The background
South West Communications Group helps Webselect Internet Solutions protect its servers from potential threats from the Internet with a fully managed, high availability and resilient virtualized IT infrastructure.
Webselect Internet Solutions is a website design company based in Chudleigh, Devon. It develops updateable, accessible business websites, e-commerce solutions, and is an expert in integrating databases. In addition, Webselect hosts and manages client sites on its own in-house web servers, registers domain names, provides full virus-scanned, anti-spam email accounts and offers a range of secure server solutions..
The challenge
Webselect had moved its servers to South West Communications Group’s data centre in Exeter in 2006 and had always been impressed by the service it received. Therefore, when Webselect was faced with a new challenge, it turned to South West Communications Group as its trusted data centre services supplier.
Against a backdrop of Internet threats that had damaged the integrity of businesses and organisations across the world, Webselect had a requirement to secure its servers against potential intrusion. This need was compounded by the rapid growth of Webselect’s client base.
The solution
South West Communications Group refreshed Webselect’s hardware with a managed solution that provided improved security, high availability and increased capacity. This resilient virtualized server environment replicated between 2 geographically dispersed sites created a new IT infrastructure that comprised:Server virtualization
- SAN to SAN replication
- High speed fibre links
- Diverse carrier links
- Disaster recovery
- Advanced intrusion protection
- Technical expertise and support
- Full pre–staging of solution before deployment
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