Platform Computing provides two approaches to support cloud:

• Private cloud solutions for IT enterprise data centers
• Cloud bursting for HPC

Dramatically improve IT responsiveness and increase utilization with fewer resources

• Do you need to figure out what’s possible with private cloud?
• Do you need to get your cloud into production, beyond research?
• Are you trying to demonstrate private cloud to your business users, application teams and management?
• Is the cloud management software you looked at premature for production?
• Did you find open-source cloud toolkits lacking end-to-end functionality?
• Are you concerned about vendor lock-in for your cloud?

If any of the above applies to you, you need to check out Platform Computing. We’ll show you how private cloud can help your organization, without the hype.

Based on our experience with customers, we recommend an evolutionary approach in adopting cloud, so you’re successful every step of the way.

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Platform ISF — end-to-end software product that provides everything you need for private cloud management; you don’t need to string together point tools from various vendors on your own. Platform ISF efficiently manages application workloads across multiple VM technologies and provisioning tools. » more

Cloud Bursting for HPC

We provide three approaches to bursting your HPC workload to the cloud:

• Solution 1: Integrated Cluster with the Cloud
  Uses Platform LSF’s dynamic host capabilities along with a cloud service, such as the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), to provide cloud resources that appear to operate within the HPC datacenter (local IP addresses, host names, etc.).  Platform LSF recognizes outside cloud services as valid resources and integrates the resources into the HPC infrastructure.  Workloads can then be sent to the cloud portion of the HPC infrastructure to run applications as designated by policy or on a job-by-job basis.

• Solution 2: Multi-Cluster to the Cloud
  Allows users to start up a new cluster in any cloud or hosting provider environment without a dedicated link such as Amazon VPC.  Used in conjunction with Platform LSF, Platform MultiCluster enables users to distribute workloads between internal HPC clusters and external cloud resources, according to policy.  

• Solution 3: Dynamic Cluster Extension to the Cloud
  Combined with Platform LSF, Platform ISF creates a powerful and flexible cloud management solution that dynamically scales clusters to include resources within the data center infrastructure or externally to a cloud provider based on the application workload.  Platform ISF includes resource kits to manage physical or virtual servers, multiple operating systems, virtual machines and cloud resources.
   

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