Virtual Private Cloud

All Roads To The Cloud Are Not Created Equal

The public internet is often referred to as the “information Superhighway.” All too often, much like I-95 in Providence, this “highway” becomes congested – resulting in unwelcome upload and download delays. A complete cloud solution for your organization must minimize these delays, but the trouble is that they greatly depend on the path your data travels once it leaves your network and heads to the cloud.

 To solve this problem, we built a private highway! Ours is a high-speed route to a world-class cloud hosted and supported by our partner NaviSite. This dedicated route offers OSHEAN Members unprecedented performance and predictability that is practically impossible when relying upon public cloud service providers.

 Cloud Services are transforming the way IT departments deploy and manage applications and services. The need to purchase and maintain servers, desktop computers, and storage systems can now be phased out and transitioned to pay-as-you-go services. This is a paradigm shift that takes some getting used to, but your users and IT Team will soon appreciate the reliability and cost reductions.

 Cloud based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is an enabler to the creation of cost effective and easily scalable IT solutions; whereas, the complexities and expenses of purchasing and managing the underlying hardware are outsourced to the Cloud provider.

Why Organizations Leverage Cloud IT Agility

Rapid deployment of new services and adapting quickly to market conditions are the goals. By unshackling IT from the worries of procuring new hardware, maintaining uptime, power provisioning, bandwidth, cooling, etc. enables organizations to focus on implementing the applications that provide direct business results.

Disaster Recover & Business Continuity

In the event of a major disaster, off-site file backup and on-demand compute resources can greatly improve an organization’s Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). Backing up to the Cloud offers a feasible and secure solution to archive important files and computer images (ISO, VMDK, etc.) needed to repair or restore corrupt or damaged systems. In addition, the cloud provides options for on-demand compute resources needed when restoration of a production system requires more time than the organization can afford.

 

Free up CapEX

Building, or expanding a data center requires upfront capital dollars and on-going maintenance fees. The Cloud, offers the same resources, but with a “pay as you go” – utility based billing model.

 

Virtualizing Legacy x86 Applications

Maintaining legacy x86 applications and dedicated hardware can be time consuming and risky. x86 systems continue to serve an important enterprise role, but when the hardware platform, or operating system (OS), comes to “end of life” the risks of failure increase. The added risk(s) are commonly offset by increased maintenance schedules. Migrating legacy environments to the cloud, provides organizations with a feasible IT-business strategy to extend the use of these important x86 business tools.