Virtual Private Data Centers with Multiple QoS levels deliver scalable capacity at minimal cost

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Introducing the Dynamic
and Scalable Data Center Virtual Private Data Centers with Multiple QoS levels deliver scalable capacity while minimizing costs
Ken OwensTechnical VP - Security and Server Technologies
Table of Contents2 Introduction2 Overview3 Defining the VPDC
5 Scalable Components6 Architectural Overview7 Service Profiles8 Service Catalog8 Cloud OS9 SummaryWHITE PAPER: Virtual Private Data Center
IntroductionThe cloud is suddenly everywhere. The five-year annual growth rate for IT cloud services is projected to be 26.5 percent - that's six times the growth rate of 1traditional IT service offerings. Virtualization and cloud computing are the #1 2and #2 technology priorities for CIOs in 2010 . And the top three factors causing enterprises to move to cloud are, in order, access to expertise; lower overall cost; 3and need for 24/7 coverage .
There are many reasons why cloud is going mainstream so quickly. Cloud solutions:. Are lightweight. Businesses want a straightforward installation process and user interface that brings computing resources on line quickly.. Don't require commitments. Businesses desire environments that allow them to use resources for short periods of time, that can quickly support application prototyping, proofs-of-concept, and early-stage software development.. Can be delivered instantly. Businesses want to order data center stacks online immediately, not wait weeks or months to negotiate procurement and capacity hurdles.. Billed based on usage. Businesses want to only pay for the resources consumed, so as to better align cost with revenue.. Are highly scalable. Customers want to be able to rapidly scale up their infrastructure as demand justifies.
But today's businesses require more than just these minimal cloud attributes. Savvis compared existing market research with the business and application development needs of our enterprise customers, and identified additional attributes that need to be defined to satisfy the enterprise cloud experience. These attributes primarily revolve around the varying levels of quality of service (QoS) tied to the application deployment lifecycle, network, security, and data access/protection capabilities of the cloud offering. Specifically, they include:. Enterprise security. The cloud offering must be able to help support a businesses compliance requirements, provide enterprise-grade firewalls, and integrated virtual security.. Solution QoS. There must be performance and variable options offered for QoS, backed by meaningful service level agreements.. Storage access/protection/availability. The solution must offer automated information lifecycle management (ILM), replicated data, data retention, and data protection.. H igh availability and scalability. An optimal cloud offering will support variable virtual machines (VMs), profile sizes, dynamic resources, balancing, and execution orchestration.
OverviewThe Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) service is an enterprise-grade infrastructure and hosting management service that provides businesses with dynamic and scalable compute capabilities, allowing them to reduce overall costs, while focusing on core projects and addressing variable IT capacity needs.Symphony VPDC delivers all this, and more. It offers a true highly available solution that accounts for every aspect of an enterprise IT Infrastructure environment, from development to production. This includes provisioning and maintaining servers, network, storage, software and security.
1 Gartner: "Forecast: Sizing the Cloud; Understanding the Opportunities in Cloud Services," March 20092 Gartner Expo February 2010 23 2010 State of the Data Center Report," Symantec January 2010WHITE PAPER: Virtual Private Data Center
The Symphony VPDC solution enables businesses to adapt to the rapidly changing economic and technological environment with speed, simplicity, and efficiency while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). Savvis provides a HA infrastructure, managed and supported by Savvis and tuned to support mission-critical applications. As an integrated solution that is highly responsive, extremely reliable, and simple to provision and maintain, Symphony VPDC enables businesses to mitigate risks of application and infrastructure failure and errors in day-to-day operations.
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