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Federated Cloud Capacity On Demand

Cyclical events, such as tax season, holiday shopping, periodic reporting, marketing campaign responses, or even a merger or acquisition, put increased demand on your data center resources. These events drive increased use of internal applications such as CRM, Oracle Financials and SAP, as well as external ones including your own custom applications. Because these events are typically scheduled or planned for, you can add resources to your data center to handle the overflow. But what happens when the season is over or the acquisition has been absorbed? Your added resources can sit largely underutilized, at great expense.

By leveraging the cloud for this planned overflow, you can:

  • Leverage different cloud environments together with internal resources to select the computing resource on demand that best fits a particular workload
  • Scale out the compute tiers of your applications without impacting your data center resources
  • Integrate seamlessly and securely with your data center services, including load balancing and firewalls
  • Use existing management tools with your internal and cloud resources

CloudSwitch provides tight integration with your data center services and cloud environments so you can seamlessly and securely run planned overflow in the cloud. CloudSwitch keeps things simple for the enterprise by mapping applications automatically into the cloud and managing all network connections. This approach means your management tools will work in the cloud just as if an application were running locally. Using consistent tools and policies, applications and resources can be managed with the same flexibility, security and control regardless of their location.

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A large financial services company needed to scale capacity rapidly for its market analysis application as customer web traffic rose and fell throughout the day. The company had limited capacity within its data center and could not easily increase the number of on-premise virtual servers. With CloudSwitch, additional servers can be provisioned in the cloud and overflow traffic automatically routed to the appropriate location.  The resulting infrastructure provides granular, real-time control over the application capacity and allows customers to be seamlessly directed to the most appropriate resource (cloud or internal).  All corporate security policies remain in place without modification as a result of the secure connectivity provided by CloudSwitch.