Exeter Data Centre already delivers 'cloud' technology
Cloud technology has become the new buzz word in the communications industry but it is a service Exeter's South West Communications Group has been successfully delivering for the past seven years.
South West Communications Group's state-of-the-art Data Centre has been using this technology ever since it opened in 2001.
Cloud technology enables users to access and save all their documents and multi media on servers centrally located by communications companies in large Data Centres. A recent BBC report revealed Microsoft, Google and Amazon were all competing for the residential cloud market, but the Data Centre in Exeter already delivers this service to its business customers.
The advantages of utilising cloud technology is the reduced cost of the desktop computer equipment, centralised data storage, up-to-date software releases and the ability to access personal files from anywhere there is a link to the Internet.
However, the Data Centre offers much more than these advantages to its business customers.
South West Communications Group's technical sales director Brett Varker said: "We have seven years' of experience in this so-called new technology and have successfully enhanced our customers' use of information storage and remote access. However, what may be deemed more important, is that all these data files are protected by multiple layers of security and system resilience as part of the Data Centre's built in disaster recovery facilities.
"For instance, the information stored on our servers in Exeter is automatically copied in encrypted format to our Portsmouth storage systems so that the data is always available."
South West Communications Group provides cloud technology to many local and national businesses.
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 [back to top]
