IaaS (Infrastructure As A Service)

Scalable, Secure, and Cost-Effective IaaS Solutions

Simple Helix’s IaaS offering includes a Tier III equivalent Data Center which helps companies house their mission-critical data and IT infrastructure. Our colocation and cloud services are designed to provide a simple yet scalable solution.

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Low Cost

Scalable

Includes Surveillance & Maintenance

Secure

Cloud Compute, Hybrid, or Colocation

Need a Better Way to Manage Data?

Finding a space to house your company data is no small task. You need a reliable solution that is scalable, secure, and cost-effective.

Simple Helix’s IaaS offering helps companies like yours house mission-critical data and IT infrastructure. Our Tier III equivalent Data Center has a 2N+1, carrier-neutral design that offers redundancy, resiliency, and peace of mind. Both colocation and cloud options are available to meet your specific storage needs.

If you’re in need of monitoring services, our capabilities also include NOC services with added SOC capabilities. Our offerings are affordable, scalable, and flexible to keep everything simple.

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Data Center; Server Room; Data Center Rack; IT Infrastructure

Keep Your data secure and scalable with IaaS

Simplifying Technology Since 2007

Simple Helix has been providing IT services for over 15 years. Headquartered in Huntsville, AL, we’ve been offering web hosting for commercial businesses since 2007. Today we offer managed IT, data center, and connectivity services to help businesses of all sizes gain back time for the work that matters.

Our locally owned and operated data center provides mission-specific IT and connectivity services for organizations in the government contracting, technology R&D, healthcare, and manufacturing industries. With Simple Helix supporting your IT, compliance, and data security needs, you can focus on the work you care about.

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Data Storage You Can Rely On

Our Tier II equivalent data center gives you redundancy and resiliency. Our cloud compute and hybrid solutions give you easy access for team members who need it and better scalability than ever.

Low Cost

Instead of spending a fortune on building out a perfect space for your IT infrastructure, you pay little to house your infrastructure in our state-of-the-art facility.

Scalable

As your business grows, our facility can meet your needs with our scalable and flexible packages. Get what you need, when you need it!

Reliable

Our NOC technology alerts our professional engineers to potential hurdles to keep things up and running, so you experience little to no downtime.

Secure

We offer SIEM software implementation and monitoring as a part of our NOC+ package. This allows us to monitor the activity that passes through your infrastructure to keep unwanted visitors out.

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Get the Right IaaS Solution For Your Team

Put together the best combination of colocated, on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud storage for your company’s data

1. Get in touch with our sales team

2. Let us develop a custom IaaS solution

3. Rest easy knowing your data is secure

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Your Data Storage Options

On-Premises Data Storage

House your data on-premises (or on-prem). With this option, you store all company data on-site and manage it in-house.

On-Prem Pros

You can easily access and control all of your IT infrastructure.
You maintain high computing power or speed of access so you can view and work with data faster.
You can often save money over other asset storage options.

On-Prem Cons
- You have a single point of failure and a single source of connectivity. If your internet provider experiences an outage, your data is inaccessible until the issue is resolved.
- With limited redundancy, there is a higher risk of data corruption or loss.
- You may need to pay for 24/7 security, waterless fire suppression systems, disaster remediation tools, and more to keep your facility secure.
- If you don’t hire highly specialized expertise, you suffer from limited on-site knowledge.
- As time progresses, IT infrastructure will become obsolete. You need to prepare for the time and cost of replacing server equipment.

Cloud Compute

Keep your data on a distributed network from a cloud computing provider. The cloud is a series of remote servers hosted on the internet rather than on a local server or computer.

Simple Helix Cloud Backup & Storage Services

Use our cloud environment to create off-site, off-line backups of all your servers and data. We will help you avoid the loss of mission-critical information.

Simple Helix’s deployment team will work with your organization to optimize a backup solution that meets business, compliance, and security requirements. Our team will then perform ongoing backups to ensure your data is duplicated and safe.

Our services include
- Office 365 Backups – Incremental backups for O365 tenants are performed daily and stored in the Simple Helix Data Center.
- Endpoint Backups – Incremental backups for endpoints are performed daily and stored in the Simple Helix Data Center.

Cloud Compute Pros
- You don’t have to worry about replacing obsolete or faulty server equipment.
- You don’t need to take care of a facility for the cloud server.
- Cloud storage is flexible and easily scalable. If you need more storage, cores, or memory, you can ontact the cloud provider, and more capacity is added to your cloud environment within minutes.
- Cloud by design is distributive.

Cloud Compute Cons
- You are outsourcing your infrastructure.
- You are getting data only as it’s needed.
- You may be subject to more large-scale attacks (but larger entities are usually more secure).
- You will likely need more internet bandwidth.

Hybrid

You don’t have to choose just one data storage option! A hybrid data storage solution is where you use a combination of on-prem, colocation, private cloud, and/or public cloud storage options.

If you have employee-facing data or R&D Development/Beta Sandbox, we recommend keeping that data closer with on-premises, colocation, or private cloud storage. If you have customer-facing data, we recommend a mix of private and public cloud.

Simple Helix Hybrid Solutions

Want to modernize your IT infrastructure but have legacy applications or compliance factors stopping you? Our Hybrid Cloud Solutions provide more data deployment options for your business.

Through Hybrid Cloud, you can experience greater flexibility even as computing needs and costs change. Our Cloud Engineers will utilize Microsoft Azure Cloud and our own private cloud instance to build out the perfect mix of the two for your business.

