Verizon-Terremark Cloud Computing Offerings!

Verizon-Terremark:
Cloud Products:

1. vCloud Express

a- Pay as you go
b- Get started with a credit card
c- scalable development platform

2. Enterprise Cloud TM

a- Robust Security Suite
b- Dedicated resource pools
c- Integration with Private Networks

3. vCloud Datacenter

a- Hybrid Cloud Compatible
b- Dedicated resource pools
c- Manage with vCloud Director

Terremark Enterprise Cloud TM
a- vmware enabled, clustered hypervisor, HA,
b- Yearly subscription based, means NOT pay-as-you-go
c- Basic package contains 5 GHz and 10 GB RAM
d- Multiple NICs allowed
e- Switches can be created, bridge and routing facility
f- All the functionalities of vCloud Express included
g- Maximum server size allowed is 4 VPUs and 16 GB RAM
h- VMware .vmdk files cannot be exported from private network to Enterprise Cloud (Not yet supported)
i- LAN-LAN connection from private network to Enterprise Cloud can be made
j- Integrated HA firewalls availabe, Private vLANs
k- Infinicenter Management Console
l- No auto-scaling as in AWS (readers! please confirm)

vCloud Express:
a- API access available (RESTful)
b- Web interface, CLI interface
c- Virtualization technology is VMware + clustered hypervisor with VMware vSphere and VMware HA
d- Up to 8 Virtual processor units, upto 16GB virtual ram
e- Hardware load balancing
f- Persistant storage available—just like Amazon’s EBS
g- Horizontal (add servers) and vertical (add RAM) server scaling
h- Blank server available to install OS from ISO
i- Only 1 NIC is allowed. (http://bit.ly/kYBf7o)
j- IPSec and PPTP supported

vCloudExpress Architecture

vCloud DataCenter
a- Enterprise-class solution
b- Hybrid Cloud
c- VMware vCloud Director Integration
d- Local VMware VMs can be run on this service
e- Available in limited beta
f- Would be an extension of Terremark Enterprise Cloud