The advent of cloud computing technologies is rapidly changing the way enterprises manage and allocate their digital resources. By fulfilling flexible computing requirements where and when they are needed, cloud computing promises improvements in energy and management efficiency, thereby lowering total cost of ownership throughout an organization's technology stack.

Public cloud computing services deliver flexibility at the cost of security and overall TCO. By consolidating public cloud customers onto multi-tenant virtual computing systems and shared storage resources, security and privacy are oftentimes compromised in the pursuit of convenience. Furthermore, the submission of sensitive or regulated data is a show-stopper for many organizations who demand PCI DSS or HIPAA compliance.

Lightcrest offers its clients a variety of private cloud solutions that directly address these cost and security concerns. By working hand in hand with customers to architect private cloud solutions designed to fulfill specific needs, we deliver superior cost savings and maximum flexibility without sacrificing security or privacy.

The end result is a larger, more comprehensive offering for those customers who wish to move to the cloud but are concerned about the risk involved in moving to a public but proprietary platform. To avoid platform vendor lock-in, Lightcrest offers the following managed virtual resource allocation systems for its clients looking to minimize or eliminate platform risk, TCO risk, and security risk.

• Fully managed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) deployments
• Fully managed Citrix OpenCloud deployments
• Fully managed VMWare ESX, ESXi cloud deployments
• Fully managed Parallels cloud deployments
• Fully managed Microsoft HyperV cloud deployments
• Fully managed Oracle VirtualBox cloud deployments

These standard platforms offer increased portability, flexibility, and standards compliance. This allows for the use of following operating systems and their respective native software suites:

• Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE, etc.)
• BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDi)
• Solaris (x86, SPARC)
• Windows Server (2003, 2008 R2, etc.)

Example applications of Lightcrest Private Cloud and Virtual ProvingGround™ services:

• Application server tier scaling
• Multiple configuration management
• Flexible storage backend over VPN
• Cost-effective disaster recovery / BCP solutions
• Geographic load balancing
• Cost-effective CDN extension and delivery offload services
• Distributed, large scale application load testing and benchmarking

Flexible allocation, storage and network engineering offerings complete the picture:

• Fully managed private SAN and NAS solutions
• Custom IP transit solutions (MPLS, VPN, BGP, etc.)
• Automated virtual resource configuration management
• Protected computing environments for scientific and commercial applications
• Lightcrest Virtual ProvingGround™ high volume parallel network testing for load, certification, and compliance.

Customers are also empowered with cloud computing platform choice. Full support for Intel (Xeon, Atom), AMD, ARM, POWER, and SPARC computing platforms are offered.

Call us today for a consultation and quote on a solution to your private cloud computing needs.