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Website is compatible with Flash enabled Browsers Cloud computing comes into focus only when we think about what IT has always needed – a way to increase capacity, add capabilities and decrease time to roll-out updates – all on the fly and all without the need for new infrastructure, training new personnel, and even licensing new software. The elusive Enterprise 'killer app' is finally upon us - and 'Cloud' is Nirvana for the well informed... ü Clouds are made up of clusters of computing resources grouped together which ü Cloud resources (processors, memory, disk storage, applications etc) are shared by ü Cloud computing is the function of running, hosting, managing and maintaining these ü Cloud makes available, programs and services which are accessible from anywhere via ü Cloud’s environments are ‘virtualized’ which provides the scalability required to combine Cloud Computing is much more than just hosting servers and providing services to the 'Cloud'…yet that is the sum total of what the user experience will know – because the fact that all administration tasks, data storage and processor loads etc are taken care of for the user, all provided at a simplified cost effective solution on a per user per month basis. Cloud is fast becoming the dominant proliferation of installed servers today, but legacy computing technology is not able to satisfactorily meet ever changing demands for higher performance per watt / performance per cubic foot / and performance per dollar expended. Processors used in most servers today consume too much power, they run too hot, and they do not adequately support ultra-high density core architectures. Further, existing technology development roadmaps do not adequately scale performances at the rate sufficient to meet the demands of ‘Cloud’ computing, meaning that legacy processors encounter limitations of energy efficiencies, lack scalability in core-density and performance, while production costs remain very high. Cloud Pod with our T-Class server architecture provides such breakthroughs. Our T-Class servers are being used in web applications, database acceleration, search, and data mining operations while saving customers millions of dollars in operating costs. Cloud Pod in partnership with one of world’s largest computer ODMs, unveils the world's most power efficient Server offering the highest Core Density compute performance available.
Each Grunt Machines T-Class model 512 server includes 8 x processors which supersede 8 x high-end Intel Xeon 5000-class dual-socket servers, making this offering the highest performance highest density 2U server in the industry, providing vendors with the building blocks to build-out large-scale web applications and services within the Cloud.
Featuring integrated ultra-high bandwidth connectivity, the integration of I/O on each of the processors allows for this server to provide up to 16 x 10GbE interfaces plus 16 x 1GbE interfaces – all without the World's highest density and highest compute 2U Server
The Pod is a Container – specialized for housing the complete ICT infrastructures as an Enterprise Cloud presence as a ‘stand-alone’ Data Centre, or as a convenient addition to existing Data Centre infrastructure capacity. Speed to implementing and commissioning the Pod will typically be a 2-3 month process compared to 18-20 months for a typical ‘bricks-and-mortar’ Data Centre... A 30 x Rack Lights Out Infrastructure - a fully self-contained remotely managed Data Centre... A 12 x Rack Lights On Solution Infrastructure... With changes to meet the constantly evolving market demands and driving forces which set the new market demands of diversified investment and distribution of cost centers, along with strategic geographical location for risk minimization all add up to a very compelling business case... We concur with this vision - and we are able to deliver a solution today which best suits the many options each customer would prefer in their specific requirements... Top The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center uses ISO-standard shipping containers to deliver reduced-footprint, self-contained data centers virtually anywhere. The containers are shipped fully populated and tested, with installation as simple as connecting to power, chilled water and your network. Accelerated deployment makes this data center solution especially suited for organizations that want to add swing space for new applications quickly, or that need to bring business continuity or disaster recovery solutions online as soon as possible. With data center power consumption doubling about every five years, data centers often exhaust their available power budget before running out of physical space. From a cost perspective, energy is the largest controllable operating expense for a typical facility. Data centers have also come under scrutiny for their potential impact on power grid reliability and greenhouse gases. The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center can significantly reduce power consumption and maximize efficiency. The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center is a fast, flexible and highly efficient way to implement