Flexible Computing
Overview
Today’s businesses operate in fiercely competitive markets and face immense challenges. The need to adapt quickly to changing customer demand and drive innovation to stand out from the crowd is critical to business success.
The Flexible Computing platform is a multi-tenant Infrastructure as a Service resource which allows you to purchase and use storage or computing power, in an on demand environment. If you only need services for a few hours or a few weeks, you can minimise any capital costs, and just purchase the resources you need, when you need them.
Not all companies, or all applications, are right for Cloud Computing, so we have developed a Cloud Adoption Methodology which uses a consulting approach to evaluate a variety of hosting services and helps you to identify the most suitable environment to maximise the benefits to your organisation. This may be a combination of Flexible Computing, Co-location, physical hosting and dedicated virtualised platforms. For more information on the whole end to end process and our hybrid model, visit the cloud microsite: www.cw.com/cloud
How it Works
Flexible Computing is based on the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model of cloud services. Principally the services are:
- Compute and storage services charged for on a per hour basis – you only pay for what you need
- Accessed over a secure network – directly connected to our Multi Service Platform (MPLS next generation network) the Flexible Computing platform becomes an extension of your Wide Area Network giving you secure and high bandwidth access to your computing resource
- Controlled by a portal allowing you to self provision your services and retain control
Benefits
Flexible Computing provides a secure infrastructure for your hosted applications that allows you to rapidly scale your computing and storage resources on demand and only pay for what you need.
Using Flexible computing you can:
- Eliminate under-utilised infrastructure costs and consumer services as a utility aligned to business need
- Innovate faster by reducing lead times for IT projects, marketing campaigns and product launches
- Improve employee productivity and customer satisfaction through matching resources to requirements
- Be assured of enterprise grade resilient technology and security through our Multi Service Platform (MSP)
- Be confident of an expertly managed service
For more information go to the cloud microsite: www.cw.com/cloud
