Summary

Cloud Computing has been defined by the pundits in numerous ways. Simply stated, “Cloud Computing” is a broad term for technology services delivered over the internet via Public, Private or Hybrid clouds that allow companies to procure technology resources on-demand or on a utility basis, paying based on usage.

The traditional approach to Information Technology (IT) and Outsourcing is no longer the go-to option for reducing cost and gaining technology agility. The current model of building application server silos just doesn’t meet the dynamic needs of an organization in a competitive and fluid market place. And, it often results inexpensive, unresponsive and underutilized assets that take capital dollars away from other business investment opportunities. Within most company data centers, servers and resources are necessarily sized for peak times, growth and ad-hoc projects. Companies can no longer throw expensive assets and capital dollars at every business need without receiving 100% utilization of that asset. In the current economic climate, over-provisioning and inefficiency are not acceptable.

Hence, traditional data center outsourcing models are becoming obsolete in favor of “Alternative Delivery Models” (ADM’s). ADMs are projected to see rapid growth in adoption through the next decade. Denovo’s ADM offers enormous flexibility by blending components of software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS), remote management services (RMS), and Cloud Computing Options/Services into a unique solution optimized for each customer. Denovo’s ADM allows us to deliver “IT as a Service” Leveraging various Cloud Computing Technologies that take full advantage of Hybrid Cloud Architectures, Denovo’s Cloud Computing options provide true agility resulting in faster time-to-market performance for its customers.

Public Cloud (External to Denovo)

Public cloud vendors provide the infrastructure and management required to implement the cloud. Public clouds dramatically simplify implementation and are billed based on usage. This transfers the cost from a capital expenditure to an operational expense and can quickly scale to meet the organization’s needs. Temporary applications or applications with burst resource requirements typically benefit from the public cloud’s ability to ratchet up resources when needed and then scale them back when they are no longer needed. Public clouds have the disadvantage of hosting your data in an offsite organization outside the legal and regulatory umbrella of your organization. As well, most Public cloud providers do not understand or support the functional modules of common ERP applications, thus not offering managed services or SLA based services for these mission critical applications. This desire to deliver mission critical ERP services is the central reason for Denovo creating an Enterprise Cloud Solution that encompasses both a private and hybrid solution.

Denovo's Private Cloud

A Private Cloud infrastructure (for implementing a cloud computing strategy) is controlled completely within a hardened data center (Denovo’s data center) and managed by internal resources. Denovo’s private cloud maintains all corporate data in resources under the control of the legal and contractual umbrella of the organization. This eliminates the regulatory, legal and security concerns associated with information being processed on third party computing resources. Denovo’s private cloud is set up in a way that helps clients reduce capital expenditures and ongoing operational expense by allowing customers to procure technology on an On-Demand basis and pay only for usage.

Denovo's Hybrid Cloud

To achieve the benefits of both approaches, Denovo has developed two alternative delivery model’s (ADM). The first ADM combines external public clouds and Denovo’s private cloud into a unified solution - Denovo’s Federated/Cloud (combination of a private and public cloud). In this model, applications with significant legal, regulatory or service level concerns are directed to Denovo’s private cloud. And, other applications with less stringent regulatory or service level requirements are directed to an appropriate public cloud infrastructure to leverage lower cost resources. Because of Denovo’s ADM architecture, clients can take advantage of these burst-able resources when appropriate - ratcheting up resources when needed and scaling them back when they are no longer needed. Denovo’s ADM accomplishes the sophisticated coordination between the private and public service management systems seamlessly for its clients by deploying a federated policy management tool, seamless hybrid integration, federated security, federated SLA’s, information asset management, coordinated provisioning control, and unified monitoring systems.

Denovo’s second ADM option is an internal hybrid hosting model. In this scenario a client’s data and computing resources always delivered from Denovo’s hardened datacenter. This allows a client to still take advantage of dedicated and virtual servers for dynamic allocation and peak provisioning. For example: A client rents a mix of dedicated physical servers and as well as some less expensive “on demand” virtual server instances. Our client may run all their applications on dedicated physical servers, but store its data on virtual server instances. Or a business may rent virtual service instances by the hour to cope with occasional peak processing. Once again, the whole offering is dynamically scalable, with both dedicated and virtual servers able to be added or taken away as required.