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2 Introducton Bluewre Cloud s a fully customsable IaaS cloud platform desgned for organsatons who want to move exstng legacy, custom and hgh performance applcatons to the cloud. Combned wth ultra fast deployment capabltes and a rch set of self-servce management tools, Bluewre Cloud has the power to dramatcally transform your IT envronment and drve effcences throughout your organsaton. Ths whtepaper detals the nfrastructure and servce level components that comprse Bluewre Cloud. It also outlnes key use cases and total cost of ownershp elements to consd-er when evaluatng a cloud servce for your IT envronment. CONTENT 1. Bluewre Cloud Hgh avalablty archtecture Creatng a vrtual server On-demand, penalty-free scalng Backup and storage Securty Management and montorng Industry-leadng performance guarantee Consumpton-based prcng Use cases Total cost of ownershp

3 Bluewre Cloud Bluewre Cloud s a fully customsable IaaS cloud platform desgned for organsatons who want to move exstng legacy, custom and msson crtcal applcatons. Bluewre Cloud enables you to have your cloud, your way, rght away. MIGRATE exstng applcatons or deploy pre-confgured OS and applcaton templates quckly & easly. CUSTOMISE your vrtual server to meet your exact requrements. No pre-set bundles. BRING your own Wndows lcenses and OS. USE current VMs by easly uploadng exstng vrtual machnes. DEDICATE compute resources for your msson-crtcal applcatons. ADJUST your compute resources up or down on-demand & on the fly at standard compute rates. MANAGE montor and make payments wth a rch set of self-servce management tools. FLEXIBLE consumpton models such as Pay-As-You-Go or fxed monthly fees. GUARANTEE performance wth dedcated resources, Hgh Avalablty, securty and credt-backed SLA. Hgh Avalablty Archtecture Bluewre Cloud uses VMware vrtualsaton technology to ensure the hghest levels of flexbl-ty and relablty. Vrtual server capacty s confgured usng Hgh Avalablty (HA) and DRS clusterng. Bluewre Cloud data center facltes run n actve-actve confguratons to ensure that any falure behnd the scenes does not mpact your vrtual server envronment. Combned, these archtecture strateges enable Bluewre Cloud to provde an ndustry-leadng, credt-backed performance SLA. 2 8

4 Creatng a Vrtual Server We beleve Bluewre Cloud s the ndustry s fast-est and easest to deploy IaaS cloud platform. Buld, order and start usng your vrtual server n under 6 mnutes. The Bluewre Cloud secure, self-servce store-front presents you wth an extremely ntutve set of prompts and one-clck buttons to confgure, obtan quotes, and order one or many vrtual servers. CHOOSE YOUR OS Mcrosoft, Wndows, Lnux or nstall your own Custom OS. CONFIGURE VIRTUAL SERVERS Accordng to: RAM, CPU cores, Processor Speed, and Storage. GET PRICE QUOTES For sngle or multple vrtual servers. ORDER Vrtual Servers. OBTAIN Quotes by the hour or by the month. CONFIGURE YOUR PRICE Quotes for vrtual servers n turned on or off modes. 3 8

5 On-demand, Penalty-free Scalng The elastcty beneft of cloud computng s among the top reasons cted for choosng a cloud servce over an on-premse soluton. Bluewre Cloud extends you the capablty to flex your compute resources on demand. Changes take effect mmedately. Because Bluewre Cloud s a consumpton-based servce, prcng reflects your actual usage and not peak capacty or reserved resources. You pay for what you use. Backup and Storage Bluewre Cloud offers two ters of storage. Ter 1, SSD Storage, s persstent RAID 10 SAN storage for maxmum performance (IOPS) and hgh qualty storage. Ter 2, HDD Storage, s comprsed of 10K and 7.2K drves and Ter 3, HDD Storage runnng at 7.2k Drves Storage. Storage s charged per GB/hr. There s no separate or addtonal charge for dsk I/O. All storage s persstent. Securty Securty s mportant for any busness or IT professonal to consder when evaluatng a move to cloud. The Bluewre Cloud provdes multple ters of securty for your data and vrtual servers. Here s how: Vrtual servers resde n our SOC 2 Certfed TYPE ll complant and US & UK DOC Safe Harbor Certfed data center faclty provdng the ablty to support complance requrements for HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI DSS. Network level securty s provded through solated tenant networks, ste-to-ste VPN (SSL or IPSEC), ste-to-ste MPLS, and ntegrated frewall. We also support hybrd cloud envronments through vrtual LAN and WAN extensons. 4 8

