Progent's newest private cloud hosting facility is in Tampa, FL, at the Flexential Tampa North Internet data. 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 fault tolerance across all critical components at the data center level as well as in Progent's own network and VM environment. Flexential's location and high-performance, redundant Internet backbone permit low-latency connectivity to the eastern United States and to Central and South America.
Progent's private cloud hosting services provide exceptional value to organizations of all sizes requiring the cost savings, reliability, and minimized hassle of sharing a high-end data center facility without the restricted customization and anonymous service common to public clouds.
Progent's Private Cloud services utilize the Flexential Data Center in Tampa
The 60,000 sq. ft. Flexential facility offers advanced features for power and environmental control, security, compliance, and Internet connectivity. Highlights include:
Data Center Power & Cooling
- 2N UPS redundancy
- 3 megawatt critical load UPS capacity
- 150 W per sq. ft. power density
- N + 1 cooling redundancy
- Hot/cold aisle configuration
- 100% power SLA
- 1.75 Power usage effectiveness rating
Data Center Facility 24x7 Physical Security
- 24-7 security and technical staff
- Dual-factor authentication (DFA) access
- Biometric scanning systems
- Monitored security
Data Center Connectivity
- Fiber network implemented using connections from leading nationwide carriers
- Internal network is based on 10/100 Gbps network backbone
- 3 Terabyte combined network capacity
- Carrier-neutral blended, actively managed and monitored IP Bandwidth
- Backed-up, auto-rerouting connections ranging from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps
- Automatic Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS defense
- Termination points for subsea cables to Asia-Pacific and S. America
- Cloud connectivity to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud
Data Center Facility Compliance
- PCI compliant facility
- Yearly independent audits for Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3; HIPAA; ISO 27001;
Progent's hosting environment leverages advanced cloud-aware technologies from Microsoft including Hyper-V replication, Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager. Progent's initial system for private cloud hosting 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 10 Solid State Drive storage and 288TB of RAID 6 rotating media
- Cisco Nexus 10G/40G dual redundant switching infrastructure
- All servers have redundant 20G of connectivity across redundant Cisco switches
- Redundant non-stop availability Cisco ASR 1000 Series router network architecture incorporating 8 separate appliances
- Progent is a direct participant in the worldwide Internet backbone, advertising the company's own IP space via Border Gateway Protocol using our assigned ASN 54695
- 21 Gb of triple-redundant fiber Internet connectivity performance to Lumen, Cogent and Telia's tier 1 worldwide networks
- Local and off-site backup, replication and disaster recovery of all hosted cloud virtual servers
Progent makes use of the Flexential Tampa data cener facility mainly to deliver private cloud services. Progent maintains a team of IT experts located in the vicinity of Tampa, and Progent can also provide remote expertise from Progent's nationwide team of Microsoft-certified consultants, Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers, ISSIP-CISSP-certified security experts, Hyper-V and VMware professionals, and veteran disaster recovery/business continuity preparedness consultants. Progent can also help your business to plan and implement a migration to the Flexential facility with services such as planning system configuration, specifying hardware, system configuration and validation, debugging, setting up online network management, and educating your network support team.
Typical Uses for Progent's Private Cloud Service
Progent's private cloud is an attractive choice for organizations who want a more customized system and a more personal professional relationship than is achievable with public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Rackspace Technology. Sample use cases for Progent's private cloud service include:
- Windows or Linux VMs hosted on Progent infrastructure with total backup and disaster recovery standard
- End-to-end VDI/hosted application environments for organizations who want to "move everything" to the cloud
- Affordable/low-commitment colocation of customer-owned server hardware and infrastructure from a single 1U server to a server farm
- Failover replication of on-premises servers to disaster recovery site
- Off-site backup and replication. Progent is particularly competitive for storage requirements more than 10TB.
- Customer-hosted VoIP servers for national/regional multi-location businesses
- Centralized VPN connection hubs for nationwide or regional organizations
- Temporary virtual or physical servers required for short-term projects, testing, solution piloting, evaluations, etc.
- Physical servers supplied and supported by Progent restricted to one client. Managed/controlled either by customer, by Progent, or co-managed.
- Emergency servers needed to recover immediately after unforeseen events like ransomware assaults, hardware failure, natural catastrophes, fires, etc.
- Transition servers for mergers or acquisitions, change of ownership, etc.
How to Find Out More about Progent's Private Cloud Service
To learn more about Progent's Private Cloud Service and to learn how Progent can assist your business to cut IT management expenses, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.