Your Mission Critical Applications are Ready to Run Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware
When people talk about clouds or
cloud computing, they are usually referring to public clouds, also known as shared clouds or private
virtual servers. These clouds have hundreds or even thousands of businesses running in isolated containers within the same physical environment. There are a lot of benefits to public clouds but also drawbacks due to certain feature limitations and the implications on an application's architecture. These drawbacks make it difficult to transition from a dedicated environment to a public cloud.
This is where Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware come in. Customer is physically separated on their own dedicated hardware. Not to forget that their support is also handled like a traditional managed hosting environment. So high levels of security, reliability, performance, customization and service are simply inherent to the solution. Yet you can still scale quickly, optimize your hardware resources and get utility billing for your VMs (Virtual Machines)—which are some of the benefits that make clouds so appealing in the first place. Think of it as getting the best of the cloud combined with the best of managed hosting—without the limitations of either.
All That Rackspace Hosting Hong Kong does for Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware:
- Full support of the operating system running on each of your VMs
- Provision your new VMs
- Manage and support the configuration, hypervisor layer and infrastructure 24x7x365
- Assist in the design, configuration and deployment of your private cloud configuration
- Purchase and renew all software licenses
- Purchase all related hardware components
- Manage the network and data center around the clock
- Provide industry leading SLAs and guarantees that are clear and fair
Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware provides an even more secure and reliable approach to public Clouds
Built on dedicated, branded servers running VMware, these environments are protected by your dedicated
Rackspace firewalls. They are designed to provide you with the best of both Cloud and Managed Hosting.
So, the most important benefits of the Cloud - resource and budget optimisation with rapid scaling up or
down - can be had with the higher security and improved reliability of a Rackspace Managed Hosting
Solution.
And the best part is, you don't have to invest in or build and manage your own Enterprise class private
cloud to make it happen. We make it happen for you from the data centre, to the network, to the VMs. All the nonstop work - purchasing the components and licenses, configuring your Private Cloud, patching operating systems and troubleshooting issues whenever they pop up - is taken care of on our end.
All you need to do is decide if one of our three recommended configurations will do the trick for you.
Or if you want a built-to-fit solution based on your specific needs, we can do that too. Our
around-the-clock Fanatical Support® will take care of the rest.
Built-to-Fit Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware
Got something else in mind other than our turnkey options?
We'll help you design your own Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware solution to fit your specific needs.
- Choose your specific hardware configuration based on your own best-practices and performance needs
- Certified VM specialists work with you to design the configuration that works best for your needs.
Advanced Performance Monitoring
Using the Rackspace customer portal, customers can receive valuable information on their Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware configuration and capacity utilization, allowing for more informed business decisions and
improved total cost of ownership (TCO).
Example of information available to Private Cloud: Virtualized by VMware customers via the Rackspace customer portal:
Tips for Evaluating Private Clouds
1.
How Secure is Secure?
First, define and identify what's mission-critical to you. If your data and apps have to be as secure as possible to meet compliance
requirements or your own high standards, Private Clouds are ideal. The inherent security that comes with a dedicated, single-tenant
environment is a pivotal reason to choose a private cloud. What's more, you can add additional security services like Intrusions
Detection Systems and dedicated firewalls.
2.
The Speed and Size to Scale
When it comes to on-demand and unlimited scaling, the Private Cloud has one limitation to consider. It's not major, but something
you should look into. The number of VMs you can provision and deploy will be limited by the physical hardware running behind your
Cloud. You can of course still add computing power by expanding your configuration. It just won't be as fast and seamless as a
public cloud. So ask yourself how fast do you need to scale—instantly or fast?
3.
What to Run and Not Run on our Managed Private Cloud
Basically, you can choose to run most anything you want on a Private Cloud. But you might not need or want to run everything, in all
honesty. It might make more sense to run your databases on a traditional managed hosting configuration or use a CDN enabled cloud
storage solution for your files or you can create a hybrid hosting solution that mixes and matches Private Cloud, public cloud and
Managed Hosting to create a master solution that fits your requirements nicely. The point is you have options.
4.
Virtualization Expertise Not Needed
If you want to take advantage of the benefits of a Private Cloud, but don't have the skills, time or desire to mess with provisioning
VMs or managing the hypervisor, outsourced Private Clouds are generally the way to go. Just make sure the provider you choose actually
supports the
virtualization layer for you as well as the operating systems that reside on each VM.
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