Private Compute-as-a-Service
Are you under pressure to be more agile and deliver IT projects faster to support growth initiatives? Do you have concerns about risk and governance? Are divisions within your business procuring public cloud services in an ungoverned manner? Such behaviour can put your business at risk if confidential information is placed in the cloud without a security review.
If these challenges sound familiar, a private cloud will deliver the agility and efficiency you’re looking for. However, if you don’t have the in-house expertise to develop and manage a private cloud, a fully-managed private cloud would provide the agility, cost reduction while reducing execution risk.
Dimension Data’s Private Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) is a fully-managed private cloud infrastructure-as-a-service deployed on dedicated hardware with secure network isolation.
A Private Compute-as-a-Service provides a pre-determined set of server and storage resources as a dedicated service deployed in your data centre. The service includes the physical infrastructure, virtualisation and operating system software, implementation, cloud management (automated provisioning, orchestration and billing) and ongoing management by Dimension Data.
The Private Compute-as-a-Service also provides you with a variety of options for managing different customer accounts within your private cloud architecture, including the ability to calculate chargeback invoicing based on internal customer usage.
Learn more about how our Private CaaS can add value to your business.
Hosted Private Compute-as-a-Service
Like our Private Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS), the Dimension Data Hosted Private Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) comprises dedicated cloud infrafstructure to provide on-demand, self-service, pay-for-use access and control of virtual servers, storage and networking.
With this option, the Private CaaS is hosted within a Dimension Data data centre. Key features include enterprise-class security, controls and performance guarantees, as well as a REST-based application interface for easy integration into back-end systems, enterprise system management tools or third-party cloud applications.
Learn more about how our Hosted Private Compute-as-a-Service can add value to your business.
Provider Compute-as-a-Service
The way that service providers’ customers – and their end users – consume IT services continues to evolve. As a result, many service providers are seeing sales of their core, legacy voice services beginning to wane. They need to offer a richer, more advanced set of services and target new customer verticals if they’re to remain profitable.
Dimension Data offers Provider Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) to cater for the specific needs and challenges of our telecommunications clients. The Provider CaaS enables these organisations to offer a branded public or private cloud service. The service can be customised with an organisation’s own brand and deployed in a Dimension Data or client data centre.
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Fully managed cloud service to assist the provider to establish a service in the market
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Full white label capability to support provider client branding
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Supports self-service provisioning and management
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Technical operations performed centrally by Dimension Data – 24x7
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Monthly subscription plan, three year term contract
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Contact us to learn more.
Private Cloud Comparison
Dimension Data’s Private Compute-as-a-Service, a managed private cloud service, provides benefits over private cloud point solutions.
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Dimension Data Managed Private Cloud
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Systems Management Software
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Virtualisation Technology
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Hardware Vendors
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Public Cloud SP
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Integrated web-based interface
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Automated provisioning and orchestration
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Hardware-based networking
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Yes
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No
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Virtual networks only
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No
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Virtual networks only
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Integrated billing and metering
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Public Only
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Cloud enablement and integration services
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Yes
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Limited
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No
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Limited
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No
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Managed services
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Limited
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Single platform for public and private clouds
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Service availability and uptime SLAs
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Limited
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Learn more about our private cloud services.