Private Cloud

The provision of a own Private Cloud infrastructure for the elaboration of sensitive business data on clearly defined terrain guarantees legal security with complete and protected access for utilization and administration from any place in the world, by PC, notebook, tablet or cellular phone.

Functional Characteristics

  • Iaas
    • Provision and administration of physical Linux Server systems for a development, integration, test or production environment from any chosen place (PC and notebook), via VPN (KVM and DVD), complete and secured.
    • Provision and administration of virtual Linux Server systems for a development, integration, test or production environment, from any chosen place (PC and notebook), via VPN (KVM and DVD), complete and secured.
    • Provision and administration of any chosen software under Linux (Java EE Application Server, Service Bus, Databases, Revision Control Systems, etc.), from any chosen place (PC and notebook),via VPN (SSH, X11, HTTP, HTTPS), complete and secured.
  • Paas
    • Administration and use of any runtime environment under Linux (Java EE application server, service bus, databases, revision control systems, etc.), from any location (PC, notebook, tablet and mobile phone), via Internet/VPN (HTTP, HTTPS), comprehensive and secured
  • SaaS
    • Use and administration of e-mail and cooperation (calendar, contacts, documents) from any location (PC, notebook, tablet and mobile phone), via Internet (HTTPS), comprehensive and secured
    • Use and administration of network attached storage from any location (PC, notebook, tablet and mobile phone), via Internet/VPN (WebDAV/SMB), comprehensive and secured

Nonfunctional Features

  • Reliability
    • Manual replicability of all virtual host systems
    • Separation of the network segments for user data and administration
  • Availability
    • Disaster prevention by automated periodic incremental backups of all data 1/24h, in territorially safe distance
    • Production of previous configurations by automated versioning and hierarchic compression (daily, weekly, monthly...) of all virtual server images
  • Elasticity
    • Needs-based distribution of performance and capacity (CPU, RAM, HDD)
  • Expandability
    • horizontal and vertical scalability of all physical server systems
  • Investment protection
    • Manufacturing independence through exclusive application of open standards
    • Resource-saving use of storage space through automatic de-duplication and Compression
  • Confidentiality
    • Storage and processing of all data exclusively on dedicated territory, under dedicated law

Technology

Pyhs. divided into two locations 450 km apart from each other:
  • 6 IBM system x iDataPlex server systems
    • compact construction (half depth)
    • front cable routing
    • low energy consumption
    • effective cooling
  • 12 x Intel Xeon processor E5620 4C 2.4GHz
  • 36 x 8GB RAM
  • 4 x 60GB SDD simple swap
  • 2 x 60GB SSD hot swap
  • 22 x 2TB HDD hot swap
  • 2 x 1GB (bonding) network interface
  • OpenIndiana SunOS 5.11 oi_151a2 based on illumus, including the scalable ZFS Filesystem (128bit), implemented as an VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance) under VMware vSphere 5.0
  • VMware ESXi 5.0
  • RHEL 6 SP2 64bit
  • VMware Zimbra 8.0

Areas of application

Provision of an IT infrastructure including the following performance features:
  • unrestricted flexibility in utilization (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
  • unrestricted height of data storage and dissemination
  • unrestricted and secure access
  • unrestricted adjustability and upgradeability
  • efficient collaboration of employees working from different terrains
  • high reliability
  • high efficiency
  • low energy consumption

References

Rudolph AG creates a flexible and reliable global cloud with IBM

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