Virtekcloud whitepaper

WHITEPAPER

One Cloud For All Your Critical Business Applications. www.VIRTEKCLOUD.com

Introduction Virtek Coud is a fully customisable IaaS cloud platform designed for orginisations who want to move existing legacy, custom and high performance applications to the cloud.

Combined with ultra fast deployment capabilities and a rich set of self-service management tools, Virtek Cloud has the power to dramatically transform your IT environment and drive efficiencies throughout your organization.

This whitepaper details the infrastructure and service level components that comprise Virtek Cloud. It also outlines key use cases and total cost of ownership elements to consider when evaluating a cloud service for your IT environment.

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High availability architecture...................................................................................2

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Creating a virtual server ........................................................................................3

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On-demand, penalty-free scaling...........................................................................4

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Backup and storage................................................................................................4

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Management and monitoring..................................................................................5

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Industry-leading performance guarantee................................................................7

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Consumption-based pricing....................................................................................7

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Use cases...............................................................................................................7

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Total cost of ownership...........................................................................................8

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Virtek Cloud Virtek Cloud is a fully customizable IaaS cloud platform designed for organisations who want to move existing legacy, custom and mission critical applications. Virtek Cloud enables you to have your cloud, your way, right away.

MIGRATE

CUSTOMISE

BRING

existing applications or deploy pre-configured OS and application templates quickly & easily.

your virtual server to meet your exact requirements.

No pre-set bundles.

your own Windows licenses and OS.

USE

DEDICATE

ADJUST

current VMs by easily uploading existing virtual machines.

compute resources for your mission-critical applications.

your compute resources up or down on-demand & on the fly at standard compute rates.

MANAGE

FLEXIBLE

GUARANTEE

monitor and make payments with a rich set of self-service management tools.

consumption models such as Pay-As-You-Go or fixed monthly fees.

performance with dedicated resources, High Availability, security and credit-backed SLA.

High Availability Architecture Virtek Cloud uses VMware virtualisation technology to ensure the highest levels of flexibility and reliability. Virtual server capacity is configured using High Availability (HA) and DRS clustering. Virtek Cloud data center facilities run in active-active configurations to ensure that any failure behind the scenes does not impact your virtual server environment. Combined, these architecture strategies enable Virtek Cloud to provide an industry-leading, credit-backed performance SLA.

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Creating a Virtual Server

We believe Virtek Cloud is the industry’s fastest and easiest to deploy IaaS cloud platform.

Build, order and start using your virtual server in under 6 minutes.

The Virtek Cloud secure, self-service storefront presents you with an extremely intuitive set of prompts and one-click buttons to configure, obtain quotes, and order one or many virtual servers.

CONFIGURE VIRTUAL SERVERS

GET PRICE QUOTES

According to: RAM, CPU cores, Processor Speed, and Storage.

For single or multiple virtual servers.

ORDER

OBTAIN

CONFIGURE YOUR PRICE

Virtual Servers.

Quotes by the hour or by the month.

Quotes for virtual servers in turned “on” or “off” modes.

CHOOSE YOUR OS Microsoft, Windows, Linux or install your own Custom OS.

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On-demand, Penalty-free Scaling The elasticity benefit of cloud computing is among the top reasons cited for choosing a cloud service over an on-premise solution. Virtek Cloud extends you the capability to flex your compute resources on demand. Changes take effect immediately. Because Virtek Cloud is a consumption-based service, pricing reflects your actual usage and not peak capacity or reserved resources. You pay for what you use.

Backup and Storage Virtek Cloud offers two tiers of storage. Tier 1, SSD Storage, is persistent RAID 10 SAN storage for maximum performance (IOPS) and high quality storage. Tier 2, HDD Storage, is comprised of 10K and 7.2K drives and Tier 3, HDD Storage running at 7.2k Drives Storage. Storage is charged per GB/hr. There is no separate or additional charge for disk I/O. All storage is persistent.

Security Security is important for any business or IT professional to consider when evaluating a move to cloud. The Virtek Cloud provides multiple tiers of security for your data and virtual servers. Here is how: •

Virtual servers reside in our SOC 2 Certified TYPE ll compliant and US & UK DOC Safe Harbor Certified data center facility providing the ability to support compliance requirements for HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI DSS.

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Network level security is provided through isolated tenant

networks, site-to-site VPN (SSL or IPSEC), site-to-site MPLS, and integrated firewall. We also support hybrid cloud environments through virtual LAN and WAN extensions.

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Management and Monitoring With Virtek Cloud you are 100% in control of your cloud environment. Virtek Cloud includes a full-featured and intuitive self-service portal with optional command line access to all of your virtual machines as a baseline level of service. Once logged into your secure customer account, it presents you with the following views and tools to monitor and manage your virtual environment:

Cloud Control Panel

The Cloud Control Panel gives you a view of all your virtual servers with key information such as:

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Creation dates Hourly billing rate Virtual server resources as allocated by customer Login credentials for each virtual server and for the VMware vCenter console Virtual Network Interface Card (NIC) details Assigned IPs Management capability to turn the VM on or off and to reconfigure, clone or delete each virtual server Manage networks and IP allocations View, manage and monitor bandwidth

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Account Management Panel

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Billing Management Panel

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User Management Portal

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View all customer notifications View saved quotes Review order history

Add funds to your account View monthly usage details Download usage detail reports

Staff / User management (add and delete users) User profile management

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Industry-leading Performance Guarantee Virtek Cloud offers an industry-leading 99.99% availability guarantee with credit commitment so you can trust our cloud to run your critical business applications.

Consumption-based Pricing Virtek Cloud is a pay-as-you-go, consumption-based service. You pay only for the resources you consume. Your metered service charge can be viewed at any time by logging into your secure customer account. Your monthly invoice is a single, all-in, expense. Prices are rounded up to the nearest hour.

Use Cases Virtek Cloud is ideal for a number of business use cases. Whether you are launching your business, growing your business, migrating end of life servers, managing seasonal or unpredictable workloads, hosting mission critical applications, running database and hardware intensive applications, needing offsite backup, or generally looking to make things simpler, optimized, flexible and economical, Virtek Cloud is a proven platform choice.

END-OF-LIFE

GENERAL PURPOSE

DATABASE

Server Migrations

WIndows & Linux

And Microsoft SQL

VOICE

Video, UC &

MICROSOFT

TERMINAL

Exchange & Sharepoint

And RDS

CLIENT

VERTICAL SPECIFIC

Server Apps

SMB & SME Apps

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Total Cost of Ownership Virtek Cloud enables you to eliminate IT CapEx in favor of a single, demand-driven utility expense.

Virtek Cloud •

Single monthly operating expense

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Server acquisition

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Rack space/ server room real estate

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Server installation and deployment Infrastructure management

Server maintenance, power and cooling OS licensing and maintenance

Internet access including redundancy Backup power

EOL server disposal cost IT training

Beyond economic efficiencies, a move to cloud with Virtek Cloud also supports strategic-level business goals such as: • • • • • •

Outsourcing non-core competencies, Freeing up cash for investment in business core competencies, Speeding up deployment time for new services and test environments, Reducing costs associated with operating, supporting and managing IT infrastructure, Avoiding reinvestment in IT assets with no salvage value, and Business predictability

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