Cloud Service Brief
Grow your business and diversify your offerings by providing PeakColo’s vCloud Powered White Label cloud services
CLOUD SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
Grow Your Business
• Diversify your branded solutions and services by providing PeakColo’s vCloud® Powered White Label cloud services
Avoid the Capital Expense of Becoming a Cloud Service Provider
• Meet your customers’ needs for cloud services without the expense of building and supporting your own infrastructure.
Maximize Profitability
• Boost profitability with PeakColo’s industry-leading high-margin, usage-based billing model.
Offer Enterprise-Class Cloud Services
• Deliver your own brand of enterprise-class cloud services from PeakColo’s Type II SSAE 16/SOC 1 compliant data centers.
THE CHALLENGE
Driven by constrained budgets and the rise of virtualization, worldwide spending on cloud services is projected to grow to US$44 billion by 2013.1 To remain competitive, the pressure is on businesses to change from capex-based architectures to opex-based IT as a service. Technology vendors are scrambling to capitalize on this opportunity. However, becoming a successful provider of cloud services is a daunting task that requires significant changes and expertise outside core business competencies. Yet to keep customers close and maintain your reputation as a trusted advisor, you must offer the cloud services they are seeking—or risk losing them altogether.
THE CLOUD SERVICE
PeakColo’s White Label Infrastructure-as-a-Service enables you to take immediate advantage of the market opportunity in front of you while still allowing your organization to leverage all the existing differentiators that make your organization so unique in the market, including your current managed services and professional services offerings. PeakColo’s financial models, strategic technology partnerships, carrier-neutral data center locations, and SLAs make them the most attractive option in the market today for those looking to become a cloud services provider without making the enormous investment in building and supporting your own infrastructure.
This unique, self-provisioned solution is based on VMware® vCloud® Powered infrastructure and management technologies with NetApp® storage at the foundation. The foundational technologies in PeakColo’s enterprise-class infrastructure enable them to deliver flexible, scalable, and affordable cloud solutions for both you and your customers—all in Type II SSAE16/SOC 1 compliant data centers.
GROW YOUR BUSINESS
You can significantly grow your business and diversify your branded solutions and services by providing hosted hybrid, private, and public cloud services to your customers using PeakColo’s vCloud Powered White Label Infrastructure-as-a-Service. PeakColo’s White Label allows you to deliver those services in your own brand and as a complement to your own business model. You’ll add to your current portfolio of solutions and services while gaining access to over 100 markets worldwide. And most importantly, you maintain complete customer ownership from beginning to end.
AVOID THE CAPITAL EXPENSE OF BECOMING A CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER
With PeakColo’s White Label Infrastructure-as-a-Service, becoming a cloud service provider is fast and affordable. PeakColo has already invested in the infrastructure and the expertise to manage it, so you can instantly meet your customers’ need for cloud services without any capital expense. Because PeakColo manages your cloud infrastructure for you, you don’t need to worry about the time and expense of hiring and training your own technical experts to perform the day-in and day-out infrastructure management. Instead, you can focus on your core service and solution offerings and increase your sales and marketing efforts to continue delivering the differentiated services and solutions your customers demand.
MAXIMIZE PROFITABILITY
In addition to eliminating the expenses of building and supporting your own cloud infrastructure, you can boost your profitability with PeakColo’s industry-leading high-margin, usage-based billing model. The combination of PeakColo’s buying power and relationships with top technology providers allows PeakColo to pass on industry-leading pricing and margin opportunities to our white label partners. For example, by maximizing the benefits of NetApp deduplication, you can store more customer data using less storage, resulting in greater margins for you. In addition, PeakColo’s pay-as-you-go billing model makes sure you pay for only for the resources you use.
PeakColo’s go-to-market model is 100% channel-centric. We want to enable our partners, not compete with them. For our white label solutions, we provide only the framework, from which you can deliver your own cloud services. This provides opportunities for you to layer your own existing managed services on top of the base service and earn additional margin. To help you extend the range of services you offer and assist your customers with other cloud-based services such as disaster recovery and desktop virtualization, PeakColo White Label Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides you with the necessary infrastructure and VMware capabilities.
OFFER ENTERPRISE-CLASS CLOUD SERVICES
To help meet your customers’ demand for highly flexible, efficient, and reliable cloud services, PeakColo’s White Label Infrastructure-as-a-Service offers enterprise-class features and performance. Partnerships with the top tier 1 and tier 2 carriers in the world enable PeakColo to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency (sub-40ms) services coast to coast with access to international markets.
PeakColo’s Type II SSAE 16/SOC 1 compliant data centers position you to serve any customers, particularly those in the financial, healthcare, and government sectors. Because our infrastructure is built on a NetApp storage foundation, you can be confident you are providing your customers with the enterprise-class flexibility and efficiency they need to succeed at a price they can afford. Customers can quickly and easily add new capabilities and seamlessly scale up, scale out, or scale back as needed. And with built-in RAID-DP®, which offers high reliability by preventing double disk failure, and PeakColo’s SLA, your customers can be confident they will have access to their data and applications whenever and wherever needed.
ABOUT PEAKCOLO
Since its inception in 2006, PeakColo has lived by the company mantra of Total Flexibility, which has allowed them to deliver true value to their customers in every Infrastructure-as-a-Service and cloud-based solution we offer. As a Type II SSAE16/SOC 1 compliant company, PeakColo focuses on consistently sound operational procedures pushed down from a seasoned management team of industry experts. PeakColo is a premiere level VMware VSPP and one of the first to offer VMware vCloud Powered services. Additionally, PeakColo is a member of the NetApp Partner Program for Service Providers.
ABOUT NETAPP
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate performance breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
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