Hosted Compute – Cloud Computing
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Enter the cloud: create and manage your own virtual servers with a click of a button

With BlueFire’s Hosted Compute, you have the option to create a hybrid hosting solution that mixes and matches onsite infrastructure to create your perfect data centre on-demand. Access is provided to a discrete and dedicated resource pool of processors, memory, and storage via an easy to use web-based console. Load balancers and firewall resources are simply controlled and allocated to your environment without requiring specialised knowledge or assistance.

Fully clustered enterprise-class architecture

Hosted Compute features virtualisation technology from the industry leaders in enterprise virtualisation. It is based on proven infrastructure platforms, built on massive and diverse network connectivity, and is securely housed multiple in top-tier data centres. BlueFire’s Hosted Compute allows for precisely allocated computing resources when and where they are needed without the frustration of large and inflexible server units.

Web-based User Interface
Single point of control can be immediately accessed by any authorised user from any location. Easy to understand and operate thereby reducing training times and promoting user confidence.

Supported Operating Systems
The cloud supports all major operating system configurations and provides the freedom to upload and install pre-existing ISOs or a custom OS on blank virtual machines.

Firewall and Network Management
Firewall management features provide the ability to modify and create firewall rule sets as needed for your environment, while the cloud interface allows you to connect your virtual machines to the internet.

Integrated Load Balancing
Perform load balancing, network address translation (NAT), and port address translation (PAT) simply by adding additional nodes to public IPs on the cloud.


Multiple Secure Facilities
Hosted Compute environments are located in BlueFire’s top-tier data centres, allowing you to create disaster recovery solutions and system redundancy across geographically diverse facilities.

Physical Device Integration
Combine any existing dedicated server by exposing it in the secure cloud platform allowing you to maintain complete control over both physical and virtual resources from the same web-based interface.

Copy Server
Create a perfect block-level copy, or master template for deployment of additional capacity, by taking a server snapshot using the server duplication function.

Private Network Integration
Seamlessly integrate your own existing network into the private cloud via secure channels that safely link only subscribed resources to the enterprise network.

Security and Compliance
The enterprise cloud provides a highly secure foundation for your business applications, with architecture designed to help meet today’s critical compliance and certification requirements.

One-Stop Solution
Organisations no longer need to employ a combination of products from multiple different vendors meaning less inherent incompatibility and easier support.

Management Portal
The simple to use web-based console transforms your virtual machine from a template to a fully available computing resource with the click of a button. Allocate memory, processors, and storage as needed, or easily prepare servers in advance leaving your resource pool unaffected.

Delegated Control
Free IT infrastructure teams from the need to provision and manage every virtual machine thereby reducing backlog and bottlenecks and significantly increasing agility and flexibility.

Resource Limits
Encourage users to release extra resources quickly while ensuring that no entity causes physical capacity of the system to be exceeded.

Workload Policy
Completely automate the allocation of virtual machines across the physical infrastructure while adhering to defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance.		Hypervisor Freedom
BlueFire’s Hosted Compute supports all hypervisors which eliminates the dilemma of being locked into a particular virtual machine manager by its vendor. Virtual images can easily be converted between hypervisors with a single drag and drop operation.

Appliance Library
Segregate maintenance of virtual machine images and appliances across public, shared and private libraries. Multiple virtual machine configurations can be grouped into a single appliance for simple and rapid deployment.

Scalability
BlueFire’s Hosted Compute is not limited by organisational size and can be deployed against a live running environment to allow instantaneous operation at a time of your choosing.

Flexible Interfacing
Experience interoperability and share between varying third party products and systems, while being supported for rapid growth of new and additional products and devices.
BlueFire's Virtualisation Management Suite allows you to easily analyse, optimise and control your virtual infrastructure by providing a holistic view through proactive and automated management tools. These tools work together to offer the simplest and most effective form of management, allowing you to accomplish more with less IT resources.

Four Easy Ways to Manage your Virtual Environment

The Monitor
The Monitor provides real-time performance monitoring, alerting, and problem detection. A colour-coded dashboard shows your infrastructure’s health at a glance, covering all major physical and virtual resources.



The Reporter
The Reporter provides key historical reports for all physical and virtual and resources, including analytics for performance bottlenecks and resource use, which allows you to easily judge where improvements can be made.
The Planner
The Planner is a wizard-based tool that helps you plan and prepare for workload and hardware changes. It features flexible specifications of physical host and storage models to allow for straightforward transformation, provisioning and/or decommissioning.



The Optimiser
The Optimiser finds and fixes problems by continuously monitoring your virtual environment. It proactively detects degradations and anomalies as they evolve, and recommends and executes actions to resolve and prevent similar issues.


For more information on the Virtualisation Management Suite, contact us.
Below are ways BlueFire's Hosted Compute is frequently used by our clients:

Cloud Operations
BlueFire offers an automated cloud operation service which enables your IT teams to administer their IT infrastructure regardless of infrastructure on premise, in your data centre, or in the cloud. Through a simple dashboard, BlueFire's Cloud Operations service helps reduce operational costs by automating day-to-day routine IT tasks such as: reporting, event management, automated best practise change management. BlueFire's Cloud Operations service gives you a unified view of all your IT resources.

Data Centre Automation
BlueFire offers a simple way to build and manage dynamic data centres so you don't have to worry about setting up machines, installing systems, applications, or observing compliance rules and regulations. We automate server configurations so that administrators have time for more important tasks - it's easy to reproduce or repurpose servers, and continuous capacity monitoring and automatic remediating of alarms and events reduces downtime and improves availability.

Private Internal Clouds – Enterprise POD
BlueFire allows you to create your own personal internal cloud computing system with your own internal standards, firewalls and security for compliance reasons - all with the benefits of a cloud system, such as automation and simplification. You will have use of a self-service provisioning portal which allows for simplified deployment to end-users. Administrators can practice unified and integrated management via role-based access controls and policies. BlueFire offers this in small, medium and large PODs to enable enterprises to deploy their own clouds.


Public IaaS Clouds
With BlueFire you can build your own Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Access a pre-integrated cloud platform with customised administration views via a simple dashboard so you can manage operations quickly and easily - you can manage your entire IT infrastructure performance and configurations/updates from this single management console. With this service, Service Providers can offer their customers IT self-service management and administration.

Self-service IT
BlueFire's Self-service IT product allows Service Providers to offer a full suite of infrastructure service offerings to business users, without the complex administrative or high infrastructure costs usually involved. It includes access to a pool of virtual machines, which can be increased or decreased as you need them - you remain in control of deployments, but without the complexity and risk usually involved. You're able to specify resource quotas, security permissions, and specific configuration details to ensure that IT policies are honoured.

Service Providers
BlueFire helps service providers expand while reducing operational, administrative and infrastructure costs. Service providers need to be able to quickly scale their offerings according to demand - using a BlueFire Hosted Cloud solution means service providers have access to a pool of resources that can grow or shrink along with demand, without the cost or stress.


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