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Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of hardware. For about two years, I had a server that was only utilized at 60 percent. And I’m an individual; the problem can be much worse for businesses, which often have IT resources scattered throughout the organization in various stages of utilization.

Making sure that resources do not go unused, EarthLink just launched a new service, FlexCloud Hosting. The service creates a secure IT environment to optimize server utilization. It enables a company to track and manage computing utilization across business units within a single IT environment, significantly reducing the cost of server sprawl by pooling resources, according to the company.

FlexCloud also meets industry security compliance standards, including a Data Center Firewall that delivers intrusion prevention with reporting and enables businesses to create customized firewall rules for enhanced security. It creates both public and private virtual environments for physical and logical separation with private MPLS or VPN architecture, and it helps offload the routine management and maintenance of the virtual machines.

The FlexCloud Hosting solution has N+1 redundancy in a self-healing cloud architecture, automatic server failover, high-availability SAN storage, hosting in geographically diverse SSAE 16 SOC2 certified data centers, on a nationwide private MPLS network.

Since EarthLink is a Telarus (News - Alert) partner, subagents who use Telarus as their master agent now have this useful FlexCloud Hosting solution as yet another arrow in their quiver of potential services they can offer customers.

One of the elements that sets Telarus apart as a master agent is the wide partner network it serves up to its subagents, making it almost too easy for them to come to clients with a complete line of offerings.

The FlexCloud Hosting solution highlights why Telarus is so valuable, and why agents should consider a master agent if they have not already done so.

The customer relationship is at the heart of agent business, and knowing how vendor solutions can fit together. A master agent such as Telarus enables agents to focus on this core competency, providing the partnerships and backend systems that allow agents to focus on their customers.

Telarus in particular has a magic formula for its subagents, mixing automation technology with a strong focus both on establishing good partners for its subagents, and working with the subagents itself to ensure that its subagents are getting what they need.