Cogeco Peer 1 Mission Critical Cloud Enterprise-ready, policy driven cloud Many IT and application development organizations have struggled to embrace the Cloud in a meaningful and beneficial way. To gain certain benefits, it seemed necessary to sacrifice others. Most public clouds promise utility pricing and associated cost savings, but issues surrounding provisioning, oversight and, most importantly, resource orchestration, high availability and disaster recovery security create daunting obstacles to adoption. On the other hand, while private clouds on dedicated hardware address those pain points, the financial benefits of the Cloud are lost to the costs of dedicated hardware and software combined with the resources required to provision and manage them. Mission Critical Cloud from Cogeco Peer 1 is enterprise-ready, creating the perfect point of adoption, whether you re seeking an off-premise solution for Development, Testing and Staging workloads or launching new Mission-Critical Commercial Applications in the Cloud. Cogeco Peer 1 Mission Critical Cloud is a VMware -based public cloud platform that realizes all of the benefits expected of the cloud. And then some. Elegant, Orchestration Simple, Policy Based, Automation Enterprise Security Disaster Recovery Backup files, simply Economies The highly visual and comprehensive control console enables users to establish groups of virtual machines with unique rules to intelligently organize, manage and control costs of large environments. And the Blueprint template and scripting tool simplifies building out complex solutions and significantly reduces time and effort. Whether scheduling maintenance, automating time-consuming menial tasks or setting up monitoring alerts, Mission Critical Cloud simplifies day-to-day work, minimizes errors and allows your developers to devote themselves to more strategic activities. Autoscaling allows you to vertically grow or shrink servers based on CPU utilization. From the server cages to the gateways to the last bit of data, every aspect of the Mission Critical Cloud infrastructure is secure, protected and continually monitored. And with the ability to provision virtual load balancers and set custom firewall policies, the Platform offers control and security to rival that of many private cloud environments. Avoid the impact of a disaster. Deploy Cogeco Peer 1 DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) to protect your most critical applications and data. Orchestrate your DR testing, failover, and failback between your on-premise datacentre and Mission Critical Cloud or between Mission Critical data centres. The ultimate in reliability and convenience. Just point-and-click to create flexible backup policies that meet your specific backup frequency and data retention requirements, then apply them to your servers. Utility-based hourly pricing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and powerful automation capabilities all eliminate Capital Expenditures and reclaim your internal resources for more critical tasks.
Features Flexibility of Configurations Meet the service and performance level demands of your application. Complete server instance flexibility with respect to CPU, RAM, and Storage Partitions. Load balancer and firewalls are built-into the infrastructure, and additional virtual appliances may be provisioned for your solution upon request. Protect your most important data with policy based Simple Backup. Hyperscale Server Instance Designed for distributed workloads that require maximum performance, Hyperscale provides the ability to meet increased demands on your system. Hyperscale offers the same computing and memory performance found in our standard servers plus enterpriseclass flash storage for fast and efficient processing. Available Disaster Recovery Service and Orchestration Prepare for the worst, Mission Critical Cloud DRaaS allows you to easily mitigate losses to productivty, revenue, and brand equity caused by major IT infrastructure failures. Protect both your on-premise and Cloud servers with point and click orchestration of your DR environment, replication polcies, and bring-up sequencing. Integrated DR test and production failback covers your end to end DR process. Control Panel Blueprints Security Hybrid Hosting Compliance Control Panel. An easy-to-use, visual administration console simplifies both day-to-day server management tasks, and the creation of new servers and server groups. As you provision a new VM or group of VMs, a rate calculator displays both hourly and monthly costs. Monitoring provides reporting and alerts on bandwidth, CPU, RAM and disk utilization. Completely capturing your existing configurations, Blueprints are templates for simplified VMware server provisioning. Once a Blueprint is saved and stored, you deploy it again and again to recreate that solution in every detail. This means that even the most complex environments can be recreated with a single click from the OS to the database and applications. Moreover, there is a large and growing Blueprint Marketplace where you can find Blueprints to create a variety of tried and true solutions, from provisioning instances of Apache Tomcat to building out MySQL clusters. Mission Critical Cloud protects every element of your environment physical, virtual and bandwidth. This includes user authentication, network protection, data centre physical security, and IDS and IDP monitoring of external data transmissions. All integral to the platform. The self-service Control Portal also allows you to set custom firewall configurations to meet your specific business requirements. We have built a uniquely automated hybrid environment from the ground up. You can provision a complex hybrid solution on a private network that contains load balancers and is behind firewalls in as little as 90 minutes. Over VPN, you can even connect that solution to any other service, such as our managed VMware private cloud solution, Mission Critical Cloud or even Managed Dedicated Servers. Ensure that your virtual infrastructures are fully compliant with the most current standards for process and security. Physical security controls and logical security policies are audited to SSAE 16 and ISO 27001 standards. Audit trails are created and always visible through the Control Portal.
