-owned physical servers and infrastructure from a single 1U server on up
  • Failover replication of onsite servers to disaster recovery site
  • Remote backup and replication. Progent is especially competitive for requirements greater than 10TB.
  • Customer-hosted VoIP servers for national/regional multi-location organizations
  • Centralized VPN access hubs for nationwide or regional businesses
  • Temporary virtual or physical servers required for short-term projects, testing, solution piloting, evaluations, etc.
  • Server hardware provided and supported by Progent dedicated to a single client. Managed/controlled either by customer, by Progent, or co-managed.
  • Emergency servers required to recover immediately after surprise events such as ransomware assaults, hardware breakdown, natural catastrophes, human error, etc.
  • Transition servers for M&A, new ownership, etc.
How to Get Started with Progent's Private Cloud Hosting
To find out more information about Progent's Private Cloud Hosting Service and to learn the ways Progent can assist your company to cut IT management costs, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.