versa project

Managing change and projects in the cloud

With VERSA Project, developers and project managers alike can now build complete replicas of their production environments ‘in the VERSA Cloud’ for test and development and use these as required throughout the application or project development lifecycle.  No more cobbling together of server hardware for projects!  Pay only for time when environments are in use. No use, no fees!

HOW IT WORKS

VERSA Project server are sized much the same way as you would for standard VERSA servers. The difference being that once your VERSA Project servers are sized, you then select the number of weeks you would like to book the server resources for. You pay for your ‘banked time’ in advance and access the servers as required against your time allocation. When not in use, your VERSA Project server images are backed up onsite on the VERSA platform ready for re deployment at a later date. No use, no fees...

AFFORDABILITY

Pricing for VERSA Project Servers start at just $21.00 per week. When the comparative cost of purchasing a single server for a project can run into the thousands of dollars, the VERSA Project option makes absolute financial sense.

'TEST AND DEV’ CAN NOW MIRROR PRODUCTION!

Successful IT development projects demand highly skilled resources, both people and technology. There are of course a myriad of other components that contribute to the overall success of development projects but there is one, held the world over as a key reason why production systems do not live up to their stated performance expectations, and that's the emphasis placed on test and development environments leading up to final system release.

Due to constrained budgets and competing priorities, test and development environments are generally ‘cobbled together’ from old computer assets or at best, have hardware assigned to the project (bought or leased) with ‘cut down’ specifications of the final production environment. The cost of acquiring test and development environment hardware that replicates production systems is just too expensive, that is, until ICONZ introduced VERSA Project

NO USE NO FEES!

When your VERSA PROJECT servers are inactive and not scheduled for use, we ‘park’ these on our dedicated VERSA Backup suite. Utilising the ‘Best in Class’ Comvault Simpana® solution,  VERSA PROJECT customers automatically have all servers backed up onsite and offsite for total peace of mind. There is no additional charge for this service.  Total peace of mind and, no use, no fees! With VERSA PROJECT, we’ve got your back!

RELIABILITY AND ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE

Our VERSA Cloud Hosting platform offers levels of reliability, redundancy  and performance that are simply not possible with a standard ‘off the shelf’ servers or other hosted server options.

• We have multiple HP c-7000 Blade enclosures located in separate Data Centres for High Availability (HA) and redundancy
• Each Blade enclosure has 4x 1GbE internet uplinks for redundancy and capacity.
• Each Blade server has two fibre channel HBA’s providing 4 paths to the EVA SAN arrays via two independent fibre channel fabrics.
• Each Blade benefits from N+1 power supplies per enclosure.
• Each Blade benefits from N+1 cooling fans per enclosure. If one fan fails the others increase their speed to offset the loss.
• Blade servers operate in a High Availability (HA) cluster. Servers can migrate between Blades in the event of a hardware failure reducing outages from hours to minutes.
• Each EVA SAN is equipped with two dedicated disk controllers redundantly connected to each and every disk in the array.