Flexential Tampa Data Center Consulting ServicesProgent's newest private cloud hosting facility is in Tampa, FL, at the Flexential Tampa North Internet data. Like Progent's Sacramento data center facility with private cloud hosting service, Flexential Tampa North is a high-end colocation facility, featuring on-premises 24-hour staffed personnel and including full N+1 fault tolerance throughout all critical systems at both the data center level as well as in Progent's own network and server infrastructure. Flexential's geographic location and high-performance, redundant Internet backbone can deliver low-latency access to the east coast of the United States and to Central America and South America.

Progent's private cloud hosting services provide great value to businesses of all sizes looking for the affordability, availability, and convenience of sharing a high-end facility while avoiding the technical restrictions and impersonal service associated with large 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 data center offers high-level features for power and environmental control, physical security, compliance, and connectivity. Key features include:

Data Center Facility Power & Cooling

  • 2N UPS backup
  • 3 MW critical load uninterruptible power supply (UPS) capacity
  • 150 watts per square foot power density
  • N + 1 environmental control redundancy
  • Hot/cold aisle airflow
  • 100% power SLA
  • 1.75 Power usage effectiveness rating
Data Center Round-the-Clock Physical Security
  • Round-the-clock security and technical staff
  • Dual-factor authentication access
  • Biometric scanning systems
  • Monitored security
Data Center Connectivity
  • Fiber network built with connections from leading national providers
  • Internal network is built using 10-gigabit and 100-gigabit network backbone
  • 3 Terabyte total network capacity
  • Carrier-neutral blended, proactively managed IP Bandwidth
  • Backed-up, auto-rerouting connections with performance ranging from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps
  • Automatic Layer 3 and Layer 4 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection
  • Termination points for submarine fiber optic cables to Asia-Pacific and South America
  • Cloud connectivity to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google and Oracle
Data Center Compliance
  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant site
  • Yearly 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 leverages advanced cloud-aware technologies from Microsoft such as Hyper-V replication, Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager. Progent's preliminary infrastructure deployment for private cloud hosting includes:

Progent's Private Cloud Hosting 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 rotating disks
  • Cisco Nexus 10G/40G dual redundant switch deployment
  • All servers have redundant 20G of connectivity across redundant Cisco switches
  • Fully redundant non-stop availability Cisco ASR 1000 Series router network architecture incorporating 8 distinct 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 Autonomous System Number (ASN) 54695
  • 21 gigabits of triple-redundant fiber Internet connectivity capacity to ISPs Lumen, Cogent and Telia's tier 1 worldwide networks
  • Local and off-site backup, replication and disaster recovery of all private cloud VMs
Progent utilizes the Flexential Tampa colocation center mainly to provide private cloud hosting services. Progent has a team of network consultants based in the Tampa area, and Progent also offers remote support from Progent's nationwide roster of Microsoft-certified consultants, Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers, ISSIP-CISSP-certified security experts, Hyper-V and VMware virtualization specialists, and senior disaster recover preparedness experts. Progent can also help you to plan and execute a migration to the Flexential facility by providing services such as designing system architecture, recommending hardware, system setup and validation, debugging, setting up remote network management, and training your network staff.

Sample Use Cases for Progent's Private Cloud Service
Progent's private cloud is an attractive choice for organizations who need a more customized environment and a closer professional relationship than is possible with public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Rackspace Technology. Popular use cases for Progent's private cloud include:

  • Windows or Linux virtual servers hosted on Progent infrastructure with total backup and disaster recovery standard
  • Complete VDI/hosted application solutions for businesses who want to "move everything" to the cloud
  • Low-cost/low-commitment colocation of client-owned server hardware and infrastructure from a 1U server to a server farm
  • Failover replication of on-premises servers to disaster recovery site
  • Off-site backup and replication. Progent is especially competitive for requirements greater than 10TB.
  • Customer-hosted VoIP servers for national/regional multi-location organizations
  • Centralized VPN communications hubs for national 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 reserved for one client. Managed/controlled either by customer, by Progent, or co-managed.
  • Emergency servers needed to recover rapidly after unforeseen events such as ransomware attacks, hardware breakdown, natural catastrophes, fires, etc.
  • Migrate servers for mergers or acquisitions, new ownership, etc.
How to Find Out More about Progent's Private Cloud Hosting
To learn more details about Progent's Private Cloud Hosting Service and to learn the ways Progent can help your business to lower network management expenses, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.