Technology, Security and Resilience

Zync take the ownership and management of your data seriously, that is why we use state of the art technology and industry standard practises to give you peace of mind that your data is always available as well as safe and secure.

Datacentre

Located at Telehouse West Docklands London which has full ISO27001 certification (Datacentre Specification).

ISO27001 is the internationally recognised auditing standard for the management of information security, and is your assurance that Zync has the controls and safeguards in place to meet the highest security standards for your valuable data.

-    N+1 redundancy in all systems.

-    Data centre power systems have multiple generators with backups, fed by multiple power feeds, all protected by parallel redundant UPS with battery backup.

-    Data centre Environments are kept stable using full data-grade HVAC systems with N+1 redundancy, to maintain constant ambient air temperature and humidity.

-    Other protection systems include early warning fire detection systems, plus fire suppression systems.

-    Multiple layer card access and video and human surveillance maintain comprehensive physical security, along with security staff who are on 24/7/365.

Hardware

The latest HP BL460c Blade servers, running Intel Xeon 5650 (Nehalem) processors.

The C7000 Blade chassis are highly resilient with multiple power supplies, fans and network switches.

The blades are configured in N+1 meaning there is always spare hardware available in the event of a failure.

Storage

Provisioned on our Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN units configured in RAID10.

The Dell EqualLogic units run 15K RPM SAS drives to ensure the ultimate in IO performance.

They also have have dual power suppliers and dual heads in active passive failover mode to ensure uptime.

Software

Use VMWare ESX4.0 Enterprise running all of the high availability features including:

-    HA – High Availability – in the event of hardware failure, Cloud Instances are rebooted onto another physical host in the cluster.

-    DRS – Cloud Instances are automatically and seamlessly moved between physical hosts according to resource requirements and availability.

-    vMotion – the ability to move live Cloud Instances between physical hosts for maintenance.

-    Zync software sits on the latest Linux and Windows Server images within the VMWare Enterprise to ensure the best and most reliable performance

-   All sensitive data is protected with a minimum of 128 bit encrytion during data transmission

-  Client data is backed up daily and mirrored off-site.