The Cloudserve Platform
Cloudserve's utilises a state of
the art cloud computing platform which allows us to offer a wide
range of hosted business services to our customers. To deliver
these services to a guaranteed availability of 99.99%, an
infrastructure which is versatile, scalable and higly resilient is
required.
The platform utilised by Cloudserve
consists of five logical layers. These layers of the technology
stack transfom raw proccessing and storage capacity into
actual real business services that can be managed and deployed
easily for our customers. Each layer can be adapted and expanded to
encompass new technologies and solutions, but ensure a simple way
of provisioning, management and billing.
Intelligence Abstraction
In its basic form, the brains
behind creating and delivering services and resources. This layer
talks with virtualisation and clustering grid service controllers
to generate services such as desktops, VOIP systems, Exchange etc.
from the right location, for the right customer. This layer also
manages the billing of plan/services and gives end-users access to
configure these services once provisioned.
Operating System
The operating system which is stretched over the set of resources
allocated. Currently Windows and Linux are the two options
customers can create, but these can inhabit the same networks for a
heterogeneous environment.
Virtualisation Layer
Virtualisation and clustering are
two ways of generating pools of resources from which services can
be deployed and launched. Virtualisation allows the scaling up and
down of elements such as CPU on the fly and, once plugged into the
IA layer, allows this to be done via a GUI and billed. This layer
also self-heals by moving resources around the grids and data
centres to maintain quality of service.
Storage
No data is stored on servers or
blades. Instead, all data is stored on Storage Area Networks
(SANs). These high powered enterprise devices allow for image roll
back, secure access and replication across sites for redundancy.
Elastic LUNs give users the ability to dial up the required
resources at any time, as well as to mount storage to any resource,
anywhere, anytime.
Locale
Our points of presence in data
centres around the world. Cloudserve is bringing new
locations online all the time. However, since the services are
internet-based, Cloudserve operates 6 carriers per data centre
to deliver high speed access wherever you are in the
world.
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