Johannesburg, 20 Nov 2014
Cloud distributor Cloud On Demand is providing customers wanting to move into the cloud, but who are concerned about security and compliance issues, the ability to leverage its new Hybrid Cloud POD offering.
The POD (point of deployment) solution from Cloud On Demand enables a customer to take its business applications and data to a "public cloud" environment, while at the same time taking advantage of a secure, ring-fenced environment that boasts the same features and functionality as a "private cloud".
"Our partners are increasingly requesting private infrastructure space for their clients' cloud real estate, which is what prompted us to create POD environments to meet the needs of these specific customers," states Jonathan Kropf, CEO at Cloud On Demand. "In essence, what a POD will provide is a standalone high performance cluster that is in its own rack, on segregated hardware and that only you/they have access to."
The advantage of this model is that it immediately provides customers an independent environment that is exclusively theirs and that only they have access to. Each POD is configured with its own VMware vCentre software as well as VMware Site Recovery Manager - this immediately provides the remote management required to manage the location as well as enables remote disaster recovery from a hybrid to public cloud situation. Partners can then layer the applications of their clients on these servers.
In addition, partners can also use the PODs to provide secure, high performance solutions that are supported by vSAN technology. This means a customer will experience the same speed of access they have grown accustomed to from their own in-house enterprise server and data centre environments.
"Our PODs provide customers all of the benefits of a public and private cloud, but in a hybrid cloud. In essence you are immediately excluded from all other customers, which is currently one of the biggest requests, specifically from enterprise customers, whose primary concern is security and data leaks. Each POD is simply an extension of the client's LAN of which either a partner or their customer has complete and total control over," ends Kropf.
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