Managed Enterprise Colocation Hosting Services

SiteSouth’s primary data center is located in Tier-1 data facilities protected and guarded 24 hours a day. Additionally, we further add security behind physical biometric readers, scan cards, dedicated firewalls and IPS, 24 hours a day, seven days a week with on-site personnel and video surveillance. Access to critical infrastructure is further restricted to only designated personnel and protected with an additional security layer. The facilities are equipped with redundant air conditioning and emergency power systems, humidity and water detection, redundant power access, and monitored intrusion protection.

SiteSouth has developed an In-depth solution dedicated to the managed business and enterprise colocation hosting client. By using multiple protection hardware and software systems we can provide you with the most robust protection of your servers, email system and web content and data. Our comprehensive enterprise colocation hosting solution can save you $100,000s in equipment costs, operating capital, employee costs and IT resources while providing fully managed services with accurate full service reporting and management.

Providing a strong defense against intruders and attackers that attempt to cripple your business operations is imperative for today's IT organizations. Between the increasing scale of attacks and the rapid emergence of new vulnerabilities, today's security infrastructure is unable to maintain needed levels of protection while also allowing legitimate business operations to continue.

Many intrusions stealthily pass through the firewall, and traditional network Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are designed for detection and recording of attacks after the fact. Inline security devices cobbled on top of IDS is still reactive in nature, yet all it takes is a single packet to take down an infrastructure. As IT security becomes more challenging what is needed is a proactive approach to protection that can accurately block only malicious users and traffic before any damage occurs.

By deploying our integrated security platform throughout the network our clients benefit from a multi-layer, distributed platform that delivers network vulnerability management, intrusion prevention/detection, network-state monitoring, packet-flow monitoring, traffic shaping, stateful firewall, IPSEC VPN, anomaly detection and data correlation. The entire solution is built around SiteSouth's “Security through Change Management” model, which integrates over 10 foundational security functions around an intelligent, network-wide change-monitoring core and security-event correlation engine


CORPORATE and REGULATORY POLICY ENFORCEMENT

Organizations must make sure that intellectual property and other confidential information is protected. Heightened awareness surrounding government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, have increased the need for organizations to take a more proactive role in policing what information is disseminated through email and the internet. SiteSouths Enterprise Colocation service is designed to enforce such policies.


INTRUSION PREVENTION SYSTEM SOLUTION

SiteSouth’s IPS and firewalls are a high performance prevention solution with intelligent blocking and control against the most prevalent cyber attacks. Hybrid attacks such as HTTP worms, DoS/DDoS attacks, protocol and traffic anomalies, IP spoofing, SYN flood attacks, and more, are in many cases, accurately detected, and stopped in real-time.

• Prevent undesired access
  
• Filter illegal packets and illegal headers
  
• Stop network attacks and DDoS attacks
  
• Prevent exploits of critical vulnerabilities
  
• Mitigate service overload attacks
  
• Thwart advanced hybrid and application level attacks
  
• Proactive protection from threats while patches are being tested and deployed
  

Reduction in time spent by IT personnel fixing and remediating attacked assets protection against exploits by employing a multi-staged defense Reduction in downtime and resource consumption due to DDoS and Zombie threats

Protection from undesired access and theft of intellectual property, SIteSouth can provide custom reports that show all access to your system including any attempted attack or intrusion.


SPAM FILTERING and VIRUS PROTECTION

SiteSouth's spam filtering and virus protection service provides advanced pattern matching technologies which simultaneously applies thousands of heuristic algorithms to your incoming email messages.Both the spam and virus database updated multiple times per day.

Our Gateway is looking for email addresses, phrases, obfuscation techniques, links, IP sources and other patterns which have been identified through submission addresses and spam traps. Patterns may be found in headers, attachments, message bodies or even combined across these boundaries.

SiteSout's spam filtering technology works by changing your domains MX (mail exchanger) record or your email client setting to redirect your incoming email messages through our secure Anti-Spam Gateway Firewall (we'll provide you instructions on how to make these changes). Email is then filtered before it reaches your companies email server. There are no administrative tasks for you to struggle with, and no hardware or software to purchase. SiteSouth's spam filtering service eliminates 99% of your junk email and all viruses that come along with it.

SiteSouth can provide custom monitoring and reporting services for your hosted applications. You can select testing in the ranges from every minute up to one hour. Test multiple ports and applications. Notification of system errors can be sent via telephone, SMS, email and instant messenger. We can create a custom escalation system to provide a managed contact list to notify your technicians and system admins. As an enterprise client you need to have accurate uptime and services reports. SiteSouth's 24/7 real time network and device monitoring service provides you with the monitoring and management tools you need.

All enterprise host require serious protection from exploits on unused TCP and UDP ports. If your current host is not offering you this service, move now! Protect your servers by choosing between private custom filters designed for a Windows server environment, Unix server environment, an OS neutral server environment, or if necessary, a Generic Deny Environment that only blocks well known vulnerable ports. All Private VLAN ACL have been designed by SiteSouth's security experts and outside consultants. We will work with your IT and Security staff to create a custom plan for your servers.

