Who needs Cloud in a Box solution?

The top technology hardware vendors that are used to sell servers and storage boxes are kind of worried for a while with the cloud phenomenon and of course want to be part of cloud. So, they invented Cloud in a box to sell bigger boxes-:) It certainly doesn’t make sense from Cloud users point of view because it goes against typical cloud characteristics such as elasticity and fixed hardware costs. But it does make sense from cloud IaaS Providers or Enterprise IT teams point of view that are planning to build new dynamic data centers. It does provide higher level of abstraction unit to build next generation data centers. It takes care of lot of IT dirty work of connecting servers, storage and networking pieces along with back chassis and channels and certainly offer lot of OpEx savings. Additional processors and storage can be added relatively with ease using these pre-integrated and pre-configured bundles.

Cloupia’s Cloud-in-a-Box using Cisco UCS, NetApp & VMware: The Cloupia’s
Cloud-in-a-Box solution consists of Cisco UCS platform, NetApp Unified storage, VMware ESX Hypervisor Server & Cloupia’s Unified Infrastructure Controller. It comes with pre-integrated and pre-configured Compute, Storage and Network resource bundles. The Cloupia’s Cloud-in-a-Box solution offers self-service portal, multi-tenant security, monitoring and provisioning capabilities. The Cloupia’s software automates and orchestrates the deployment and management of compute, storage and network resources with-in the “Cloud-in-a-Box”. Organizations can jumpstart the private cloud implementation using Cloupia’s Cloud-in-a-Box solution. This solution can be used as a building block for new private cloud and dynamic data center build-outs by Service Providers and Enterprises.

There are several definitions for Cloud-in-a-box from “integrated cloud software and hardware” to “appliance with software, hardware and associated services” to “converged infrastructure platform”. Our definition is – a turnkey cloud solution to build private clouds with pre-configured and bundled compute, storage and network resources along with management and orchestration software. The cloud can be built fairly easily out of the box, I mean out of “Cloud-in-a-Box”-:)