FlexCloud Hosting

Business Priorities IT Priorities

• Minimize CAPEX • Maximize

employee productivity

• Grow the business

• Add new compute resources real-time to support growth

• Meet compliance requirements

• Business continuity and disaster recovery protection

• Manage change• Upgrade aging IT

infrastructure• Manage IT

infrastructure and growth without adding staff

• Optimize server utilization

• Ensure disaster recovery protection

• Focus staff on growth initiatives

FlexCloud Hosting – Solves Specific IT Priorities

I have multiple business units that have their own server farms. I’d like to have a computing resource pooling, tracking and allocation system

I have internal infrastructure and internet facing environments. I need to separate the two networks for security, but track resources across both.

I am virtualized already with 20+ servers. I need a better way to track server and application utilization and eliminate sprawl.

I have a skilled IT staff of 5+ people and I need to maintain management control of my IT infrastructure while leveraging the cloud.

I need to track cloud environments on a per department basis for charge back and budgeting purposes.

My IT staff wants to manage resources and servers but I need a way to present the resource usage and billing to executives and clerical staff.

• Create secure IT environments for individual business units• Monitor and optimize server utilization across multiple cloud

environments• Reduce costs of server sprawl by pooling resources• IT team maintains complete control with portals and dashboards.• Create separate public and private virtual environments to meet your

security and compliance requirements• Intrusion Detection and Prevention with reporting• Customize firewall rules for enhanced security and compliance• Managed Data Protection and Disaster Recovery• FlexCloud Assessment establishes a baseline resource level• Ability to burst when additional resources required• Fully managed service options

EarthLink FlexCloud Hosting

• IT controls entire Cloud environment– Administrative portal for complete control– Create and allocate compute resources for multiple business units– Authorize business unit resource requests

• Control Server sprawl by allocating resources across multiple business units/groups– Track costs internally and charge back on individual business unit basis– Business units control their own IT environment via User Portal– User Portal provides business unit monitoring and reporting– Deliver business unit application and group level SLAs

Reduce server sprawl costs by creating multiple business units in same Cloud

FlexCloud Utilizes the Micro-VM Concept

The Micro-VM: Defined as 200Mhz of CPU and 768MB of Memory

Traditional Virtualization Solutions are based on fixed allocations of processor and memory size for each application or workload

Micro Virtual Machine eliminates traditional constraints on resource deployment

Micro-VMs are dynamically allocated by the FlexCloud management system allowing VM headroom to be saved, bringing up to 30% reductions in both virtual and physical assets required.

Optimize Server Utilization

Optimize resources for cost efficiencies across IT environment for larger number of VMs

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BASELINE CAPACITYMinimum commit rates are established, with the ability to burst past those rates

BURST CAPACITY

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SAVINGS

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Business-UserPortal

Admin Portal

ServicesCatalog

• myLink Portals

• Administration portal provides overarching resource control

• Service Catalogs can be customized on a per user or organizational basis

• Business User portal provides usage reporting and alerts

• Enable cost containment / management across business units

IT Administrator & Business Unit Portals

• myLink FlexCloud Portal provides a comprehensive dashboard of real-time cloud activity

• Monitor overall cloud workload performance by viewing real-time consumption and application-level monitoring metrics

• Role-based access allows administrators to grant user access to certain virtual datacenters with pre-determined policies

myLink FlexCloud Business User Portal

• Create separate public and private environments– Securely segment Public/Private VMs and networks– Physical separation on different compute blades– Access private VMs via secure MPLS or VPN

• Flexible Firewall functionality with Data Center Firewall– Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IPS) with reporting– Create site to site VPNs– Customize Firewall rules

FlexCloud Hosting - Customizable Security Configurations

• Bronze Level service is included • Upgrade to more comprehensive levels

FlexCloud Hosting Managed Services Options

Bronze Silver Gold Platinum

Network Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Power Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Hardware Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Server Reboot 1 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited

24/7 Emergency Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Basic Monitoring (ping) Yes Yes Yes

Advanced Monitoring Yes Yes

OS Installation Yes Yes

OS Patches & Security Updates Yes Yes

Antivirus Services Yes Yes

OS Reloads Yes Yes

Backup Management Yes Yes Yes Yes

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Next Generation Cloud Data Centers:Built on Nationwide Private MPLS Network

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• FlexCloud Assessment• Consultative support to help you

design a customized solution• Multi-layered security, self-healing

cloud architecture, and automatic server failover

• Scaling and Cloud Server Management through User Portals

• Hosted in SSAE 16 SOC2 certified data centers

• CommVault Enterprise backup• Disaster Recovery option

EarthLink FlexCloud Hosting

Cloud Computing Excellence Award recognizes companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.

• 10 MB Internet Bandwidth • Bursting of compute resources• 10G NetApp SAN storage• Data Center Firewall• Intrusion Detection and Prevention • Managed service option• 99.99% uptime guarantee• 24/7/365 monitoring

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• Optimize server utilization and control server sprawl• Create separate business unit cloud environments• Business unit user controls• Complete IT control with Administrator portal• Customize security policies to meet industry compliance• Create Public and Private facing environments • Eliminate CAPEX• Reduce on-premises data center & IT operating expenses

FlexCloud Hosting Key Benefits

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Achieving IT Agility in Your Cloud

Designed to meet your business requirements -- not “one-cloud-fits-all”

Aligned to your business and approach to IT

Works seamlessly with your current IT investments

Flexible and secure, both on and off-premise

Incremental, not wholesale, change