Private Cloud – A fully Managed Enterprise Class Cloud Solution
The Private CaaS layers the capabilities of Dimension Data’s award-winning Public CaaS Hosting platform onto best-of-breed dedicated hardware to provide customers with a secure and segmented hosting environment that is unique to the customer, and is isolated from the rest of the public cloud.
With Private CaaS, customers can:
- Create separate “accounts” for each internal customer, allowing them to be logically separate and have separate usage tracking for charge-back purposes
- Deploy Virtual Servers onto their own Layer 2 Cloud Networks using OS images provided by Dimension Data or by the customer.
- Deploy as many of these network segments as they require, allowing servers to remain isolated from each other
- Independently customize the firewall and load balancing capabilities of each network
- Manage both the Cloud Networks and Servers through an online interface or a REST-based API.
Private CaaS can be deployed in a data center of the customer's own choosing and is available in multiple standard builds, each for a fixed monthly cost. The Private CaaS solution provides customers with a variety of options in terms of managing different “customer” accounts within the private cloud architecture, including the ability to calculate chargeback invoicing based on internal customer usage. Customers of Private CaaS can also enable hybrid public/private cloud computing scenarios by leveraging Dimension Data Public CaaS infrastructure - using this option, Private CaaS customers can deploy assets with the same capabilities in the public cloud and manage them through the same interfaces used for the Private CaaS platform.
Typical buyers of Private CaaS within the enterprises are:
- Developers – who are often frustrated with enterprise IT for not being able to move quickly enough to setup and deliver testing and development environments orprovide systems for stress/scale testing.
- IT Director – often concerned about standards, process and security, and would prefer to build an internal private cloud (in-house) to maintain control ofintegration of enterprise systems, applications and management.
- CIO – who is under pressure to reduce IT cost and risk while ensuring that enterprise IT is agile enough to better support the business needs.
OpSource Cloud Positioning
Dimension Data Private CaaS solution is a comprehensive set of cloud services and solutions designed to help organizations make the transition to the cloud. Unlike other cloud solutions providers that lack systems integration and managed services capabilities, deep enterprise technology experience and proven implementation knowledge, Dimension Data has the experience and solution breadth required to solve the cloud migration problem that to date has leftorganizations with inadequate and incomplete cloud implementations. Dimension Data’s complete offering includes managed private, public and hybrid clouds in addition to managed SaaS, hosted applications and advanced cloud services, all powered by Dimension Data’s innovative cloud architecture and cloud management system.
Key Benefits of Private CaaS
The Private CaaS is a pre-integrated and fully managed platform which significantly expedites new product and service introduction to the market and reduces operational risks associated with building a private cloud in-house. Additional benefits include:
- Cost Optimization – No CAPEX, on variable capacity and economies of scale
- Risk Optimization – Business continuity, technology independence and specialized skills
- Strategic Agility – Time-to-market, new business model, flexibility, rapid development
