Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud Infrastructure Built Around Your Business
Mayer Networks designs, hosts, secures and supports cloud infrastructure for organizations across Southern Illinois, including our own datacenter in Carbondale, Illinois. Microsoft 365 carries email, files, collaboration and identity. Mayer Networks Cloud carries the workloads that still require servers: line-of-business applications, SQL databases, hosted desktops, legacy software and disaster recovery.
Workload placement
The cloud isn't one place
Microsoft 365 & SaaS
Cloud applications, collaboration, email, productivity platforms and software delivered as a service.
Mayer Networks Cloud
Hosted servers, hosted desktops, legacy applications and private cloud infrastructure operated on Mayer Networks infrastructure.
Public Cloud
Public cloud platforms where they are the right technical or business fit for the workload.
Hybrid Cloud
Environments that combine multiple platforms and, where necessary, integrate with systems that remain at your location.
Our own infrastructure
Mayer Networks Cloud
Mayer Networks operates its own cloud infrastructure in Carbondale, Illinois, with more than a decade of experience hosting production business and government workloads. It is private infrastructure we own and operate, not a public platform resold under our name.
Mayer Networks designs, hosts, monitors, protects and supports the environment, and the same team supports the users, network, security and vendors around it.
- Hosted Servers
- Hosted Desktops
- Legacy Application Hosting
- Private Cloud Infrastructure
- Backup & Disaster Recovery
- Managed Infrastructure
Cloud infrastructure services
What Mayer Networks delivers
Hosted Servers
Virtual servers sized to the workload, running in the Mayer Networks datacenter instead of a closet in your building.
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Hosted Desktops
Windows desktops and published applications delivered from the datacenter, beside the data they use.
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Legacy Application Hosting
Retire aging server hardware without replacing the software the organization still depends on.
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Microsoft 365
Email, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and identity, administered and secured as a managed environment.
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Backup & Disaster Recovery
Protected copies, retention and tested recovery designed with the environment rather than added afterwards.
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Hybrid Cloud
Microsoft 365, hosted infrastructure, public cloud and remaining onsite systems connected as one environment.
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Infrastructure proof
Local Infrastructure. Enterprise Hardware. Real Engineers.
Mayer Networks operates and supports the infrastructure itself. There is no third-party hosting provider to be handed off to when something is wrong.
Carbondale datacenter
Mayer Networks operates private datacenter infrastructure in Carbondale, Illinois, built to run workloads for the organizations we manage.
Redundant capability
Secondary datacenter capability supports both hosted infrastructure and disaster recovery, with protected power and multiple connectivity paths.
Monitored and supported
24/7 infrastructure monitoring and support capabilities, delivered by the same engineers who support your users and network.
Hybrid cloud
Your infrastructure should live where it works best.
Your location
- Systems tied to local equipment
- Hardware with useful life left
- Site networking and connectivity
Mayer Networks Cloud
- Hosted servers and desktops
- Line-of-business applications
- Backup and recovery
Microsoft 365 / SaaS / Public cloud
- Email, files and collaboration
- Vendor-hosted applications
- Public cloud where it fits
Systems that stay at your location are not cloud. In a hybrid design they are simply integrated with the cloud services around them, so identity, backup, monitoring and support are built once rather than twice.
Backup, disaster recovery & business continuity
Cloud Infrastructure Still Needs a Recovery Plan.
Moving workloads to the cloud does not remove the need for backup, replication, recovery planning and continuity. It changes where the copies live and who is responsible for testing them.
Backup
Protected copies of the data cloud platforms do not keep for you.
Replication
Workloads copied to a second environment on a defined schedule.
Recovery
Restores tested before they are needed, not during an outage.
Business continuity
A written plan for who decides what, and in what order.
Disaster recovery
Failover capability for the workloads that justify it.
What is the difference between Microsoft Cloud and Mayer Networks Cloud?
Microsoft 365 is where cloud-native work belongs: email, documents, collaboration and identity. Mayer Networks Cloud is private infrastructure for workloads that still require servers, such as line-of-business applications, SQL databases, hosted desktops and disaster recovery. Most of our clients use both.
Which page should I start with?
Infrastructure as a Service. It is the primary hosting service and explains every configuration we deliver, including virtual servers, hosted applications, hosted desktops, SQL hosting, multi-location hosting, vendor application hosting and Microsoft licensing for hosted environments.
Is Mayer Networks Cloud a public cloud service?
No. It is managed private infrastructure for organizations we actively support. It is not shared website hosting, public VPS hosting, commodity compute or anonymous self-service infrastructure.
Do you compete with Azure or AWS?
No. Those platforms are excellent, and we design workloads onto them when they fit. The difference is not scale, it is responsibility: on our infrastructure the architecture, security, monitoring, backup and troubleshooting are ours.
Do we have to be a managed client?
Effectively yes. Hosted infrastructure is part of the managed relationship and is available to organizations under an active managed-services agreement or entering one.
Does everything have to move?
No. Some workloads still belong on site, particularly where they are tied to local equipment or the existing hardware has useful life left. We evaluate per workload.
Not Sure Which Cloud Model Fits Your Organization?
Mayer Networks will look at the applications you run, the hardware you have and the recovery you need, then tell you plainly where each workload belongs.