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Compute as a Service
Our service is designed to be enterprise class, supporting a range of mainstream business applications, and because our ‘Compute as a Service’ is flexible enough to support a number of operating systems and configuration options, you can use it to support your immediate and strategic ICT needs:
- Fund computing growth through operational, not capital, expenditure.
- Business critical, processor intensive applications.
- Access burst compute resources during the business cycle.
- Reliable hosted managed disaster recovery service.
- Predictable application test and development services.
Whatever your ICT or business reasons for using compute as a service, the Logicalis Cloud ‘Compute as a Service’ makes technical and commercial sense.
Logicalis ‘Compute as a Service’ is hosted in our UK based Tier 3+ Data Centre and is managed by our UK Service Centres. Your Cloud infrastructure will be highly secure, transparent, accessible and located here in the UK.
Our Cloud compute services are defined as:
Constant
Allocation of Cloud resource for guaranteed performance for predictable workloads.
Service overview
- Dedicated resource
- Non-contended
- Contracted 12 month minimum
- Ideal for Production workloads
Constant+
Dedicated allocation of Cloud resource with 'burst' up access to additional contended resource.
Service Overview
- Dedicated resource
- Contended burst into slice/pool
- Contracted 12 month minimum
- Ideal for Burst, Research and Seasonal workloads
Variable
Guaranteed resource availability for a selected number of days, or a non-dedicated service type.
Service Overview
- Dedicated or contended resource
- Contracted days-per-annum
- Ideal for DR and Test & Development
Peace of Mind
We understand that you need peace of mind when transitioning from using your own infrastructure to our ‘Compute as a Service’ offering. We have designed the Cloud Migration Readiness Assessment (CMRA) process to reduce the complexity and risk of migration.
And as Logicalis is one of the UK’s leading Systems Integrators we can offer you access to specialists in all major computing platforms, operating systems and hypervisors who will help you migrate and virtualise at the same time.
You can expect service levels and support from Logicalis that makes our ‘Compute as a Service’ option a secure and reliable choice.
Value and Benefits
Our Cloud ‘Compute as a Service’ is your compute capacity; you can use it with the same confidence you would your own computing platforms as we offer:
- Support for a range of enterprise applications; long term compute capacity, short term burst, DR, and application test and development.
- The flexibility and scalability to quickly provision new capacity to address your immediate or long term demands for computing resources.
- Economies of scale via Cloud which will deliver a total cost of ownership reduction on internally deployed computing resources.
- Enterprise class infrastructure so your technicians can feel confident that they are moving mission critical applications onto a secure, robust and high performance Cloud compute platform.
- Delivered by a Managed Services organisation working to a contracted SLA.
- Security and peace of mind as all our services are UK based and your data will never leave UK shores.
- Access to Cloud specialists and our unique Cloud Migration Readiness Assessment (CMRA) services to ensure your move to Cloud is as risk free as possible.
Intel
We have deployed Cisco Unified Computing Systems as our Intel x86 Cloud services platform to create a Cloud service that is both hypervisor and OS independant.
POWER7
We partner with IBM to bring you the highest performing and most scalable IBM POWER7 computing platform for your Cloud strategy.
