True Cloud Computing at Your Office or in Our Data Center

The SummitData Cloud Solution provides a true private cloud computing environment inside the office. This environment:

• Integrates with your existing network.
• Contains a sophisticated storage platform.
• Provides for server scalability through virtualization.
• Provides for standardized workstation management through golden image technology.
• Provides highly reliable and secure archive storage with its integrated distributed storage technology.

Complete Ready-to-Use Cloud Infrastructure

The SummitData Cloud solution features a complete ready-to-use-IT office infrastructure. This environment:

• Is preconfigured and ready to use prior to shipping. This eliminates the long hours typically needed for staging and integrating a new environment. The base operating systems, software, and distributed storage drivers are preloaded prior to shipment.
• A simple wizard-based approach makes it easy to build golden images and deploy user desktops and virtual servers.
• High availability features are built into the platform architecture with integrated workflows to conduct failover in response to hardware outages.

Integrated Smart Management

The SummitData Cloud Solution includes its own pre-installed Smart Management Portal. This portal:

• Runs on fault-tolerant clustered hardware.
• Provides all the tools and workflows needed to deploy and manage the SummitData Cloud solution.
  • Add and remove virtual machines
  • Create golden images, add users, and clone desktops & servers
  • Restore virtual server and Smart Desktop images from backup snapshots