Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their computer resources. A perfect combination
of widespread broadband access and the availability of powerful virtualization technologies--which allow data
centers to leverage their server and storage hardware investment--has created one of today’s high-growth industries. More and more enterprises are finding it cost effective to outsource both traditional and newer business processes to the cloud.
The Tall Umbrella Cloud combines state of the art server technology with powerful cloud management software to deliver a world-class, secure, scalable platform designed for the most demanding applications. Customers can use the Tall Umbrella Cloud to offload a wide range of functions and processes including data storage, backup and recovery, web hosting, computing on demand, secure integration testing, as a platform for launching on demand Software-as-a-Service applications, and any other application benefiting from Tall Umbrellas virtual private server on the cloud. Tall Umbrella’s integration services and user friendly management tools combine to deliver a superior customer experience - delivering functionality that meets or exceeds benchmarks established for “non-cloud” computing deployments.
Compelling advantages of migrating to the Tall Umbrella Cloud
- Lower costs to start
- Flexibility in usage, functionality, and services, all available in shorter delivery timeframes
- Lower operating costs to maintain
- Top-notch professional services for integration support and business consulting
- Intuitive user interface reduces training and implementation time
The Tall Umbrella Cloud offers several different types of service depending on the customer's needs:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) allows customers to pay on demand for the use of servers, storage and other low level hardware and network resources on the Tall Umbrella Cloud. Customers add their own applications, platform and operating system.
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) allows customers to manage their applications, while the Tall Umbrella Cloud delivers the infrastructure as well as the operating system.
- Software as a Service (SaaS) allows customers to lease cost effective open source software programs over the Tall Umbrella Cloud.
Tall Umbrella provides all of the defined services based on customers’ demands; each is fully customized and can run in a purely private environment, a purely public environment (accessed from a remote location) or as a hybrid of both. Using open source software, such as Eucalyptus, Tall Umbrella leverages Amazon’s rapidly growing cloud ecosystem built around Amazon’s web services (AWS.) Client growth of cloud use now is mainly for “Amazon Compatible” interfaces. With Amazon Web Services compatibility, Tall Umbrella cloud clients interact with Tall Umbrella’s cloud services exactly the same way as they would using Amazon’s EC2 cloud. Clients and partners find high value in the attentive support that Tall Umbrella provides.
Features of Tall Umbrella's Cloud service offerings
Software as a Service:
- Hosted turnkey applications running on customer-selected operating system
- Wide variety of open source applications to choose from
- Leverages Amazon Web Services - and the growing EC2 cloud ecosystem
- Hosted popular relational databases
- Database management utilities
Infrastructure as a Service:
- Eliminate hardware and network capital expenditures
- Pay only based on usage
- Scale up and down quickly without any commitment (or based on the needs)
- Eliminate the cost and potential downtime of hardware and network failures
- Reduce the operating cost of IT infrastructure
- Supports open source hypervisors such as Xen and KVM
- Managed high availability storage with managed backups
- Wide range of instance sizes (256MB to 64GB of RAM)
- Best of breed storage integration including iSCSI, AoE, SAN, and NAS
Managed services to assure customer success:
- Load balancers with high performance, hardware accelerated SSL
- Multi-tenant billing to assure accuracy and privacy
- Managed forward and reverse master DNS zones
- Slave replicated DNS zones
- Managed high availability PostgreSQL and MySQL databases
- Automated backup management
- Managed Hadoop MapReduce allowing parallel processing of data
- Managed systems and auto-notification for monitoring and alerting
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