Saturday, February 26, 2011

Rack Lodge: Costa Rica Data Center Cisco Network



 Rack Lodge utilizes all Cisco hardware throughout the datacenter. With two border routers, two core routers and redundant links going to each switch on the racks, Rack Lodge Data Centers provides the superior network that you need.
An enterprise network is a large network comprised of hundreds or thousands of workstations all connected with WAN circuits across many states and/or countries. The components are comprised of network devices, circuits, servers data center, applications, security and network management that connect employees for the purpose of supporting business processes. It is business processes that make companies profitable.

Tips to Securing a Cisco Network:


1. Reverse Path Forwarding
2. Silence that port
3. Configure AAA and ACL's for secure VTY access
4. Encrypt passwords in Configuration
5. More secure routing protocols with passive-interface default

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Rack Lodge: Costa Rica Data Center Hosted PBX

 Rack Lodge offers Hosted PBX solutions for medium to small businesses. Our solution allows you to provide the best customer service possible, without the expense or hassle of buying and maintaining your own phone system. All you need is an IP phone and we take care of the rest.
Each Rack Lodge Data Center Hosted PBX plan provides a fully automated, professional, advanced phone system that gives you competitive features like 99.99% uptime, skill based routing, simple administration, and professional support, making our solution the best value available in today’s marketplace.

Manage Business from Anywhere

With hosting VoIP PBX phone system you can remain connected with your customers all through business hours and after-hours from your office, home or other locations. Its advanced call forwarding feature forwards calls incoming to primary business phone numbers to your cell phones and personal landlines assigned as extensions. This would also help your workforce to operate from convenient locations. Some of the other benefits you can enjoy are:

    * Reduce chances of missing calls
    * Enhance workforce efficiency
    * Improve customer service
    * Save on hardware investment
    * Easy to configure

To get the most positive benefits of hosted PBX phone systems it is essential to seek the assistance of a reliable service provider. Such a provider can ensure you economic and best server plans that perfectly suit your business communication needs.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Rack Lodge: Costa Rica Data Center SPAM Protection



 Rack Lodge's Spam Protection Service is a domain level Spam and Virus Email filtering service for organizations ranging in size from small businesses to corporate enterprises. We utilize Barracuda Networks equipment to provide you with maximum protection.# A team of security engineers at Barracuda Central continuously monitors the Internet for trends in Spam and Virus attacks.As they detect trends, Energize Updates are created and distributed to the Barracuda's Hosting service and all Barracuda Spam Firewalls. Each Barracuda unit is automatically updated with new Spam rules, Spam algorithms, and Virus definitions. These updates require zero administration and ensure that your network has comprehensive and accurate protection even as the methods of attack change.

Benefits:
    * Filtering SPAM before it reaches your network allows more bandwidth for your users allowing them to be more productive while lowering your Internet connection costs.
    * Filtering SPAM and Virus’ before it reaches your network decreases load on your E-Mail Server, allowing for faster response and reducing the need to upgrade hardware performance.
    * Using Rack Lodge's Spam Protection Service reduces the chance of a Virus entering your network and perhaps compromising an un-patched or outdated E-Mail servers in data center.
    * You have one less appliance or software package to update. Our servers are updated “hourly” with Energized Updates from Barracuda Central.
    * Rack Lodge's Spam Protection Service is cost effective, and provides one less service you have to deal with in your office. There is no software to install on your server host or workstations.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Rack Lodge: Costa Rica Data Center Storage & Backup


Rack Lodge provides several affordable backup plans for your critical data, applications, and root servers. We can help your organization successfully navigate complex regulatory compliance issues by working with you to create a backup policy that meets your requirements and budget.
Backups work best when you have multiple copies, at least one of which is both current and offsite. OS X’s Time Machine feature plus high-capacity, low-cost hard drives make it possible to back up regularly and to rotate drives through backup sets and store a full backup somewhere away from the data center that’s on it.
An online backup service can be the perfect addition to your backup plan.With large amounts of storage and faster Internet connections, backing up your files online has become more viable. These hosting backup providers can also add depth to your archives, since most of them store data in such a way that you can retrieve several—or even several hundred—previous versions of a modified file.

Our Storage & Backup solutions are flexible, reliable, and most of all economical.

Features are:

» Near Continuous Backups

» Dozens of Recovery Points per Day

» Bare-Metal Disaster Recovery

» Control Panel Plugin Storage Space

Monday, February 14, 2011

Rack Lodge: Costa Rica Data Center Remote KVM



Rack Lodge KVM-Over-IP is a hardware-based KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) product that allows complete control over your server host even when your software or interface fails to respond.
KVM over IP is similar in form and function of a traditional KVM. It allows multiple computers to be connected to the KVM Switches and be controlled by a single user's keyboard, video and mouse station. The difference is the Remote Access Server has added IP functionality, which means you can access any of the connected best servers via 128 bit secure browser from anywhere in the world over IP (SSL v3, RSA, AES, HTTP, HTTPs, CSR).
Remote KVMs are not only limited to single users. The aptly named multi-user KVM switch gives numerous individuals control of a network of computers. Another variation of remote KVM is the multi-platform switch, able to handle a variety of technologies, such as the ability to switch from a PC to a Mac®. Initially, remote KVMs were limited to a niche business market, but over time have been made more accessible to the general public. As a result, KVM switches grow more and more affordable and easy to use.
Remote KVM Features:
» Always-available access to server data center
» Provides BIOS-level control
» Cross platform Web Interface
» Multi user access