Tech Connect - Cloud Computing 2010

Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Scalability

Maintenance and Cost: Lower costs for deployment and management passed on to the customer.

Green

Considered an energy efficient technology

Hardware

theFocus ::

The “Other” Green No hardware/capital expense required with no hardware support contracts, spare parts or hardware life cycles to manage.

Help From Hosts

Bringing clarity to the cloud
with virtual private servers

WRI TING B Y :: HUN TER BENNE T T

or many companies, the
concept of cloud computing
is compelling, yet can also
appear to be a difficult
task. Virtualization using
virtual private servers (VPS) is a way to
unlock the potential of cloud computing.
VPS has the ability to enhance operations,
increase service availability to end users
and dramatically decrease turnaround
time on new server deployments. It can
also make your disaster recovery plan work
to eliminate many of the IT complexities
that exist for managers today—all while
significantly reducing IT capital spend.

VPS is a cloud architecture solution that bridges the gap between traditional shared hosting (the cheap $10 a month Web sites) and dedicated physical server hosting by allowing the customer to have virtual server instances in an infrastructure hosted data centers. The virtual server instance behaves like a dedicated physical server to the end

customer, however, and is presented in a highly resilient framework at a lower cost than deploying physical, dedicated servers.

The advantages of VPS over traditional physical servers or customer-owned virtualized infrastructure include:

VPS Comes in Two Flavors High availability (HA) and high fault tolerance (HFT). HA provides cost-effective, automated restarts of customers’ virtual servers in the cloud within minutes in the event of a hardware or operating system failure in the cloud architecture. HFT offers continuous availability, without any data loss or downtime to any application in the event of a failure in the cloud architecture.

Agility

Can integrate into existing hosted environments even if the existing environment is delivered on physical server hardware. Also, flexible server configurations (pick your processor count, RAM allocation and disk space allocation).

Reliability

Highly reliable disk-storage leveraging redundant storage area network (SAN) infrastructure with real time and near real time DR solutions available.

Agility and Reliability Built-in redundancy and survivability.

OneNeck IT Services offers a gateway to VPS. It leverages virtualization via VMWare vSphere 4.0 to provide server instances running for customers in their logical environment off centralized VPS farm hosting in their data centers. All infrastructure is provided including server infrastructure, network infrastructure, and disk (SAN) system.

Also, OneNeck customers can choose the number of virtual processors, amount of allocated RAM, and amount of allocated disk (in 100 gig increments) via its shared SAN environment for each VPS container (aka virtual server).