Data Centre Practices and its Services in Nepal, Hemanta Baral

Data Centre is a dedicated and well-organized physically and logically secured space with redundant power with backup, redundant cooling, automatic fire detection and suppression system, environmental monitoring, and other passive data center components.

Data centers contain physical or virtual servers that are connected internally and externally through networking and communication equipment to store, transfer and access digital information.

Each server has a processor, storage space, and memory, similar to a personal computer but with more power.

Data Center services can involve hardware, software, processes, and personnel. Here are a few examples of data center services include: Managing power distribution, hardware installation and maintenance, backup power systems, data backup and archiving, managing load balancing, controlling internet access, managing email and messaging, managing user authentication and authorization, diverse firewalls and anti-malware programs, managed to outsource, managed business continuance, continuous efficient support and so on.

Data Centre Services:

Co-Location

Co-location refers to Data Centre services where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available on a rental basis to the customers. Data Centre provides space, uninterruptible power, cooling, and physical security for your hosted resources like servers, storage devices, and networking equipment and connects them to network service providers at a minimal cost.

This service is for those who want to use their own IT equipment but want a secure, earthquake-resistant facility to host it. Data centers can help to improve the availability and performance of the hosted applications. This service can save up to 60% of operational costs and is free from the hassle of power, cooling, security, and monitoring.

Managed Private Cloud

Private Cloud is a method of hosting different applications on a single server (or pool of servers) virtually on the cloud in a secure way.

For those who want to take advantage of the cost and scalability of a cloud-based virtual environment without the risks of a public cloud, the Private Virtual Cloud is the ideal solution.

However, this service can be used by large corporate houses to operate their security-conscious applications.

High security, management, monitoring, cost saving, scalability, security, backup, and disaster recovery are the main advantages of Managed Private Cloud.

Virtual Private Server / Public Cloud

VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a hosting service that uses virtualization technology to provide you with dedicated resources on a server with multiple users.

This type of cloud environment is appealing to many companies because it reduces lead times in testing and deploying new products.

Data Centre provides flexible and scalable service through robust cloud infrastructure.

Customers can get super-user access and install their own applications for both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Infrastructure as a service, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Firewall as a Service, Security (SIEM/SOC) as a Service, Storage as a Service, Web and Email hosting, Disaster Recovery, and Backup services are the major services of the Data Centre.

Hemanta Baral

Certified Data Centre Professional and Chief Operating Officer of Silver Lining, Kathmandu, and Ohm Data Centre, Bhairahawa.