MUCH MORE THAN BUY AND BUILD

GNT Data Centre is different to the multitude of ‘buy and build’ players in the market today. In addition to the best security credentials in the business, we have the skills and expertise to construct bespoke platforms that are competitively priced and tailored to the requirements of your business. All of our Managed Hosting, Cloud infrastructure and Data Storage solutions and services are designed to help clients address business needs using technology as a flexible resource that is cost effective, compliant and secure by design.

Accreditations

  • Citrix Partner Silver Solutions Provider – demonstrates that we have a high level of competence and expertise with all levels of Citrix Technologies, from networking optimisation, through to virtualisation solutions. GNT Data Centre is also an Authorised Citrix reseller.
  • First – brings together a variety of computer security incident response teams from government, commercial and educational organisations to promote information sharing and foster cooperation and coordination in incident prevention and rapid response.
  • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner – recognises that we have attained the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and the closest working relationship with Microsoft. GNT Data Centre has competencies in hosting solutions, networking infrastructure solutions and advanced infrastructure solutions.
  • RIPE NCC Member – The RIPE NCC is one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) providing Internet resource allocations, registration services and coordination activities that support the operation of the Internet globally.
  • Tech UK – members such as GNT Data Centre collaborate to help shape markets and develop new thinking in the technology sector, whilst working closely with Government to influence policy and improve industry best practice.
  • Veeam Gold Cloud & Service Provider Partner – Veeam® solutions enable Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™. With Veeam, you can achieve recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data.

Compliance

GNT Data Centre enables our customers to turn onerous tasks into a source of business advantage by driving down the cost of compliance and increasing agility through the utility consumption model. We are accredited to and compliant with:

  • ISO 27001 – the internationally recognised standard encompassing both physical and logical aspects of information security.
  • PCI DSS – the de facto security requirement for organisations that store, process or transmit cardholder details.
  • G-Cloud 8 registered – choosing The GNT Data Centre ensures you get a Cloud service provider with experience of working with the public sector.
  • IL-official with IL-rated facilities and RMADS in place.
  • NHS IGSoC Approved – IGSoC sets out a range of security related requirements that safeguard the NHS National Network (N3) and information assets.
  • ITIL Service Management – the globally accepted approach to IT service management providing a cohesive set of best practice drawn from industry.

Secure by Design

Located within purpose built ex-Ministry of Defence facilities, our fully owned UK data centres are secure by design. They have 3m reinforced concrete walls, solid steel doors, and 24-hour CCTV, with additional security measures including visual verification of all persons entering, escorted access, and Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) and Tempest RFI intrusion protection.

GNT Data Centre facilities are also highly available, with auto-failover and replication across our two main sites combined with redundant power ensuring 100% uptime.

A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

GNT Data Centre is here to help you use technology to address business needs. Whether it’s a migration and consolidation project, physical to virtual transformation, or a disaster recovery planning and implementation project, our Professional Services team can analyse where your business is today, define where you want to be in the future, and recommend how technology can be employed to help you get there with the minimum of risk. All projects are run through our PMO, and all of our project managers are PRINCE2 trained and apply GNT Data Centre Protocol™ at every stage.

COST EFFECTIVE AND SECURE MIGRATION

GNT Data Centre adopts a service-centric approach to secure migration. Our multi-layered methodology for discovery starts with physical assets, working through to services and applications, and underpins planning, logistics and infrastructure engineering tasks. Supported by PRINCE2 accredited project managers and executed within highly secure proof of concept facilities and test environments, our approach ensures a low risk and cost-effective migration completed within defined timescales and to budget.

GNT Data Centre PROTOCOL

GNT Data Centre understands that the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your data is paramount. That’s why we conceived GNT Data Centre ProtocolTM an all-encompassing methodology that secures against risk and ensures the most secure IT delivery in the UK.

It incorporates Physical, Human and Digital security capability and processes and wraps them with a governance and standards layer that ensures that client data and systems are continually secure and compliant.

PHYSICAL

GNT Data Centre takes a multi-layered approach to physical security. Planned as a single entity, our counter-measures include perimeter fences, gates, lighting, CCTV and robust access control.

Our fully owned UK data centres are secure by design Located within purpose built ex-Ministry of Defence facilities, with 3m reinforced concrete walls, solid steel doors, and 24-hour CCTV – backed by visual verification of all persons entering, escorted access, and Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) and Tempest RFI intrusion protection.

Our facilities are also highly available, with auto-failover and replication across our two main sites combined with redundant power ensuring 100% uptime. We’re ISO 27001 accredited, PCI DSS certified and fully compliant with all 12 PCI DSS v3.0 requirements. All of our processes are Security Council controlled.

HUMAN

Our culture starts and ends with security. GNT Data Centre uses pre-employment screening and includes security terms and conditions in our conditions of service. We also operate a personnel security review process and a formal process for managing staff leaving the business to ensure the highest level of security from a people perspective.

DIGITAL

We build and integrate systems in-house, with the highest levels of security from the source code up – Hardened Windows, Unix and Linux environments, and up to four additional levels of security, each with full encryption.

The protection of virtual machines (VMs) is assured in a highly granular fashion, with capabilities including Stateful Firewall, Web Application Firewall, and Anti-virus; as well as Encryption services, Host based Intrusion Protection, Virtual Patching Technology, File Integrity Monitoring, and Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM).

RISK-BASED METHODOLOGY

GNT Data Centre helps our customers evaluate Cloud risks and take informed security decisions in order to build the best solution for their business needs. Our philosophy addresses all three critical elements of security – physical, human, and digital – to provide a pre-validated and dedicated Cloud Infrastructure.

SOLUTION DESIGNS

Whether you’re looking to meet a complex or specific security requirement or carrying a high degree of risk, all of our solutions are built to be highly secure, highly available and high performing. We offer a full range of operational and professional services to create a tailored yet competitively priced solution – from physical Colocation, Open Source environments and Secure Data Storage, to Managed Hosting, Cloud Infrastructure, PCI DSS Compliance and Information Security.

NETWORK CARRIER ISP

GNT Data Centre provides a range of client and core managed network services to serve your infrastructure with reliable, superfast connectivity. We operate our own redundant, fully meshed, self-healing 10 Gigabit network from our highly secure data centres to the Internet, and offer carrier neutral connectivity from over 150 ISPs. All of these services are monitored and managed 24x7x365 via our Network Operations Centre.

BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING (BCP)

We take a structured approach to developing BCP using a methodology aligned with the ISO 22301 standard for Business Continuity Management. It delivers a set of processes and system recommendations, an implementation plan, and a Crisis Management document that provides you with step-by-step instructions on what to do should disaster strike. We also test the plans, processes and systems put in place. This ensures you avoid the downtime that could otherwise lead to lost customers, lost revenue, legal action or worse.