Hosting at IT IS

Most of our computers are operated with a Linux operating system environment. Each Image and server blade gets security updates automatically from a central apt-mirror IT IS runs in-house. Security updates are verified weekly from there and then brought from the hosted server. We do upgrades on our recommendation or at your desire. 

We run your hosted environment on Dell or IBM blade servers and on servers of the x-series of IBM. Latter of the listed are well known for their comprehensive management functions and their high reliability. The extremely performant but although compact blade servers enable a bundled and networked operation of systems. The blades are put into the blade center and can be replaced within a few seconds if they become inoperative. 

We help you according your support contract which defines approaches, reaction time, access methods and contract addresses. 
If you haven't signed a support contract we help you nevertheless as fast as possible.

Regular backups as incremental backups of the live data bases and file storages are and absolute must and are optimally done off-time. Weekly full backups are done on a backup server in the grandfather-father-son-principle. 
If you want to we also do restorations and disaster recovery tests. The backup is stored password-protected and spatial separated from the data center on magnetic memory disks in a safe.
We also create, file and send RO backup media with hashes via RFC3161 time stamps.

We use an an access protection with an electric door lock, which saves additionally information about the entering person, the date and time. There is also an access protection in the locked rack space and via network security.