Businesses seeking to have their IT systems hosted and managed with the assurance of exceptional data protection, redundancy and recovery can now turn to iland’s High Availability Hosted VMware Solutions. These solutions allow customers to host multiple operating systems and applications in geographically dispersed, fully redundant data centers in the United States and Europe. iland’s VMware solutions have been quickly gaining the attention of customers, with more than 250 virtual machines deployed prior to today’s formal announcement of the solutions. iland’s Hosted High Availability VMware Solutions provide customers with exceptional reliability and data protection while streamlining the data center environment and reducing operating costs including space, power and equipment.

Customers along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts rely on iland’s disaster recovery offerings for indemnity during hurricane seasons, and also value them as a key differentiator. “iland saved our business communications during and after hurricane Gustav,” said Joseph Wiley, network administrator at K-TEK, which is headquartered in Prairieville, LA. “They kept all our employees and divisions up and running worldwide, and our customers never knew we skipped a beat.” Wiley went on to acknowledge iland’s “great customer service, from the CEO to the technician,” as a significant benefit of iland solutions.

iland’s fully redundant infrastructure is built in a VMware VI Enterprise environment on a VMware ESX platform, which offers redundancy at the hardware, network, and data center levels. To ensure data is always available, even in the worst disasters, iland offers customers a ‘stand by’ service option which creates backup copies of the customer’s virtual machines. Once configured, these backups can be sent to iland to be housed on their Managed Storage Area Network (SAN). iland also has real-time disaster recovery failover options that require minimal staff intervention. In the event of an emergency or disaster, customers can immediately failover to the virtual machines.

“iland removes the burden and complexity issues of IT so customers can concentrate on their business,” said Brian Ussher, president of iland Internet Solutions. “We offer the most complete solution to handle every data center requirement. Whether a customer is running a blended colocation and virtualized environment, transitioning to a new virtualized environment or operating on an existing virtual environment we have the solutions in place to ensure data is safe and clients are always up and running.”

The iland Difference

iland provides cost effective and reliable solutions for disaster recovery, Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, Application Service Providers and Developers as well as enterprise level hosting for Web-centric, mission critical applications and corporate data. For example, Application Service Providers gain substantial versatility which enables them to quickly and easily turnaround customized software. As a result, customers can be up and running in a matter of hours, whereas in a traditional dedicated server environment it takes several days or even weeks, and in a data center environment it can take 45 to 60 days or more.

Enfold Systems provides professional services, products and hosting for applications built on the open-source Plone content management system. According to Alan Runyan, president of Enfold, “We needed a partner that would provide an advantage in our competitive market, as well as offer cost-effective disaster recovery options. iland’s virtualization and redundant infrastructure made the choice easy.”

iland's hybrid colocation and virtualization infrastructure is one of the industry’s most complete solution addressing the ever-growing need to reduce data center costs and server sprawl. Each of iland’s High Availability data centers also provides clients with High-Speed IP connectivity across iland’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure. By combining multiple Tier 1 IP backbones, iland provides scalable, Tier 1 IP connectivity, allowing clients high quality yet cost-effective bandwidth options due to their wholesale buying partnerships.

The High Availability data centers complement iland’s existing offering for traditional colocation options which include cabinets, cage space, and a full range of managed services providing multiple, flexible options and rapid deployment. iland currently hosts customers in more than 50 cities across the U.S. and Europe and specializes in helping organizations transform their expensive, traditional IT environments into cost-effective, fully optimized environments.