The Logicalis Enterprise Cloud Platform
Logicalis is a cloud solution provider, a solution integrator,
and a managed services provider for our clients and together, those
three variables allow us to deliver integrated solutions and
innovative solutions for our clients.
We have years and years of experience, more than a decade of
experience in managed services, built out of our Cincinnati, Ohio
data centre. That, coupled with our strong Cisco technology,
skills, and experience, really provides value for our
customers.
The Logicalis Enterprise Cloud Platform is something that we
built based on Cisco technology, though there were some other
vendors and partnerships that were a part of that but we really saw
Cisco technologies as a core component for allowing us to build a
multi-tenant hosted cloud solution for our client.
Our cloud offering is really designed for any company of any
size in any industry. We also have a number of customers that are
independent software vendors.
Our customers spoke and we listened
Our customers had begun asking us to provide compute resources
in a different manner than what they have traditionally purchased
in the past.
Our cloud strategy developed from our clients asking us for
different ways to consume solutions from us, and one of our key
clients was an ISV who was out there selling their software to
different clients, patching it together, and what they started
seeing was demand that their clients were asking for as a service
or a hosted solution where they didn’t want to bring the
application on-premise.
Out of that, we really made a key investment and we said, “You
know what? We can build a multi-tenancy shared infrastructure,
lever the benefits of a highly-virtualised infrastructure,
enterprise-class infrastructure, to provide and host their
applications that they turn around and sell to their clients.
We built our cloud to be highly-scalable and to leverage
virtualisation, providing elasticity and scalability. How we
package it up is with really a compute container. It’s a flexible,
virtual compute resource that our clients leverage.
So, based on a monthly cost structure, they’re able to
right-size their computer environment, so it is a pay-as-you-go
type of model, and it’s a line to really give you the elasticity
and flexibility to align the compute resources and the virtual
systems that you need to support your applications.
Our services include 24x7 monitoring, management, patching,
andback-ups of each one of your individual servers just like it
would be in your own data centre. Those are the things that you
expect when you’re taking your enterprise applications and move
them to a trusted cloud provider. You expect those things to happen
and we’ve built that as part of our foundation.
And while the infrastructure is great and understanding a very
scalable infrastructure is key to us, the main differentiators are
our ability to manage enterprise applications, and provide 24x7
support for them.
It gives our clients kind of line-of-sight to basically consume
the amount of compute resources they need, based on their
application portfolio, that they need to support their own internal
business needs or to re-sell to their clients.
They love it – most clients think it’s a very innovating
solution in alliance to their business needs and alliance to their
operational costs and provides them the elasticity and flexibility
to change and to make the investments where they need to, and to
not really have to worry about the day-to-day operations of
patching window servers and making sure antivirus is up and
running. That’s a service that we get. It’s our core business. It’s
what we’re good at, it’s what we do.
Most organisations, they don’t want to waste time on day-to-day
non-core IT activities. They want to focus on the core business and
that’s what we enable them to do with the cloud strategy.
The solution has been a phenomenal success for Logicalis and our
customers and as we look into the future, we see new opportunities,
such as disaster recovery as a service, UC (unified communications)
as a service, storage as a service, and many other options.