Flexential Tampa Data Center Consulting ServicesProgent's latest private cloud hosting site is in Tampa, FL, at the Flexential Tampa North Internet Data Center. As with Progent's Sacramento data center facility with private cloud hosting, Flexential Tampa North is an advanced colocation facility, featuring on-site 24-hour trained staff and including full N+1 fault tolerance across all critical components at the data center level as well as in Progent's own network and VM infrastructure. Flexential's location and high-capacity, redundant Internet backbone can deliver low-latency access to the eastern United States and to Central and South America.

Progent's private cloud hosting services provide exceptional value to businesses of any size requiring the cost savings, reliability, and minimized hassle of sharing a world-class facility without the technical restrictions and impersonal service common to public clouds.

Flexential Data Center Private Cloud Services from Progent

Progent's Private Cloud services utilize the Flexential Data Center in Tampa Florida

The 60,000 sq. ft. Flexential facility provides world-class features for power and cooling, physical security, compliance, and connectivity. Key features include:

Data Center Power & Cooling

  • 2N UPS backup
  • 3 MW critical load UPS capacity
  • 150 W per square foot power density
  • N + 1 environmental control availability
  • Hot/cold aisle configuration
  • 100% power service-level agreement
  • 1.75 power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio
Data Center 24x7 Physical Security
  • Round-the-clock security and technical staff
  • Dual-factor authentication (DFA) access
  • Biometric scanning systems
  • Monitored security
Data Center Connectivity
  • Fiber network built using connections from leading nationwide ISPs
  • Internal network is built using 10-gigabit and 100-gigabit backbone
  • 3 TB combined network capacity
  • Carrier-neutral blended, proactively managed and monitored IP Bandwidth
  • Redundant, automatically rerouted connections ranging from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps
  • Automatic Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS defense
  • Termination points for subsea fiber optic cables to APAC and South America
  • Cloud access to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud
Data Center Compliance
  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant site
  • Annual independent audits for Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3; HIPAA; ISO 27001;
Progent's hosting service leverages advanced cloud-aware management platforms from Microsoft such as Hyper-V replication, Virtual Machine Manager and Data Protection Manager. Progent's preliminary environment for private cloud hosting features:

Progent's Private Cloud Hosting Infrastructure

  • Eight Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V hosts
  • 224 Intel Xeon processor cores
  • 6.1terabyte of memory
  • 67TB of RAID 10 SSD storage and 288TB of RAID 6 rotating media
  • Cisco Nexus 10G/40G dual redundant switch deployment
  • All servers feature redundant 20G of connectivity across redundant Cisco switches
  • Redundant 100% availability Cisco ASR 1000 model router network architecture incorporating 8 distinct appliances
  • Progent participates directly in the worldwide Internet backbone, advertising the company's own IP space via Border Gateway Protocol using our assigned ASN 54695
  • 21 Gb of triple-redundant fiber Internet connectivity capacity to Lumen, Cogent and Telia's tier 1 global networks
  • Local and remote backup, replication and emergency restoration of all private cloud VMs
Progent utilizes the Flexential Tampa colocation cener facility mainly to provide private cloud hosting. Progent has a team of IT consultants located in the vicinity of Tampa, and Progent also offers remote support from Progent's countrywide roster of Microsoft-certified experts, Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers, ISSIP-CISSP-certified security experts, Hyper-V and VMware professionals, and senior DRBC preparedness experts. Progent can also help your business to plan and execute a move to the Flexential facility by providing services such as planning system configuration, specifying hardware, system configuration and validation, debugging, setting up online management, and educating your network staff.

Popular Uses for Progent's Private Cloud Service
Progent's private cloud is an attractive choice for clients who need a more customized environment and a more personal professional relationship than is possible with public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Rackspace Technology. Common use cases for Progent's private cloud include:

  • Windows or Linux VMs hosted on Progent equipment with total backup and emergency restore standard
  • Complete VDI/hosted application solutions for businesses who want to "move everything" to the cloud
  • Low-cost/low-commitment colocation of customer-owned server hardware and infrastructure ranging from a 1U server on up
  • Switchover replication of on-premises servers to disaster recovery host site
  • Off-site backup and replication. Progent is particularly competitive for requirements more than 10TB.
  • Customer-hosted VoIP servers for national/regional multi-site organizations
  • Centralized VPN communications hubs for national or regional companies
  • Temporary virtual or physical servers required for short-term projects, testing, solution piloting, evaluations, etc.
  • Physical servers supplied and maintained by Progent dedicated to a single customer. Managed/controlled either by customer, by Progent, or co-managed.
  • Emergency servers required to recover immediately after unforeseen incidents such as ransomware attacks, hardware failure, natural catastrophes, human error, etc.
  • Migrate servers for mergers or acquisitions, new ownership, etc.
How to Find Out More about Progent's Private Cloud Service
To learn more about Progent's Private Cloud Service and to learn how Progent can help your business to lower IT management costs, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.