- Run Multi-Machine Virtual Data Centers In The Cloud Using A Self-Service Web-UI
- Manage IT Budget and Usage Policies with Quota And Chargebacks
- Securely Connect To Corporate Data Centers with IPSEC VPN Tunnels
Virtual Private Clouds
Screencast: Virtual Private Clouds
As an IT professional, you know cloud computing has huge potential to simplify and optimize the way you manage your data center. You most likely have questions about the security and the IT policy management implications of the new cloud model. In addition to security and IT policy management, you want to know the differences between internal and external clouds, what workloads are ideal for the cloud, and what cost savings can be achieved in moving to the cloud. These are the right questions; however, finding an ideal solution requires a thoughtful approach.
Building a private cloud is an option, however it is an expensive and time consuming enterprise undertaking. It requires new software, hardware, storage, complex networking and dedicated IT resources – all things you believe you are in short supply.
Public cloud infrastructure can provide cost effective and scalable resources. However, your concerns around security and IT policy management are valid and need to be addressed.
Essentially, these two requirements have created a huge IT dilemma: How can IT leverage the cloud model and still maintain control of users, policies, applications, budget, and security?
Skytap Virtual Private Cloud Solution resolves this dilemma.
Skytap's Virtual Private Cloud solution empowers you with your own instance of a cloud for a fraction of the cost of building an in house private cloud.
At the same time, Skytap Virtual Private Cloud solution puts you completely in control. Using a simple self-service web-UI, you can implement your corporate security policies, provision policy compliant environments and govern cloud usage and budget with role based access control and quotas.
You get the best of both worlds – scalable and cost effective cloud resources that are secure, configurable and policy compliant.
- Securely connect your cloud configurations to corporate offices and data centers
- Migrate dynamic workload requests quickly to and from the cloud
- Manage the cloud as an extension of your in house data center
- Architect and manage your virtual private cloud with your security and IT policies
Benefits at a glance
IT Policies and Control
- Create Policy Compliant and IT Managed Cloud Templates
- Securely Connect To Corporate Offices and Data Centers Using IPSEC VPN Tunnels
- Manage Budget Policies with User Quota And Chargebacks
User Empowerment
- Run Multi-Machine Virtual Data Centers Using A Self-service Web-UI
- Run Applications Unchanged In the Cloud and Manage Dynamic Workloads
- Create Projects And Manage Remote Teams with Role Based Access Controls And Solution Workflows
Create Policy Compliant and IT Managed Cloud Templates
Using the Skytap Cloud library, you can create certified multi-machine images ("templates") by function. IT Managers and administrators can collaborate on infrastructure and provide custom sets for organizationally independent groups, envision a completely isolated infrastructure set for Sales and Consulting users, and another entirely devoted to Application Development teams. You can assign company specific IP ranges, implement firewalls, routing and access control policies across the entire organization.
You can grant privileges to users to create multi-machine virtual data centers and run, suspend, or stop those virtual data centers on demand. This enables your users to create cloud environments that are similar to your enterprise environments, simplifying and accelerating your cloud adoption.
Run Multi-machine Virtual Data Centers Using a Self-service Web-UI
As a user, you can create multiple virtual data center configurations, each with multiple machines and networks using the templates set up by your IT team. You can force these configurations to remain private or permit sharing with others. With Skytap's 100% self-service model, you can be productive immediately with very minimal IT support without losing IT control.
Securely Connect To Corporate Data Centers Using IPSec VPN Tunnels
You can create IPSec VPN tunnels to securely connect Skytap configurations to your corporate offices and data centers. This creates a Virtual Private Cloud that provides scalability and adheres to company security policies.
Once a Virtual Private Cloud is created, your users can utilize the Skytap Cloud environments as extensions of your offices and data centers. They can access the Skytap Cloud using the web-UI, an API, via SSH/RDP, or from your enterprise portal which may include multi-factor authentication or even single sign on. Skytap Cloud machines can also connect securely to applications, databases and file systems within your data centers after proper authentication. This enables you to extend, leverage, and augment your existing data center investments with cloud resources.
Run Applications Unchanged In the Cloud and Manage Dynamic Workloads
Skytap's Cloud Automation™ technology simplifies and accelerates your cloud adoption.
Because Skytap Cloud is built on open standards and industry leading hypervisors, you can run existing enterprise applications without any code or architectural changes. This eliminates the time and cost associated with expensive application rewrites.
At the same time, your functional users are empowered with access to scalable and secure cloud capacity on-demand while you maintain control of the cloud by implementing the necessary enterprise IT policies.
You can import application and database specific images or complete multi-machine data center configurations to Skytap Cloud. Just as easily as you import them, you can easily export them back to the data center based on the application life-cycle stage. No more fear of vendor lock in or rewrites for cloud compatibility. Skytap makes cloud to data center interoperability simple and easy.
Create Projects and Manage Remote Teams with Role Based Access Control and Solution Workflow
You can empower your users to create Skytap Projects™. With Skytap Projects users can share configurations, assets and templates within specific projects. They can provide user membership and grant specific roles within a project, also assigning specific workflow actions to team members. This enables users to collaborate globally and realize dramatic productivity gains without relying on IT as a bottleneck.
You can implement fine grained access control privileges to individual users based on their specific roles within a project. Skytap Groups™ allows you to group users with specific roles and access privileges, similar to what you accomplish in house with directory infrastructure. This will assure your cloud usage is consistent with your corporate IT policies. You can also delegate some of the administrative privileges to managers so that functional teams can be self-sufficient and require little IT intervention.
Manage Budget Policies with User Quota and Chargebacks
IT is frequently asked to deliver big projects on time and on budget. While the Cloud can help empower your users to deliver solutions faster than before, you still need to manage how money gets spent in the cloud. With Skytap you can implement User or Project level usage limits to ensure your overall cloud usage does not run out of control. You can also administer user-specific quotas, providing even more granular control over Skytap Cloud utilization. Finally, you can get comprehensive usage and audit reports to implement chargebacks by project. Skytap provides you comprehensive policy control and reporting while enabling you to empower end users for self-sufficiency.