Buffer additional computing resources to the cloud
What is the typical result of running out of computing horsepower?
- Business applications and services slow down, perhaps to the point of non-usability, failure or even system crash.
- Huge amounts of operations time and effort is used in tuning, tweaking and moving resources around.
- IT operations make requests for large amounts of additional capital to purchase new servers or networks.
- Lost time and revenue in getting new products or services into the market.
… inevitably more effort and money is spent, while service and income are reduced to the business consumers.
sense can help get over this hurdle while at the same time providing the same, or better, level of reliability and scalability for your internally managed computing resources. Whether you choose additional resources from a virtualization provider of cloud operator, sense can extend and buffer your applications and services across the boundary from your own infrastructure to the cloud based resources. All the while providing additional benefits like:
- Using business criteria to align additional resources to the most valuable applications.
- Introducing a pay-as-you-go model for the use of the additional resources used.
- Reducing the time and effort to configure additional resources down to a few minutes – and have them activated and released automatically only as needed by the business.
A key differentiator of sense in the cloud market is the ability to bridge across the most common computing platforms to provide all the benefits of cloud computing while continuing to offer all the control required by enterprise level business operations. This means you can start where you are today and with the minimal cost, effort and risk, begin to provide additional computing capacity to your existing server pools by buffering extra capacity in a sense managed cloud.
For example:
* You operate a JBoss server cluster to provide 24×7 web access to services for some of your business partners around the world. Sales & marketing want to expand into the fastest growing markets in the far east. They advise that you’ll need to cater for an additional 75% load and to extend guaranteed operations around the clock ….. Oh and this has to start at the end of next week. With traditional methods of capacity planning, procurement, and then the effort to install, integrate, and bring online the new hardware, you’re looking at two to three months minimum. What if you could go online to setup an arrangement to deploy your existing software infrastructure to additional servers that look just like yours, and to do all this with no capital outlay, minimal setup effort, guaranteed performance and scalability, and only pay for what you use (even on a credit card) …….. and still apply all the control and policies you need.
