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Introduction

Bluewire Cloud is a fully customisable IaaS cloud platform designed for organisations who want to move existing legacy, custom and high performance applications to the cloud.

Combined with ultra fast deployment capabilities and a rich set of self-service management tools, Bluewire Cloud has the power to dramatically transform your IT environment and drive efficiencies throughout your organisation.

This whitepaper details the infrastructure and service level components that comprise Bluewire Cloud. It also outlines key use cases and total cost of ownership elements to consid-er when evaluating a cloud service for your IT environment.

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1. Bluewire Cloud...2

2. High availability architecture...2

3. Creating a virtual server ...3

4. On-demand, penalty-free scaling...4

5. Backup and storage...4

6. Security...4

7. Management and monitoring...5

8. Industry-leading performance guarantee...7

9. Consumption-based pricing...7

10. Use cases...7

11. Total cost of ownership...8

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-Bluewire

Cloud

Bluewire Cloud is a fully customisable IaaS cloud platform designed for organisations who want to move existing legacy, custom and mission critical applications. Bluewire Cloud enables you to have your cloud, your way, right away.

High Availability Architecture

Bluewire Cloud uses VMware virtualisation technology to ensure the highest levels of flexibili-ty and reliability. Virtual server capacity is configured using High Availability (HA) and DRS clustering. Bluewire Cloud data center facilities run in active-active configurations to ensure that any failure behind the scenes does not impact your virtual server environment. Combined, these architecture strategies enable Bluewire

Cloud to provide an industry-leading, credit-backed performance SLA.

CUSTOMISE your virtual serverto meet

your exactrequirements. No pre-set bundles.

MIGRATE

existing applications or deploy pre-configured OS and application templates quickly &

easily. BRING your own Windows licenses and OS. ADJUST

your compute resourcesup or down on-demand

& on the fly at standard compute rates. GUARANTEE

performance with dedicated resources, High

Availability, security and credit-backed SLA. MANAGE

monitor and make payments with a rich

set of self-service management tools. USE current VMs by easily uploading existing virtual machines. DEDICATE

compute resources for your mission-critical

applications.

FLEXIBLE

consumption models such as Pay-As-You-Go or fixed monthly fees.

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Creating a Virtual Server

We believe Bluewire Cloud is the industry’s fast-est and easiest to deploy IaaS cloud platform. Build, order and start using your virtual server in under 6 minutes.

The Bluewire Cloud secure, self-service store-front presents you with an extremely intuitive set of prompts and one-click buttons to configure, obtain quotes, and order one or many virtual servers.

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-CONFIGURE VIRTUAL SERVERS

According to: RAM, CPU cores, Processor

Speed, and Storage.

OBTAIN

Quotes by the hour or by the month.

GET PRICE QUOTES

For single or multiple virtual servers.

CONFIGURE YOUR PRICE

Quotes for virtual servers in turned “on” or “off” modes.

CHOOSE YOUR OS

Microsoft, Windows, Linux or install your own Custom OS.

ORDER

On-demand, Penalty-free Scaling

The elasticity benefit of cloud computing is among the top reasons cited for choosing a cloud service over an on-premise solution. Bluewire Cloud extends you the capability to flex your compute resources on demand. Changes take effect immediately. Because Bluewire Cloud is a consumption-based service, pricing reflects your actual usage and not peak capacity or reserved resources. You pay for what you use.

Backup and Storage

Bluewire Cloud offers two tiers of storage. Tier 1, SSD Storage, is persistent RAID 10 SAN storage for maximum performance (IOPS) and high quality storage. Tier 2, HDD Storage, is comprised of 10K and 7.2K drives and Tier 3, HDD Storage running at 7.2k Drives Storage. Storage is charged per GB/hr. There is no separate or additional charge for disk I/O. All storage is persistent.

Security

Security is important for any business or IT professional to consider when evaluating a move to cloud. The Bluewire Cloud provides multiple tiers of security for your data and virtual servers. Here is how:

• Virtual servers reside in our SOC 2 Certified TYPE ll compliant and US & UK DOC Safe Harbor Certified data center facility providing the ability to support compliance requirements for HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI DSS.

• Network level security is provided through isolated tenant networks, site-to-site VPN (SSL or IPSEC), site-to-site MPLS, and integrated firewall. We also support hybrid cloud environments through virtual LAN and WAN extensions.

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-Management and Monitoring

With Bluewire Cloud you are 100% in control of your cloud environment. Bluewire

Cloud includes a full-featured and intuitive self-service portal with optional command line access to all of your virtual machines as a baseline level of service. Once logged into your secure custom-er account, it presents you with the following views and tools to monitor and manage your virtual environment:

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-Cloud Control Panel

you a view of all your virtual servers with key information such as:

1. Creation dates

2. Hourly billing rate

3. Virtual server resources as allocated by customer

4. Login credentials for each virtual server and for the VMware vCenter console

5. Virtual Network Interface Card (NIC) details

6. Assigned IPs

7. Management capability to turn the VM on or off and to reconfigure, clone or delete each virtual server

8. Manage networks and IP allocations

Account Management Panel

1. View all customer notifications

2. View saved quotes

3. Review order history

Billing Management Panel

1. Add funds to your account 2. View monthly usage details 3. Download usage detail reports

User Management Portal

1. Staff / User management (add and delete users)

2. User profile management

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...AND MANY MORE. GENERAL PURPOSE

WIndows & Linux

MICROSOFT

Exchange & Sharepoint

VERTICAL SPECIFIC

SMB & SME Apps

Industry-leading Performance Guarantee

Bluewire Cloud offers an industry-leading 99.99% availability guarantee with credit commitment so you can trust our cloud to run your critical business applications.

Consumption-based Pricing

Bluewire Cloud is a pay-as-you-go, consumption-based service. You pay only for the resources you consume. Your metered service charge can be viewed at any time by logging into your secure customer account. Your monthly invoice is a single, all-in, expense. Prices are rounded up to the nearest hour.

Use Cases

Bluewire Cloud is ideal for a number of business use cases. Whether you are launching your business, growing your business, migrating end of life servers, managing seasonal or unpredictable workloads, hosting mission critical appli-cations, running database and hardware intensive applications, needing off-site backup, or generally looking to make things simpler, optimised, flexible and economical, Bluewire Cloud is a proven platform choice.

• Server acquisition

• Server installation and deployment • Rack space/ server room real estate • Infrastructure management

• Server maintenance, power and cooling • OS licensing and maintenance

• Internet access including redundancy • Backup power

• EOL server disposal cost • IT training

Total Cost of Ownership

Bluewire Cloud enables you to eliminate IT CapEx in favor of a

single, demand-driven utility expense.

Bluewire

Cloud

• Single monthly operating expense

VS

On-Premise Solution

Beyond economic efficiencies, a move to cloud with Bluewire Cloud also supports

strategic-level business goals such as:

• Outsourcing non-core competencies,

• Freeing up cash for investment in business core competencies,

• Speeding up deployment time for new services and test environments,

• Reducing costs associated with operating, supporting and managing IT

infrastructure,

• Avoiding reinvestment in IT assets with no salvage value, and

• Business predictability

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