Tips for Choosing Offshore Data Centre Solutions

Instead of housing and maintaining Data Centres, organizations are looking into offshore options for outsourcing their data centre needs. Colocation of enterprise servers, developing a recovery system or exploring cloud computing, all these options have shifted the focus to offsite. Choosing a good offshore data centre to house a company’s server and associated infrastructure is not an easy task. Numerous site visits, meetings and discussions goes into it before reaching on a unanimous decision. Lets explore few tips for choosing the right data centre for your business.

Redundancy

Redundancy in case of computer engineering is the “duplication of critical components or functions of a system with intention of increasing their reliability, usually in the case of a backup or fail safe”. Redundancy is something that is absolutely necessary in case of data centres. A data centre should come with a minimum primary back up of all critical components. Everything that is necessary from business continuity angle should be present in the data centre location or facility. Power generators, HVAC, fire suppression should be in place. Also to support the primary backup, a secondary backup system should also be in place. The offsite facility should also maintain and store reserve fuel and should come with proper cooling system for the servers.

Telecommunication Infrastructure

A robust telecommunication infrastructure is highly important for businesses. Your offsite data centre should be well equipped to provide network neutral access to prime telecom carriers and internet backbones. This would benefit the client companies by providing direct access to national, international, public and private networks; while also supporting the wireless and fibre optic connectivity. This way the uptime increases to the maximum providing satisfaction to the customer. The data access is secure and reliable. 24x 7 technical support and IT staff should be available to maintain and update the network.

SLAs

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are important to be defined and maintained. SLAs define and ensure quality of service, power maintenance, temperature support and network uptime. Evaluate the terms of the SLA to understand its impact on your contract. Check SLA for the guarantee they promise and then choose your data centre.

Security

Physical security is an important aspect of data centre location. Look for a data centre offshore that offers high level security system. Proper stationing of guards inside and outside the premises on 24x7 rotational shifts, CCTV cameras installed throughout the facility, also look for advanced security solutions like access card entry, electronic punching and fingerprint recognition systems.

About Gurgaon IT Hub: Gurgaon IT Hub offers a plug and play office environment and is a world class business centre with top of the line IT Infrastructure services. Besides offering a ready to move in and work environment, they offer excellent range of amenities including training, meeting and conference rooms, break-out areas and shared office options, high speed internet, supported by an exceptionally 

experienced team of professionals.

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Managed Office Space Experience with Gurgaon IT Hub

It was in the summer last year when I received a call after many years from one of my close friend settled in London. He informed me that he has started his own business and he is looking to expand his business in India. Originally from South India he had little knowledge about North Indian grounds. His target was to test Delhi-NCR circuit for business opportunities.

From the basic outline that my friend gave me about his business, I could gather that it had something to do with a semi-technical profile often involving sales and marketing. Obviously he had little knowledge about Gurgaon and he neither had the capital nor time or patience to start a new company from scratch. He was for this reason looking for:

a)      A fully furnished and managed office space

b)      High End telecom equipment with dialer management

c)      Servers or data centres to support the networking architect

d)     24x7 technical support

I have been living and working in Gurgaon for last 10 years. Being in a senior management profile I had good contacts in the business circuit. It was through the reference from one of my entrepreneur friend that I got to know about Gurgaon IT Hub. After going through their website and reading several reviews online I recommended my friend to hold initial conversation with them.

My friend was pleased with the kind of response he received from the Gurgaon IT Hub personnel. All his queries were answered in a professional manner and he was invited for a tour of the business centre. Located at a distance of only 20 minutes from the international airport, occupying a calm spot in Udyog Vihar is this beautiful business centre. As soon as I reached the office premises I was amazed by its expansiveness. There were two guards at the gate who welcomed us inside.

From the look of the facility I could gather that it was approximately housed 4- 5 floors. After a quick reception at the main area, we were taken to one of the conference rooms for a quick discussion. The Gurgaon IT Hub team member was kind enough to explain the costs of per seat and monthly cost my friend would eventually incur. Shortly we were taken on a quick office tour, like I calculated the office space had four floors and it came with its individual pantry and washroom. The workstations looked in fine order with every station assigned a telephone line. Also, the systems made available were from Dell and HP. We were then taken to the server room and the GITH staff explained to us how they manage and update the networks. My friend was particularly impressed by the server room; he also noticed that it had a separate cooling arrangement in place.

Thoroughly impressed by the work stations and supporting technology we were then taken to the Cafeteria. The expansive cafeteria in the basement came with a tuck shop and there were vendors who would plate food during lunch and dinner hours. From the back entry I could see two community size generator in place and I was won over by the amount of investment GITH had made to make this business centre so unique.

From physical security to data security and then the level of redundancy, everything was in place from business continuity perspective. My friend was really impressed and after the GITH staff customized the plan for him to suit his budget, my friend decided to sign a contract. My friend is successfully running his India operations from the comfort of this IT office space and still tells me about great IT infrastructure support and services that GITH provides its clients.

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