Intel® Cloud Builders Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Platforms
Cloud On-boarding with CloudSwitch
For enterprise IT organizations who are looking to securely utilize public clouds and existing data center infrastructure, the decision to use a cloud for the delivery of IT services is best done by starting with the knowledge and experience gained from previous work.
This reference architecture outlines how to extend the data center into the cloud using CloudSwitch software with Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series servers. This paper, which includes detailed scripts and screen shots, should significantly reduce the learning curve for building and operating your first cloud computing infrastructure.
Cloud on-boarding should be considered in the design of overarching, enterprise-wide, cloud infrastructure that supports internal, external, and federated clouds. It provides a very compelling usage for enterprises who want to maximize the elastic capabilities of cloud computing. Intel’s reference architecture showcases how CloudSwitch can be installed into a datacenter’s virtual infrastructure to move virtual machines to the public cloud, extending the datacenter and utilizing the compute and storage capacity of public cloud easily and securely.
Hear CloudSwitch Founder, Ellen Rubin, in Intel's Conversations in the Cloud Podcast Series: "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with CloudSwitch"