Hosting Professional Services

Extract the capacity and performance you need from your infrastructure

Hosting Professional Services is a suite of management tools and value-added services for testing, securing, and enhancing your online applications.

Smart Center Security Services

Real-time and demand-driven security services that help protect networks, hosts, applications, and data from hackers, known exploits, and future vulnerabilities.

  • Establishes a physical, logical, and network baseline security level
  • Offers a layered, personalized level of value-added security services

Testing Services

Identify problems that could impact your end-users' site experience.

Staging Services

Test major software and content releases under our staging environment that mirrors your production environment.

Change-management Services

Software Release Management and Migration Services help your business negotiate change.

Results-measurement Services

Provides real-time visibility and trending information about your infrastructure, website, and applications.

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Enhance, test, and secure your e-business and application performance

Smart Center Security Services

Network-Based Vulnerability Assessment

  • Simulates a "hacker attack" to assess client vulnerability to externally generated network-based security threats
  • Utilizes a known database of hacker attacks, misconfigurations, and other network-based threats
  • Runs powerful, repeatable, automated external scans of your managed servers with actionable results and "fix" recommendations

Host-Based Vulnerability Assessment

  • Performs a comprehensive internal audit of your servers to help detect unacceptable security practices and suspicious activities
  • Checks each server against our security policies
  • Suggests changes to provide a point-in-time evaluation of op/sys level security
  • Includes detailed, custom report on vulnerability findings
  • Assesses severity of vulnerabilities
  • Recommends fixes

Application-Based Vulnerability Assessment

  • Point-in-time evaluation of customer content and application-layer security by emulating end-user activity
  • Identifies vulnerabilities exploitable by e-shoplifting, parameter tampering, and cookie poisoning
  • Our security experts interpret results and provide recommendations

RSA SecurID® Smart Center Secure Authentication

  • Uses two-factor authentication with a powerful time-based algorithm
  • Helps secure mission-critical data from unauthorized remote access

Host-Based Intrusion Detection

  • Early-warning system helps detect attacks on individual hosts
  • Checks critical system files for suspicious changes
  • Helps detect intrusions on the server in real time
  • Detects multiple failed log-in attempts

Smart Center Antivirus Protection for Windows

  • Helps protect Windows operating systems from malicious code, including Trojans, viruses, worms, and blended threats
  • Applicable for all Windows server types—Web, application, and database servers
  • Monitors servers in real time
  • Upon virus detection, customer is notified and infected files are quarantined locally and disinfected

Smart Center SSL Certificates

  • Provides VeriSign SSL protection
  • Allows visitors to verify site authenticity and communicate securely using SSL encryption
  • Helps protect confidential information from interception and hacking
Testing Services
  • Functional Test verifies all site links, buttons, formatting, and navigation
  • Performance Test analyzes site performance under peak traffic conditions
  • Identifies application issues and bottlenecks
Staging Services
  • Provides cost-effective, pre-production, and content-staging solutions
  • Helps reduce the likelihood of problems
  • ISO 9001:2000 staging environment helps reduce errors
  • Helps improve time to market
Change-management Services
  • Provides consistent and accurate deployment of site changes
  • Organizes efforts of multiple development groups
  • Tracks changes made to the site source code
  • Provides immediate rollback capability
  • Helps redeploy applications or move physical equipment during migration from staging environment to production environment
Results-Measurement Services

Performance Monitoring

  • Leverages Mercury Interactive’s Topaz Managed Services and Keynote Perspective to measure site performance
  • Provides insight into end-user experience
  • Measures URL access time
  • Identifies bottlenecks and performance problems
  • Provides comprehensive benchmarking

Website Usage Reporting

  • Fully-managed usage reporting solutions based on WebTrends® Reporting Center™
  • Comprehensive reporting on web servers located in a Verizon Business Smart Center
  • Identifies frequently requested pages, top entry and exit pages, and referring search engines
  • Helps you analyze usage patterns

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Get instant access to critical information

Our easy-to-use, self-service portal lets you view, interact with, and manage critical information on your managed site, around the clock. Client Central is available to all U.S.-based hosting customers and included at no additional charge.

Easy administration

It's all at your fingertips, through our easy-to-use, online portal:

  • Open trouble tickets and view status
  • Administer users and passwords
  • Review data center access lists for colocation customers and more

Evaluate performance

Review backup information, bandwidth usage, and load balancing information for deeper insight.

Scalability planning

Client Central stores six months or more of data so you can perform trend analyses and forecast resource needs.

Control costs

There's no need to develop your own monitoring solution.

Additional services for IP Application Hosting customers

  • Reboot servers
  • Manage monitors and load balancers
  • View overall site health, firewall utilization, and performance statistics
  • View security information such as firewall rule sets, security advisories, reports, and more

Log-in to Client Central

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Build your business on world-class infrastructure

With more than 200 Data Centers in 23 countries, Verizon Business provides extraordinary flexibility – anything from efficient colocation to fully managed web services and e-commerce – all backed by our stringent SLA.

Smart Centers for managed services

World-class facilities deliver management services that provide security, availability, and performance for our Enterprise Hosting customers.

