RedPeak Enterprise Solutions

The Easiest Way to Run Your Enterprise IT Applications and Online Services

With over 100 million websites on the Internet, you'd think infrastructure would no longer be a problem. But it is. It takes hours to replace a failed server. It takes months to scale a web application. It takes years to build a SaaS service.

More than a dozen years into the Internet age, most serious online services are still being built the old-fashioned way. You rent colocation space. You buy tons of gear:  switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, servers, SAN, NAS, etc.  You spend weeks setting it all up. Gear becomes obsolete long before you pay it off. People who know how to make it work are few and far between. Cost is a problem. Scaling is a problem. Failures are a problem. Worse, these are all YOUR problems.

Managed hosting providers can do it all for you. They have the right "enterprise-class" gear, and the right "enterprise-class" consultants to set it up and manage it. But it is a devil's bargain: you end up giving up the control of your application in exchange for paying an enterprise-class monthly bill. For most small and medium-sized and Internet companies, it just doesn't work very well.

There has to be a better way.

Now there is: RedPeak's Virtual Private Data Center! You get the complete control and visibility of running your own data center. Without the hassle. At web hosting prices. On a month-to-month basis.

What makes this possible is a revolutionary new grid technology. It makes it easy to deploy, run and manage your infrastructure and applications using grids of commodity servers. All you will need is a browser and basic IT skills.

How Does It Work?

Our solution delivers Virtual Private Data Centers and virtual private servers from grids of commodity servers running 3tera's Applogic grid operating system.

With a Virtual Private Data Center, you get complete control of your own private grid. Using our visual interface, you set up and assemble disposable virtual infrastructure, including firewalls, load balancers, web servers, database servers, NAS boxes, etc. visually, by pointing and clicking. You can build advanced clusters, deploy large and small applications, and save them as templates that can be provisioned in minutes. You can even build your own virtual servers and appliances. Best of all, you can add more resources to your grid at any time and your applications can use them without any changes.

Key Features

Whether you are running your own Virtual Private Data Center, or just using one or more virtual private servers, you are in complete control. You can set up things exactly the way you want them, and keep them running. You can upgrade whatever you want, or keep tried and true configurations running for years. Oh, and you can do it all from your local coffee shop. The only thing you lose is the hassle.

On-Demand Scalability

With the RedPeak Grid, scaling no longer means configuring new servers, reinstalling software, and moving your data. Instead, your application can be scaled from a fraction of a server to dozens of machines (or more!) with no need for code modification. That's because your application isn't bound to a particular physical resource.

Universal High Availability

Say goodbye to data loss and extended downtime. All data on the RedPeak Grid is automatically mirrored. When a server fails, all your data remains available, and any affected appliances are automatically restarted elsewhere on the grid. This means your application will be back online within minutes, not hours or days. Best of all, it all happens automatically: you just get an email telling you what happened.

Convenient Snapshots

Forget about data-only backups. With the RedPeak Grid, you can back up a whole multi-server cluster, complete with the configuration settings, code, data and everything else. It's called an application snapshot. There is no need for restore - you can start the snapshot as a separate application - even side by side with your production system.

Efficient Use of Resources

A Virtual Private Data Center is one of the most efficient ways to use hardware. You can deploy a wide range of services, from a simple virtual server for web hosting to complex n-tier applications in the same VPDC, allocate resources simply, and manage them from the same web interface. With a Virtual Private Data Center, you have total control over the allocation of every bit of processing power, storage space and bandwidth capacity.

Development and Testing

Developers often write their code without access to the whole application. After all, deploying the application has been cumbersome... until now. With a Virtual Private Data Center you can simply copy an entire n-tier application and run a new copy for each developer, each with a fraction of the resources of the primary application. These copies can be run on the same Virtual Private Datacenter without interfering with the primary application in any way. And when it is time to test the new code you deploy dozens, or even hundreds, of copies to speed testing.