Sensible Cloud - Leaders in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has emerged as a key element of evolving computing infrastructures, but many enterprises are wary of letting control of such fundamental computing resources go off site. sense can  bring the true benefits of cloud computing to your own existing in-house infrastructure – servers, network, middleware, and still give you the control you need.

• Guarantee Business SLA performance for your applications and services – provide more resources to your most valuable business applications
• Dynamically allocate additional computing resources based on business priorities as needed – better utilize what you already have against most valuable applications
• Abstraction of applications and services from the complexity of physical HW and network operations – build you private cloud on JEE or your Virtual Machines
• Scale computing resources as required – allocate resource only as needed by the business, release them when not required
• Save energy, costs and CO2 by improving your VM overbooking algorithm - put more VMs on each server in the secure knowledge that they will expand if load increases
• Increase computer resource utilization – builds on the technically driven virtualization solutions
• Increase service reliability and quality by introducing self-healing for your critical business applications – business applications and service become more resilient to performance and network problems
• Offer bill-as-you-use metering to business users – easy to apply pay-as-you-go charge back practices to the business

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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.

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sense can provide all you need to build and operate your own cloud based services, applications and resources using your existing computing infrastructure.  You can operate cloud based applications running on your JEE (JBoss, BEA) application servers or operating across your virtualization resources (XEN, VMWare), or some combination of the two.  This provides you with all the benefits of cloud based computing while retaining complete control of resources and governance policies.

Your cloud based operations are not bound by one set of computing platforms or by physical location or ownership, so you can choose the most efficient and cost effective solution to fit your needs, and to change this as time progresses.  With this approach, even the most secure and controlled environment can begin to accrue the benefits of cloud operations without relinquishing any control from the data centre.

By operating with the core principle of ‘everything as a service’, sense provides a clean and efficient abstraction layer to allow you to deploy applications based on cloud principles without the need for you to change the way you build your JEE, .Net and SOA applications.  Whether you want to deploy your web services, or EJBs, or even your hardware resources, sense can provide the cloud application platform to let you deliver the results to users and other applications as if they were running in the cloud – in fact, users and applications are not aware of any difference, except improved quality of service as sense matches the best available resources to satisfy the Business SLA requirements of the incoming requests. This will allow IT operations to more closely align with business demands of your internal, and external, customers while achieving better utilization of the infrastructure investment you have already made.

Of course, should you wish to compliment your own resources with additional virtual or cloud based resources from external providers, with sense you are already 80% there, and you will be able to maintain your Business SLAs and control across the different computing platforms.