Partners

Over the past 10 years, Standing Wave has established relationships with a number of software, marketing and media partners, all with one end goal: to offer the broadest and most effective client-servicing skills. Our partners include:

POWA - E Commerce & CMS

Whether you're looking for unlimited content management capabilities, a sophisticated global eCommerce system, or simply pages for your first website - POWA is the infinitely scalable platform that turns the world into a level selling field.

Content only web sites are £9.99 per month with no minimum contract while fully featured e-commerce based sites cost £49.99 per month

or a fixed price monthly fee POWA guarantee your online business will always:

• Take advantage of new best-of-breed software, content publishing and eCommerce developments
• Be protected by the very latest security, data and payment systems
• Deploy the latest marketing and merchandising tools
• Remain Infinitely scalable

Standing Wave are an Accredited Design Partner of POWA

For more information on POWA go to www.powa.com

Serverstream

We provide enterprise class hosting from our own presences in three hosting centres in Londons Docklands and a specialist DR centre located in an ex MOD bunker in Kent. We provision this service directly for our smaller customersand currently host some 100+ customer web sites directly

For those customers who require a more fully managed dedicated server service, access to a private Cloud Environment, High Availability configurations or specialist services such as active DDOS we use our specialist hosting partner Serverstream. With our hosting partner we currently manage a wide range of clients servers ranging from the global web sites for a luxury boat brand, two web development agencies, a gaming/lottery site, to the largest Corporate Eyecare service company in the UK. We also have overseas clients and provide hosting services for clients in Australia, Brasil, and the US.

We can provide virtual servers and our virtual server platform is built using the latest generation Dell servers and high density SAN technology, Intel hex core processors, SAS 6Gbps RAID Disks with fully redundant Gigabit network connectivity.

Some clients require dedicated servers and our base configurations for dedicated servers start at:

• Intel Xeon Quad Core processor 2.66Ghz
• DDR3 RAM 1333Mhz
• Hardware RAID1
• DVD Drive
• Bandwidth: 100Mbit uncapped port with 1Mbit CDR
• 100% Network guarantee
• 1 hour hardware replacement SLA
• Premier 24/7 support

In addition to the base hardware we provide:

• Dedicated Firewall Protection - from Cisco and Check Point
• Load Balancing - Using cutting edge technologies from Barracuda, Cisco and F5 Networks, the intelligent distributed architecture optimizes infrastructure performance and leverages resources to ensure high availability and scalability
• DDoS Mitigation – Active of network and all customers against large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
• Storage & Backup - Our range of storage & backup solutions provide all you need for effective disaster recovery and business continuity
• Premier Support - Premium service and 24/7 support, with enterprise class SLAs guaranteeing 100% network uptime and 1-hour hardware replacement

Many clients are choosing a Private Cloud which gives the benefits of cloud computing but provides additional security and control:

• Instant Deployment & Scalability - Deploy your virtual machines within minutes and access limitless resources as and when you need it
• Self-Healing Technology - Load balancing and clustering delivers automatic failover, ensuring high availability and business continuity
• Ultimate Availability - Our Fault Tolerant (FT) cloud provides zero downtime and zero data loss in the event of a host hardware failure, enabling you to protect your most critical applications
• Total Flexibility - Maintain control of your virtual machines with a choice of Windows, Redhat, CentOS or the ability to customise your own solution