Managed Service Provider Solutions
The traditional Hosting Provider market is being overtaken by Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers. Customers respond to the flexibility that IaaS provides them. The estimated cost to develop a custom IaaS solution to integrate with a Hosting Provider’s existing solution is astronomical. However, failing to offer IaaS services will devistate their ability to remain competitive.
Issues
- Hosting Providers typically have no complex platform development experience.
- Need to provide an IaaS solution that is as good as or better than the competition without investing in all new hardware as well as application development.
- IaaS customers want to pay only for what they use, while traditional Hosting Providers charge by resource allowance.
- Choose the right hypervisor, because it limits their customer base to the one(s) the Hosting Provider uses.
- Provision on demand without lag time and provide management tools to customers.
- Physical space and electrical resources are increasingly scarce.
Solution
The Abiquo solution provides:- Ability to run on top or alongside existing Hosting Provider solutions.
- Sophisticated workload policies that ensure security and compliancy.
- Runs on existing hardware infrastructure in the datacenter, improves overall efficiency with customizable workload balancer policies.
- Standards based solution that supports all the major hypervisors and can perform a live conversion of any supported hypervisor to any other.
- A shared pool of physical computing resources controlled and managed by the IT organization.
- Easy self-service provisioning and multi-tenancy delegation for customers in a secure, controlled platform.
- Hard limits and real-time accounting of resource consumption. Customers receive warning messages when they near contracted resource thresholds.
- Private and shared image libraries, can provide pre-bundled applications ready for launch.
Benefits
- Define your own pricing plans and products. Charge each customer for the resources it actually uses rather than what it is allocated.
- Elimination of vendor lock-in. Customers can choose any hypervisor and can convert to another if their needs change.
- Customers access tools and resources through a rich web based graphical user interface.
- Provision infrastructure in minutes through an easy-to-use drag and drop interface.
- Compelling improvement in utilization, because customers cannot exceed allocated limits.
- Reduced electricity, cooling and space requirements.
- Reduction in capital and running costs arising from the benefits above.
- Significant reduction in the workload of the IT infrastructure organization, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks, because customers effectively manage their own infrastructure.
