Data Center

Colocation

Take advantage of Watch Communication’s state-of-the-art Data Center facility by colocating your equipment. Site colocation solutions allow you to host your hardware on a network that is architecturally designed to provide the highest standards of performance, availability, security, and immunity from external influences. Our Data Center ensures your business servers are fully supported and protected against factors which would otherwise cause damaging downtime and unavailability of critical data and applications.

Carrier-neutral facility. Dual provider BGP Internet Bandwidth

Dual breaker to each cabinet, A + B UPS, backup generator + power monitoring

Space available from 1U to private cages

Professional IT engineers are available to act as your remote hands-on support

Save on Network CPE by utilizing our redundant enterprise-grade Core Network

Combine with our other services for unique hybrid solutions

Access to your equipment 24x7x365

Service Level Agreements for Network, Internet, and Power

Proven track record of uptime and availability

Data Connectivity

Data Center Internet Bandwidth

To assure the highest possible level of availability, we offer an abundance of fiber carrier options and diversified BGP Internet. We are carrier neutral, so if a primary carrier has an outage, you automatically retain connectivity through a secondary provider. Watch Communications Data Connectivity services make sure you stay connected.

Internet and IP Transport To Your Facility

We take the “pain” out of the process that is common with some carriers from circuit quoting, ordering, delivery, and support. Our knowledgeable and friendly experts are readily available to assist you. Watch Communications is developing a carrier hotel to bring more IP choices to Evansville, and make quality IP transport readily available for our Data Center customers. The following carriers currently have fiber located in our Data Center:

Virtual Servers

“Begin your Journey to the Cloud”

Time for a hardware refresh? Don’t want to dedicate the time or resources to virtualize inhouse, yet desire the many benefits of virtualization? Watch Communications VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus cluster offers the ultimate in availability, scalability, and flexibility. Watch Communications Virtual Servers offer both capital expense advantages and operation expense advantages. Whether you are considering Hosted Virtual Servers for their uptime, cost savings or convenience, our professionals will guide you through the simple process of getting started.

Transform your Business with Virtualization

Virtualization dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of data and applications in your organization. Internal resources are underutilized under the old “one server, one application” model and IT admins are forced to spend too much time managing servers rather than innovating. Our Virtual Servers let you respond to operational dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Lower IT Costs

Watch Communications Virtual Servers dramatically reduce hardware and maintenance expenditures. Less spending means more investment dollars into your business, since you avoid the upfront capital costs.

Flexibility & Scalability

With Watch Communications Virtual Servers you have the ability to scale your IT resources up on demand as your business grows. Virtual Servers from Watch Communications effectively addresses the capital issues that affect both small to large businesses by offering IT resources only when your business needs them. This means staying nimble as your business grows.

Ease of Use & Implementation

Without the need to purchase hardware or virtualization software, your business can get its virtualization deployment off the ground in record time – and in most cases for a fraction of the cost of an on-premise, dedicated solution.

Microsoft License Rental

Software upgrades can be another capital-intensive component of maintaining your IT infrastructure. Let Watch Communications alleviate that burden with our optional rental packages for most popular Microsoft software. Whether you simply need Microsoft Server and Office, or more specialized applications such as Exchange or SQL Server, we offer low monthly payments to reduce your capital outlay while always keeping you up to date with the latest versions.

Security

Watch Communications takes extraordinary measures to provide customers with security when using our infrastructure. AII Watch Communications Virtual Servers are separated at the hypervisor level. Virtual Servers see each other as they would physical servers and they behave in the same way. Network traffic is isolated; individual users can only see their own network traffic.

Technology Platform

Watch Communications Virtual Servers run in a sophisticated cluster, located in our premier-class Data Center. Our Engineers continually monitor, service, and upgrade the underlying infrastructure, providing you with high performance, availability, and scalability. Watch Communications uses high-end multi-processor servers for redundancy, load balancing and automatic failover. Combined with Watch Communications redundant core network infrastructure, knowledgeable staff, and SAN storage, we have built the best of virtualization solutions.

Backup and Disaster Recovery Capabilities

Keep peace of mind knowing you are prepared for the worst-case scenarios. We make it easy to combine Watch Communications Backup and Disaster Recovery services with our Virtual Servers packages. Visit our Disaster Recovery page or contact us to learn more.

Disaster Recovery

Faster Recovery. More Options. Peace of Mind.

Offering local and geographically diverse disaster recovery plans. Our disaster recovery options range from image-based backup and recovery to entire virtual infrastructures and workspace.

Is your business prepared and protected from the worst-case scenario? We provide a wide variety of solutions that make it easy for you to recover your data and/or continue operating your business in the event of a disaster. Our professionals will work closely with you to identify your disaster recovery needs then work to find solutions that match your budget and recovery time objectives.

Data Recovery and Backup

Premier Backup – ShadowProtect

Watch Communications ShadowProtect solutions offers a cost-effective image-based data recovery solution While providing file and folder-based data recovery, ShadowProtect goes to the next level by offering methods to recover full servers including OS and applications in as little as one hour utilizing Watch Communications Virtual Infrastructure.

Maximize business continuity and minimize your data recovery time objective with Watch Communications ShadowProtect Online Backup service. Offering state-of-the-art software and a local Data Center, Watch Communications provides an affordable enterprise-class Online Backup service with disaster recovery capabilities.

Service Highlights

Rapid recovery from bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.
ShadowProtect ImageManger to automatically consolidate backup image files
VirtualBoot technology for quick failover to a virtual server
Converter tool to convert to .VHD or .VMDK
Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange and other critical applications.
Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments.
Simplified migration to new Windows servers.
Save costly upfront licensing fees, licenses are included in Watch Communications monthly rates.

Why Backup Online

Online backups are the easiest and surest way to protect your data.
Backing up to an offsite Data Center ensures that you can recover your data even in the event of a physical disaster, theft or loss
Online backups eliminate many of the error prone steps associated with traditional backup methods like tape. Users can restore ‘point in time’ versions of files without loading tapes one after the other.
With our online backup solution, your data is encrypted and compressed even before it leaves your computers.
After the first full backup, only incremental block level changes are sent – optimizing bandwidth & storage usage.

Premier Plus Backup – VMWare Host Backup

Let us design a custom backup or DR plan for your Virtual environment. These solutions can offer an RTO of less than one hour, while costing less than many solutions with a 72-hour or greater recovery window.

Interested in other Business Services?

Watch Communications has products and services to fit businesses of all sizes.