Private Cloud Hosting Create Your Own Private IT Environment

IT Business Challenges I need to move my on-premises IT environment to the cloud while retaining complete control. I need to extend my on-premises virtualized environment to utilize the Cloud and manage the entire environment through a single portal. I need to take advantage of the cloud while maintaining tight control over security without sharing resources. I need to maintain complete management control of my IT infrastructure while leveraging the cloud. I need to minimize my IT capital expenditures. How can I meet the industry compliance requirements for security? Business owners and IT managers are continuously faced with the challenges of having enough budget and IT staff available to meet the business’s demands for supporting and expanding IT systems and applications. Most businesses would like to reduce the complexity of their IT infrastructure, and be able to scale their IT capabilities to accommodate the changing business requirements. They want to be able to get new IT services rolled out faster to support customers and employees. They want to keep IT Staff focused on strategic revenue generating initiatives, and less time on routine maintenance. Many businesses are now developing or considering strategies to utilize the Cloud to help meet these objectives, but they want to do so while maintaining complete control, improving security and reducing costs.

EarthLink Private Cloud Hosting Extend your On-premises IT Environment with Private Cloud – manage combined environment with VMware vCenter Virtual Machines Virtual machines Bridging Private IT environment On-Premise Private Cloud EarthLink Private Cloud Hosting lets you take advantage of the Cloud to build your own private IT environment to integrate your on-premises virtual and physical servers with private, dedicated resources in the Cloud. You maintain complete of your virtual machines across private and public cloud environments, while maintaining security policies and protecting their privacy.

Cloud Hosting Benefits 1. Reduce Complexity simplifying operations and maintenance 2. Dramatically Reduce Costs so you can invest in business opportunities 3. Deliver and Scale IT Services Flexibly to keep pace with your business requirements Cloud Hosting computing can help a business in 3 significant ways: 1) Reduce complexity by moving infrastructure components and management processes from a multi-silo infrastructure to resource pools that can be managed as units instead of one machine at a time. 2) Dramatically reduce costs , maximizing resource utilization by pooling, automating operations processes, and using both public and private cloud services. 3) Deliver and scale IT services – regardless of where they are sourced or delivered – flexibly using policy-driven automation and self-service. Delivers real business value, right now!

EarthLink Private Cloud Hosting Consultative support to help you design a customized solution Pre-packaged CPU & RAM configurations, with N+1 redundancy. Multi-layered security, self-healing cloud architecture, and automatic server failover Instant scaling and Cloud Server Management through VMware vCenter SSAE 16 SOC 2 certified data centers 10 MB Internet bandwidth and 2x bursting 10G High Availability SAN Storage Data backup protection via CommVault EarthLink’s team of IT Solution Consultants are engaged in the design of every Cloud Hosting solution, and every customer’s Cloud Hosting solution is custom designed to meet your unique requirements. You purchase only what you need and can quickly scale as the business requirements grow. You select the OS (operating system) that you want, Windows, Linus or Solaris. You specify the number of CPUs required, the amount of RAM disk space desired, and the amount SAN storage and backup. (example configurations shown in later slide). EarthLink Cloud Hosting provides redundant high availability firewall protection, N+1 architecture and automatic failovers to keep your Cloud up and running. You maintain complete control over your Cloud with a Control Panel that lets you scale real-time to meet rapidly changing business needs. EarthLink Data Centers are highly secure and staffed with certified security professionals 7/24/365. (CISSP & CISA) EarthLink is a VMware vCloud Powered service provider, and that means seamless interoperability with any other VMware cloud. VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure serving more than 450,000 business worldwide. Businesses running VMware typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs. EarthLink Cloud Hosting Earned the 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award from Cloud Computing magazine. Businesses running VMware typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resources

EarthLink Next Generation Cloud The Earthlink Next Generation Cloud is a state-of-the-art, integrated computing and storage cloud architecture platform designed to support current and future demands of the IT Services business. EarthLink is using industry leading technology platforms to provide comprehensive IT solutions.   VMware: vCloud Powered Provider – Running VMware 5.1 CommVault: Enterprise level backup – fully managed, High speed, fully redundant, enterprise grade storage platforms, enhanced data de-duplication to minimize storage footprint Trend Micro Antivirus: Agentless data protection for your cloud environment Nimsoft monitoring: Proactive monitoring of applications, websites and cloud services Fortinet Data Center Firewall: Complete content protection and Unified threat management NetApp storage: High speed, fully redundant, enterprise grade storage platforms Fortinet Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IPS): Threat monitoring & protection on all incoming traffic Cisco: High availability routing and switching

Next Generation Cloud in New Data Centers: Built on Nationwide Private MPLS Network EarthLink has Next Generation Cloud Platforms deployed nationwide to provide better performance for latency sensitive applications and improved diversity for business continuity purposes. Businesses nationwide can now leverage the EarthLink private MPLS network to connect their locations to their business applications and systems located in these data centers.

vCenter Server Centralized management of VMware virtual infrastructure IT administrators can ensure security and availability, simplify day-to-day tasks, and reduce the complexity of managing virtual infrastructure Allows integration of physical and virtual management tools for maximum flexibility The cloud also helps your business keep things simple – again, so you can move quickly without incurring a lot of unnecessary cost: With less IT infrastructure to maintain on-site, software licensing and all your fixed operational costs decline Since your on-site capacity is more fully utilized, so you get more value for every dollar of investment It also keeps your people productive: When you use cloud infrastructure that’s compatible with your on-premise environment, your IT teams can organize according to specialty, instead of splitting up by resource location – so you get more value from their skills and experience You also get a compliance benefit, because consistent infrastructure means one set of policies, no matter where your computing capacity is located. That means lower compliance costs, and more consistent enforcement and reporting.

Private Cloud Hosting – Managed Services Silver Network Support Yes Power Support Hardware Support Server Reboot Unlimited Backup Management Restore 2 Basic Monitoring (ping) 24/7 Emergency Support Features: Certified server engineers and IT staff Support for hardware, software, operating systems and IT infrastructure 24/7/365 monitoring and assistance Network security and reliability is our top priority within our highly secure Data Centers. That's why our Silver level of management is automatically included with EarthLink Private Cloud Hosting.

Achieving IT Agility in Your Cloud Designed to meet your business requirements -- not “one-cloud-fits-all” Works seamlessly with your current IT investments Aligned to your business and approach to IT We appreciate your interest and hope this has been useful to you. We’ll just quickly summarize a few of the reasons we’re excited about cloud hosting, and anxious to help you on your journey: The EarthLink Bossiness approach to cloud hosting offers you an infrastructure that: Works with your current infrastructure, policies, and management practices Remains flexible and secure across your own resources and your new cloud infrastructure Can be implemented incrementally, at modest cost Stays aligned to your business and IT practices as they grow and change Meets your business requirements, and doesn’t impose constraints and practices that aren’t compatible with your goals Flexible and secure, both on and off-premise Incremental, not wholesale, change