Vortex Virtual Platform (VP)

Our Virtual Platform (VP) sits at the heart of our strategy enabling us to offer a comprehensive IT service delivery model that caters for all your businesses operational needs.

This platform offers growing companies a unique opportunity to tackle the increased demands for hosting, disaster recovery, business continuity, data backup, data storage and virtualisation with a cost effective and CAPEX free outsourced solution that provides the following benefits:

  • No capital outlay
  • Deployment in minutes
  • Scale automatically to meet demand in real time
  • True pay-as-you-go utility pricing with no lock-in
  • Simplified Management
  • Built in Disaster Recovery and redundancy
  • Geographic Replication
  • Green benefits: Lower power consumption, reduced Carbon Footprint
  • 24/7/365 Monitoring

Vortex Data Centres

Maintained on a 24x7 basis by highly technical staff, the Vortex data centres are equipped to deliver the maximum uptime and maximum peace of mind. Raised floors protect against flooding, sophisticated detection systems guard against fire, UPS's and redundant generators provide cover in the event of mains failure and multiple connections with the major carriers ensure our platform and your servers are always available.

Technical Specification

  • 2 megawatt on-site substation
  • Diverse power feeds to substation
  • Dual AKSA 1.6 megawatt generator connected via C&N ATS systems
  • Two main fibre duct points into building
  • N+1 PowerWave UPS system
  • N+1 Airedale Air Handling system
  • 22oC +/- 2oC data floor temperature
  • Dual 16 Amp feed per equipment rack available
  • 24x7 secure entry via swipe card system, with 6-layer entry
  • Datacentre located inside its own secure compound, with 3-metre fencing and electric entry, including anti-tailgate systems
  • NOC engineers available 24x7 for remote hands service
  • Engineer build rooms
  • 430mm raised heavy duty flooring
  • 20GBit resilient Ethernet ring available to all customers, linking to London Docklands facilities, with 50ms self-healing capacity
  • Secure cages