The Cloud-enabled Enterprise.
At MTI customer Cobweb Solutions, an eminently flexible, scaleable and high-performance cloud computing environment isn’t a distant dream. It’s reality today. Cobweb started life in 1996 as a provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange systems to small businesses and now has more customers and more mailboxes than any other Microsoft Exchange hosting business in Europe.
Today, the company is seeing increasing demand from large enterprises, too, and its range of offerings has grown to encompass other software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, such as Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics CRM systems.
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is also a hot topic and will be part of the next wave of services. As Cobweb looks to the future, it plans to offer customers a whole catalogue of on-demand private and public cloud services.
With that in mind, it is using the very latest in virtualisation and cloud-computing technologies to ensure that its infrastructure will scale to meet customers’ current and future needs.
It has worked with MTI to create a high-performance IT infrastructure based on VBlock - a pre-integrated stack of storage, servers and switches, complete with a virtualisation layer and a full set of management tools, from the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition of VMware, Cisco and EMC. Prior to deployment, that infrastructure was thoroughly sized and tested in MTI’s Solution Centre.
As one of the first organisations in Europe to implement a VBlock1, Cobweb is now in a strong position to confidently plan new or expanded services.
“Our customers expect both top-end service level agreements [SLAs] and value for money, so we can’t afford to compromise on performance or cost,” explains Cobweb CEO Paul Hannam.
“The VBlock technology enables us to offer both in an efficient, flexible and scalable way and to rise to new challenges as our company continues to grow and expand in scope.
For more information view the Cobweb Cloud Services Enterprise website http://www.cobweb.com/enterprisecloud
Read the full article in the times http://www.cobweb.com/pdf/raconteur_cloudcomputing_article_page.pdf
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