Revere’s Managed Hosting services provides a business class, highly available and secure computing environment to run your Dynamics GP system. Revere’s managed hosting services are comprised of the following:
- Highly Available Data Center & Internet Communications
- Virtual and/or Dedicated Servers
- SAN Storage
- Backup & Recovery Services
- 24x7x365 Automated Monitoring using Nimsoft Monitoring Solutions (http://www.nimsoft.com/solutions/index.php)
- Maintenance & Support provided by experienced Cisco & Microsoft Engineers
Revere has partnered with Equinix, a world leader in carrier neutral facilities. Their Chicago data center meets or exceeds The Uptime Institute’s Tier III classification, with fully redundant systems for power, HVAC, networking, fire suppression and security. Highlights include:
- Power: Full UPS capacity and dual diesel generator yards with substantial fuel supplies onsite and under contract.
- Security: Two levels of 24 hour security staff on-site, pervasive CCTV coverage and biometric security access control.
- Networking: As one of the major Internet interconnection points, this facility provides high-speed redundant access to the top global networks.
Revere has implemented a fully redundant network and security infrastructure. With automatic failover capabilities, this design delivers high performance and high availability with reduced management overhead. Highlights include:
- Dual 100Mbps Internet connections to redundant ISPs
- Dual firewalls in Active/Standby configuration
- Dual intrusion detection/protection appliances monitored and updated 7x24 by offsite NOC
- VLAN isolation of client traffic and managed VPN access to select systems
- All internal network traffic over 1Gbps Ethernet
Revere offers a range of storage options to support a wide variety of requirements in terms of performance, capacity and reliability. Highlights include:
- Internal Disk: RAID arrays under 7x24 automated monitoring.
- Storage Area Network: Multiple tiers are available, all in an Enterprise class SAN with a high-speed write cache to maximize throughput. Tier 1 storage features 15K RPM drives with redundant 2Gbps fiber channel connect. All drives in RAID arrays with hot spares.
- Backups: On-site multi-cartridge changer, with standard nightly incremental and weekly full backups with off-site rotation. Alternative & custom procedures are available.
Revere offers computing capacity in a variety of configurations, including both physical and virtual dedicated servers. Highlights include:
- HP ProLiant servers are standard, under premium vendor support and configured with redundant power supplies, cooling fans and 1Gbps Ethernet cards.
- All virtual hosts operate under VMWare ESX with automatic failover enabled for greater availability. Ample uncommitted capacity is maintained to ensure the loss of a physical host will not impact production capacity.
- All servers are configured for Integrated Lights Out (ILO) remote management and are under 7x24 automated monitoring.