IT management made easier with Infrastructure 2.0
The maturation of the Internet economy and the rise of Web 2.0 have pushed the limits of existing IT infrastructure, but most online services and IT infrastructure are still being built and managed the same old way. You buy tons of equipments - routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, servers, SAN, NAS, etc, house them internally or rent a colocation space. Then you spend weeks setting it all up. Equipments become obsolete before you realize. People who know how to make it work seamlessly together are few and far in between, and you spend huge amount of time keeping it up and fighting fire.
Cost is constantly a problem. Scaling is constantly a problem. Failures are constantly a problem. Worse of all, they are all YOUR problems. It takes hours to replace a failed server. It takes months to scale a web application otherwise you spend excessively on redundant equipment only to have it hugely under utilized.
IT management should not be that difficult because your business rely on your IT infrastructure.
Infrastructure 2.0 - HaaS
IT management, to which we are more concern with, are the ways the datacenter landscape is changing, namely, towards Hardware-as-a-Service, which essentially means hosting your applications behind a URL instead of on-premise. Infrastructure 2.0, if you will, and it is with this shift in the way datacenter are deployed and consumed, that makes IT management that much easier.
Technologies in Grid computing will change the way consumer purchase IT hardware, software and services. The magic of the Grid is going to come down to cost and speed of deployment and scaling, and ease of management.
What is grid service
Grid service allows us to deploy a set of commodity server hardware and make it work like one big piece of hardware ("the grid"), that run virtual servers within the grid. Using 3tera's AppLogic grid operating system, you get a pool of servers working transparently behind the scenes to provide the horsepower to run your applications. Unlike typical VPS service, you're guaranteed the use your resource whenever you need it, just when it happens to be available, Universal HA and ability to scale up almost instantly.
How does cleargrid works
Cleargrid grid service comes in a few options, catering to different needs. Each cleargrid's grid consists of a pool of servers connected with a Gigabit backbone network and running 3Tera's AppLogic grid operating system.
Grid Hosting (gH) is our answer to reliable reseller hosting many hosting reseller, web designer and system integrator been asking for. A simple and reliable solution to provide their client with domain, web, email and application hosting without the hassle of managing servers. We deploy our Parallel's Plesk Control Panel on our Applogic grid to provide the familiar control panel experience couple with the high availability and scalability.
If better control of dedicated resources is require, a grid Virtual Server (gVS) is the solution, which run from one of the Virtual Private Datacenters we managed. A cleargrid gVS is very different from a VPS elsewhere. It will feels like a dedicated server, but with the high availability of the grid. You get root access, you get to install and/or replace any software as you need, and even build your own kernel from sources. The resources you buy are exclusively yours and not shared with any other customer. Most importantly, you can get your gVS an instant upsize at any time, without reinstalling software, migrating web application, etc.
With a grid Virtual Datacenter (gVDC), you get your very own virtual private datacenter, with complete control of your own private grid. No other hosting solution out there can match this level of control and flexibility. This is Infrastructure 2.0 at its best, Hardware-as-a-Service. You will get a visual interface to set up and assemble disposable virtual infrastructure, including firewalls, load balancers, web servers, database servers, NAS boxes, etc. You can build advanced clusters, deploy large and small applications that can be provisioned in minutes. You can save, backup, move and redeploy the appliance, application and even the datacenter in a way no other datacenter can. To top it off, you can add more resources to your grid at any time, and your applications can use them without any changes.
Solutions
Who is this grid service for? Domain hosting provider, SaaS operator, Web 2.0 services, Web applications and other web based IT infrastructure of small and medium size organizations, to large enterprise, can all benefit from the advantage Infrastructure 2.0 grid service brings to them.
Read on to find out what are the key features and benefit it means to you as a business owner, IT manager, etc.
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