Organizations such as eBay, Merrill Lynch, and Microsoft host their servers at one of the 30 worldwide Exodus data centers. Exodus, however, has gone beyond Web hosting to offer managed networking services such as HeadsUp, which allows customers to get real-time critical server metrics remotely. 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, says 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. GlobalCenter's service level agreement for storage calls for 99.999 per uptime service, according to Schaeffer. Looking at the road ahead The requirements for managing server availability, and storage growth and capacity optimization won't go away as Web hosting services move to storage area networks, or Net sourcers lease EMC Symmetrix e-storage space from storage service providers, such as StorageNetworks. SRM could turn into an e-club sandwich. Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated All Rights Reserved.