# VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD #### The exclusive private environment for your data and your work.
**Virtual Private Cloud: What is it** It is a deployment model halfway between a private and a public cloud. Provided by a public cloud provider, it's offered to the customer as a portion of infrastructure **for exclusive use**. **The Artera VPC** It is the perfect private cloud for companies seeking a trusted partner. Our data centers, located in strategic points across Europe, allow us to offer you:
**Main use cases** - Managing large volumes of workloads in the company - Extending your datacenter on-premise - Creating a disaster recovery environment - Mission-critical applications - Maximizing resource utilization - Compliance with specific security standards and legal policies - A reliable and redundant network - Unlimited provisioning opportunities: this resilient and flexible technology serves as the foundation for a Virtual Private Cloud with a **minimum configuration that already surpasses the market average**. - Two computational nodes, each with dual latest-generation Intel processors and various RAM options from 64GB to 512GB - 1TB of fully redundant full flash Storage Area Network (SAN) - A free VMware license free for up to 10GB of RAM, and beyond on a pay-per-use basis - A security appliance to activate IPsec VPNs and defining access and security rules, creating DMZs and bastion hosts.
**Pre-sales support** Designing your Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure can be extremely easy if you have access to **professional pre-sales support**. Tell us your requirements, the desired SLA, and the investment you want to make: our professionals are available to create a tailored project for you! **Technology and people** Start with the strong foundation of Artera VPC, and then choose, according to your needs: - The amount of storage to allocate - The type of licenses to pair with the servers you will install - The amount of space required for backups - The level of support to match the service - The volume of data to protect with our **Cloud Data Protection**: a backup and disaster recovery solution based on Veeam.