IaaS

Dimension Data’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is an enterprise class cloud platform that provides a secure, virtualized environment to deliver IT infrastructure – including servers, storage, memory, and bandwidth - as a service, securely connected into your corporate network.

On Demand Computing With Traditional Data Center Advantages

Dimension Data’s IaaS offers a cost-effective, flexible way to procure, deploy, and manage infrastructure. Leveraging next-generation technologies, our IaaS is designed to deliver enterprise class performance and reliability for your IT systems.

Enterprise Class Infrastructure

Dimension Data’s IaaS delivers enterprise class cloud infrastructure for enterprises with complex IT requirements. Our IaaS Server Cloud is based on VMware's vSphere and Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS). In addition, our IaaS offers high-connectivity network involving multiple data centers, built-in disaster recovery, firewall services, and reliable cloud storage platform - delivering a high-performance hosting environment for your mission critical applications.

Built-in Business Continuity - High Availability

Dimension Data’s IaaS architecture spans into multiple data centers, which are linked with dedicated multiple Gbps connections.

Spectrum of Services

Dimension Data’s IaaS supports self-managed, monitored and fully managed modes providing flexibility and system assurance on an as-needed basis. Our IaaS can be combined with dedicated infrastructure services to create hybrid IT environments - allowing enterprises to augment existing internal resources with cloud services.

Getting a right-sized infrastructure is simple with Dimension Data’s IaaS. The cloud quickly responds to the workload changes and allows resource provisioning to match demand.

Infrastructure

Dimension Data’s IaaS integrates Best of Breed technologies including:

• VMware virtualisation technology

• New Cisco UCS Blade platform

• Cisco leading market Firewalls and IPS

• EMC storage

• High tech APC racks

Benefits to enterprises

• You can assign a cost to the Virtual Infrastructure, controlling allocations to departments, office locations, and teams.

• You can assign budgets and have financial control over virtual infrastructure

• You can maximize infrastructure resources and ROI

• Flexibility - Scales up or down according to your needs, easy management, fast provisioning and improved deployment.

• On-demand - Rapidly provision and deploy resources without capital investments moving IT from CAPEX to OPEX.

• High Availability - Minimize downtime (planned and unplanned) and eliminate standby hardware and software.

• Disaster Recovery - Built in replication on two physical sites for mission critical applications.

Dimension Data makes sure the solution works for you around the clock. The physical servers, the virtualization layer and the virtual machines are all managed 24x7x365 by our virtualisation experts.

We deliver the support and expertise according to your business needs.

You could reduce IT costs while improving flexibility & responsiveness by:

• reducing hardware and operating costs

• reducing energy costs

• reducing the time it takes to provision new servers

• adding high availability and redundancy into your server design.

Please contact Patrice Cheret for additional information or call 25 48 25-1