Network

The IASP architecture is based on industry best practices created in coordination with product vendors, Microsoft product teams, leading consulting organizations, and also from customer feedback.

The components of the IASP architecture consist of

• Microsoft platform technologies
• Hardware network devices, servers, and storage devices
• Partner management software

The major benefits that an organization achieves by using the IASP Internet Data Center Facilities are:

• Security, scalability, availability, and manageability
• Integration. All Microsoft and vendor components are known to work together.
• Standardization. A common architecture exists across operation, development, support, and vendors.
• Reduction of risk
• Known cost and time to build and deploy
• Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)
• A blueprint for change increasing agility
• Customization to an organization's needs

Data Center solutions are complex. A typical data center has components that span multiple vendors and multiple products. These components need to be brought together to ensure that they work together as a whole. The components span networking devices, servers, storage devices, and so on. Each of these components has a large number of potentially valid configurations, but only a few of these result in an integrated, functional system. Getting to one of the right configurations can be an expensive undertaking.

Connectivity