Next-gen application hosting

Next-gen application hosting

Customer Problem

Enterprises running modern cloud-ready applications, whether developed internally or by software vendors, but that need the security and control that traditional datacenters provide, need a more elastic and responsive IT – one that behaves like a cloud but is safely behind the firewall.

Benefits

• Deploy and update internal and public facing applications instantly without the need for high friction IT process
• Grow and shrink applications manually or programmatically based on demand on the application
• Allow faster iteration on internal and public facing applications so your organization can adapt to business changes on the fly

Key Functionality

• Programmatic control for launching instances via launch plans
• Securing of applications and data with collaborative permissioning
• Network isolation and firewalling with security lists
• Data management with Nimbula Disk Service

Solution Details

Nimbula Director delivers an elastic private cloud with programmatic controls. Applications and the tools that manage them can allocate and release resources on demand. This allows for the elastic growth and contraction of an application over time enabling properly written applications to scale to enormous capacity when load grow and to give way to other uses when load shrinks. This elastic control can be completely automated via programmatic cloud interfaces with no need for IT intervention. Any risk around flexibility and automation is completely removed with the introduction of security and networking policies that ensure only the right people access the right applications and data, in the right locations.

Nimbula’s next-generation application hosting can be augmented by partnerships and integrations with configuration tools such a Chef and Puppet, continuous integration products from Electric Cloud, scaling software from Scalr and enStratus, and load balancers such as Zeus.

Capital costs are low because the cloud is based on open components, all the self- service functionality is baked into a single cost-effective SKU, and because public clouds are utilized where appropriate. Because the Nimbula private cloud manages its own scalability and health, operations costs are also very low. With Nimbula Director, you get a solution that is more targeted for your newer applications at a cost much lower than what is used to manage legacy applications.