6 Management and Montorng Wth Bluewre Cloud you are 100% n control of your cloud envronment. Bluewre Cloud ncludes a full-featured and ntutve self-servce portal wth optonal command lne access to all of your vrtual machnes as a baselne level of servce. Once logged nto your secure custom-er account, t presents you wth the followng vews and tools to montor and manage your vrtual envronment: Cloud Control Panel The Cloud Control Panel gves you a vew of all your vrtual servers wth key nformaton such as: 1. Creaton dates 2. Hourly bllng rate 3. Vrtual server resources as allocated by customer 4. Logn credentals for each vrtual server and for the VMware vcenter console 5. Vrtual Network Interface Card (NIC) detals 6. Assgned IPs 7. Management capablty to turn the VM on or off and to reconfgure, clone or delete each vrtual server 8. Manage networks and IP allocatons 9. Vew, manage and montor bandwdth 5 8

7 Account Management Panel 1. Vew all customer notfcatons 2. Vew saved quotes 3. Revew order hstory Bllng Management Panel 1. Add funds to your account 2. Vew monthly usage detals 3. Download usage detal reports User Management Portal 1. Staff / User management (add and delete users) 2. User profle management 6 8

8 Industry-leadng Performance Guarantee Bluewre Cloud offers an ndustry-leadng 99.99% avalablty guarantee wth credt commtment so you can trust our cloud to run your crtcal busness applcatons. Consumpton-based Prcng Bluewre Cloud s a pay-as-you-go, consumpton-based servce. You pay only for the resources you consume. Your metered servce charge can be vewed at any tme by loggng nto your secure customer account. Your monthly nvoce s a sngle, all-n, expense. Prces are rounded up to the nearest hour. Use Cases Bluewre Cloud s deal for a number of busness use cases. Whether you are launchng your busness, growng your busness, mgratng end of lfe servers, managng seasonal or unpredctable workloads, hostng msson crtcal appl-catons, runnng database and hardware ntensve applcatons, needng off-ste backup, or generally lookng to make thngs smpler, optmsed, flexble and economcal, Bluewre Cloud s a proven platform choce. END-OF-LIFE Server Mgratons VOICE Vdeo, UC & CLIENT Server Apps GENERAL PURPOSE WIndows & Lnux MICROSOFT Exchange & Sharepont VERTICAL SPECIFIC SMB & SME Apps DATABASE And Mcrosoft SQL TERMINAL And RDS...AND MANY MORE. 7 8

9 Total Cost of Ownershp Bluewre Cloud enables you to elmnate IT CapEx n favor of a sngle, demand-drven utlty expense. Bluewre Cloud Sngle monthly operatng expense VS On-Premse Soluton Server acquston Server nstallaton and deployment Rack space/ server room real estate Infrastructure management Server mantenance, power and coolng OS lcensng and mantenance Internet access ncludng redundancy Backup power EOL server dsposal cost IT tranng Beyond economc effcences, a move to cloud wth Bluewre Cloud also supports strategc-level busness goals such as: Outsourcng non-core competences, Freeng up cash for nvestment n busness core competences, Speedng up deployment tme for new servces and test envronments, Reducng costs assocated wth operatng, supportng and managng IT nfrastructure, Avodng renvestment n IT assets wth no salvage value, and Busness predctablty 8 8