Accelerate with Ampleflex Cloud!
Highly adoptable and dependable platform for deploying services
and applications into the Cloud.
Enterprises are updating applications to accelerate time to market, improve customer satisfaction, drive innovation, and gain a competitive edge. As mission-critical enterprise applications are optimised, it’s vital to modernise the infrastructure they rely on as well.
The modernisation of both the application and the infrastructure enables greater business agility,
increases operational efficiency, and reduces risk for application owners and strategic IT leaders.
This overview discusses how, without improvement, systems run slower, users become frustrated, compliance policies are compromised, and bottlenecks slow companies’ performance, resulting in missed opportunities and obstacles to innovation.
This overview looks at operational and business drivers for upgrading to a state-of-the-art
application environment. It evaluates greater performance for business needs, including databases and mobility. The document also reviews Ampleflex’s offerings in the application modernisation
market.
IT is faced with limited budgets and resources and too many projects to manage.
“The single biggest challenge to application
modernisation is doing
nothing
.”
Doing nothing means older apps continue to run on aging infrastructure. This increases
infrastructure support, maintenance costs and increases inefficiencies, which can directly and
indirectly affect the bottom line.
Failure to upgrade the application infrastructure slows innovation and advancements toward new strategies such as cloud infrastructures, mobile front ends, and using big data for business gain.
Regardless of the benefit, many firms face competing priorities and budgets, which can draw focus
away from application.
70% of overall IT budgets are being spent on existing operations. Modernising enterprise
applications encourages innovation, cost savings, and reduced risk.
Transitioning to a more efficient, agile infrastructure can drive massive improvements in application
performance, availability, time to market, and scalability while also reducing cost.
Ampleflex’s solutions enable firms gradually transition their services and systems into cloud while driving greater levels of innovation for the business, reducing costs and improving efficiencies for the IT Team.
Ampleflex IaaS
is a
highly adoptable and
dependable
platform
for deploying services
into the Cloud.
Technical Overview
Using a mixture of on premise, dedicated, hybrid and public cloud can make sense for a number of reasons. Our engineers will work with you to deliver a bespoke hosting architecture to fit your exact
requirements.
Ampleflex service options include
• Virtual Private Cloud for on-demand virtual servers.
• Dedicated Cloud for physically isolated dedicated cloud platform.
• Cloud Files & VPN for scalable Online File Storage, Broadcast and CDN.
• Hybrid Cloud enables combining of all cloud services to create a configuration, which is right for the
customer’s needs.
Ampleflex Cloud IaaS offers comprehensive set of products and solutions tailored to help organisations to adopt the cloud. Designed using VMware vSphere 6, our solutions help the migration process and
support more apps.
Our systems designed with specific aim to reduce time and operational risks normally associated with
transition into Cloud.
With the Ampleflex Cloud, our partners can
• Deploy virtual servers onto the Layer 2 segmented cloud networks from OS images provided by customers or by Ampleflex.
• Deploy as many network segments (VLANs) as required, allowing servers to remain isolated from each other.
• Independently setup and manage Firewall and Load Balancing capabilities of their networks.
• Manage your cloud networks and servers through an online interface, Desktop & Mobile Apps or APIs. • Control access with role-based permissions, VPNs and two-factor authentication.
Ampleflex Cloud IaaS is a fully managed platform, which significantly speeds up new product and
services to the market. We can help reduce operational risks associated with migration of traditional infrastructure to the cloud solutions.
Additional benefits include
• Bring existing virtual machines and custom images directly into cloud.
• Continue to control your data – we never move any byte of it out of UK without you asking us to do so.
• Keep your databases highly available by deploying MSSQL clusters to vMotion capable RDM disks. • Create as many VLANs as required allowing compliance and server isolation.
• Store data on enterprise-grade block SAN with free unlimited snapshot backups and off-site
replication.
• Pay by 5 minute and only for what is used, with no additional commitment.
Key Features
Transparent & Predictable Pricing
• Pay for vCPU Usage, not allocation. Have as many vCPUs per VM as you like at no extra cost. • Burst vCPU and/or vRAM & pay by the hour only for what is used.
• Affordable and flexible Internet connectivity with IPv6 and BGP support. • Online Cost Calculator with all discounts applied to estimate solution cost.
Ease of Access and Use
• Global import, export and live migration of server images.
• Ability to bring existing virtual machines and custom images into the cloud.
• Web-based admin interface and full set of standard desktop and mobile Apps. Standard APIs. • No requirement to have Ampleflex firewall in front of customer’s environment.
• Colocation of customer’s proprietary equipment where migration to cloud is not practical or possible.
Enterprise Security & Compliance
• Layer 2 customer segregation for enhanced security.
• Safety, security and accessibility of customer’s data stored on protected enterprise-grade SSD-backed SANs.
• Unique username/password for each administrator with enforced Two-Factor Authentication. • Role-based permissions controlling the activities of each administrator.
• Audit logs of all environmental changes made by administrators.
• Managed Firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).
• Virtual private clouds with user-determined public Internet connectivity.
Enterprise Architecture & Performance
• Multi-tiered architecture support for customer’s environment • Anti-affinity rulesets for extra redundancy
• SSD-Backed block SAN storage delivering I/Os of over 40GB/s.
• Multi-homed Internet bandwidth from Tier-1 ISPs at speeds up to 10GBps.
• Advertisement or customer’s own IP addresses over BGP with support of both IPv4 and IPv6. • 6 Public IP Addresses provided by default to every customer free of charge.
Latest Technology
• VMware vSphere 6, vCenter 6 and mobile admin Apps for Android and iPhone/iPad • Access to latest Cisco ASAv Firewalls and F5 LTM VE Load Balancers.
• Global workload transfer (vMotion) between Ampleflex & Customer’s facilities. • IPv6 support throughout whole cloud infrastructure
• MSSQL Database Clusters on SSD-backed RDM disks with vMotion capability.
Support and Controls
• Centralised administrative control.
• Billing accurate to up to 5 minutes.
• In-depth usage and performance reports by asset. • Audit log reporting by user and department
• 24x7x365 phone support with ticketing & status tracking. • Dedicated solutions & support engineer available on-call.
We like to understand the individual challenges and pains that businesses are experiencing. Our services are consultative and are designed to complement the skills that your organisation. If you would like to find
out more, please feel free to contact us for a demo or to discuss how you can get hold of the keys to our
IaaS service.
How we work
Call: +44 (0)203 384 6314
Email: [email protected] Web: www.ampleflex.com
Key Business Benefits
• Gradual migration from existing environment • Service Levels from 99.97% and up.
• Detailed billing breakdown per user and department
• Enable true flexibility and ramp up and down as required
• Detailed cloud monitoring to identify performance issues before they arise and impact your users
• Reduce cloud sprawl by empowering your IT teams
• Move from legacy Capex investments to a predictable Opex model
