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dvaDataStorage offers a Managed Services delivery model, which will allow us to support your entire Organization with our Flat-Rate I.T. Program

  • Your Organization will benefit by receiving support beginning with our skilled Help-Desk Technicians all the way up to our Certified Network Engineers.
  • You will
    • Save $$ on Support Costs
    • Improve your I.T. Support Infrastructure
    • Elevate Employee Morale and Productivity
    • Benefit from Improved Uptime

Our services includes:

  • Managed Services
  • Datacenters (WA - Bothell, Seattle, Tukwila) Colos can be setup anywhere in the world
  • 24x7x365 Network Monitoring
  • Disaster Recovery design and services
  • IS Consulting
  • IS Outsourcing
  • IT Services
  • Managed Microsoft and Linux Server Provider
  • Microsoft Gold-Level Partner (monthly licensing fees which help lessen overhead)
  • BizSpark Provider (free licensing for startups)
  • Point to Point Broker for over 30 different providers on fiber and/or transport lines to link remote offices anywhere in the USA or world-wide
  • Virtualization Private Servers
  • Private Cloud Services
  • Server Farm Clustering and build-outs (Exchange, Sharepoint, Active Directory/Terminal Services)


Managed Services

We offer Managed Services Solutions for customers that rely on our expertise to run and maintain their infrastructure. Our Managed Services offerings are suitable for customers with a single servers to those with multi-servers web farm infrastructure.

Our Managed Services provide a solution for organizations that lack in house IT expertise by providing them with our experienced system administrators who are always available to answer any of your system needs. Our managed services solutions allow organizations to do best at what they are doing without having to worry about administering IT Network and Systems.


Single Server Infrastructure Web Farm Infrastructure

Wowrack is able to provide support for customers on single server infrastructure that may house multiple applications such as web, database, email and custom application.

Our 24/7 tier-1 engineers are most familiar with such infrastructure and will be able to support all network and system administration issues.

Wowrack is also very familiar with multi-server web farm infrastructure that may include these network components:

Router, Firewall, Switches, VPN, Security Devices, Load Balancing Devices, Web Servers, Database Servers, Email servers, File Servers, Monitoring Servers, Backup servers, and other application servers needed to run a complex high available web infrastructure.

Our Tier1 and Tier2 engineers will be able to support such infrastructure and provide fully managed solutions to our customers.



Data Center

Physical Features

  • Keycard access security, biometric scanning security, elevator access level security and locked suites and server cabinets.
  • 24/7 security camera surveillance with security personnel making scheduled rounds at pre-determined times.
  • Authorized personnel only in our datacenter. Unauthorized access must be strictly scheduled and escorted by Wowrack staff.


Datacenter Environmental Conditioned Power
  • Redundant datacenter grade HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning) systems configured as N+1 redundancy to ensure proper cooling in event of HVAC unit malfunction.
  • Fire suppression sprinkler system with Pre-action pipes to stop fire from spreading in the Datacenter facility.
  • FM 200 fire suppression systems installed in some areas of the datacenter.
  • Monitored heat detection systems.
  • UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supplies) systems are installed in our datacenters to provide conditioned power to all equipment. Wow's UPS design will also provide short term protection against any unexpected power losses. This allows allow enough time for the main power to be transferred to the building Backup generator.
  • Backup Generator systems are installed to provide long term projection against utility power loss. Our datacenters have multiple service contracts with local fueling companies the event of a city-wide power loss.
  • Backup Generators are routinely tested to ensure proper uptime and reliability during any extended periods of city or building power failures.



Network Staff
  • Wowrack datacenters are running on a 100% fully redundant Cisco enterprise network with BGP and HSRP protocols.
  • Flow Control Protocols are enabled to ensure high network service levels with low latencies and high availability.
  • Multi Gigabit and 10-Gigabit capable backbone providers.
  • Wowrack's network is directly peered with over 100 other networks which include the nation’s largest ISP, corporations and Internet Organizations.
  • Wowrack staff monitors its network 24 x 7 x365 to ensure SLA and systems availability. Our automated process allows our engineers to be notified of any downtime and our automatic restore processes reduce our manual workloads.
  • Wowrack's professional staff include certified engineers in fields such as Cisco, Microsoft, CISSP, and Red Hat.


Backup Services

Wowrack has partnered with Divinsa to provide safe, fast and reliable online data backup and recovery services. The service also includes an easy and intuitive management capability designed to streamline even the most daunting backup and recovery tasks.

Online Backup Features

  • Fully automated online offsite backup.
  • Reliably restore data at any time, including previous versions of files, to any computer.
  • Secure 448-bit encryption, which meets or exceeds US Government Federal Standard.
  • No special hardware or tape backup hardware needed, Internet connection is all you need.
  • Data is compressed before transmitting to save storage space.
  • Fully automated (unattended) data backups to secure offsite servers.
  • Control when, how often, and what to backup.
  • E-Mail notification of failed backups.
  • Full history logs of backups for auditing and regulatory compliance.
  • No extra bandwidth fee so you can backup and restore as frequently as you like.
  • 30 day money back guarantee.
  • Microsoft Windows Server Family fully supported. Unix and Linux options are available, inquire for more details.

