HYBRID ARCHITECTURE
“Our team of highly qualified specialists takes care of IT architecture, operating processes, and compliance with demanding service level agreements.
The more complex the individual customer requirements are, the more exciting a project is for us. We can realize anything that is technologically feasible – even if we are the first to do it.”
Michael Plehm
System Architect
Consulting & Planning
We manage our customers’ projects from the idea to the cable. Throughout this process, we provide advice on feasibility, selecting the right technology, and on project planning. But we don’t stop at advice: We also turn our recommendations into reality. We create and orchestrate expansive system landscapes for our customers, offering individual solutions for business-critical websites and applications, including load balancers, disaster recovery, backups, storage, and DDoS protection, as well as special security services such as vulnerability analysis and intrusion detection. We guarantee that this infrastructure will be continuously available for our customers as defined in their service level agreements (SLA). We know how to approach and establish a scalable product or service.
Thanks to our services, our customers can focus on their core business and utilize their IT resources for development rather than to operate their IT infrastructure. Our managed hybrid hosting portfolio goes above and beyond the traditional offering of internet service providers, which typically includes domains, SSL encryption, and email. Unlike mass hosts, *um offers tailored, highly specialized services covering everything from the initial consultation, design, and construction to the configuration of the hardware and the operating system. We also take care of all of the standard patch management and maintenance needs, replace defective hardware, and execute system updates. Our 24/7 monitoring process enables us to quickly identify and rectify vulnerabilities.
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Setup & Roll-out
At the start of a project, we hold workshops with the customer to define a strategy, objectives, and success criteria. We then work together to identify a number of ideas, which we develop as part of a lighthouse project to eventually arrive at a minimum viable product (MVP) – so that we can test out our ideas in practice. We then hold assessment days to define what needs to happen to turn the MVP into a scalable product or to create a new service. What action do we need to take to get from where we are today to the envisaged target situation?
Once the platform has been decided (on-premises, public cloud, or hybrid), we set up the software, systems, and a secure and scalable infrastructure, and design the production environment, including a security concept, user and roles manual, metadata management, data governance requirements, and an operating concept. We also establish a continuous deployment system and agile DevOps processes.
We provide cloud services for companies from world-class data centers:
- Certified highly secure Tier III++ / Tier IV quality at all sites
- ISO 27001 and maximum PCI-DSS certification (Level 1)
- Direct cloud connectivity to leading public cloud providers
- Best low-latency end-user experience thanks to direct connectivity to providers (e.g. Deutsche Telekom) and open-peering policy
- 650 racks across 1000 m2, over 2500 servers, more than 350 network devices
- Over 250 Gbit/s internet connectivity
- Network connections via AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute if required
- IPv6 in production since 2008
Cloud Security
Each year, companies incur an enormous amount of financial loss as a result of lost or damaged data. To prevent this, we build fail-safe backup and security solutions for our customers to protect them against the loss of business-critical data. Our specialists take care not only of all of the relevant architecture, but also of the highly secure operation of the backup systems.
Customers of The unbelievable Machine Company receive tailor-made security and data governance concepts that meet all of their individual needs, audited and certified in line with the most stringent IT security standards. We provide our redundant and high-performance backup servers both on-premises and in the cloud; our three data center sites are connected by a super-fast 100G connection. We bill our customers based on their backup volume or on a flat-rate basis.
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