Deliver Critical Business Applications

Employees all over the world can have access to the applications they need, 24 hours a day, without the hassle and expense of your having to manage a data center in-house.

• Reduce hardware and software costs
• Eliminate overhead costs
• Increase reliability and performance
• Stay up-to-date on the latest technology

Application Hosting

Acumen will host your critical business applications at our state-of-the-art data center located in Greenville, SC, eliminating the cost and headache of maintaining a data center on your premise while improving reliability and performance.  Acumen’s Data Center Hosting offers the reliability of data center infrastructure with the speed and domain level functionality of servers on a LAN.  Hosting your servers and business applications at Acumen’s data center reduces IT costs significantly.

Acumen’s data center is collocated with Time Warner Telecom and directly plugged into their core gigabit network switch for maximum reliability and performance.  Acumen uses the latest server virtualization technology allowing you to only pay for the server and storage space you use.  Acumen’s data center technology allows you the flexibility to scale very easily to deploy additional servers or storage capacity as needed.  Acumen’s collocation with Time Warner (TW) Telecom provides the following benefits:

• Dual entrance fiber facilities
• Dual entrance connection to AT&T, Bellsouth, Verizon Business
• All equipment in TW Telecom backed up by commercial battery power and 230kW
  Generac generator with a 250 gallon fuel tank
• 4 Liebert HVACs - all on generator
• FM200 fire protection
• Card swipe security - logged and monitored
• Dual OC48 backbone data connections to Charlotte and Atlanta
• Juniper core routers
• All equipment and premises monitored 7x24 by TW Telecom Network Operations
  Centers in Denver, CO and O'Fallon, MO

Server Virtualization / Consolidation

One of the fastest growing technologies in the IT sector is Server Virtualization, sometimes referred to as Hardware Virtualization. Server virtualization transforms hardware into software and enables multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). With server virtualization, you can consolidate workloads of underutilized server machines onto a smaller number of machines and increase the utilization of your resources. Using a virtualization strategy, you can use fewer physical machines which can help reduce costs and provide a flexible infrastructure with enterprise-class manageability and performance.

Storage Virtualization / Consolidation

Storage administration and software expenses run approximately seven times the cost of storage hardware.  It is important to control these costs and lower the total cost of ownership.  Storage consolidation enables you to maximize and share storage hardware across multiple servers.   Virtualization provides a centralized, flexible method of management that masks the complexity of the storage environment and reduces administrative overhead no matter what type of device they are using.