Advice needed on secure remote datacenter and secure communication

Dear All,

I am setting up the IT infrastructure of a small company (staff of 10 in the UK and Japan). We are in need of remote data center with secure storage, and secure communication with this data center. We would like to outsource as many things as possible and obtain a simple, yet secure, IT solution.

Please note, I am IT savvy, but I'm no IT professional, and I am therefore looking for advices. For now, I would go with the following options... any comment?

- secure datacenter:
: a dedicated, redundant, server such as www.rackspace.co.uk
: a physical firewall
: Windows Server 2003
: most sensitive files encrypted with PGP
- secure communication:
: Windows VPN Client/server solution

Regarding VPN authentication: I prefer to use password-based authentication with strong password policies rather than security token cards. What options do I have left? Is Windows VPN client/server a good option? Are MSCHAP2 or EAP difficult to implement? Are there better and cheaper VPN client/server solutions available?

That's a lot of questions for one post... but any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks,

Olivier






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