The "Why & When" of hosted managed datacenter. We can talk about all types of use cases when it comes to Managed Private Clouds. These are some of the more common scenarios:
SaaS Providers
Global Retailers & E-commerce Sites
Internal IT Services
MISSION
The Datacenter Hosting Solution
Growing customer facing, mission critical apps is expensive and slow
- Deploying Virtual Machine clones lets you grow faster - Scale for less money by adding VMs only when needed - Increases stability
Security and compliance for apps is needed
- A broad portfolio of managed security devices and services available
Ability to customize config with apps
- Support custom apps with full root administration access
Want to run databases and other elements of your app outside of the cloud
- Integration of your Cloud Datacenter with the other components of your managed hosting environment
MISSION
The Datacenter Hosting Solution
Deploying discrete systems for each department is costly
- VMs address departments' needs for isolation without overspending on hardware
Assessing resource needs for each system is challenging
- Easily change system resources or spin up and down VMs to meet performance needs
Unrealistic turnaround times for projects
- Provision new VMs quickly and store templates for each department's apps for on-demand
MISSION
The Datacenter Hosting Solution
Growing customer facing, mission critical apps is expensive and slow
- Deploying Virtual Machine clones lets you grow faster - Scale for less money by adding VMs only when needed - Increases stability
Security and compliance for apps is needed
- A broad portfolio of managed security devices and services available
Ability to customize config with apps
- Support custom apps with full root administration access
Want to run databases and other elements of your app outside of the cloud
- Integration of your Cloud Datacenter with the other components of your managed hosting environment
Platform technologies of Datacenter Hosting
Best-to-value bundled solutions and products to build a complete private cloud platform
Orchestrator
Hypervisor
Firewall
Cloud Stack
Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution.
CloudStack currently supports the most popular hypervisors: VMware, KVM, XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform (XCP).
Users can manage their cloud with an easy to use Web interface, command line tools, and/or a full-featured RESTful API. In addition, CloudStack provides an API that's compatible with AWS EC2 and S3 for organizations that wish to deploy hybrid clouds.
XEN Server
XenServer is the enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform that contains all the capabilities required to create and manage a virtual infrastructure. It is trusted by demanding organizations to run the most mission critical applications and used by the largest clouds.
Cuts energy costs. By reducing the number of physical servers required in the datacenter, organizations are able to save on their power and cooling costs.
Increases IT agility and efficiency. Customers can easily adapt to changing datacenter and computing needs by dynamically flexing capacity, optimizing VM placement, and automating repetitive management tasks.
Improves performance and user productivity. By enabling 'zero downtime' maintenance, automatically recovering from hardware failure, and providing failover capabilities in disaster situations, end users are ensured access to mission critical application in all scenarios.
Virtual Networking
Use Vyatta to route and secure traffic between and within hypervisors. The same Vyatta VM can be used for secure, remote access or to bridge virtual datacenters.
Bridging Networks - Including Clouds
Use Vyatta to build Layer 2 bridges between clouds and datacenters. Vyatta is ideal for securely meshing remote compute centers.
Network Firewall
Vyatta's enterprise-class stateful firewall enables you to define and enforce access control policies, as well as segment departments to create an isolated multi-tenant virtual infrastructure. Zone-based deployment preserves PCI compliance and enables DMZ servers to be hosted securely in the virtual environments.
Multi-Tenant Security
Vyatta Network OS is optimized to run in virtual environments to enforce security policies, and manages traffic in the same way that a physical router, firewall, VPN or intrusion prevention device does in traditional infrastructure.