iVOS Hosting Service

Multiple connections to the internet / Network Layer

• Enterprise-wide switching.
• SSL Proxy Accelerator with 39Gig backplane speed (current client load doesn’t exceed 2Gig).
• ASIC is cached after the first three packets.
• The hosted solution is seamlessly integrated into each customer installation to offer the highest levels of bandwidth, uptime, availability, and reliability. 
• Valley Oak Systems’ managed ASP solution aggregates multiple T1 Internet Access connections to provide a high-level of network connectivity. 
• Outbound and inbound load balancing over six distinct Internet circuits to increase bandwidth up to 9 Mbps with auto-fail over and multi-homing capabilities.

Enterprise firewalls & monitoring

• Real-time Monitoring on both Infrastructure and Application.
• Central logging for all alerts and audit data to simplify compliance requests by providing one log file.
• Stateful Firewall protection not only opens a packet, but holds the packet and monitors it to ensure no invalid data is injected mid-packet.
• Integrated into Valley Oak Systems’ protective design is the industry's number one firewall solution delivering the very best first line of defense.
  
• Using INSPECT, the most adaptive and intelligent inspection technology, the Firewall integrates both network and application-layer protection.
• Valley Oak Systems’ security monitoring platform turns the vast amount of data collected from security and network devices into understandable information to validate the effectiveness of security policies and practices.   
• User activity, network and security data are consolidated into concise custom-built reports.
• Web Intelligence, with Malicious Code Protector, inspects Web content and embedded application code. It's fast and accurate and preempts attacks.

Clustered Web Tier & Application with Multiple hot-swap redundant blade servers

• Blade Servers provide ultra-dense computing, allowing for more computing in a small space.  VOS’ now has three times more processing available.
• Chassis-based Design is both scaleable and available.
• Clustered Application provides multiple servers responding to a client request and offers a high-level of reliability. 
• The Mean-Time Between Failures (MTBF) is 403,214 hours, or 13 years.
• True server functionality for the open source clustered web and application servers installed for high availability, load balancing, and redundancy.
• Enterprise computing functionality, such as Fiber Channel connections to SAN storage, and remote management capabilities through the use of an on-board management LAN.

Oracle RAC 10g clustered databases

• Redundant Application Cluster (RAC).
• Clustering with Oracle Database 10g enables Valley Oak Systems’ hosted service provides performance, scalability, security, manageability, functionality, and system availability. 
• Clustering is a new computing architecture that effectively pools large numbers of servers and storage into a flexible, on-demand computing resource for all enterprise computing needs.
• Valley Oak Systems can deliver extremely high quality of service to our customers, by harnessing these technologies and leveraging the clustering technology available in Oracle Database 10g.

Central fiber channel san and backup

• Fiber channel Storage Area Network (SAN) is the fastest technology available for a SAN to guarantee data availability fast.
• SAN storage devices are configured with the highest level of raid performance and fault tolerance
• Provide best in class data access, retrieval, search, and sort features. 
• Maximum data integrity and accessibility offers far superior performance and scalability versus standard internally installed hard drives and data storage devices.
• Stored information is consolidated from all storage systems on one centrally-administered network. 
• Valley Oak Systems can deliver no less than 99.9 percent data availability and achieve much higher results under normal operating conditions.