Ascent2Cloud allows organizations to increase efficiencies, gain competitive advantage and focus on what’s important − growing their business. Ascent2Cloud provides access to a shared pool of resources that can be configured and provisioned with very little management, using technology such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Virtualization to provide on-demand resources via internet or private network connection.

Ascent2Cloud, built on VMware technology, is a scalable, dependable, cost-effective introduction into the cloud. Whether you choose an Enterprise, Private or Recovery Cloud solution, Ascent2Cloud provides the flexibility and cost-savings of cloud computing with the security, data integrity and service level agreements of a SAS 70 Type II data center, and is backed by our SLA100 power and bandwidth guarantee.

Compared to the traditional approach of purchasing, provisioning and managing IT architecture, Ascent2Cloud includes provision, setup, monitoring and complete management by senior-level technical staff, 24x7x365 from Ascent Data’s Network Operations Center. Ascent Data offers high-availability firewalls, load balancing, enterprise grade hardware and continuous data protection.

Benefits of Cloud Computing

Resource and Network Flexibility

Ascent2Cloud offers partially private or fully private multi-tenant architecture. Based on your business requirements, you can use a private network, VPN or internet to connect to your resources.

Scalability

Scale your infrastructure up or down as your business requirements change. Ascent2Cloud allows you to manage capital and operating expenses with on-demand usage.

Reliability and Security

High availability and business continuity through Ascent2Cloud allows you to manage, allocate and deploy your IT assets and be confident that your sensitive data is secure. Ascent Data's combination of security, redundancy and managed services provide the backbone necessary to ensure availability.

Seeking Safety in the Clouds

John Bussey, Assistant Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, reports that smaller firms are increasingly outsourcing Cyber Security through Cloud Computing

Ascent2Cloud Security

VMware Based

Using advanced virtualization technologies from VMware (such as Vshield App, vCloud Director, Vshield Edge), Ascent Data’s secure cloud environment offers the very best in scalability, efficiency and security.

Hardware Firewalls

All unnecessary ports are locked down. Web servers have only ports 80/443 open. Additional ports may be opened at your request.

Redundant DoS/DDoS Mitigation

DoS/DDoS attacks can take a site offline for days. Ascent Data’s mitigation appliances can distinguish good traffic from DoS/DDoS attack traffic and block the bad guys.

VPN, MPLS or Metro Ethernet, with IPSEC, SSL or EaaS

Administrator-level access to your Cloud Server is granted by a secure VPN connection. Our VPN client is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.

Ascent DataGuard, powered by TrustNet from Certes Networks, provides comprehensive Encryption as a Service (EaaS) data protection for any network, including point-to-point, MPLS, metro ethernet and VPLS.

Enterprise Cloud

Enterprise Cloud offers a scalable, enterprise-class, multi-tenant environment. Servers can either be in production or non-critical models (or a combination of both) to allow for customization based on need and demand. Servers can be standalone or connected to an existing environment and hosted in Ascent Data’s data center.

Features

Network

• Internal LAN IP space
• Dedicated 100/1000 MB network connectivity
• 1GB virtual switch server connection
• vCloud Director capable

OS

• Microsoft Windows, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, Centos, MS Server 2008, 2003
• 64-Bit and 32-Bit Operating Systems

Infrastructure Redundancy

• N+2 host server capacity
• HA Firewalls
• HSRP Border Routers
• RAID configurations
• SAN controllers

Managed Services

• Dynamic resource balancing between servers
• 24x7x365 host, network and SAN monitoring
• Backups

Private Cloud

A virtual dedicated or multi-tenant Private Cloud model gives you the flexibility of selecting a platform delivery that fits your needs.

Virtual

Virtual Private Cloud offers computing resources including, CPU, memory and disks that are added as needed. When adding multiple Private Cloud Nodes together, a cluster of pooled resources is formed. The node count, resource availability and workloads determine the level of availability and fault tolerance.

Dedicated

A Dedicated Private Cloud allows you to design complex cloud services using dedicated SAN or NAS storage resources on dedicated compute Nodes.