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ContentsIntertec’s Consultancy and Managed Services ..........................................................................

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HPE SimpliVity’s innovation and ease ...............................................................................................

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Intertec Private Cloud (IPC) as a ServiceA cloud solution that meets your needs from the region’s leading enterprise ICT solutions company

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Intertec Private Cloud (IPC) as a Service

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Today’s evolving IT landscape demands that our investments be both fluid and comprehensive. In a world where applica-tions reside in multi-cloud ecosystems and exchange business functions on the API level, it is paramount that any and all data center investments are able to manage this fast evolving ecosystem and become your nerve center for all application and data management and control. For this reason, Intertec has created our Intertec Private Cloud (IPC) as a Service, a solution that is the perfect combination of:

Intertec’s Consultancy and Managed ServicesIntertec is capable of taking on your business challenges that stem from IT resource and strategy and converting your solutions into opex services that work for you today. Our solutions includes:

IaaS Compute Consolidation Virtualization Approach Storage and Data Management Composable Infrastructure

PaaS Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Backup and Disaster Recovery Automation

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Red Hat Innovation and Platform or Cloud Agnostic Approach Red Hat Cloud Suite is a solution that allows you to have a cloud infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform or Red Hat Virtualization, a container-based application development platform with OpenShift Enterprise, various storage options including Red Hat Ceph Storage with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a common management framework for cloud providers with Red Hat CloudForms, and a common management framework for lifecycle, provisioning, configuration updates, and subscriptions with Red Hat Satellite.

Some of the key features of Red Hat Cloud Suite are as follows:

Private Cloud Infrastructure (Red Hat OpenStack Platform & Red Hat Virtualization) Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides a highly scalable foundation to create and manage a secure private or public cloud. Red Hat Virtualization allows abstraction of hardware allowing for greater utilization of compute pool capacity.

Unified Management (Red Hat CloudForms & Red Hat Satellite) Operations management scans and discovers existing resources and their relationships across multiple infrastructure providers. It continuously monitors these resources and scans for new ones, providing visibility into operations across the entire environment. Lifecycle Management manages deployment, configuration, updates, patches, and subscriptions from a single console. Self-service starts with a self-service catalog, and extends to cover the complete lifecycle, operational, and financial management of the deployed services. Infrastructure monitoring and risk analysis collects the infrastructure analytics, enabling you to quickly and proactively manage technical risks before they impact operations.

Application Development and Portability (OpenShift Enterprise) You can automate the hosting, configuration, deployment, and administration of applications in a cloud environment. Containers keep applications and their runtime components together by combining lightweight application isolation with an image-based deployment method. All containers on a host are dependent on the same operating system kernel, making them faster to start up, less resource intensive, and more portable than virtual machines. Containers leverage the Docker standard for formatting.


Container orchestration based on the Kubernetes standard ensures that the operators can manage a cluster of containers as a single system.

Interoperability Open APIs allow enterprises to replace or enhance existing functionality with a long list of Red Hat and certified software options. This allows you to leverage existing software as part of their private cloud. Cloud Deployment Planner is an interactive, web-based tool that enables you to quickly determine feature compatibility across multiple products prior to installing or upgrading.

HPE SimpliVity’s innovation and ease HPE SimpliVity infrastructure’s core technology is the HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform, characterized by the advanced data services it delivers:

Guaranteed Data E�iciency Our solution deduplicates, compresses and optimizes ALL data inline at inception, in real-time, once and forever across all tiers of data. The real power comes from the HPE OmniStack Accelerator Card, a PCIe card that o�loads the heavy infra-structure operations, enabling the Intel x86 resources to do what they do best: running VMs. And we do it all a 0% perfor-mance impact to production VMs. In fact, we increase performance because we eliminate unnecessary IOPs. That’s revolu-tionary and di�erentiated – no one else can do it. And it’s all possible because of the Accelerator Card. HPE SimpliVity customers experience, on average, 40:1 data e�iciency with many seeing over 100:1 data e�iciency. And we guarantee 10:1 data e�iciency as part of our standard warranty.

Built-in Resiliency, Backup, and Disaster Recovery Only HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged systems deliver the resilience, built-in backup, and bandwidth-e�icient replication needed to ensure the highest levels of data integrity and availability, eliminating the need for legacy data protection.All data protection is built-in, all at the VM level. Your team can easily backup, restore and move VMs, and they don’t have to worry about the underlying storage infrastructure. They can just right click in vCenter – or use orchestration tools like VMware vRealize Automation or UCS Director – and hit “backup” or “restore” or “move.” And we guarantee that you will be able to restore a local 1 TB VM in one minute or less. On top of that, a recent study from IDC found that 70% of our custom-ers reported improvement in backup/recovery and DR and a majority eliminated the use of existing third-party backup or replication tools after deploying HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.

Global VM-Centric Management and MobilityGiven our approach to data e�iciency, the Data Virtualization Platform makes Virtual Machines lightweight and mobile. So it is extremely easy to move and/or clone VMs between sites to support global “follow the sun” development e�orts or to move VMs to the appropriate location based on the requirements of the application.Our approach to management is also unique. With Global VM-centric management, gone are the days of managing LUNs and shares and volumes. Instead, all management is done at the VM level with a single view across all of data centers and remote sites. Our unique file system abstracts the VMs, policies and management from the underlying hardware. Managing the system is designed to be simple and easy, which is why IDC found that our customers reported an 81% increase in time spent supporting new projects.

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Red Hat Innovation and Platform or Cloud Agnostic Approach Red Hat Cloud Suite is a solution that allows you to have a cloud infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform or Red Hat Virtualization, a container-based application development platform with OpenShift Enterprise, various storage options including Red Hat Ceph Storage with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a common management framework for cloud providers with Red Hat CloudForms, and a common management framework for lifecycle, provisioning, configuration updates, and subscriptions with Red Hat Satellite.