Cloud-Pod’s Data Center vision, providing a solid foundation for a low-risk, incremental build-out of a virtualized, network-based data center architecture. ü Virtualizing every aspect of Infrastructure – Servers / Networks / Storage / applications / ü Reducing time to more effectively deploy new Servers / Applications / Desktops etc… ü Reducing those costs associated with every aspect of control / management / maintenance... ü Increasing density of Server O/S concentration-count to hardware platforms, gaining better ü Reducing the ICT management workloads by shortening time required to test / configure and ü Enhancing the standardization process across enterprise platforms... ü Improving Enterprise resilience by being able to more quickly adapt to their changing needs – and becoming more pro-active (not reactive…) to the changing market demands imposed by ü All these (and more…) are benefits – a growing trend of Cloud adoption by Enterprise to ü Maximize energy savings ü Maximize flexibility, versatility, availability and adaptability ü Maximize Rack compute density and manageability ü Maximize Security and performance while remaining flexible to instantly relocate ü Minimize RISK of losses with improved mitigation and controls ü Minimize time delays to deployment ü Minimize costs of implementation, management and maintenance ü Minimize footprint of your next infrastructure refresh ü Reduce current rck space footprint by as much as 96% with our HD solutions... ü Reduce current energy costs by as much as 98.8% with our HD solutions... ü Reduces 'Total Costs of Ownership' (TCO) of Data Center operations by as much as 50%
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Data Pod containerized solution ready
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Cloud Resources Infrastructure What is a Pod
Modular Construction What Cloud-Pod offers
What is Cloud Computing...
Now a frequently used term, Cloud computing today pervades every aspect of our web experience - whether we know it or not...
While everyone may have a different idea about what ‘cloud’ is, or how it may impact their lives tomorrow – we can all be certain of just one thing…
Change is constant so that nothing today will remains the same tomorrow…
Generally, 'Cloud Computing' encompasses any service which, accessing over the internet in real time can enhance the user capabilities and web-experience. But cloud is far more than just a static web-site for information. Clouds offer a wide variety of services which are interactive and purpose driven to deliver the user almost any type of solution suited to their purpose as and when required.
The user gains functionality previously unseen from web-sites which provide the ability to access, and share information while interacting with other users, and which form the foundation of what we can see today - which we now refer to as 'Clouds', and often provided to the users at NO COST.
We could classify these 'no cost' services as Public Clouds because services provided are available to anyone without needing any special permissions to gain access to - being FREE the user can access these 'clouds' and use the resources available – and if they then want to contribute to the content to everyone else, they only need to create for themselves a 'channel' as an identifier to upload and share their information, all at No Cost to do so…Face Book, You Tube, Google Apps and MSN messenger are all examples of what we could classify as 'Public Clouds'…
Other Cloud solutions, which were among the first services to emerge as 'clouds' were the more commercially focused, subscriber-based offerings. These could be classified as Private Clouds, because they are not freely accessible, but require the user to create an account and pay for gaining access, either on a ‘pay-per-use’ or as a ‘pay-for-term’ for a time-slice for access. Once subscribed, users gain the rights-to-use ('like a term license')…examples of these…Salesforce.com and ZoHo.com...
Cloud Resources...
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Management of cloud resources is conducted by service provider which reduce a burden from the users, while also allowing more customers to be more quickly and easily added as their need to adapt to their changing demands provide adapting and scaling their solution as required...
There is however another and perhaps far more important class of 'Cloud Services' now emerging.
We will classify these as Enterprise Cloud Services - and these are the focus of what we offer as a 'Solutions Provider to the Cloud'...
In an Enterprise Cloud, businesses can extend their own specifically requirements and capabilities to extend and enhance their capabilities using 'Clouds' to do it. Complimenting their existing internal ICT infrastructures, Enterprise Clouds are only now beginning to become recognized as a valuable addition to Enterprise, becoming the expansible WAN reaching to the edge to become the logical extension to their networks - all in an effort to reduce costs, diversify resources, improve availability with secured access, simplify managing increasing workloads, and even to shorten lead-times for 'Test-and-Deployment' of new systems and applications software, infrastructure etc.
