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Enterprise-Scale Data Center Infrastructure, Availability, Protection, Flexibility, and Automation…

Consonus Virtual Infrastructure Service™Consonus VIS™

for any sized businessToday’s

Speakers:

Laura Walker Marketing

Manager

Eric Lindbeck Client Solutions

Lead – Managed Services

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Consonus VIS™ is ideal for businesses that:

• Experience seasonal fluctuations in processing and storage requirements

• Are growing faster than planned• Require improved, simplified manageability • Seek to reduce or eliminate capital

investments• Need robust Disaster Recovery to meet

regulatory or business continuity demands• Desire a highly-customizable hosting

environment

Access to Consonus Managed Services:

Secure eMail Archiving,

Remote Systems

& Network Management,

Managed Security Services

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Consonus VIS™ is Hosting

• You have your own environment, which you access remotely

• Consonus provides and maintains all data center services: hosting, facilities, bandwidth

You pay only for

what you need

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But Consonus VIS™ Differs from Hosting Too

• Consonus provides the OS and underlying infrastructure

• Consonus data centers offer built-in– High availability– Power– Customized system resources

• Consonus provisions resources for upgrades

• Robust Disaster Recovery is available

Unlike your own

hardware and systems, if you don’t

need it, you can scale

down or “give it back” for cost savings

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Consonus VIS™ Facilities

• SAS-70 Type II audited Production and Disaster Recovery Facilities– Located 1500 miles apart– Energy Efficient– Cloud computing– High-availability, concurrently-maintainable– Robust physical security

• System Infrastructure– VMWare– HP C-Class Blade Servers and SANs

Leading SLAs 99.9%

Availability at the OS level

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Benefits of Consonus VIS™

• No capital requirements for equipment purchase • “Pay as You Go”

– No capital purchases needed to upgrade or add new servers

• No downtime for ‘forklift’ server upgrades– Unlike the traditional equipment lifecycle– Instead of replacing a physical server, simply

provision additional resources– Save time and expense for upgrades and

migrations– Eradicates downtime and risk

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Benefits of Consonus VIS™

• Built-in automated, high-availability – Continual monitoring so that an issue with a physical

component is automatically addressed by the system– Backed by a 24x7 staff

• Architecture features auxiliary system resources for use for system issues or expansion

• OS snapshots performed before patches are applied, enabling elimination of bad patches quickly and gracefully

• New Virtual Machines (VMs) can be quickly provisioned by cloning existing machines

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Consonus VIS™ Scaling: Predictable, Speedy, Minimal Downtime

• 24-48 hour turn-around between request and availability; simply reboot to activate

• No waiting for order processing or installation• Significant additional capacity is always available• If you need less, you pay for less

On-Demand Capacity (“Resource Bucket”)

Storage

Virtual ServersNetwor

kVirtual Router

Virtual Firewall

Security

Your Consonus VIS™ Environment

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Consonus VIS™ Optional Disaster Recovery

• Your data is replicated via underlying SAN hardware – Can specify a subset of the production

environment

• SAS-70 Type II audited DR facility • Resources are lower-cost “Reserved” or “DR

Grade”• RTO: <12 hours• RPO: 30 minutes standard (lower is

available)

Integrated Disaster

Recovery is

< 50% of the cost of

typical infrastructure

solutions

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Consonus VIS™ Architecture

Rapid provisioning by cloning existingStorage,Server,

CPU

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Consonus VIS™ Reporting

• Vital Signs Portal reports on all infrastructure components– CPU, RAM, Disk Space

(storage), Bandwidth

• Customer Accessible

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Consonus VIS™ Next Steps

• Consonus VIS™ is ready for you now. • Consonus would be happy to …

– Evaluate your specific needs– Design and deploy the perfect VIS™

solution – Address your business needs today, and

prepare you for tomorrowVisit Consonus

today at www.consonus.com

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