Some of the key features of Red Hat Cloud Suite are as follows:

Private Cloud Infrastructure (Red Hat OpenStack Platform & Red Hat Virtualization) Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides a highly scalable foundation to create and manage a secure private or public cloud. Red Hat Virtualization allows abstraction of hardware allowing for greater utilization of compute pool capacity.

Unified Management (Red Hat CloudForms & Red Hat Satellite) Operations management scans and discovers existing resources and their relationships across multiple infrastructure providers. It continuously monitors these resources and scans for new ones, providing visibility into operations across the entire environment. Lifecycle Management manages deployment, configuration, updates, patches, and subscriptions from a single console. Self-service starts with a self-service catalog, and extends to cover the complete lifecycle, operational, and financial management of the deployed services. Infrastructure monitoring and risk analysis collects the infrastructure analytics, enabling you to quickly and proactively manage technical risks before they impact operations.

Application Development and Portability (OpenShift Enterprise) You can automate the hosting, configuration, deployment, and administration of applications in a cloud environment. Containers keep applications and their runtime components together by combining lightweight application isolation with an image-based deployment method. All containers on a host are dependent on the same operating system kernel, making them faster to start up, less resource intensive, and more portable than virtual machines. Containers leverage the Docker standard for formatting.

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Container orchestration based on the Kubernetes standard ensures that the operators can manage a cluster of containers as a single system.

Interoperability Open APIs allow enterprises to replace or enhance existing functionality with a long list of Red Hat and certified software options. This allows you to leverage existing software as part of their private cloud. Cloud Deployment Planner is an interactive, web-based tool that enables you to quickly determine feature compatibility across multiple products prior to installing or upgrading.

HPE SimpliVity’s innovation and ease HPE SimpliVity infrastructure’s core technology is the HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform, characterized by the advanced data services it delivers:

Guaranteed Data E�iciency Our solution deduplicates, compresses and optimizes ALL data inline at inception, in real-time, once and forever across all tiers of data. The real power comes from the HPE OmniStack Accelerator Card, a PCIe card that o�loads the heavy infra-structure operations, enabling the Intel x86 resources to do what they do best: running VMs. And we do it all a 0% perfor-mance impact to production VMs. In fact, we increase performance because we eliminate unnecessary IOPs. That’s revolu-tionary and di�erentiated – no one else can do it. And it’s all possible because of the Accelerator Card. HPE SimpliVity customers experience, on average, 40:1 data e�iciency with many seeing over 100:1 data e�iciency. And we guarantee 10:1 data e�iciency as part of our standard warranty.

Built-in Resiliency, Backup, and Disaster Recovery Only HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged systems deliver the resilience, built-in backup, and bandwidth-e�icient replication needed to ensure the highest levels of data integrity and availability, eliminating the need for legacy data protection.All data protection is built-in, all at the VM level. Your team can easily backup, restore and move VMs, and they don’t have to worry about the underlying storage infrastructure. They can just right click in vCenter – or use orchestration tools like VMware vRealize Automation or UCS Director – and hit “backup” or “restore” or “move.” And we guarantee that you will be able to restore a local 1 TB VM in one minute or less. On top of that, a recent study from IDC found that 70% of our custom-ers reported improvement in backup/recovery and DR and a majority eliminated the use of existing third-party backup or replication tools after deploying HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure.

Global VM-Centric Management and MobilityGiven our approach to data e�iciency, the Data Virtualization Platform makes Virtual Machines lightweight and mobile. So it is extremely easy to move and/or clone VMs between sites to support global “follow the sun” development e�orts or to move VMs to the appropriate location based on the requirements of the application.Our approach to management is also unique. With Global VM-centric management, gone are the days of managing LUNs and shares and volumes. Instead, all management is done at the VM level with a single view across all of data centers and remote sites. Our unique file system abstracts the VMs, policies and management from the underlying hardware. Managing the system is designed to be simple and easy, which is why IDC found that our customers reported an 81% increase in time spent supporting new projects.


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Conclusion The state of the art reference architecture launched today is compatible with VMware, Hyper-V and KVM. Managed by the OpenStack Private Cloud Management Eco-System, it can extend into the Hybrid Eco-system using Cloudforms and provide stateless multi-cloud architecture on Openshift architecture. Intertec’s Consultancy and Services Experts have worked to ensure that they deliver a seamless experience for the customer, one that is uniform both on-premise and in the public cloud. Our service also allows to create the Pay as you go experience in your environment with our association with HPE GreenLake, VMware VCP Program and Red hat SaaS Delivery partnerships. In short, this service is designed to deliver an e�ective IaaS experience in performance, architecture and financial management while creating a roadmap for your future.

Intertec Systems is a regional IT services specialist serving Government, Banking and Large Enterprises across Middle East and India. Intertec’s key capabilities include Digitalizing Business Operations, Business Applications, Managed Services, Cloud and Infrastructure, Smart Assets and IoT, and Cybersecu-rity.

Since 1991, Intertec has expanded its local o�ices in UAE, KSA, India, Oman and Bahrain. The company has matured its deliv-ery capabilities with ISO 27001, ISO 20000, MSP for Cloud and Managed Services, and ISO 9001 certifications. Intertec has developed a reputation for its commitments to its employees and customers alike, and invests regularly in R&D, certifications and maturity to empower our customers’ business.

Other investments include Network Operation Centers (NOC) in Dubai and India as part of managed services, software development center and CoE for emerging technologies. Intertec works with 35+ technology alliances to improve its proposition to customer businesses. For more information, visit www.intertecsystems.com.

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