As Cloud is evolving today, niche Service Providers such as Cloud Pod will become more apparent as businesses scramble to further rationalize their ICT operations and to concentrate infrastructure sprawl and to rein-in spiraling management / maintenance overheads whilst improving operations expanding
capabilities and improving the mitigation of Risks to ensure capabilities are not compromised...
What characterizes the Cloud…
when combined form a logical large computing system…
many users at any time…
systems for the users…
any internet connection and any internet ready device
the computing resources… 
Infrastructure...
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Delivery of the platform, whether hardware software, administration and monitoring solutions can all be tailored to the client need.
Cloud Pod provides a complete Data Center solution within a self contained unit. Cloud Pod can also
fully fit-out and commission infrastructure into your existing Data Center to your exact requirements – from delivery to installation and even commissioning.
We pride ourselves with high quality products, and services implemented to any level. Whether upgrading and provisioning an existing Data Centre, or completing a custom design and build to 'Turn-Key' - we deliver complete infrastructure.
To satisfy these demands, fundamental changes in processor architectures are necessary in finding an adequately scalable, yet cost effective solution while maintaining reliability without suffering performance losses.
With T-Class servers we deliver the performance at a fraction of the energy required within an ultra-high density footprint.
Cloud Pod's Grunt Machines 'T-Class' model 512...
Announcing the availability of Grunt Machines T-Class model 512 - the first of an entire range of servers targeted specifically to tackle today's cloud computing workloads...
Designed in collaboration with cloud Data Center providers, end-user customer and software vendor partners, it will accommodate large-scale Data Centers running high performance web, database, financial applications, and hosted services.
added costs or power requirements of additional chipsets and networking interface cards.
Power efficiency eco-friendly Server platform
Serviceability and remote management
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InfrastrucXure installed into the Pod
ready for H/A Servers and Storage ...
What is a Pod...?
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Each Pod is built within a container and modified to accommodate ‘racks’ which house typical data centre computer, networking and storage equipment with all the necessary power, UPS and cooling provided...
The Pod offers many advantages compared to the ‘bricks-and-mortar’ of the traditional data centre facilities and can be deployed almost anywhere as a temporary or as a permanent structure.
The Cloud Pod solutions are built in partnership with our Australian based supplier.
Construction build is provided by specialist teams of experienced skilled professionals delivering award winning design / quality solutions which set new standards for modular infrastructure available.
Provisioning of the Pod fit-out, the racks, Power conditioning, UPS, cooling for infrastructure is provided by APC (a Schneider Electrical Company...) with ‘InfraStruXure™' industry leading componentry to deliver a ‘World Class Data Centre’ solution - provisioned to the highest standards, and recognized by industry by recently winning design awards.
The two examples which follow show a typical extremely High Density solution for CoLocation...
This is typically a Lights Out Solution where personnel are not normally required to attend to the data-center because as a CoLocation implementation, the equipment installed and then fully remotely managed...
Power to each Rack can range from between 5 Kw and 35 Kw per Rack as required...
The pod designs can provide for 42 U racks as standard, or full-height 47 U Racks...
A 30 x Rack Lights Out Infrastructure - a fully self-contained remotely managed Data Centre...
Each Pod includes APC racks and InfrastruXure InRow cooling units for cooling...
Referred to as Hot Aisle Containment, this cooling method is proven to be far more flexible and efficient while consuming Less Power to acheive the cooling necessary to eliminate hot-spots... and which is now superseding the Raised Floor cooling methods (considered obsolete)...
This example (above...) shows a smaller DataCenter Infrastructure - A Lights On Solution is a more conventional space where personnel are required to attend to the space on a regular basis. As a result, more space is provided for access around the Racks and to permit more easily removing / replacing equipment within the Racks...