In addition to our 14 Gb public network SiteSouth provides all of its enterprise colocation clients with a Gigabit private network that allows for true secure out-of-band management via VPN through a distinct stand-alone third carrier over our SSL, PPTP, or IPSEC VPN gateway. Each client will receive a private /24 or larger IP assignment to use to move data from server to server or to upload or download data without affecting traffic or speed over the public network. In addition to client server to server access the private network is provides access to our private iSCSI NAS/Backup system. This allows for secure backup of client data with no bandwidth costs, nor interference with public traffic.

Protecting against disasters is critical for maintaining your business continuity. Reliable disaster recovery (data backup and restoration) is critical to all businesses. Hardware failure, theft, accidental deletions, virus damage and natural hazards such as fire and flood, make implementing a foolproof disaster recovery plan imperative for business security.

Your data is a vital asset and SiteSouth helps you keep it safe. Stored and transferred over our private 1 Gbs, multiple TB storage network SiteSouth automates and tracks the entire process of producing high speed secure storage for offsite vaulting.

You can design, schedule, and control all data backups from a simple graphical interface. SiteSouth's system utilizes patented performance algorithms, state-of-the-art parallel processing technology, dynamic optimization and architecture exploitation to minimize the elapsed time of applications and minimize the computer resources needed to run those applications. This allows you to leverage your existing hardware investment.

An effective backup and disaster recovery program must protect against physical and logical data disruption, and SiteSouth does both. SiteSouth is not a reseller and does not rely on a third-party to operate its vaults. Because we never relinquish control of your data to an outside vendor, there is no middleman limiting access, lessening security, and adding cost to the service we provide.

To protect data from physical disruptions such as hardware failure, SiteSouth uses established industry practices of layers of replicated servers and fail over technologies. Since the data can be automatically transferred off site to our other facilities, the SiteSouth service protects against all physical disruptions caused by catastrophic events at the client site.

All data is stored in our primary data center. At the client's request, data may be maintained in both our primary data center and our secondary remote data centers. The added safeguard of backing up to separate facilities ensures the data is safe in the unlikely event that a backup facility is affected by an emergency. Our primary data center is a tier-1 World-Class data center located in Atlanta, GA.

SiteSouth provides it clients with a Cluster on Demand, sometimes called "grid computing" or "utility computing" that is simply, a way of efficiently utilizing the computational power of many servers (called nodes) for one task. We use Linux/Windows clusters to deliver the processing power. Clusters allow the greatest flexibility for us so that we can deliver the best service to you. Also, unlike cloud, grid or utility computing where the nodes can be separated geographically, our on demand cluster nodes are managed in one location - at our Atlanta colocation facility.

Typically Clusters are used for computationally intensive problems that require a lot of runtime. Some problems require thousands of CPU hours to complete. Examples of these problems include: Rendering, Modeling, Quantum Mechanics, Bioinformatics, Molecular Dynamics, Statistics, Financial modeling, Weather modeling, Computational Biology, Oil and Gas, Economics, Genetics, Fluid Dynamics, data processing and much more.

Avoid the complexity and high costs of buying, installing, integrating, and maintaining a computer cluster. SiteSouth provides you with access to our high performance on-demand cluster computing resources. With direct access to your files gives you complete freedom and control of your code, applications, and data. Each customer is given a generous amount of persistent storage (called the home directory) where they can store data, applications, code, results, etc. The computing resources are organized into several "clusters". Each cluster has many computer nodes and each compute node has one or more CPUs (or cores). A customer defines how many compute nodes, memory and storage to use for an instance or "job". Run over our private network there is no data transfer cost and the system can be scaled to fit your needs. If you need one hour or a month of processing our Cluster on Demand will fit your computational demands.

SiteSouth strives to lead in to the future. In addition to standard IPv4 address space each Enterprise colocation client will receive a block of IPv6 addresses. This will allow client to begin the implementation of the newer IPv6 technology for their network while still maintaining a safe base of IPv4 IPs. SiteSouth’s network is full IPv6 compliant and ready for IPv6 when you are.

SiteSouth maintains two dedicated and colocation data centers in Atlanta, GA and one in Las Vegas, NV. By offering remotely located data centers SiteSouth’s enterprise clients may house their primary server array in one data center and maintain secure back up and emergency servers in the other. Each data center is a tier 1 facility including: unique network backbone connections, redundant Cisco routers, 24 hour access card key access, CCTV, battery backup, standby generators and multiple Liebert A/C units maintaining a climate of 70 degrees (+/- 5) and 30-60% humidity, N+1 redundancy and 24/7 network and support staff.

REAL 24/7/365 SUPPORT

In todays mission critical environment SiteSouth provides real 24/7/365 hands on support. Our technical staff is available at any time for remote hands support. Support is reachable at any time by simply making a telephone call.

Please contact us at 404-630-7382 or at info@sitesouth.com for full details.