Data Center Services

As Choice has grown, we have expanded to have our own data center to manage a number of services for our clients. Unlike your typical offsite data center, Choice's data center is much more robust. Most data centers are warehouses that simply cool and power equipment. We have technicians on staff whose focus is on management and maintenance of the systems in our data center and who you can talk to directly if you have an issue. These technicians monitor our data center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; so that you can be assured that your system resources are managed appropriately. The data center is protected with a generator that runs on natural gas, so if a major electrical outage occurs, the data center will continue to run.

Some of our data center services include:

• Redundant circuits
• Daily backups
• On-site staff that manages hardware
• On-site staff to work with one on one
• Server co-location

Website Hosting

Choice Technologies currently runs our own datacenter allowing us to easily manage your servers and applications off-site.

Web Server Features:

• Fast Linux based environments
• MySQL Databases
• Supporting PHP scripting language
• Shared or dedicated hosting available
• On-site staff to develop custom scripts
• On-site staff to work with one on one

Choice Technologies does not do in house web design. However, we can point you in the right direction to our partners to address your specific web design needs.

Co-Location

Server Co-location gives you peace of mind by housing your data communications equipment in a secure, climate controlled environment.

Our co-location facilities offer you a secure place to physically house your hardware and equipment as opposed to locating it in your office or warehouse where the potential for fire, theft or vandalism is much greater.

Our co-location facility offers high-security, fire detection and extinguishing devices, multiple connection feeds, filtered power, backup power generators to ensure high-availability, which is mandatory for all Web-based, virtual businesses.

Server Co-location Benefits:

• Security
• Reliability
• Peace of mind
• Multiple internet connections
• Backup power generator

Spam & Virus Filtering

Viruses and worms can have devastating effects on systems and networks. New viruses infiltrate daily, so up to date protection through anti-virus software is a must. We automate the process to maximize your protection.

Spam over the past two years went from a small annoyance to a large problem. Spam has become so prevalent that it can stop your workflow completely. Spam has become a large problem affecting productivity in the office.

Virtualization

Virtualization is a software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT scene and essentially changing the way that people compute.  Virtualization lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments.  Different virtual machines can run different operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer.  Virtualizing your IT infrastructure lets you reduce IT costs while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility of your existing assets.

Some benefits of Virtualization:

• Run multiple operating systems on a single computer
• Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less hardware
• Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions
• Pool common infrastructure resources and break the legacy “one application to one server” model with server consolidation
• Fewer serves and related IT hardware means reduced real estate and reduced power and cooling requirements.