Modular Construction / Containment / Portability...
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The concept of modular construction is a simple idea - yet difficult to accept because it challenges conventions which have become the normal standard practice.
What we have in the video demonstrates Microsoft's vision of the future of Data Centers.
ü Built upon a proven modular construction these fully insulated containers are
secure allowing racks to be compartmentalized for convenience. Also provides
excellent fire isolation & prevention. Racks are cooled using separated controlled
chilled-water cooling / Hot Aisle containment - proven to be the most efficient
cooling for High Density infrastructures…
ü Modular construction also permits building the Pod infrastructure as required for
capacity planning and expansion when needed to meet demands for growth –
lock-up / access controlled and secure, also capable of deployment into any
environment…
ü Cloud Pod does NOT tie you and your infrastructure or restrictions or limitations
of any physical or geographical location…Capable of being located – and then
relocation with comparative ease if or when required...
ü Pod’s can be deployed where ever either a truck or helicopter can deliver it…
Power and Data Links are available and customized to suit location / terrain /
and other environmental conditions??
What 'Cloud-Pod' offers your business now? And in the future?
The Challenge...
Today’s data centers increasingly struggle to balance capacity and business requirements. Many organizations have discovered that existing data centers simply cannot provide the energy, cooling and equipment density required to support evolving needs. In addition, building a new data center is a lengthy, capital-intensive process, with additional capacity not available until years after the start of construction. ICT also has a problem to predict future needs with technology and the business environment changing so rapidly.
This uncertainty heightens the risk that companies will overinvest in data center build-outs, paying for capacity that they might not need for several years. A rapidly increasing number of organizations are looking for highly efficient solutions that increase data center capacity in a timely, pay-as-you-need-to-grow manner. Flexible, Standards-based Solution.
The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center Solution provides a fast, flexible way to expand, complement or even replace traditional brick-and-mortar data centers. This modular approach adds capacity as needed, in manageable, cost-effective increments. It can reduce capital expenditures by as much as 50 percent, along with a potential 30 percent savings in operating expenditures.
The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center can be deployed as an extension to an existing ‘bricks and Mortar’ data center facility or on a standalone basis.
Rapid Deployment...
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From initial order to installation, it can take as few as 12 to 16 weeks to deploy the Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center.
Energy Efficient...
The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center delivers a power usage efficiency (PUE) of 1.05 to 1.25, a significant improvement over even the best ‘brick and mortar’ data centers, which typically have a PUE of 1.7 to 2.0.
Turnkey Delivery...
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The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center is delivered as a completely turn-key data center solution. A wide range of Cloud-Pod and third party equipment can be integrated and tested prior to container shipment. The solution arrives at your destination already cabled, racked, stacked and ready to operate, minimizing the impact of data center growth on your IT staff and budget.
Transportable Data Center...
Many organizations need to locate data center facilities in diverse locations. Some may want to expand in areas where power is more available or less expensive. Others may need to add capacity closer to key user populations, or even support missions in remote areas of the world.
The Cloud-Pod Containerized Data Center can be shipped almost anywhere around the globe by air,
sea or land - providing complete location flexibility.
Innovative Solutions for a Changing World To keep pace with a rapidly changing world, Cloud-Pod’s Global Government Solutions Group is leading the way by delivering an innovative, fully integrated containerized data center solution.
The 'Enterprise Cloud Services’ are the focus of what Cloud Pod are focused on as services offered to the Enterprise user, and quickly becoming recognized as a cost-effective method to add functionality to their infrastructures.
Benefits include…
and even Desktops…
resource utilization…
deploy Virtualized platforms…
their customers for improved service levels – Enterprise can now implement necessary
changes in response to market forces resulting in remaining competitive…
improve procedures for delivery of ICT services while reducing costs in doing so…
Simply nothing but the 'best of breed' equipment solution right here...
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