Host Ventura | Managed Hosting Services

Racking & Cabling Services
OS Installations
Application & Database Installations
Customization

There is a lot more to cabling system performance than just buying good quality cables and connecting your hardware. In order to ensure full bandwidth potential, a structured cabling system needs to be properly designed, installed, and administered. Host Ventura specializes in the design and installation of structured cabling systems that provide a platform for voice, video, data, and wireless infrastructure solutions. Whether you are relocating offices, upgrading your current cabling, or moving into newly built office space, Host Ventura has the expertise, experience, and staff to get the job done right.

We provide a total solution for deploying vertical and horizontal premise cabling through in-house expertise and long term partnerships.

Business requirements - When it comes to your business requirements, we not only collect the requirements for your current needs but also provide suggestions for future growth, applications, and technologies that could impact your cabling needs.

Site Surveys - Many factors are involved and must be taken into consideration for any successful cabling installation. These factors include for instance structural layout of the facility, building and safety codes, cable drop locations, distance limitations, IDF/MDF cable terminations, and redundancy/high availability requirements. Gathering this information is a crucial element in the site survey and will be factored into the overall scope of the project.

Pre-Installation - These services include installing racks in telecommunications closets and Data Centers, installing rack and cable support, core drilling, conduit trays, and other hardware to support the cable installation.

Cabling Installation - This is where the whole cabling project comes together. The installation includes pulling CATEGORY 3/5e/6 and fiber cable drops, termination of cabling, installing face plates, patch and fiber panel termination in racks, decommissioning of existing or old cabling and terminations, cable dressings, and other installation services to complete the installation.

Testing & Documentation - We tests and certify all to ensure that they meet industry standards and provide our customers a fully documented infrastructure, including cable test results as well as documented cable drop locations and used equipment.

Key Advantages:

• Only Enterprise grade equipment being utilized.
• Designed for growth and expandability.
• Fully tested and documented infrastructures.
• Partnerships with the best in the business

Host Ventura Server Specialists cover a wide spread of resources and services of which OS installation and support of core applications is one. We always install servers lightweight; with as little components as required in order to maximize performance of the individual server and to reduce resource allocation and software/process overhead. We only install the components to get the application up and running and make sure all dependencies are met.

Most service partners like to make a distinct separation between Microsoft and Open Source products. At Host Ventura you have one team covering the complete scale of Operating Systems.

The primary advantage is that we see a multi OS environment as being fairly standard and not something extra-ordinary. Open Source and Microsoft products are always fully integrated into our solutions and no matter how different they may seem, compatibility issues between those systems are no surprise to our engineering team and are addressed adequately.

The second advantage, next to full integration of both worlds, is to have a single engineering group responsible for all your OS queries and support needs. This single team will advise, configure, monitor and manage all your operating systems.

Both Microsoft and Redhat Enterprise are available through monthly subscription, thus offering effective cost management of your solution.

Host Ventura supported Operating Systems are:

Microsoft Server 2000/2003/2008
Linux (Redhat Enterprise Server, CentOS)
FreeBSD

Key advantages:

• Lightweight OS installation for optimal performance.
• Monthly fixed costs oppose to initial investment requirements.
• Qualified engineers for installation and support of your servers.
• Single Engineering Team for fully integrated multi-OS environments

At Host Ventura we provide consultation on which solution will best suit your business requirements, based on usability, compatibility and budget requirements.

We do not limit this service offering to servers, storage solutions and Operating Systems like most Hosting Solution Providers do, but instead we include application and database support as a key element of our product pallet.

At Host Ventura we will build your environment back to front and we do not leave anything out of scope, which is why we provide you not only with a broad pallet of supported applications and databases, but also a fully managed installation service, modeling the system setup after your specific requirements which involve possible existing (legacy) systems and thus compatibility requirements, scalability and of course the available budget for your product/project.

All Application and Database servers will be installed using the industry standards best practices; we will configure the server for optimal performance and harden it for security, whilst optimizing process load and reducing application overhead where possible.

Some of the applications and databases supported are:

Web Servers: Apache, LightTPD, IIS
Middleware: PHP, .NET Framework,
Databases: MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, postgreSQL
Collaboration: Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
Mail: Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra, Postfix, Scalix
EDM: Alfresco, Knowledge Tree

Key advantages:

• Optimized configurations for a maximum in performance and stability.
• Expert knowledge with 24/7 support.
• Full Budget and Business conscientiousnes.

There are two key deliverables every customer wants and needs. The first being reliability, and the second a customized solution.

If you’ve built custom servers and integrated systems, you know what is involved. It’s rarely a routine process of spec and product ordering, component management, scheduling, assembly, OS load, configuration, driver/hardware/OS compatibility, burn and testing, and then loading applications and performing other integrations. Just deciding what to order so you can produce needed results can be a challenge if you haven’t worked enough with certain parts of the equation. And the formula is constantly evolving and improving.

A complete solution provider can fill this gap with the right expertise and experience by delivering superior, reliable platforms that match your exact custom server and custom integration needs.

Host Ventura is creating that value that you want most. We go the extra mile to understand both your business and your customers.

We are flexible so you can choose what role you want us to play. You may utilize our expertise for providing you with a complete and custom solution or assign smaller configuration and/or installation tasks. We can provide vendor-neutral recommendations, hardware configuration, operating system customization, total server integration and post-integration technical support. You can choose Microsoft, Red Hat or even SCO legacy Unix.

Key advantages:

• Optimized solutions for a maximum in performance and stability.
• Flexible partner with a business serving mentality.
• One stop service provider (SPOC)