Thursday, 10 October 2013

Data Centre Services: Where IT Meets Facilities

Data centre is a facility centre that houses computer technology and components needed for technologies like data communication connection, environmental controls and security devices. This centre gives out a special environment to the system such that it is intact and, runs smoothly. A data centre is very important to a business from the continuity point of view. Simply put, data centre services ensure an environment within the data centre to make provisions for its processing, storage, networking, management and, distribution of the data within.


Typically a data centre service falls into two categories: services being provided to the data centre or the services being provided by the data centre. When considering the services being provided to a data centre, it may include planning, designing, support, updates, equipments, software and other such facilities. When the services availed from a data centre are being considered it can range from computing services to data backup to archiving, mailing and cloud computing. The services provided by the data services differ with the provider. It all depends on the capacity of the provider and the services they are capable of offering. Here’s a list of services offered by a data centre in order to ensure that the business runs smoothly.


The Colocation Services


Every business wishes for security and continuity which is offered by the colocation services within a data centre. With the colocation facility, the cooling, space, power and, other such related needs for the business are completely fulfilled. This way running your business on secure and dedicated lines becomes easier. The uptime of your website increases with the colocation facility in place. Also, there is enough redundancy offered by this system along with some value added services.

The VPS Service

Virtual hosting is the new-on-the-block concept that has reduced costs significantly and, also assured best utilization of the hosted IT infrastructure. One can gain access to dedicated hosting features using this virtual host. There is availability of the services as well as perfect utilization of the servers in place. This service enables utilization of multiple servers on shared basis and, thus reduces the costs effectively.

Mailing Services


Mailing solutions are exceptionally good at enabling any business to meet their communication needs effectively. The complete mailing infrastructure is handled in such a way that bandwidth, domain, disk space etc. all requirements are handled as per the business needs.

Server Hosting Services

With this service in place, a business can choose and customize their hardware, OS, software and, other services needs. The support team is available throughout the day ensuring perfectly configured servers.

Disaster Recovery Services
Disasters are pretty common when considering technology. If one wishes for business continuity, one should ensure perfect disaster plans such that the data is not lost. A few disaster recovery services include cold disaster recovery, warm disaster recovery and hot disaster recovery.


The right kind of data centre is very essential to maintain business continuity. So, plan on allocating a data centre which ensures provision of all these services.

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Software As A Service (SaaS)

Software as a service gives techno economical solution to your business process. It ensures economically viable solution to the customer.
  • ERP
  • Business Intelligence
  • CRM
  • Document Management System
  • Unified Communication

Software As A Service (SaaS) Advantages:

  • Increases the usage and operating aspects of software applications.
  • Creates cost structures that are more predictable.
  • Minimizes execution, guidance and ongoing support time.

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Get the Pool Advantage… Cloud Computing

Be it for infrastructure, operating system, storage or applications, cloud computing will prove to be huge advantage for small enterprises that do not have the sufficient resources or the manpower to set up and manage an in-house IT infrastructure.


Cloud computing encompasses different types of computing including:

  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)


Data Center in India operates on the concept of ‘Cloud Computing’ helping IT companies leverage best the pool advantage.



Saturday, 5 October 2013

Dedicated Server Hosting Features of Datafirst

Features of Dedicated Server Hosting:

  • High Speed
  • Flexible
  • Customized Hardware Options
  • Uninterrupted Power Management System
  • Uninterrupted Air Cooling and Security System
  • Generous amount of Disk Storage Space & Monthly Data Transfer
  • Superior Performance
  • Secure
  • Reliable
  • Full Administrative Access to Server
  • Real Time Report
  • 24*7 Technical Support
  • Unlimited Reboots & Patch Management

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Choose the Right Colocation Data Centre

Looking out to upgrade your current data centre for better infrastructure and, to maintain business continuity? Are the limitations pertaining to design and location preventing you from an upgrade? With a data Colocation centre, you can upgrade at a flexible cost. But, you need to firstly evaluate the Colocation centre based on certain points. Your entire decision making process should revolve around these listed set of parameters.


Power Density & Availability


For a data centre, power density and availability are the top most requirements that need to be fulfilled to make it better. Colocation data centre works towards making it better by the day. So, what has changed? The power density of the past years no longer satisfies the needs of the data centre. The number of active and spare servers has increased number of capacity to match the current needs. It is very necessary that you look out for providers who can provide:

•    Proper Power Scaling
•    Dedicated substation
•    Redundancies for electrical infrastructure
•    Metered pricing


Cooling Facility


What you need in your Colocation data center is a facility that takes care of the cooling needs of your equipments without compromising costs or power usage effectiveness rating PUE. PUE is basically overheads allied with cost. While deciding on a Colocation facility, you should ideally consider PUE and, think of a center which will lower the PUE for economical costing. While considering cooling, you should judge the data center on the following parameters:

•    Several  data centers
•    Availability
•    Amalgam of Cooling technology
•    Redundancy


Security


A good in-house security team is a must when you are looking out for Colocation data centres. Camera systems, monitoring systems, layered security zones etc. are also pivotal in terms of security. You should ideally have members who are certified with security teams on the staff.


Infrastructure Management


Your data center consists of a lot of complex technology that is interwoven. So, Data Centre Infrastructure Management is very important to you. It will ensure that your systems are well connected. The software has the ability to sense and respond and there is a secured portal and reporting system.


Failure to thoroughly evaluate your Colocation data centre on these parameters would make you choose the incorrect Colocation data center and, thus prevent you from upgrading your center. If you wish for business continuity, this is a very essential step for you.



Tuesday, 5 February 2013

To create awareness and service need amongst the SME segment in Vadodra

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3rd party Data centre services and related Cloud/SaaS based services are a relatively new concept for Indian Market, especially the local SME’s. Data First’s marketing objective is to reach out and explain the concept & benefits of availing our services to as many SME’s as possible, to create awareness and the need.
A 2-3 hour marketing session with the local CXO’s to explain the business and cost impact of our services and resolve any queries.

Audience:
Audience will consist of 50-80 Small & Medium businesses represented by key decision makers/CTO level representatives. These SME’s will be primarily from Manufacturing & Education verticals.

Program :
A 1-1.5 hr presentation by Data First followed by Q & A session and concluded by a Networking dinner.
Schedule: Saturday, Feb 2nd 2013

Timings:
Session Timings: 7.00 – 8.30 p.m.

Networking Dinner: 8.30 pm onwards

Venue: Banquet/Conference Hall of a centrally located 3/4 star property in Baroda

Friday, 1 February 2013

Seminar on Datacenter solutions for SMEs

We are excited about the upcoming seminar on “Datacenter solutions for SMEs” in Vadodra on 2nd of Feb. Mr. Rajesh Shah, former Head - IT, GSEB & Consultant is a plenary speaker along with Saurabh Garg - Business Head, DataFirst.

The session will explore the impact of outsourced IT infra services on costs &productivity, from the perspective of different industry verticals Be there to ride the wave of cloud technology..!!

For further information on the seminar contact marketing@datafirst.co.in or dial +91-9375840235.