Private Cloud ApplianceModular

Plug & Play Cloud

Services & Applications area

March 2014

Problems

● Public cloud:

○Issues with security and privacy of business strategic information

○More expensive in the long term

○Vendor lock-in

●Private cloud:

○Complex deployment and management of open source private clouds

○Expensive pricing and licensing in virtualization software manufacturers

NSA

Virtual Appliance Market

●Appliances for Modular Plug & Play Private Cloud○Connect the appliances to the network and increase computational resources automatically.

○Easy management, monitoring and backup of the Private Cloud Infrastructure and services.

○Virtual appliances market with ready-to-use applications for easy deployment of services.

Solution

Computational Resources

Private Cloud

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Virtual Appliances Purchased

Virtual Appliances Customized

Virtual Appliances Deployed

Private Cloud Resources

Use Cases

●Cloud@home○Dropbox-like service under customer control.○Media streaming from customer home to everywhere○Easy recovery of data loss and personal computer crash

●Cloud@datacenter

○Cloud-like advanced features out-of-the box.

○Modular deployment for every need with privacy and security grants.

○Service farms management utilities.

●Cloud@office

○SMEs services ready to deploy easily.

○Automatic backup and monitoring.

○Money savings by using Desktop as a Service.

●Cloud@university○Highly scalable computation for Research support.○Easy plug & play configuration.

Main features

●Private Cloud Appliance○Plug & Play features

○Easy to use web control panel

○Hardware tested and optimized for private cloud requirements

○Connection of more appliances to automatically scale virtual resources and availability

○Available virtual appliances market that enables deployments with few clicks

○Advanced features like automatic scaling, monitoring and backup in service deployments

○Advanced distributed storage

○Resources accounting

○Migration tools

○Security and Privacy

Jose Otero Pena

jlotero@gradiant.org

Services & Applications area

March 2014