Data Center Colocation solutions

Our centers deliver connectivity and dedicated infrastructure for customers who want the flexibility to administer and access their equipment. Fully embedded in our network, these centers also provide customers the option of managed services such as:

  • Managed Routers
  • Managed Firewalls
  • Onsite technical support services
  • Server monitoring
  • Business continuity solutions
  • Managed storage
  • Data backup and restoration

Security is paramount

  • High levels of physical security at data centers
  • Network security including intrusion protection
  • Options for a layered security approach with firewalls, VPNs, virus screening and protection, security consultation and assessments, and more

SAS 70 Certification

We are committed to ensuring appropriate controls over our processes to help our colocation and managed hosting customer’s needs. To this end, our Premium Data centers and our worldwide Smart Centers complete SAS 70 Type II examinations annually.

The highest speeds available over IP

  • With more than 1Tbps aggregated backbone capacity in North America, our network carries data traffic at speeds up to 10 Gbps in the U.S. and 2.5 Gbps in Europe.

High availability

  • Redundant network connections
  • Support services ranging from load balancing to enhanced monitoring, stand-by databases, and dynamic failover

Extraordinary flexibility

  • Your IT staff or Verizon Business' hosting professionals
  • Your equipment or ours
  • Technology independent
  • Vendor independent

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Put our extensive footprint to work for your business

Large and small, our customers cover a wide range of industry sectors, from engineering to pharmaceuticals, and from retailers to governments. The experience that we have gained from working with these companies has given us an understanding of the issues and challenges different industries face.

Global reach, local presence

With more than 200 data centers worldwide, our Hosting Services can give your business a “local” presence in many countries around the globe.

Data Centers by Region

Europe  Asia/Pacific  Africa/Middle East  The Americas 

Europe Data Centers

Country City
Austria Vienna
Belgium Brussels (2)
Denmark Copenhagen
France Paris (2)
Lyon
Marseille
Strasbourg
Nice
Toulouse
Lille
Germany Frankfurt (2, plus one Smart Center)
Langenfeld
Dusseldorf
Hamburg (2)
Dortmund
Ireland Dublin (2)
Italy Milan (2)
Luxembourg Luxembourg
Netherlands Amsterdam (2)
Rotterdam
Norway Oslo
Spain Madrid
Sweden Stockholm
Switzerland Zurich
Geneva
United Kingdom London (5, plus one Smart Center)
Manchester
Reading
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Newcastle
Birmingham
Bristol
Portsmouth
Warrington
Leeds

Asia/Pacific Data Centers

Country City
Australia Melbourne
Sydney
Hong Kong Hong Kong
Japan Osaka
Tokyo (1, plus one Smart Center)
Singapore Singapore (2)

Africa/Middle East Data Centers

Country City
Kenya Nairobi
Namibia Windhoek
South Africa Johannesburg
Cape Town
Durban

The Americas Data Centers

Country City
Canada Toronto (3)
Vancouver
Calgary
Montreal
United States
State City
2 Smart Centers
California San Jose
Maryland Beltsville
14 Premium Data Centers
California Los Angeles
San Jose
Colorado Denver
Florida Miami
Georgia Atlanta
Illinois Westmont
New Jersey Newark
New York Elmsford
Massachusetts Boston
Texas Houston
Richardson
Virginia Ashburn
Manassas
Washington Seattle
17 Advanced Data Centers
Arizona Phoenix
California San Diego
San Francisco
West Sacramento
District of Columbia (D.C.) Washington
Florida Jacksonville
Tampa
Illinois Downers Grove
Michigan Detroit
Missouri St. Louis
Nevada Las Vegas
New York New York
North Carolina Raleigh
Ohio Cleveland
Oregon Portland
Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Utah Salt Lake City
139 Standard Data Centers
Alabama Birmingham
Mobile
Montgomery
Arizona Phoenix (2)
Tucson
California Fresno
Hayward
Irvine
Los Angeles (7)
Menlo Park
Rancho Cordova
San Diego
San Francisco (3)
San Jose (2)
Santa Clara
Colorado Denver (2)
Delaware Wilmington
Florida Eatonville/Orlando
Fort Lauderdale (2)
Jacksonville (2)
Miami (4)
Tampa
Georgia Atlanta (5)
Augusta
Illinois Chicago (5)
Riverdale
Indiana Evansville
Indianapolis (2)
Iowa Pleasant Hill
Kansas Shawnee Mission
Topeka
Louisiana Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Shreveport
Massachusetts Boston (2)
Cambridge (2)
Springfield (2)
Waltham (2)
Framington
Maryland Baltimore
Beltsville
Maine Portland
Michigan Grand Rapids
Minnesota Cologne
Minneapolis (3)
Missouri Kansas City
Springfield
St. Louis
Mississippi Jackson
North Carolina Charlotte (4)
Durham
New Jersey Newark
Trenton
New Mexico Albuquerque
Nevada Reno
New York Buffalo (2)
East Meadow
Garden City
New York (6)
Rochester
White Plains (2)
Ohio Cincinnati
Cleveland
Hilliard
Toledo
Waynesville
Oklahoma Oklahoma City (2)
Oregon Portland (2)
Pennsylvania King of Prussia (2)
Philadelphia (2)
Pittsburgh (2)
Tennessee Chattanooga
Memphis
Texas Austin (2)
Beaumont
Dallas (8)
Irving (2)
Longview
Virginia Reston
Richmond (3)
Washington Kirkland

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Services and/or features are not available in all countries/locations, and may be procured from in-country providers in select countries. We continue to aggressively expand our service availability around the world. Please consult your Verizon Business representative for service availability. Contact us