Rackspace
Our Microsoft Gold Certified Hosting Partner
You need your data to be secure and you need your systems available 24/7.
That’s why we host all of our solutions with Rackspace under its premium support package, this is called ‘Intensive Hosting’.
The following outlines the reasons why we chose Rackspace, and what we add to the solution to secure it further. You can download further details in the PDFs in the right hand column. But here are some highlights about this extraordinary company and why we use them:
- Rackspace® was voted to have the best customer focus in the 2008 National Business Awards
- Rackspace was voted in the top 10 in Europe for customer focus in the European Business Awards6.
- Rackspace received the Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year Award in 2003, 2005 and again in 2007
But this partnership is 2-way. Angel Solutions Ltd received “partner of the month” from Rackspace in recognition of what we do.
Physical Security
Rackspace hosting is physically secure (SAS 70 certification)
Pro-active monitoring and patching
The servers are monitored under their premium support package and Rackspace ensure they are patched
Rackspace intensive hosting 24 * 7 monitoring and support
Hardened and fully patched OS
Microsoft Service Centre Operations Manager Monitoring (SCOM)
Firewalls and DDos Protection
Dedicated 1GB Network infrastructure using the latest generation Cisco equipment for both firewall and load balancing, DDoS mitigation protection, managed backup
Virus Protection of Servers
All servers run Symantec virus protection software and this is centrally maintained by Rackspace to ensure virus free operation.
Netcraft Vulnerability scanning
In addition to the above items Angel Solutions pays for quarterly Netcraft Vulnerability Scans to be conducted against all our websites
This is “friendly hacking” – we pay for them to try to break into our systems in order that we may be protected.
Highly Certified Hosting Provider
Including not limited to: ISO/IEC27001, ISO17799, SAS70 Type II audit process, Microsoft Gold Partner, Gartner Leader, Dell Partner, Cisco Powered Network Certification, Member of the Customer Service Network ISO/IEC 27001 is the only auditable international standard which defines the requirements for an Information Security Management System (ISMS).