Features (cont d) Mission Critical Cloud Feature Overview Description Specification Pricing SLA For Servers & Control Portal 99.999% Included For Network 100% Included For Storage 99.99% Included Compute Maximum processing cores, with 2GHz per core 16 Hourly, per vcpu Maximum memory (GB) 128 Hourly, per GB CPU/memory billing Usage-based Change server attributes in real-time Included Storage & Backup Standard Hyperscale* Recommended Workloads Enterprise apps, legacy apps, new cloud apps, mainstream web applications. NoSQL workloads, distributed systems, big data jobs, and other high performance workloads. Maximum virtual drive size (TB) 4 1 Hourly, per GB allocated Maximum virtual drives 15 15 Typyical Storage Performance at least 2,500 IOPS At Least 15,000 IOPS Storage technology Hybrid - Spindle and SSD SSD Maximum manual snapshots retained (The customer chooses the duration of the snapshot retention, up to 10 days) 1 1 Included Flexible, policy based Simple Backup optional optional Hourly, per GB allocated Management Blueprints Included Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Initial Setup + Usage-based Group Management of VMs Included *Hyperscale Servers available in Santa Clara, Sterling and New York DCs
Mission Critical Cloud Feature Overview (cont d) Description Specification Pricing Networking Bandwidth 1Gbps vnic to 10Gbps vnic (6Gbps throughput) Per Physical VM Host: 20Gbps data network, 20Gbps VM instance Per Mbps, measured at 95/5 Shared Load Balancer VMware DRS provides load balancing of the VMs and a shared hardware load balancer is also part of the physical infrastructure Included Dedicated Load Balancer 200Mbps to 1Gbps (based on unit size purchased) SSL Offload: 100Mbps to 500Mbps Firewall Firewall (between VLANs): 1 to 6Gbps Firewall (external): 1 to 2Gbps VPN Client 4Mbps to 20Mbps; Max 30 Concurrent Connections (more available upon request) Direct 1Gbps For Network Monthly, per virtual appliance instance. Different sizes are available Primary VLAN included, additional VLANs priced per month Per month Data centres Select from 13 data centres in the US, Canada, UK and mainland Europe. Data centres are geographically paired for built-in Disaster Recovery and High Availability: Seattle, WA and Santa Clara, CA Salt Lake City, UT and Chicago, IL New York, NY and Sterling, VA (Washington, DC) Toronto, ON and Vancouver, BC Portsmouth, UK and London, UK Frankfurt, Germany and Paris, France SSAE 16 audited Included Defense in Depth Security Included
Benefits Cost Control & Visibility Simplicity Self-Service Security FirstCall Promise Realize the true financial promise of the Cloud for both capital and operational spend. Eliminating the cost of infrastructure returns a lot of money to your strategic IT and development budget. Pay-as-you-go hourly pricing provides complete visibility and control over costs. Automating routine tasks, grouping virtual servers for common actions, single-click deployment of complex solutions and much more all lower the cost of running your Cloud environments. Numerous tools and templates make provisioning and configuring solutions fast, predictable and less prone to errors. This is true whether you re creating a complex new IT workload a new product s test infrastructure for instance or spooling up a large server group for a mission-critical production workload. Use Blueprints to provision and configure solutions with a single click. Tightly controlled and secure, Mission Critical Cloud s self-service Control Portal lets authorized users provision, configure or modify multiple solutions within the environment. That includes establishing groups of servers for common actions (like scheduled reboots). Customers handle every aspect of setting up their applications directly from the portal. And administrators can gain instant access to system status, bandwidth usage, billing summaries and other important tools. And Autoscale functionality allows you to control the vertical growth or shrinking of servers based on CPU utilization. Unlike traditional public clouds, Mission Critical Cloud deploys multiple layers of defense at every point of attack or vulnerability. This includes physical equipment, cloud resources, customer data and more. With Premium Storage, full redundancy ensures business continuity and supports the most rigorous Disaster Recovery strategy. One call is all you need to make to resolve an incident or escalate a problem. Peer 1 Hosting provides Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 support. So you re never left wondering who is going to help you solve a support problem. We ll help you through any issues of onboarding, creating Blueprints, setting up portals, porting your applications whatever you need whenever you need it.
About Cogeco Peer 1 Cogeco Peer 1 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cogeco Communications Inc. (TSX:CCA). They have combined their operations to become a global provider of essential businessto-business products and services, such as data transport, colocation, cloud and managed services, and dedicated hosting, that allow customers across Canada, the United States and Western Europe to focus on their core business. With global data centres, extensive FastFiber Network TM and more than 50 points-of-presence in North America and Europe combined, they are a trusted partner to businesses small, medium and large, providing the ability to access, move, manage and store mission-critical data worldwide, backed by superior customer support. To learn more about how our services can help your organization, please visit www.cogecopeer1.com Ready to learn more? Streamline your IT with Cogeco Peer 1. Visit cogecopeer1.com. U.K: 0.333.355.9596 U.S: 1.866.579.9690 CAD: 1.416.599.3282 Order Now cogecopeer1.com 2016 Cogeco Peer 1