IAE: low-cost virtual server solution for SMEs of Allschwil/Basel-based Internet service provider Genotec AG launched a convincing solution to the virtualisation of SME servers. The goal is to combine customer server in its own virtual environment. SMEs or other companies can reduce their costs. The advantages are clearly obvious: less costs, less administrative overhead, better utilization and its own administration (own cloud) speak for themselves so the assessment by Pascal Leu, product manager dedicated and vServer. Virtual clients can easily deploy themselves, produce no before-place effort for the administrators and are accessible from anywhere. This dedicated servers in redundant environment is provided with virtualization software pre-installed on the basis of Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (licensing for 4 virtual servers). Included are numerous features such as IP addresses, monitoring, remote management and backup pace, Hyper-V Manager. The costs amounted to CHF 499.-per month.
In the interaction, host clustering, live migration, failover capabilities, as well as other optional features can be realized with this product. The hardware of the highest quality is provided with servers from Hewlett-Packard. The dedicated virtual host with 12 GB of RAM, two hard drives of 500 GB and a XEON quad-core CPU (Nehalem) is equipped. For more information, virtualization of Genotec AG was founded in 2001 the Swiss Internet service provider Genotec AG. The company employs 36 people and serves in the own data centers in Zurich, Basel, Bern and Allschwil over 50’000 domain and about 500 Server customers. IAE is an Ofcom registered provider and certified as “Microsoft Gold Certified Partner”. IAE was awarded the quality seal Swiss Quality Hosting of the simsa and checked providerliste.ch.