The challenge
Around the world, reported instances of online fraud are becoming more and more common. Moneybookers helps to abate consumers’ concerns by providing them with a safe and easy way to make online payments. The organisation’s secure e-payment system is sanctioned by some of the world’s leading Internet businesses, including Thomas Cook, Skype and MTV Networks.
Because global consumers use the Internet to make purchases at all times of the day and night, Moneybookers has to ensure that its payment systems are available 24/7. To reduce the likelihood of a complete system failure in the event of an unexpected disaster, Moneybookers wanted to duplicate its systems at an entirely separate location. However, it first had to find a hosting partner that could meet its high expectations for system reliability and fault tolerance.
Needless to say, security was another crucial concern for the company. Moneybookers has built its reputation on delivering high standards of protection for its customers and cannot afford to jeopardise this in any way. The company also has ambitious plans to grow its market share and therefore needed a hosting solution that would be very flexible and scalable.
The solution
Moneybookers toured four different hosting centres and compared the facilities, pricing packages and services available at each. The company was very impressed by the high specification of Telstra’s Hosting Centre in London’s Docklands and its comprehensive disaster recovery policy, which ensures continuation of service, even in exceptional circumstances. Moneybookers also recognised that the centre offered the flexibility it needed to help it grow its business.
The company has acquired a number of full-height cabinets within Telstra’s London Hosting Centre. The cabinets house a host of high-performance servers, firewalls, routers and environment monitors. Telstra has also provided multiple secure fibre channel gigabit-capacity leased lines for highly-available low-latency Internet connectivity for the company’s infrastructure.
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