CIO Bulletin

Coreix: Next-generation virtualization solutions for all verticals

Founded in 2003, Coreix was established to answer the need for a customer-driven managed hosting provider with unparalleled expertise, cutting-edge technology and award winning industry-leading customer service. Coreix specializes in providing high availability hosting services and solutions for small, medium and large enterprise businesses.

From its securely operated facilities around the world, Coreix provides best-in-class managed hosting, colocation, cloud and dedicated server solutions to over 500 clients in over 75 different countries. As standard, customers are offered premium network bandwidth services and point to point connections to the carrier of their choosing. With a five minute response time SLA in place, the company's experienced responsive operations, network and technical support teams are onsite 24x7 to give support to clients when they need it most and to answer any queries that arise.

With over 30 years of managed dedicated hosting experience within its management team, Coreix is in a unique position to stand out from the crowd. Coreix is driven by its passion and dedication to its customers' needs.

Coreix offer 100% guarantee in the three areas we think are the most important areas which are hardware, infrastructure & network. This means you don't need to worry about the systems remaining up, allowing you to focus on running your business. All this backed up with 5-minute response SLA means that Coreix is always available to answer any questions or offer its remote hands.

"Coreix IaaS utilizes the OpenStack cloud platform, to provide the performance, scalability and security modern businesses demand from their infrastructure."

Cloud Solutions

Cloud computing provides easy, scalable access to computing resources. It’s so versatile that almost every business today runs with at least one cloud component. Whatever your particular cloud requirements, Coreix design the best solution to ensure you never have to compromise on performance.

Cloud hosting with Coreix utilizes the computing power of clusters of servers, spreading the hosting load and ensuring that its clients can operate with a high degree of reliability, scalability and versatility. The company's cloud solutions are robust, grow seamlessly with our clients’ businesses and are configured to suit everyone from healthcare providers to IT consultants and many more besides.

The benefits of public versus private cloud infrastructure are well documented on the Internet. Whilst in certain situations there are explicitly wrong use cases, especially when it comes to data sovereignty, compliance and the law of your particular jurisdiction, in general workloads can be places in private, public or just on a simple dedicated server. Nevertheless, this does not mean that you will not benefit both in performance and costings by choosing a more suitable or relevant model to your use-case. On the contrary, if you adopt the right solution from day one, which is not always the most cost effective, you can benefit from economies of scale in the future.

Realistically, in the current landscape, many businesses are adopting a hybrid or multi-cloud approach which sees them place workloads on the most suited platform. The key focus for Coreix is to get you the right solution for the right problem.

"Cloud-first strategies have become standard over the years and we have seen a massive increase in public cloud utilization," said Paul Davies, Technical Director at Coreix.

Infrastructure as a Service Solutions

Coreix IaaS utilizes the OpenStack cloud platform, to provide the performance, scalability and security modern businesses demand from their infrastructure. IaaS allows clients to move core functionality into a single, easy to manage service with allocated compute, storage, network and virtualization in one location. For the greatest flexibility in implementing IaaS or taking advantage of IaaS technologies solutions should be implemented with private cloud, in particular OpenStack for the greatest flexibility.

Dedicated Servers

A dedicated server is one that’s exclusively yours and tailored specifically for your requirements. All the physical resources of the server are available, so has the additional benefit of access to all the machine’s RAM, storage and computing power. In cloud computing this is known as “bare metal”. No matter the scale, whether you need a single server or enterprise-grade multi-site solution, Coreix will advise, plan and implement the ideal solution for your business.

The configurations used for its dedicated hosting solution are designed for professional needs. Depending on your specific usage, you might need a configuration with more RAM, bigger storage space, or a higher processing capacity. Furthermore, the different Coreix dedicated server ranges are distinguished by their bandwidth capacity and range of associated services.

The company's standard series, which starts at £199 per month, is for situations where if the server goes offline there is an alternative server ready to take the slack. These units are designed as a cost-effective solution to provide mass computation in clusters. Use Case: Should be put into a load balanced or clustered environment with multiple nodes due to minimal hardware resiliency and base specifications. These units could be used to provide services from a server farm or services that do not require resiliency.

About the Leader

Andy Roberts, Managing Director

With over 25 years of experience in the finance sector, Andy brings extensive knowledge of the financial services sector, especially related to IT, Governance, Compliance and Risk Management. Andy has been an executive and non-executive director of a number of companies in a variety of industries. Andy’s primary role as Managing Director is to lead the business, define the company’s strategy as well as heading up the company operations.