The Signature Group offers hosting, private cloud computing, and co-location services to help organizations address their IT infrastructure needs and pain points around downtime and reduced budgets. Their solutions leverage virtualization and secure, reliable facilities to provide high value with low investment. The Signature Group facility has robust physical and technical security measures, redundant power and cooling infrastructure, and carrier-neutral connectivity options. Organizations can optionally leverage fully managed services for peace of mind while reducing costs and resources required for on-site IT management. This allows clients to focus on their core business and scale infrastructure on demand.

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2. The Signature Group
Hosting/Private Cloud Computing and
Co-Location Services
Chris Vain
Chief Technologist
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3. Pain Points
Organizations are more and more dependant on IT infrastructure
Any downtime has a significant impact
Protecting against failure incurs significant costs
Small and medium size businesses lose an average of $84,000 for
every hour of downtime. -- International Data Corp
Reduced or static budgets
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4. TSG Solutions
Hosting and Private Cloud Computing
• Host Business Applications on TSG Infrastructure
• Leverage virtualization technology to group workloads enhancing
performance and reliability
Co-location
• Co-Locate IT infrastructure in our highly available secure facility
• Maintain and manage all or just part of the overall system
Leverage TSG infrastructure
• High Value
• Low Investment
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5. TSG Facility at Equinix
Physical Structure
•Hardened facility built to withstand most disasters
•Facility designated as National Critical Infrastructure
Power
•Highly available and robust Power infrastructure
•AC power delivery via redundant UPS systems with generator back-up
•48 hours worth of generator fuel and contracts with multiple fuel providers
Cooling
•Robust and Redundant cooling
•13,652 BTUH per cabinet capacity
Multilevel Security
•On-site manned security 24x365
•Zoned Security with four biometric checkpoints and man traps prior to gaining access
to any cabinets, racks or cages
•Kinetic locks on private cabinets
•Highly secure audited environment
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6. TSG Facility at Equinix
Data Connectivity
• Redundant multi-carrier shared internet circuits
• Carrier neutral facility for private internet or wan circuits
• Recognized as one of the largest Internet exchange points in the
world
Fire Detection and Suppression
• sensory detection mechanisms (sniffers)
• Multi-zone dry pipe systems
Flood Control
• Moisture Detections Systems
• Dedicated pump rooms and drainage/evacuation systems
Worldwide Presence
• 87 data centers in 11 countries
• 90% of worlds internet traffic flows through the facility
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7. IT Benefits
Optional Fully managed environment
• TSG SignatureCare on all infrastructure components
• Flexible ‘ownership’ of applications and services
• Reducing capital expenditures while ensuring high
availability and receiving technical support.
• Leverage SignatureCare DataProtection and other
services for peace of mind
Blend Hosting or Co-Location and Disaster
Recovery for mission critical applications
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8. Business Benefit
No need to maintain
Reduce capital costs
physical real estate Speed deployment of
and staff resource
dedicated to IT new services
requirements
infrastructure
Increase reliability
and availability of
Scale on demand
systems with
minimal investment
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9. Hosting/Private Cloud
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10. Private Cloud Hosting
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11. Questions
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Open Discussion
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