PRIVATE CLOUD
‘To ensure that they have anytime access to their vast volumes of data, companies are increasingly turning to the secure and powerful infrastructures of a private enterprise cloud. Our private cloud solution uses colocation and traditional
managed cloud hosting on dedicated infrastructure or our own private *um cloud developed in-house. If you need to scale up, we can also integrate hybrid cloud environments and public cloud architectures from AWS, Azure, or Google.’
Senol Colak
System Architect in Operations
*um Cloud
There are some applications that will push the public cloud approach just a little too close to its limits. The private enterprise cloud from *um provides companies with a dedicated environment for security and business-critical applications that use sensitive information or data relating to intellectual property. Our services are hosted exclusively in Germany and are certified to exacting standards for maximum compliance. We guarantee the highest levels of availability with our integrated redundant server, offering a service level agreement of 99.999 percent. We implement your individual cloud environment tailored to your needs and requirements, using market-leading solutions such as VMware und Open Stack.
The private cloud is seamlessly integrated into the remaining IT architecture and traditional hosting services. The functions of the *um cloud are just as flexible and scalable as those of a public cloud – but with the added benefit of the tighter security and increased reliability of a private cloud environment. As a result, you not only save time, money, and resources, but also avoid the high investment costs associated with building your own redundant IT infrastructure. Our team of system architects and cloud experts will support and guide you through the transformation of your IT infrastructures, the integration of legacy systems, and the construction of a modern IT environment, including in hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.
What the *um cloud offers you
- Hosted in Germany, certified in accordance with ISO 27001, conforms to PCI-DSS
- The security of a dedicated, physically isolated environment combined with the functionality of a public cloud
- Monitoring around the clock, dedicated support from cross-functional customer service teams 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
- Precise and transparent reporting on the status of the cloud environment
- Multi-client-enabled, user-friendly self-service interface
- Provision of secure virtual self-service machines
- Automatic vertical and horizontal scaling function, ideal for modern high-performance applications
Flexible Engine
The Flexible Engine from Orange Business Services enables companies to manage their international business solutions across regions in a consistent, standardized manner via a private global network and open APIs. Open Source drives innovation: Using leading edge technology from OpenStack, the solution is continuously developed by the community. *um helps you to provide business-critical applications via a consistent global infrastructure and across multiple data centers: The Tier III+ and IV data centers operated by Orange Business Services offer a guaranteed
service level of 99.95 percent and operate an ISO 27001-certified security management system. Companies benefit from the flexibility of a public cloud to optimize their IT budget: You only pay for what you use and benefit from attractive prices if you reserve instances for terms of one, two, or three years. With border gateway protocols (BGP) and virtual private networks (VPN), Flexible Engine can be used to quickly and easily construct hybrid architectures. A catalog of open programming interfaces allows existing platforms to be transferred and managed.
What Flexible Engine offers you:
- Automated monitoring, alarm, and resilience services
- Pay-per-use with no long-term applications
- Smart, flexible cloud service with auto-scaling function
- Wide range of services can be controlled via a central console
- Open and documented interfaces (API) simplify the management of your platforms and boost your agility
- A wide range of instances that can be adapted to suit your needs, covering the most simple to the most complex of applications (websites, big data, ERP and more)
- Our console provides full digital access to your infrastructure: Rights management, monitoring, management of resources and network parameters, etc.
- Automated monitoring, alarm, and resilience services
- You can reuse your management configuration in any private or public OpenStack cloud, or set up automatic implementation and corrections to cover the full spectrum of cloud management tasks
Flexible Engine can be used to:
Launch your new applications in the cloud
• Restructure your IS: Optimize performance and flexibility by deploying your business applications in a ‘smart cloud’
• Disaster recovery plan/business continuity plan: Ensure the continuity of your business services
• Virtual private cloud: Create a cloud that is tailored to the exact needs of your business
• Big data: Analyze your business data in just a few clicks with Hadoop clusters
With our solutions for PaaS, managed services, and expertise, we can also support you with the operation and management of your Flexible Engine infrastructure
Flexible Engine is operated from data centers around the world. All of these data centers have been selected for their certifications, including:
• ISAE3402
• ISO 27001
• ISO 9001
• SSAE16 SOC-1 Type II
• PCI-DSS
Since May 2018, Flexible Engine is certified to Multi-Tier Cloud Security Level 3 (MTCS) at its data centers in Singapore and France.
About Orange Business Services
• No. 1 cloud provider in France with over 3500 customers worldwide
• 9 security operations centers, distributed around the world based on the follow-the-sun model
• Over 70 data centers in 20 countries, over 2200 cloud and IT experts, 1200 cyber defense experts
Bare Metal
Practical experience shows that companies gain the most day-to-day operational benefit from cloud landscapes that combine private, public, and dedicated infrastructure. Even if public cloud services increase in relevance as analysts are predicting, physical implementation and private cloud deployment will remain important for the foreseeable future. And with good reason: Data protection, auditability, SLAs, and non-portable legacy systems must all be taken into account. We offer our customers the perfect portfolio of all of these solutions by joining up the dots between the individual cloud silos,
enabling us to develop the best possible solutions for each customer and their specific set of business needs. We can provide our services via the customer’s own data center or via managed services in storage space operated by our partners Equinix and e-shelter, or our parent company Basefarm in Norway – one of the best data center locations in the world. For sensitive, business-critical data that cannot be handled in the cloud, we offer colocation, dedicated, and managed server structures and the associated security and governance concepts.
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