Managed Solutions - Netherlands

Equinix Managed Solutions (EMS) in the Netherlands provides services for your digital transformation, including replacing, modernizing, and expanding your IT environment. Our services help you deploy private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions for your applications while addressing data management and security challenges.

We help solve your data challenges with secure, flexible, and scalable solutions. We use best practices and various technical certifications to deliver world-class performance, flexibility, and reliability. With our services, you get up-to-date insights into your IT infrastructure and data to optimize performance, availability, security, and cost efficiency.

EMS in the Netherlands is available in three geographically separate Equinix data centers in Amsterdam, Zwolle, and Enschede.

Service Categories

To address challenges in performance, availability, security, compliance, and flexibility for business continuity, innovation, and cost reduction, EMS in the Netherlands offers four service categories:

• Equinix Business Cloud (EBC) – An Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform for your applications. EBC facilitates community cloud ecosystems with direct connections.
• Equinix Data Platform (EDP) – A local, multi-tier data center that provides secure landing and storage for your data. EDP offers best-in-class data management services for on-premises, private, community, and public clouds.
• Equinix Application Platform (EAP) – An application development and runtime platform on EBC. EAP is a container orchestration platform for your DevOps and runtime environments, providing a landing place for high-availability, cloud-native applications.
• Security and Network Services – Provides integral security on the platform and services, with security services ranging from data encryption to Anti-DDoS and SOC/SIEM.

We offer a choice of service levels for 24/7 management of your IT infrastructure in a self-service or hybrid service solution. EMS in the Netherlands is available at multiple service levels, from self-service to fully managed, using the latest technologies and the expertise of our experienced professionals.

Ransomware Protection

As ransomware threats increase, organizations continue to strengthen security measures. Ransomware attacks can affect access to data as well as backup systems. Data protection strategies often include measures to help maintain access to backup copies and support recovery. Effective ransomware protection includes protecting data and maintaining recoverable backups. Leverage Equinix Fabric and Amazon S3 object storage service to create immutable, air-gapped copies of your business-critical data.

The pragmatic solution starts with the assessment of your back-up strategy following the 3-2-1 rule. This rule recommends that there should be at least three copies of the important data, on at least 2 different types of media, with at least one of these copies on a secondary location. Ransomware Protection needs an expansion of your back-up strategy from a 3-2-1 to a 3-2-1-1 rule, with the additional 1 being a 3rd copy stored on immutable Object storage.

Equinix Managed Solutions offers immutable Object storage for your 2nd and 3rd copy, securely on Platform Equinix available via the unique software-defined capabilities of Equinix Fabric. Equinix Managed Solutions Object Storagegrid is available in Amsterdam and Enschede.

Key benefits of Equinix Fabric

• Increased efficiency, global reach to Cloud Service Providers
• No CAPEX investments, just OPEX and pay-per-use
• Equinix operates the physical infrastructure
• Short time to market

Reduced risk

• A highly available platform service for your applications
• 24/7 environment management from Equinix NOC
• (ISO/IEC 27001-certified) All data centers carry healthcare (NEN7510), finance (PCI DSS) and government (BIO) certifications

Sovereign Managed Private Cloud

Becoming and staying successful in rapidly changing markets is increasingly determined by the leveraging of digital possibilities. Digital enterprises often encounter business challenges that conflict with compliance and organizational and financial matters.

The core principles of sovereign clouds are trust, transparency, openness, and security, all under the auspices of local governance. Governments introduce data protection legislation for a multitude of reasons. A sovereign cloud ensures all data including metadata stays on sovereign soil and prevents foreign access to data under all circumstances.

Sovereign Managed Private Cloud (SMPC) is the Managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering from Equinix Managed Solutions. This IaaS platform offers a proven solution to the IT challenges on data sovereignty of leading businesses in the private and public sectors.

With SMPC, businesses can anticipate all possible growth scenarios while eliminating the risk for non-compliance in a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy. As an integrated part of Equinix Fabric, which connects 200+ cloud and service providers, Equinix Business Cloud lies at the heart of the internet.

Key Controls of SMPC

• Data Residency - Data resides in the Netherlands.
• Technical Support - Access is limited to Netherlands residents and on a “need to know, need to have basis”.
• Encryption - Data is encrypted at rest. Data encryption keys are managed by Equinix and stored securely within the EU. Alternatively, encryption keys can be managed by yourself and stored in your secure environment.
• Access Control - Access is only granted to support personnel who have been (periodically) vetted to be allowed to access support systems and tooling.
• Security Operations - Maintained across the entire Equinix managed infrastructure. Additionally, security events which are relevant to your infrastructure are passed on towards your local SIEM/SOC.

SMPC Functionality

• Equinix Fabric - The SMPC is integrated with Equinix Fabric, which provides easy to consume connectivity services to non-sovereign cloud platform resources, public cloud service providers and other Sovereign Cloud offerings across the EU.
• Reach throughout the European Union - SMPC is available in IBX data centers in the Netherlands. Equinix offers managed private cloud services in Spain, Finland, Ireland, Germany, France and Italy.
• Security - Data encrypted with option for customer key management, backup air gapped and immutable, contracts under Dutch laws and legislations, security logging with forwarding to the SOC of choice.
• Diginetwork integration - The SMPC can be connected to the Diginetwork infrastructure, allowing you to provide and consume Diginetwork services and connect to the participants in the Diginetwork ecosystem. Diginetwork is the Dutch private network platform for the exchange of governmental services.

SMPC Services Model

SMPC is a Private Cloud solution with guarantee on the data location, it offers Network Functions Virtualization features as well as configuration and management of compute, storage via APIs or via the Cloud Portal.

SMPC Single Tenant

A single tenant environment dedicated to one customer that offers best-in-class performance levels for compute, storage and network for your private cloud. This model uses dedicated resources in a secure, isolated environment. To meet sovereign requirements:

• Data is encrypted and located in the Netherlands and cannot be transferred to other countries.
• Backup is air-gapped and immutable stored in a secondary secure IBX in the Netherlands.
• SMPC is operated from the Netherlands.
• SMPC can be offered with multiple customization options including various high-availability configurations and data center redundancy.
• SMPC is a dedicated environment with scalability options.

SMPC Support

The team of VMware certified architects (VCDX) helps design and configure your SMPC environment. Support is offered from the Equinix Support Centers in the Netherlands.