Enabling a Hybrid Cloud

Take advantage of external cloud services today, by extending your internal cloud with a Univa Hybrid Cloud solutions.

With a Hybrid Cloud enabled, service providers can utilize 3rd party Cloud Providers in a full or partial (cloud burst) manner, in order to supplement internal cloud capabilities and increase the flexibility of computing.

With a Hybrid Cloud enabled, service providers enjoy the following benefits:

• More flexible computing capacity
• Continued reduction in capital expenses (CAPEX) through purchase avoidance
• Significant reduction in IT operating expenses (OPEX)
  • Reduced need for IT management
  • Lower direct hardware support costs such as utility expenses for power and cooling

Solution Description

A Univa Hybrid Cloud leverages external or public 3rd party Cloud computing services (such as Amazon EC2) as an extension to Univa systems software, providing a pay-per-use and web service model for service providers. This solution provisions and scales capacity on the public cloud infrastructure, expanding baseline resources through dynamic provisioning for peak demand.

The Hybrid Cloud enables a flexible, on-demand approach to satisfying computing requirements for service providers who are not ready to invest in a full-scale data center upgrade or want to avoid significant new hardware purchases. This solution greatly reduces up-front capital expenses and offers low-cost, unified monthly billing.

What’s Included

The Hybrid Cloud offering consists of infrastructure management and systems management extensions that allow service providers to build computing resources in a public cloud. Essentially, the Hybrid Cloud takes the functionality of the Private Cloud and delivers this in a service-based paradigm outside the corporate firewall.

The Hybrid Cloud allows customers to:

• Create virtual cluster resources in cloud infrastructure
• Reduce fees associated with data movement
• Eliminate firewall and security issues
• Manage job placement

Univa’s Hybrid Cloud solution supports Amazon EC2 with full support available for RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux.