Organizations, such as Ebay, Microsoft and Merrill Lynch, host their servers at one of the 30 worldwide Exodus data centers. Exodus, however, has gone beyond Web hosting to offer managed networking services which allow customers remotely to get realtime critical server metrics. Not all of Exodus's customers feel comfortable managing their servers with tools from Exodus. Mass. A First Notice Systems' IT professional, who does not want his name mentioned, said he has been looking around for tools, mostly point solutions, that will contact his servers and let him know if they are up or down and if specific services are running. Net sourcers take the data center concept and Web hosting one step further.
Organizations just have to load their application and run.
If a customer's storage exceeds a threshold, then Intira carries out the customer's escalation procedures for allocating more space through load balancing. Intira offers its customers a single service level agreement based on accessibility. In contrast to Intira, GlobalCenter of Sunnyvale, Calif., has built its IT infrastructure through buying brand name network and storage management tools, such as from Veritas, or partnering with third-party services. By selecting the best of breed tools, we know we can provide customers with a certain service agreement level for each component in our IT infrastructure. GlobalCenter's service level agreement for storage calls for 99.999 per uptime service, according to Schaeffer.