What was good (^See Above^) for the on-premise consulting business
.... Is now the new bad
The new good and the rage 'du jour' is Iass- PaaS - SaaS with DR
using Pods from EMC, NetApp ,Violin and of course Nimble
Orchestrated Cloud White Papers :
Citrix CloudPortal™ Business Manager is a cloud services delivery platform for self-service IT, that unifies and
simplifies the delivery, operational, commerce and user management aspects of a cloud. Organizations can
aggregate infrastructure, cloud, IT and value add services and deliver them to users through a simple, selfservice catalog of cloud services. Users can shop for cloud services and manage their account without calling
tech support or waiting for services to be manually provisioned.
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The federal Cloud-First policy asks agencies to migrate three ―must move‖ services to cloud solutions
within 18 months. The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative requires agencies to downsize to a
more manageable, affordable, and sustainable number of computing facilities.
Even where compliance is not a primary consideration, agencies are looking toward shared solutions to
help them simplify and lower the cost of providing data and application services. They want cloud benefits
such as agility, speed, reliability, and flexibility. However, many agencies see a very large obstacle in the
way the same attributes of the cloud that should deliver expected benefits also raise significant security
concerns.
Jointly designed by NetApp, Cisco, and VMware, the FlexPod™ data center solution is a complete,
integrated cloud architecture consisting of leading storage, networking, and server technologies. It was
designed to reduce the cost and complexity of implementing the federal Cloud-First policy and other cloud
initiatives, with a secure, pretested, shared infrastructure solution that has been validated in a lab
environment.
Security and isolation in the FlexPod data center solution are provided by enhanced secure multi-tenancy
(SMT) architecture. Also designed jointly by NetApp, Cisco, and VMware, the SMT architecture is a labvalidated solution for achieving availability, secure separation, service assurance, and resource
management. This means that the FlexPod data center solution functions with the SMT architecture as a
security solution, not just a cloud platform. This white paper provides a detailed overview of the secure
cloud architecture. It shows how FlexPod and SMT work as a single solution to address common security
concerns...
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My Own Private Amazon EC2 and S2 :
All this is leading to something big the Consumer IAAS alternative for IT hosted at Co-Location provider like Equinix, Telehouse or CoreSite and managed by boutique service providers. Allow IT to become a OPEX service and not a CAPEX cost to the modern agile corporation...
None other the John Hopkins and the US Gov't are leading the charge. Who would of think it the FEDs ahead of the curve... Not I
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