Backup Infrastructure Features

  • Backup servers are housed in world class datacenter featuring 24/7 building security, Multiple power grid access, Several weeks of generator power backup, Redundant UPS backup systems, Redundant HVAC and Industry leading fire supression systems.
  • Wowrack has redundant Gigabit link to the offsite backup datacenter facility in order to provide free backup bandwidth.
  • Backup server data are redundantly mirrored to a different facility of at least 25 miles of distance from the main datacenter.
  • Utilizes data center quality rack mounted computers servers, load balancing, and redundant hard disk arrays.


IS Outsourcing

Wowrack is also able to provide full service IS Outsourcing solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. Our in house systems and network expertise combined with our network of diligent and friendly field engineers, allow us to deliver you a 100% fully outsourced IS service. Our goal is to help and fully be responsible for our customer’s entire IT infrastructure.

Our team includes the following layer of IT roles:

  • Chief Technology Officer: Advice and assist in making decision for all of IT related infrastructure.
  • Project Manager: Ability to manage project from start to finish.
  • Tier 2 Engineers: Our resident experts will be able to help solve complex IT projects and problems including Network, Systems, and Applications.
  • Help Desk Engineers: Our network of field engineers will be able to assist end users on all aspect of desktop related questions.


Managed Microsoft Servers

Wowrack has partnered with Microsoft to deliver mission critical application infrastructure to all of our customers. Our expertise in Microsoft based products is the basis of our success in being able to design, support and maintain Microsoft based server products.

Wowrack is also an official Microsoft Bizspark Network Partner. If your company is a qualified startup organization, you may qualify for Microsoft software licenses and support program at little or no cost!

Below are some of the Microsoft products that we actively support.

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, 2008
  • Microsoft Active Directory Network
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007
  • Microsoft Forefront Family
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
  • Microsoft ISA Server 2006
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008
  • Microsoft System Center Family
  • Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
  • Microsoft Windows Server Update Service
  • Microsoft Windows Storage Server


Monitoring

We have extensive experience deploying and maintaining server and application monitoring to minimize downtime. We are able to constantly monitor a customer’s network, systems and even applications by deploying automated systems in Wowrack’s perimeter network, within a customer’s network and multiple locations on the Internet to ensure 100% complete monitoring coverage.

When the monitoring system caught an outage alert, our Network Operation Center or customer can be notified of the downtime through Email, Text Message, or even a Phone call.


In House Monitoring Custom Monitoring

We offer our in-house monitoring solution which provides basic port monitors such as ICMP Ping, SSH, RDP or any services running on TCP/IP. This in-house monitoring infrastructure runs in within Wowrack’s own Network.

We also offer custom monitoring solutions for those who demand extensive monitoring on their web farms and applications. Let us help build a Customized Network layer monitoring such as ICMP Ping, SSH,RDP, or any TCP/IP based monitors. Wow can also build server performance monitors that watch your systems performance including: CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, and Network.

On top of the network and system’s layer monitoring, we can also build an application layer such as HTTP web browsing test, FTP, Email, DNS, or SQL query.


These solutions will cover 100% of your system’s network monitoring needs. However, we understand that some customers demand multi-location monitors outside of Wowrack or customer’s own network. This brings us to partner with a 3rd party monitoring company, Hyperspin. Hypersin maintains servers around the world in order to monitor your system and application uptime.


IS Consulting

Wowrack offers professional Information Technology consulting services that cater to businesses of any size. We work with small organizations (1-100 users), mid-size companies (101-1000 users) and large multi-national organizations. We utilize our expertise in Information Technology in order to deliver you value added services and help businesses design, maintain and run their IT Infrastructure.

Our IS consulting services ranges from

  • Advisory role
  • Audit and Reporting >
  • Design
  • Implementation
  • Integration
  • Upgrade & Maintenance

Our IS consulting services include but are not limited to the following expertise:

  • Internet datacenter design and deployment projects.
  • Corporate I.T. Infrastructure design.
  • Cisco network design including LAN/WAN Routing, Enterprise Switching, Security and VPN.
  • Microsoft expertise including:
    • Windows 2000/2003/2008 Active Directory.
    • Multi Domain, Multi Network and Multi Location Active Directory Networks.
    • Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007
    • Microsoft ISA Server 2000/2006
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008
    • Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007
    • Microsoft System Center Family including Essentials, Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager, WSUS.
    • Microsoft Dynamics Family
  • High Traffic web infrastructure including:
    • Load Balancing
    • Web Server Farms
    • Database Replication and/or Clustering
    • Centralized deployment and automation
  • Security design including:
    • Firewall
    • VPN
    • Anti Virus Protected Network
    • Intrusion Detection
    • Log shipping and audit
    • Physical security
    • Web Filtering
    • Spam Filtering
    • Antivirus Gateway
    • Perimeter Network security
  • Virtualization expertise including:
    • Xen, OpenVZ, HyperVM
    • VMWare
    • Hyper-V
  • Backup Infrastructure and strategy.
  • Wireless Networking.
  • Telephony.
  • Systems Integration.
  • IT Project Management.
  • Small Business IT solutions.


IT Services

Wowrack provides managed services within all types of hosting needs. Whether a server farm cluster, virtual hosting, VPS/Cloud Computing, or a dedicated hosting design, our services range from part-time server management to a fully managed hosting solution depending on what fits your business the best. This is perfect for those that are seeking a knowledgeable Systems Admiistrator but would rather outsource this need vs. hiring someone full-time.

Our solutions allow businesses to operate at a level in which they are comfortable with .

Wow offers 5 levels of managed service solutions: