Managed Private Cloud (Tier III)
What holds your company up (the systems, the database, the files) has to live somewhere. In most companies, that place is an old server inside a closet, or a slice of public cloud shared with strangers, without quite knowing where the data is.
The Tier III Private Cloud gives your company an address of its own: dedicated resources, in a data center that never goes dark, with Zamak operating everything. You know where the data lives, performance is predictable and the cost is fixed per month.
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What holds your company up cannot live in a closet, or in a building full of strangers.
The systems that make your company run (the ERP, the database, the files, the email) run somewhere. Today, in most companies of five to five thousand people, that place is an aging server inside a closet, with no backup power and a single disk, or a slice of public cloud where you share the physical hardware with strangers, do not choose the neighbor, do not quite know where the data is and still get a bill that changes every month. The Tier III Private Cloud swaps that for an address of your own: dedicated resources, in a fortress-grade data center, with Zamak operating the whole environment alongside your team.
A Tier III standard data center keeps redundant power and cooling (a backup that takes over if the main one fails) and allows maintenance without shutting down, with about 99.982% availability, the equivalent of less than 1.6 hours of downtime per year. (Tier III standard, Uptime Institute)
In shared public cloud, another client's spike on the same physical hardware can drag down your performance without warning: it is the noisy neighbor effect. Dedicated resources eliminate that, because the machine is yours alone.
Knowing where the data physically lives and who can access it stopped being a technical detail and became a requirement of audits, contracts and cyber insurance, and that is hard to answer in a shared cloud.
If the server that holds your operation stopped right now, how long would your company stay standing, and could you say, at this instant, where exactly your data is?
The real problem
Your company lives in a place no one chose on purpose
Almost no one decided, one day, to put the heart of the company in a closet or a shared building. It just happened: a server was bought, it aged, or a system was moved to the cheapest cloud with no thought for later. Here is where that improvised place charges the bill, almost always at the worst moment:
The server that lives in a closet
The system the whole company uses runs on a physical server inside a small room or a closet. There is no backup power, no real cooling, and often a single disk. On the day that equipment fails, and all equipment fails one day, the operation stops, and no one remembers the last time recovery was truly tested.
The floor shared with strangers
In shared public cloud, your machine shares the same physical hardware with other clients you will never meet. When one of them triggers a spike, at month-end close or on a night of heavy processing, your system slows down at the worst hour, and there is no one to complain to. You pay for a performance you cannot promise anyone.
The cloud bill no one can predict
Public cloud starts cheap and grows quietly. At month-end comes an invoice full of items no one can explain, that changes every cycle and that no one can budget for with confidence. What looked economical becomes an unpredictable line in the spreadsheet, and cutting the cost means touching what is live, afraid of bringing something down.
The audit that asks where the data lives
An audit, a large client or the cyber insurer shows up and the question is direct: where does the company's data physically sit, and who can access it? On a forgotten server or a shared cloud, the honest answer is not to know for sure. With no known location and no access control, the contract stalls, the policy is at risk and trust cracks.
The system that cannot simply move away
There is always a heavy or old system (the ERP, a large database, a custom-built application) that needs guaranteed resources and a stable place. Throwing it into public cloud the wrong way makes it slow, expensive or unstable; leaving it on the old server keeps it hostage to equipment that will fail. It needs a dedicated home, sized for it, not a solution left to luck.
None of this is the fault of whoever runs IT. It is the lack of a real place: dedicated, in a building that never goes dark, with the location under control and someone operating behind it. That is exactly what the Tier III Private Cloud puts in place of the closet and the shared building.
What it is
An address of your own, in a building that never goes dark, operated by Zamak
Tier III Private Cloud is a cloud environment with resources dedicated only to your company (processing, memory, disk and network that no one else shares), hosted in a Tier III standard data center and operated by Zamak. Also called single-tenant cloud, it is the opposite of shared public cloud: instead of sharing the building with strangers, your company has a floor of its own. You do not buy hardware or build a data center; you contract a ready, dedicated and managed environment, with a fixed cost per month. Zamak provisions the machines, keeps everything updated, protected and backed up, and you know where the data lives.
A floor of your own (dedicated resources)
Processing, memory, disk and network are reserved only for your company, never shared with another client. The noisy neighbor disappears: performance becomes predictable and consistent, because the capacity is yours the whole time. Each system runs in an environment sized for it, and the month-end spike stops being a gamble.
A building that never goes dark (Tier III + Zamak operation)
The environment is hosted in a Tier III standard data center, with redundant power and cooling and maintenance that happens without shutting anything down, something no office closet delivers. On top of that base, Zamak operates everything: it creates and sizes the virtual machines, applies the updates, keeps security and backup and monitors the environment, alongside your team.
An address with rule, record and a fixed bill
You get to know where the data physically lives and who can access it, with the isolation that regulated or sensitive workloads require, and you answer the audit, the client and the insurer without improvising. And the cost is fixed per sized environment, not a bill that changes every month, so you can budget the year with confidence.
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What is included
The dedicated environment, and Zamak's operation that keeps it standing
Two deliveries in one service: the dedicated cloud environment, in a Tier III data center, and Zamak's continuous operation that provisions, protects and monitors everything. You use it; we take care of it.
The dedicated environment, in a Tier III data center
The place of your own where your systems now run, with guaranteed resources.
- Processing, memory, disk and network dedicated only to your company, sized to your workload.
- Hosting in a Tier III standard data center, with redundant power and cooling.
- Virtual machines created and resized as the company grows, with no need to change home.
- Environment isolation and a known data location, for regulated or sensitive workloads.
- A fixed cost per sized environment, predictable to budget the year.
Zamak's continuous operation
Who provisions, updates, protects and monitors the environment, alongside your team.
- Provisioning and sizing of the virtual machines, done by Zamak, with no hardware for you to buy.
- Updates and maintenance of the environment, with no downtime, using the Tier III concurrent maintenance.
- Integrated backup and recovery, so a failure or a mistake does not become data loss.
- Security and network isolation: firewall, segmentation and controlled access to the environment.
- Continuous monitoring of the environment by Zamak, to act before the problem reaches you.
Tech specs
How the environment works, under the hood
For those who want to look under the hood: where the systems run, with what resources, in what kind of building and what Zamak operates. A single-tenant environment, with dedicated resources, hosted in a Tier III standard data center.
Dedicated resources (CPU, memory, disk and network)
Each virtual machine gets processing, memory, disk and network bandwidth reserved only for your company, sized to the workload of each system. Because no one else uses the same block of hardware, performance is consistent, with no noisy neighbor from the shared cloud dragging down your speed at the worst hour.
Tier III standard data center
The environment is hosted in a Tier III standard data center, operated by infrastructure partners. Tier III is the Uptime Institute classification that ensures redundant power and cooling paths and concurrent maintenance: any equipment can be replaced or maintained without shutting down the environment. That is why the building never goes dark while the office closet does.
Virtualization managed by Zamak
On top of the dedicated hardware, Zamak operates the virtualization: it creates, resizes and moves the virtual machines, adjusts resources as the company changes and keeps everything standardized. You get the flexibility of the cloud (spinning up a new environment in hours, growing without changing home) without needing your own infrastructure team to operate the platform.
Integrated backup and recovery
The environment is born with backup and recovery as part of the service, so that a hardware failure, a human error or an attack do not become data loss. When it makes sense, full disaster recovery, able to bring the whole environment up elsewhere, comes as an additional layer, designed with you.
Security and network isolation
The environment is isolated from the others and protected by firewall, network segmentation and controlled access: only those who should reach it do, and traffic is filtered. It is the base on which Zamak's managed cybersecurity layers, such as endpoint defense and threat monitoring, add up when you want full protection.
Data location and sovereignty
You know where the data physically sits and who can access it, which helps meet data protection law, client contracts and insurance requirements that ask for a known location and access control. It is not the diffuse cloud where the data could be anywhere in the world: it is a defined address, with a record of who enters.
The Tier III Private Cloud is billed per sized environment, not by a surprise at month-end, which keeps the cost predictable as the company grows. Zamak provisions, operates and answers for the environment; the Tier III hosting is done in an infrastructure partners' data center, with redundant power and cooling.
It is the difference between equipment that can fail without warning and an environment that stays standing, with guaranteed resources, a building that never goes dark and someone operating behind it.
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How it compares
Where your systems can live, side by side
There are basically three ways to host the company's systems: on your own server inside the office, in shared public cloud, or in a managed private cloud. See what changes, point by point, when the place is an address of your own operated by Zamak.
Where the systems run
Zamak's delivery
Private Cloud managed by Zamak
Tier III data center (infrastructure partner), redundant power and cooling
Your own server in the office
A closet or small room, with no redundancy
Shared public cloud
A shared building, you do not choose which
Resources (processing, memory, disk)
Zamak's delivery
Private Cloud managed by Zamak
Dedicated only to your company, sized to the workload
Your own server in the office
Limited to the hardware you bought
Shared public cloud
Shared with strangers, subject to the noisy neighbor
When the hardware fails
Zamak's delivery
Private Cloud managed by Zamak
Redundancy and backup: the environment stays standing
Your own server in the office
The operation stops until the fix, with risk of losing data
Shared public cloud
Depends on the provider, and you rarely control the backup
Cost predictability
Zamak's delivery
Private Cloud managed by Zamak
Fixed value per environment, you can budget the year
Your own server in the office
Big purchase now and then, plus maintenance
Shared public cloud
A bill that changes every month, hard to predict
Where the data lives
Zamak's delivery
Private Cloud managed by Zamak
Known and isolated location, with access control
Your own server in the office
In the office, but with no real access control
Shared public cloud
Could be anywhere in the world, hard to audit
Who operates and answers
Zamak's delivery
Private Cloud managed by Zamak
Zamak operates the environment alongside your team
Your own server in the office
You yourself, with the time and risk on you
Shared public cloud
The infrastructure is the provider's; the operation is still yours
Comparison between the common ways of hosting systems in the market. The Zamak column describes only what we deliver and operate for you; the Tier III hosting is done in an infrastructure partners' data center.
