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EarthLink Virtualization Services. Typical Business Challenges. How do I minimize IT capital expenditures & reduce IT operating expenses, without sacrificing services? . How do I reduce the complexity of my IT operations? .
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Typical Business Challenges • How do I minimize IT capital expenditures & reduce IT operating expenses, without sacrificing services? • How do I reduce the complexity of my IT operations? • How can I scale IT resources to keep pace with rapidly changing business requirements? • How do I keep my mobile workers better connected to our systems? • Does my backup plan adequately protect my data from man-made and natural disasters? • How do I get my limited IT staff refocused on strategic revenue generating initiatives?
Business Trends Support Virtualization Dedicating Resources to the Value-Add… “IT can no longer ignore the increasing clamor of requests to provide access to corporate resources from smartphones, tablets and other consumer-owned devices.” - Global Leader of Workplace Enablement Services, Accenture “It’s generally accepted that ongoing IT operations consume 80% or more of IT staff time leaving, no more than 20% of time for value-add project work. This fact has always frustrated IT executives as well as their business peers who continue to have more and growing demands.” - Five Top Issues facing CIOs in 2012
Why Virtualization? • Simplify your IT infrastructure • Free your IT staff from routine infrastructure maintenance • Focus IT resources on strategic business initiatives Multiple virtual machines running on a single physical machine, with each VM sharing the resources of that one physical machine.
Virtualization Paves the Way to the Cloud Virtualization Cloud Web PC / Client-Server Mainframe Virtualization lets you extend and scale your business applications to the cloud
Cloud Computing Service Models • Software as a Service (SaaS) Consumer uses the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. • Platform as a Service (PaaS) • Application development platforms enable application authoring and runtime environment. • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) • Sometimes referred to as elastic compute clouds, virtual hardware made available for varied uses.
Cloud Computing Deployment Models Private cloud:operated solely for an organization, typically within its own firewall Public cloud:owned by a cloud service provider and accessible over the internet, available to many companies or the general public Hybrid cloud: two or more interoperable clouds (e.g., private + public), allowing portability and scaling of data and applications Cloud ServiceProviders Businesses Bridging Public Cloud Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud
What can you put into the cloud? Email Hosting Filtering Encryption Archiving Firewall Management Log and Compliance Management Customer Resource Management (CRM) services Blogs Social Media Virtual Meetings Web Banking Core Processing ATM Imaging Document Sharing and Clearinghouse Temporary services Secondary Data Center Testing and Proof-of-Concept setups Disaster Recovery Secondary Data Center Remote backup
Cloud Computing Services 1. Reduce Complexitysimplifying operationsand maintenance 2. DramaticallyReduce Costsso you can invest in business opportunities 3. Deliver and Scale IT Services Flexiblyto keep pace with your business requirements Delivers real business value, right now!
EarthLink’s Virtualization Services Cloud Hosting Shared Virtual Servers Dedicated Servers Managed Cloud Hosting Disaster Recovery Cloud Server Backup Web Hosting EarthLink Cloud Hosting Services can reduce your IT operating costs by consolidating resources, simplifying IT complexity and enabling more flexible agile service delivery through virtualization. • Multiple Access Methods: • Carrier Neutral • EarthLink MPLS Network • Any ISP connection
Consultative support to help you design a customized solution to meet your specific business requirements. Choose a Linux or Windows operating systems, amount of CPU/RAM, and SAN Storage, and SAN Backup Multi-layered security, self-healing cloud architecture, and automatic server failover Instant scaling and Cloud Server Management through VMware vCloud Control panel Hosted in highly secure data centers EarthLink Cloud Hosting • Businesses running VMware typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resources Cloud Computing Excellence Award recognizes companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.
Control Panel - Cloud Server Management • Build, start, stop, backup or delete cloud servers directly from the control panel. • Schedule and review nightly backups. • Set up administrators with role-based access. • Connect to applications and your network • Expand your computing environment to EarthLink Cloud with our vCloud Powered service
Dedicated Server Hosting Maintain complete control while increasing your performance level, reliability and security. Our highly secure Data Centers give you a secure, dedicated environment to install, customize, and scale any application. Servers can be set up unmanaged or managed. With a Managed Dedicated Server, our experts build and manage you server in our secure data center environment and handle OS installations, patches, reboots and more.
Bronze Level service is included with all options Upgrade to more comprehensive levels based on your needs Managed Cloud Hosting Service Options
Disaster Recovery Services Choose a full hardware or virtual hardware replication of your IT environment, in our a highly redundant and secure Data Centers and a team of disaster recovery engineers you have ultimate piece of mind in the event of a crisis. Options include: Full hardware colocation mirrors current working client hardware in a colocated environment. Virtual hardware mirrors all mission critical applications on virtual hardware environments. Application data is mirrored in virtual, web-based VMware or cloud environments. EarthLink Data Center Customer Data Center
EarthLink Cloud Server Backup • Protect your business’s mission-critical information assets. • Rapid recovery from man-made and Mother Nature’s disasters – server crashes, fires, hurricanes, tornados, ice storms, earthquakes. • Instantaneous on-line access to data – replicated on disks, not tape • Easy to use wizard to set your own backup schedules and priorities • Define your levels of backup – incremental, full system, or real time Customer Data Center EarthLink Data Center
EarthLink Cloud Workspace A customized cloud workspace environment for you to control your business applications and data with secure access for all your employees from anywhere, from any device, via any internet or private MPLS connection. Your virtual office wherever you are. • Significantly reduce operating costs and eliminate capital expenditures • Increase employee productivity. • Eliminate complex security challenges • IT infrastructure that’s centralized, consistent and agile.
Control & Manage Your Services myLink IT Services Center • Dashboard with status updates to products and service tickets • Service overviews and product drill downs • Customized tools and control panels: vCloud Panel • Invoice presentation and payment online, access to past invoices • Submit and manage service tickets • Online Knowledge bases, whitepaper library, expert blogs and latest announcements
Simplify the complex with EarthLink Business Integrated IT, voice, and data services Flexible services customized to business needs, and the convenience of a single provider. Secure, reliable operations Fault tolerant, redundant, highly secure data centers with 24/7/365 monitoring and 99.999% uptime. IT experts as partners IT and security experts as trusted advisors, from strategy to deployment and maintenance. A comprehensive approach that enables you to efficiently leverage IT to solve business challenges.