Big Saving – 100% Private – Most Secure – Total Flexibility

A dedicated virtual server system is a private, secure, dedicated physical hardware system running virtualization software for one customer only. The system is fully managed by MindCentric and all the virtual server images are custom built for you. If you need five or more dedicated servers or virtual server images this is for you. You will save money, be much more secure and have more flexibility.

• What is a dedicated virtual server system?
  
• Virtualization for the Mid-Market: Business Requirements, Challenges, and Solution
  
• Why use a dedicated virtual server system vs. a shared system?
• Sample configuration ideas (dedicated business and high-availability)
  

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Virtualization for the Mid-Market:

The enterprise market has quickly embraced virtualization technology and now small and medium size business can, too, with MindCentric. Our virtualization services eliminate the risk and expense of new technology implementation and management. Plus, MindCentric has design our virtualization service specifically for the mid-market. Below are the business requirements and challenges facing the mid-market, and our solution.

Business Requirements:

• Contain and reduce costs
• Maximize budgets and personal resources
• Have cost-effective disaster recovery and high availability in place
  
• Protect critical business data
• Manage the rapid growth of business data
• Improve data archiving for legal compliance

Challenges:

• IT staffs are mostly made of generalists who lack virtualization experience and expertise
• Tight IT budgets for hard and soft costs
• Limited staff resources for new technology and training
• The myth that new technology is too expensive
• Hard to implement change

Solution [dedicated virtual managed services from MindCentric]:

• Cost effective enterprise class IT
• Built-in disaster recovery
• Additional virtualization features and support
• Secure customer data
• All supported and managed by MindCentric

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Using an image or slice from a shared virtual system is good for development work or non-critical online applications and web sites. You get the full use and access to a dedicated operating system (an image) to do anything you need, just like a single dedicated server at a low cost, but if you are running a production site you should consider the following:

1. Risk in sharing the core system: When using a virtual image on a shared virtual system, the image is dedicated to one customer, but the physical hardware and the core virtualization software is all share. So, anything that happens to the core system will affect you.
2. Security Risk: You have no control over the security enforcement of the other images, so you have no idea what they are allowing in that could infect the system and your image.
3. Bad Code: The other image users could have bad code or application configuration that could crash their system or the core system ultimately affecting you.
4. Bad practices or expertise: In some cases, although rare, if the other image users do something foolish it can cause the system to require a reboot, or even take the system down.
5. Resource flood: If an image user on the shared virtual system suddenly allows disc space, bandwidth or other resources to fill to capacity the system could easily lock up. The providers of a shared virtual system should be monitoring these things, but this can happen so fast that the damage can be done in seconds, especially if the image users are not responsible.

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Solutions:

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