From risk to impact
From the improvised place to business impact
The closet server fails, and one day it does.
The operation stops, and the data can be lost for good if there was no tested backup.
How the private cloud responds
Tier III data center with redundancy and integrated backup: the environment stays standing.
A noisy neighbor in the shared cloud eats the hardware at the worst hour.
Unpredictable slowness at month-end close, and you cannot promise performance to anyone.
How the private cloud responds
Resources dedicated only to your company: predictable and consistent performance, always.
The audit, the client or the insurer asks where the data lives and who accesses it.
With no known location, the contract stalls, the policy is at risk and trust cracks.
How the private cloud responds
Known location, isolation and access control: a ready, defensible answer.
The public cloud bill grows quietly and changes every month.
The IT budget becomes a gamble, and cutting cost risks bringing down what is live.
How the private cloud responds
A fixed cost per sized environment: you budget the year with confidence.
In all these cases, what changes is not luck. It is your company living in a real place: dedicated, redundant, with the location under control and someone operating behind it, before the problem arrives.
For every role
What changes for each role in your company
The same dedicated address that takes your systems out of the closet and the shared building, read through the eyes of whoever decides, owns cost and compliance, and runs the environment.
Owner and founder
Build it, protect it, grow its value.
What holds up the company you built stops living in a closet that could fail any day. If the hardware fails, the environment stays standing, and you know where the data is. The risk of a stoppage that freezes billing drops, and the company becomes easier to audit, insure and sell: a more solid asset, not a time bomb in the closet.
Manager and director
Fixed cost. Proof on the spot.
You swap the surprising cloud bill, or the big server purchase every few years, for a fixed value per environment you can budget the year with. And when the audit, the client or the insurer asks for proof of where the data lives and who accesses it, you deliver with a known location and a record, instead of improvising. Less surprise in cash flow, less weak point when closing a contract.
IT lead and team
A secure extension of your team.
You stop being the firefighter of the closet server and stop losing nights to hardware, power and cooling. Zamak operates the heavy infrastructure (the data center, the virtualization, the redundancy, the backup) alongside your team, and you spin up new environments in hours instead of weeks. You gain capacity and backing to focus on what creates value, without losing command of the environment.
IT partner and provider
Offer managed private cloud to your clients.
Bring your clients managed private hosting as a recurring service, without building a data center, setting up the virtualization and sustaining the operation yourself. You enter the conversation with a ready dedicated-cloud offer, preserve the client relationship and Zamak runs the infrastructure backline at your side. Request a proposal and we will design the partnership model with you.
Why Zamak
Why Zamak
A real address for your company takes more than hardware in a good building: it takes someone to operate the environment with discipline, every day, alongside whoever runs IT. That is where Zamak comes in. We provision and operate the environment, keep the machines updated, protected and backed up, and monitor everything, while the hosting happens in a Tier III standard data center of infrastructure partners. We operate alongside your team, never in its place, so that control of the environment belongs to the company.
In the end, it is the difference between hoping the closet server lasts one more year and having your company's systems at a dedicated address, in a building that never goes dark, with someone operating behind it, before any problem arrives.
Serving companies that cannot stop · Microsoft Solutions Partner · Addee (N-able) Elite Group · Great Place to Work.
Zamak provisions and operates the environment with the same operational discipline it applies every day, alongside your team; the Tier III hosting is done in an infrastructure partners' data center.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
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Take your company out of the closet and put it at an address of its own.
In a few weeks, your systems leave the closet server and the shared building and move into a dedicated private cloud, in a Tier III data center, operated by Zamak: guaranteed resources, a known location, integrated backup and a fixed cost per month. If the hardware fails tomorrow, the environment stays standing. Talk to Zamak and stop hoping the closet server lasts one more year.
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Tell us in a few fields which systems you want to move and the size of your operation. A specialist from your country sizes the environment and the price with you, without replacing your systems, and plans the migration without stopping the company.
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The dedicated environment is the base. See Zamak's managed cybersecurity, which protects the machines, the network and the people living inside it.