Venture Technologies - Venture's Data Center

Round the Clock Network Sentry

Does your organization depend on its network? Can you afford network downtime? Venture Technologies remote Network Monitoring Solutions can prevent costly downtime and help maximize your network investment. Our state-of-the-art Network Operations Center is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year by skilled network professionals. Located in the Mississippi e-Center in South Jackson, Venture's NOC features a high-speed, high-availability network infrastructure configured in a physically and electronically secure and protected environment.

Perhaps you have a mission critical e-application that requires secure, reliable access? Venture can host your application on one of our dedicated servers or install and manage your server in our facility. We can even provide web access to many off-the-shelf applications, such as e-mail. Our staff constantly monitors the health of these applications to ensure availability and ensures application currency through continuous upgrades. We can also relieve your staff from the burden of administration and management.

When downtime is not an option – think Venture Technologies as your networking and applications hosting partner.

Physical Security

Iron gates around building and 24/7 security guards
Protected by a three-tiered access control system
Proximity Card Readers and Keypad Entry control
Hand Geometry Readers for Network Operations Center Access
All access to the Network Operations Center is monitored and recorded 7x24x365
All access to the Network Operations Center is logged
Building alarm system protects the entire facility
Equipment is stored in locked server racks
All visitors require prior authorization and will be escorted while in the Operations Center
All NOC personnel must pass a rigorous background check

Electronic Security

Fault tolerant and load balancing Firewalls
Venture's certified security engineers maintain security operations
Online virus scanners constantly scan Internet content including ftp, e-mail and World Wide Web traffic
Locally installed virus scanners scan daily for viruses, and update monthly for the latest virus definitions
Security logs are maintained, detailing access to the server equipment and resources
All passwords are required to meet complexity requirements
Server configurations disallow removable media access
Server configurations disallow removable media boot access
Access to resources and services is logged

Network Connectivity

The Gigabit Ethernet switched network consists of Cisco switches and routers
Redundant switches and routers provide a configuration with no single points of failure
100Mb/s connectivity provided through multiple ISPs
Redundant Compaq Servers in certain configurations
Mirrored hard drives are installed on all servers
RAID implementation consists of a Compaq SAN storage array
Dual fiber channel switch connects to the SAN storage arrays

Network Redundancy

Multiple High Performance Cisco Routers
Multiple Cisco Catalysis Switches
Multiple Load Balanced Firewalls
Multiple Vendor Firewalls
Multiple ISPs on dual SONET rings from Different Providers
100Mb/s ISP Connectivity
Multiple Fiber Optic loops into Data Center

Backup

Scalable SDLT and AIT Tape Libraries
High speed SCSI Channel
Multiple SLT and DLT Tape Drives
High speed SCSI 3 Ultra Wide Interface
Intelligent Disaster Recovery Software to aid in faster recovery times

Monitoring

The Network Operations Center is staffed24x7x365
Resources and services are manually checked and logged each hour
Multiple monitoring applications check hardware, applications and network connectivity
Monitoring applications poll devices and services every 5 to 10 minutes automatically
E-mail, pager, and sound notifications alert staff instantly if a service or resource becomes unavailable

Power

3 Kholer turbo charged natural gas generator provides backup power in the event of a power outage, with typical switchover time is less than 10 seconds

Environmental

2 Liebert System 3 units provides consistent room temperature to ensure that all equipment is running in optimal environmental conditions.
Additional air conditioning units provide redundant protection in the event that the Liebert System 3 units experiences a failure.

Fire Protection

Inergen non-water based fire suppression, will completely knock down Class A, B and C fires in 10 seconds or less, before a fire can effectively develop. Inergen is a clean gaseous agent that contains no particulates or oily residues, which virtually eliminates any damage to equipment and humans.

Storage and Server Capabilities

Internal server storage capacities of 36GB and higher
Multiple High performance SAN storage capacities up to 4TB

Expansion capabilities of SAN up to 30 terabytes.
Dual processor capable servers
Up to 4GB of server ECC SDRAM
Space saving rack mounted equipment
Hot swap components

Raised Floor Access

Easy access to cabling and components
Under floor airflow from the 2 Liebert air control units providing constant room temperature