What is Infrastructure-as-a-Service?

At its simplest, IaaS provides the nuts and bolts of the cloud. It’s about delivering on demand computing, network and storage resources so that your company can focus on providing profitable cloud-enabled services atop Peak’s infrastructure.

Peak’s IaaS White Cloud

Preserve your customer relationships and brand. Channel partners now have a dedicated white label environment under their own brand that is powerful and highly flexible. Partners own their customer relationships. Peak is 100% channel centric and serves as an extension to our partners’ teams.

Maximize cloud profits. Partners drive cloud profits on their own enterprise-class IaaS cloud. IaaS White Cloud enables clients to diversify into highly profitable service-based offerings with recurring revenue streams.

Bleeding-edge innovation. Peak can build single virtual machines with 1 TB RAM, 64 cores, and 100,000 IOPS to support the most demanding enterprise workloads. Technology partnerships with Cisco, NetApp, Brocade, RiverMeadow and VMware help maintain Peak’s leadership role managing Tier 0 and 1 production workloads in the cloud.

Our financial models, strategic technology partnerships, layer 2 Direct Connect, and 100% SLAs make us the most attractive option in the market today for those looking to become a Cloud Services Provider without making the enormous upfront capital investment.

Use Cases

• Hybrid cloud environments: Enable portability between on-premise, co-located and cloud environments
• Production cloud: Supports enterprise-class applications from Tier 0 to Tier 4, test/dev environments and seasonal spikes
• Disaster Recovery as a Service: Failover to the cloud for a cost-effective, efficient disaster prevention mechanism
• Virtual Desktop in the Cloud: Enables VDI services in the cloud to capture one of the most profitable services in the marketplace
• Backup to the Cloud: An ideal entry-point into the cloud for backup protection and archiving

Why Peak

• Own your brand. Preserve your customer relationships. We won’t compete for end-user business
• 24 x 7 customer support allows partners to offer 100% availability SLAs
• TRILL-based patent-pending layer 2 topology simplifies deployment of your global cloud
• Dedicated network connection from your premise to our cloud enables improved security
• Aggregated performance that only an infrastructure of our magnitude can provide, without capital expense

Tech Specs:

Compute Environment

• Open Compute 2.0 Intel E3, E5 sleds; all solid state include boot
• Open compute 2.0 AMD 6300 series sleds; all solid state including boot

• Compliance: SSAE 16 SOC 1 and 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI
• Environmental: N+1 (or better) redundancy for power and cooling

Storage Environment

• Five tiers:
  • Tier 0 – very high performance storage – Host based SSD
  • Tier 1 – high IOPS workload – SAN attached SSD
  • Tier 2 – applications and VMs – SAN attached SAS disk
  • Tier 3 – bulk storage – SAN attached SATA disk
  • Tier 4 – archival storage – Object-based storage

Network Environment

• Host Network: Redundant connections for isolated storage, interconnect, and application networks. Native dual 10 Gbps; active-active to host
• Network Fabric: High performance distributed core 10 Gbps technology
• Storage Fabric: Redundant, high-performance connections with optimized path to hosts

Wide Area Network:

• Carrier: Blend of Tier 1 and Tier 2 providers, dynamic routing and peering provides sub-40ms latency coast to coast
• TRILL-based (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) patent-pending layer 2 network topology
• .3 ms convergence
• Any subnet anywhere, multi-tenancy
• Virtual Routing Forwarding (VRF)

Learn More: Vmworld video w/ Dave Hitz