Choose between two of our Virtual & Cloud Computing Services: Commercial Cloud Compute and Compliance Cloud Compute. With either service, Simple Helix will provision a virtual machine from specifications provided by the Customer and will provide bandwidth, IP address(es), and/or server operating system licensing, depending on your needs.

Hybrid Pros
- You can choose the best data storage solution for different types or sets of data.
- Other pros depend on the solutions you combine.

Hybrid Cons
- Cons depend on the solutions you combine.

Meet Me Room (MMR); Connectivity; Internet; Bandwidth

Colocation

House your server equipment in a data center specifically built for IT infrastructure. Data centers like Simple Helix that offer this service are called Colocation Data Centers, Multi-Tenant Data Centers (MTDCs), or Colocation Centers. The cost is determined by the amount of rack space your company needs.

Simple Helix Server-Based Colocation Services

Simply choose the amount of rack space and power consumption you need. Our environment is built to a 2N+1 standard to ensure redundancy so you can keep operating.

As your business grows, we’ll have the space to accommodate your storage and power needs. Full rack customers enjoy 24/7 access to their secure rack environment.

Carrier Grade Meet Me Room (MMR)

Our carrier-neutral meet me room allows communication firms to exchange data with other major telecom carriers and internet service providers (ISPs). You can install network equipment, initiate network connections, and enjoy added solutions for redundancy and security.

Colocation Pros
- Your data may be better protected. Colo data centers control humidity, fire protection, cooling, redundant power, and more to create a resilient environment.
- Sservers usually run more efficiently and live longer in optimized colocated environments.
- Downtime is minimized.
- 24/7 physical security ensures that only those you designate gain access to your equipment.
- The data center is responsible for facility maintenance, not you.
- You are better connected. Since colocation data centers usually have multiple internet providers running through their facility, there are multiple internet paths to boost your connectivity. If your preferred provider is down, your equipment can switch to another until the preferred is back up.
- Because of the high internet availability at these facilities, your data makes fewer hops, which results in lower latency and faster data acquisition.

Colocation Cons
- You are still limited by what your equipment can do and must update infrastructure as it becomes obsolete.
- You are still restricted by your company’s expertise. The data center’s job is to keep the facility running for your equipment, so equipment maintenance is still up to you and your staff.
- Your data is farther away from your employees. (This could also be a pro depending on what you are doing with your data.)

NOC+ Monitoring Services

If your company needs monitoring services, we can provide NOC services with added SOC capabilities.

Network & Facility Monitoring and Management

Continuous uptime is vital to your business success, so our network and facility are managed to the highest standard. Our Data Center Services Team continuously monitors the performance and health of our network and utilities. We serve as the first line of defense between you and network disruptions by monitoring every detail of our environment.

SIEM Hosting, Implementation, and Normalization

Our NOC+ package includes SOC capabilities through our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution. This solution offers a holistic view of your organization’s information security.

The SIEM Tool can be used for data collection and parsing, log management, threat intelligence, endpoint monitoring, and more. Our Data Center Services Team will create an instance for you within our secure, multi-tenant environment. We will work to understand your environment and create rules influenced by your specific requirements.

From there, we will provide a user account to provide access to alarm and case information. By utilizing our SIEM services, you receive advanced threat protection: simplified.

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Keep Data Storage Simple

You don’t have time for IT hangups or security problems. Mission-centric activities deserve your attention.

Simple Helix helps you quickly resolve technology issues and avoid confusion so you can focus on the most important activities. With our team by your side, you can rest assured that your data is secure and stop worrying about the underlying technology.

Data Center FAQs

Check out the most frequently asked questions posed by Data Center shoppers below. With this knowledge at your disposal, you’ll be ready to ask more business-specific questions during your search.

What does a data center do?

What services do data centers provide?

Why do I need a data center?

What is DCaaS?

Simple Helix is Tier III equivalent Data Center. What does that mean?

To become a Tier III data center, 72 hours of protection from power outages without using an outside source is a must. These data centers also must have a N+1 fault tolerance. Simple Helix is designed to a 2N+1 standard, meaning routine or scheduled maintenance can be performed on one system, while two others are up and running without disrupting the system.

The downtime allowed for tier III data centers is 1.6 hours per year, and the minimum amount of uptime must be 99.982% per annum. Simple Helix is designed to a tier IV standard for redundancy. However, due to site constraints, we can only house 72 hours of fuel on-site. This makes Simple Helix a tier III equivalent with tier IV redundancy.

How does Simple Helix ensure my data is protected?

What type of industries need data center services?

How is my data monitored in your data center facility?

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IaaS (Infrastructure As A Service)

Scalable, Secure, and Cost-Effective IaaS Solutions

Low Cost

Scalable

Includes Surveillance & Maintenance

Secure

Cloud Compute, Hybrid, or Colocation

Need a Better Way to Manage Data?

Keep Your data secure and scalable with IaaS

Simplifying Technology Since 2007

Our Memberships and Partners

Data Storage You Can Rely On

Low Cost

Scalable

Reliable

Secure

Get the Right IaaS Solution For Your Team

1. Get in touch with our sales team

2. Let us develop a custom IaaS solution

3. Rest easy knowing your data is secure

Your Data Storage Options

On-Premises Data Storage

On-Prem Pros

Cloud Compute

Simple Helix Cloud Backup & Storage Services

Hybrid

Colocation

Simple Helix Server-Based Colocation Services

Carrier Grade Meet Me Room (MMR)

NOC+ Monitoring Services

Network & Facility Monitoring and Management

Keep Data Storage Simple

Data Center FAQs

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(256) 704-1041

info@simplehelix.com