SummitData's Cloud Solution leverages the most recent technological advancements to create a comprehensive and agile service-delivery platform based on the utility (cloud) computing model. The result is an entirely preconfigured, fault-tolerant, highly reliable and scalable platform that provides full functionality out-of-the-box that caters to the SMB client's IT requirements.

The platform is comprised of the following components:

• These appliances are the brain of the platform.
• Comes pre-configured in an Active/Passive configuration for fault tolerance.
• Hosts the web-based management software for system administrators to create new users, golden images, and virtual servers among other management tasks.
• Hosts the DSS storage director, DSS volume director cache and DSS storage daemon, and contribute disk space to the archive storage pool of the platform.

• Provides CPU, memory and storage resource muscle to Virtual Servers and Smart Clients
• Comes with two pre-configured resource nodes in an Active/Active cluster to provide load balancing and fault tolerance.
• Scale easily by adding one or more resource nodes to the Platform
• or pairs of storage resource nodes to accommodate the need for additional capacity.

• Gigabit Ethernet networking for each platform is comprised of a
  • management backplane,
  • storage backplane,
  • public backplane, and a
  • logical external plane to provide access to the client network for virtual machines and Smart Clients.
• Uses iSCSI protocol to provide local disk storage for smart clients via Ethernet.

• Pre-configured fast primary storage with ultra-reliable archive storage.
• Storage built into the resource and management nodes.
• Primary storage pool uses RAID5
• Archive storage pool uses dispersed storage technology

• Supports Golden image technology.
• Client has processing and memory
• Connects to OS and Storage on the Platform side.
• Uses iSCSI protocol

Benefits

• Advanced Architecture with unique integration of cloud computing technologies
• Provides High Availability and capacity on-demand
• Greatly simplifies IT infrastructure management
• Built-in disaster recovery