Public cloud is the simplest of your cloud options to activate\ but may be the most complex to deploy and administer.
Like any other utility, the resources are handed off to you and then you pay for what you use. But how you implement and manage your solution is in your court. Would you simply take a hand-off from the power company and feel comfortable knowing how to wire your home? Making the decision to have AIS’s team of experts build and maintain your public cloud assets is as important as deciding which public cloud best meets your needs.
Public cloud can save your organization the cost of purchasing, managing, and maintaining hardware and application infrastructure. AIS takes care of all that so you can focus on carrying out your company’s mission and exceeding your customers’ expectations.
AIS brings decades of industry and vendor best practices to our public cloud solutions. The result is an optimized hardware and software environment engineered for your success.
Security
AIS cloud services offer a full array of security-minded networking options:
- Firewalled access to internal or external networks (VMware vShield)
- Direct Internet access
- Private switched access to client colocation or corporate facilities
- No Internet access: all operations kept internal to the client’s vDC
- Clients may also configure unlimited, completely isolated internal networks with VMware’s built-in security features.
Physical security is assured with SSAE 16 compliant, SOC 1, 2, and 3 audited access controls standard at every AIS facility.
Availability
AIS Cloud services are built with complete redundancy from the ground up so your resources will be available no matter what happens.
- Configured to eliminate any single point of failure
- A/B powered from separate uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems
- Dual-power supplied or powered from a static transfer switch
- Redundant and diversified network access
- Self-healing system architecture with automated failover
- VMware vCloud Director self-provisioning system requires no human intervention
- Continuous monitoring of services and subsystems by VMware vCenter Operations application
- External monitoring and vCenter Operations provide fault isolation and capacity planning for system resources
All AIS Data Centers are committed to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards for establishing and operating IT service management as well as continuous improvement.
Scalability
AIS’s Cloud Services provide easy, rapid deployment of individual virtual machines (VMs) or entire applications (vApps). Additional resources are available on demand with no human intervention required.
VMware’s vCloud Director API (application programming interface) allows clients to manage resources from within their existing vCenter management portal. Connecting their vDC via Layer 3 VPN allows large data sets to be stored and processed quickly.
