Cloud Infrastructure

The foundation of any cloud computing stack consists of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer, which must be architected and implemented properly to support service-level expectations. If this infrastructure must be reliable, flexible and self-healing if the cloud service is to meet customer service level expectations.

How Egenera can help

PAN Manager® Software by Egenera® provides a mechanism for any organization to build an integrated IaaS environment—including servers, I/O, networking, high-availability and disaster recovery—regardless whether the service is delivered via virtualization, physical hardware, or a mixed environment of both.

PAN Manager Software enables cloud providers to:

• Dynamically build either public or internal/private clouds
• Enable a variety of virtual, physical or mixed resources to be offered as a cloud services
• Provide a highly elastic capacity of on-demand for cloud services
• Offer HA and DR as a “value added” service across both virtual and physical workloads
• Deliver role based access to resources under management
• Provide network isolation to support multi-tenant applications or services
• Capture granular usage information to support consumption based billing or metering

For More Information

• Egenera video on building IaaS
• Cloud Infrastructure Foundation white paper
• Solutions for Managed Services, Application Hosting, and SaaS Providers
• Savvis Case Study