CIT Now Offers Windows and Unix Hosting Services at Off-Campus Site

In addition to our existing on-campus Windows and Unix Hosting Services, CIT is now offering the same full-service hosting at our off-campus Data Center site in Sterling, VA.

Off-campus hosting services

At Sterling, the Windows and Unix Hosting Services extend the secure, SAS 70-audited, fully-managed, 24x7-hosted environments already offered through our on-campus hosting service to our off-campus facility. Off-campus customers are supplied with centrally supported dedicated Windows and Unix servers, as well as services such as managed storage and backups, application firewalls, load balancers, and database services. CIT’s full-service hosting at both locations includes patching, 24x7 monitoring, technical support, dedicated customer coordinators, and collaboration on deploying secure and highly available application environments. Off-campus hosting still ensures the full confidentiality, availability, and integrity of NIH information.

The off-campus site

CIT’s off-campus site in Northern Virginia (Sterling)—approximately 30 miles away from the NIH campus—is a secure commercial location run under the auspices of CIT and connected to NIH by an extremely high bandwidth network. CIT is continuing improvements to the site and recently upgraded the network connectivity to accommodate the growing volume of customer data.

Because of its location, off-campus hosting offers additional options to customers interested in high availability and disaster recovery configurations for their hosted servers so that business can continue uninterrupted in the event of an application outage or disaster.

More information

For more information on the services offered, please consult the CIT Service Catalog or contact the NIH Help Desk at http://ithelpdesk.nih.gov/support, or by phone at 301-496-4357 (6-HELP) (local), 866-319-4357 (toll free), or 301-496-8294 (TTY) if you have any questions.