White Papers
Ready to Move to the Cloud?
How Hard Is It Really?
By providing an easy, reliable way to run applications in the cloud, CloudSwitch opens up new possibilities for IT organizations trying to increase agility and reduce capital costs.
This paper puts the CloudSwitch breakthrough in perspective by examining current barriers facing IT departments that want to run applications in a public cloud. It focuses on four key steps that are often responsible for delaying or even blocking many cloud adoption projects:
- Rebuilding the application stack within the cloud
- Setting up the network
- Adding end-to-end security
- Managing the application in a separate environment
CloudSwitch Architecture Overview
This paper illustrates how CloudSwitch software enables enterprises to use the cloud’s scalable, on-demand computing resources as a seamless extension of their internal IT environments. With CloudSwitch, existing or new applications can be run securely in a specified cloud while remaining tightly integrated with internal tools and processes, and managed as if they were running locally. The result is a single unified environment where external resources can be provisioned quickly and applications running in the cloud can utilize common resources in the data center.
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Making Cloud Computing Secure for the Enterprise
Security Architecture Overview
Many companies are eager to take advantage of cloud computing, but concerns about possible security breaches and loss of data hold them back. Trust—or lack of it—is one of the primary reasons for the hesitancy of enterprises to put their data and applications in a multi-tenant public cloud. Security issues associated with third-party cloud environments continue to prevent organizations from benefiting from the cost savings and flexibility that the cloud can offer.
This paper explores how CloudSwitch overcomes barriers to cloud security by enabling enterprises to run selected applications and data in the cloud with the same protection and control available internally. Once data leaves the physical data center it is isolated at all times as an extension of the enterprise’s security perimeter. The result is a single integrated environment where external resources are provisioned quickly and applications running in the cloud can utilize common resources back in the data center. Enterprises not only know that their applications are secure; they are able to prove it—to customers, regulators, and other stakeholders.
Enterprise Cloud Computing Becomes a Reality
The CloudSwitch Technology Vision
This paper introduces the CloudSwitch vision for enterprise cloud computing. It describes current challenges to data center operations and cloud computing, and introduces a more cost-effective and agile model powered by CloudSwitch. It then introduces CloudSwitch technology that eliminates barriers that until now have limited the adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise. The result is a single integrated environment that allows applications to be deployed where they truly belong, while remaining tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies. Business users and corporate IT can now take advantage of hybrid cloud options that leverage investments in traditional data centers and private clouds, while using public clouds as a flexible, extremely efficient extension of the enterprise environment.
