Private Clouds
Put your own cloud in the sky.
Cloud too crowded for you? Then build, manage, and have total control over your own cloud of virtual servers for reliable, consistent performance along with unmatched scalability.
SoftLayer bare metal servers provide the ideal, scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure for running the virtualization technology of your choice, letting you create virtual servers on your own terms.
Avoid Noisy Neighbors
In public cloud environments, resources are shared among multiple customers.
You have guaranteed access to compute and storage resources, but if someone else on your public cloud
node is consuming their resources at the same time, your virtual server’s performance may vary. In a
private cloud environment, you get the scalability and flexibility of public cloud, and you don’t have
to worry about noisy neighbors.
Simplify Web App Development and Deployment
Burst instantly to meet increased demand, scale incrementally, and optimize
resource usage in your own cloud environment. Private clouds provide an easier, more efficient solution
to cumbersome and compute-intensive infrastructure by balancing workloads across your entire
infrastructure.
Get Started Quickly
To create your own private cloud, just provision your hardware infrastructure
and install your choice of virtualization software as your cloud computing hypervisor. It’s that easy.
Add new host servers to your environment in only a few hours, and spin up virtual servers in real time. Be prepared
for and quickly respond to traffic spikes during peak season, and easily scale back during slower
periods.
Expand Geographically
Scale up your hardware footprint to create new cloud zones in data centers
around the world, and have them communicate freely and securely over our private network. Because your
private cloud lives on the SoftLayer platform, you can seamlessly add any of our other products or
services to your environment with a few mouse clicks—from firewalls and network appliances to big data
solutions and external storage options.
Extend your VMware footprint onto IBM Cloud.
Streamline your most used architects with IBM Cloud, like VMware Server Virtualization, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware NSX, VMware vRealize Suite and VMware Site Recovery Manager – using the same VMware management tools you’re already acquainted with.
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Get the best of both worlds with Private Cloud as a Service.
Experience the reliability, security and speed of a private, in-house solution combined with the flexibility, scalability and affordability of a public cloud. Leave the burden of designing, deploying and managing your own infrastructure to us.
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Create Your Own Private Cloud
No two private cloud deployments are the same. SoftLayer allows you to design (and
only pay for) the infrastructure your that solution requires. Here are some of the typical components you’ll
find in many private clouds.
Load Balancing
Increase application or site availability and performance by distributing
traffic across local or globally diverse resources.
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Content Delivery Network
Put content on 24 nodes throughout the cloud, keeping it closer to end
users to minimize the distance the data has to travel.
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Application Servers
Power applications with robust physical dedicated servers for fast response
times.
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Hardware Firewall
Protect servers from malicious activity with enterprise-grade firewalls
provisioned on demand.
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Web Servers
Scale virtual cloud servers on-demand to meet site load requirements during
traffic spikes.
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Compare Costs: Traditional IT vs. SoftLayer
Determine the cost benefits of the SoftLayer platform.
Build your private cloud environment on SoftLayer resources, and save thousands in capital expenditures and operating expenses while enjoying better performance and more flexibility. Compare the costs of deploying infrastructure on-premises with provisioning the same environment on SoftLayer.
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