Cloud Computing Data Centre

Deltalis colo and cloud computing

Massive hype surrounds cloud computing but in truth it’s a major paradigm shift from traditional colocation. It offers major benefits:

  • Enterprise quality infrastructure and software that were once the preserve
    of large organisation only, owing to their high costs
  • Almost limitless availability
  • Payment on a usage basis, typically charged by the minute or hour. It like another utility

Cloud computing’s market share in 2010 was estimated to be only 2% but growing in leaps and bounds. By 2013 the estimate is that it will exceed 9% and be growing even faster.

The Deltalis bunker data centre is an ideal location for cloud computing owing to the super security offered. It already houses its first cloud and is now looking for additional cloud partners.

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Cloud computing data centre

Cloud computing accusable to all media Over recent years IT technology has moved on fast both in terms of hardware and software. The first major change came with the adoption of personal computers in place of mainframes. These and the servers in data centres were often only used to 20% of their full capacity. Yet they occupied space, created expensive peak power loads and needed to be cooled at all times. The next step, a paradigm shift, came with the recognition that vast economies of scale could be achieved by pushing computing power into bigger units. Then selling the capacity to a number of clients on a usage basis – similar to other utilities, electricity for example. Thus cloud computing was born enabling customers to
  • Forget infrastructure worries
  • Concentrate on their core business
The early adopters to cloud computing have in the main been large organisations, many starting with private rather than public clouds - possibly brought about by the fact that most had trusted in-house IT departments. The core benefit that they saw was reduced IT costs. This has been proven by research, which has shown that cloud architecture can increase server or other component utilisation by up to 75% and reduce IT labour costs by 50% or more. The cloud has two further benefits its ability to:
  • Shield users from the ever growing difficulties of managing complex IT infrastructures
  • Offer greater levels of scalability
Both of these are of great interest to business units of all sizes. They can purchase software services by the hour and get enterprise quality infrastructure that was previously the preserve of large organisations, as the entry costs were too high for many businesses. Deltalis has recognised this change in the market and offers both colocation and cloud computing through its partners for example Radix, leapfrogging over the need for conventional managed services. These are offered in any one of three ways.

Cloud services

Cloud computing ideal for database management Software as a service – SaaS
A service offering customers standardized applications running in the cloud. Customers do not manage or control the cloud infrastructure with the exception of some application settings. Applications are available through an appstore. These include backup/archiving, collaboration, CRM, databases, web hosting and web store. These are all scalable and users can select the level of resource they require for the application, which can be scaled on demand. Any application may be built into a SaaS solution using Radix tools. Alternatively, you can be helped to offer your solution on the cloud with all the attendant benefits.

Platform as a service – PaaS
A service offering customers the ability to deploy their applications onto the cloud using provided tools. Customers once again do not manage or control the cloud infrastructure but have control of their applications. Access is provided to the most advanced PaaS solutions available: AppLogic. Customers can deploy with this tool all of the components required to manage the application properly. No longer are you offered just a virtual application server but the entire hardware stack is available through virtual machines. Customers can build firewalls, load balancers, application servers, web servers and database servers to name but a few. All of these types of device are available through pre-built appliances that simply require you to select the amount of resources you would like to run them. The machines can then be run with the default configuration or you can customise them to your needs.

Infrastructure as a service – IaaS
A service offering customers processing, storage networking and other computer resources, which can run both operating systems and applications. Customers again do not manage or control the cloud infrastructure but have control over their systems and applications. The IaaS service is a simple virtual private server offering. Customers run, as described above, the operating system and their application and that is all. Targeted to the IT department, this tool is ideal for testing, spikes and other requirements where the mainframe is short of capacity. Finally, Deltalis’ cloud partners can also offer a service to clients taking their infrastructure that would be housed in the data centre and convert it to a cloud solution. This version of IaaS solution could best be called a private PaaS or private cloud.
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