Cloud Services

Why SURIA

Unlike other cloud providers, SURIA specializes in custom cloud offerings for your business-critical, must-have, 24/7 applications. Our software developers, infrastructure experts, and cloud engineers will work with you to support, protect, and modernize your core business applications—whether they are on site or in the cloud.

Our cloud platform is built on industry-leading technologies from VMware, NetApp, and Cisco, housed in the world’s most secure data centers. Managed by expert engineers who understand your business. We take care of everything from routine administration tasks to custom software development, so you can focus resources on your core business while maintaining complete control of your data and applications. We also provide all of the self-service features and advanced infrastructure expertise that more technical IT organizations and ISVs require.

Why Cloud

In the simplest terms, cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive. The cloud is just a metaphor for the Internet. It goes back to the days of flowcharts and presentations that would represent the gigantic server-farm infrastructure of the Internet as nothing but a puffy, white cumulus cloud, accepting connections and doling out information as it floats.

Consumer vs. Business

There is an entirely different "cloud" when it comes to business. Some businesses choose to implement Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), where the business subscribes to an application it accesses over the Internet. (Think Salesforce.com.) There's also Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), where a business can create its own custom applications for use by all in the company. And don't forget the mighty Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), where players like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Rackspace provide a backbone that can be "rented out" by other companies. (For example, Netflix provides services to you because it's a customer of the cloud services at Amazon.)

Cloud Types

Three types of clouds have been developed: public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds.

Public Clouds

Public clouds are typically run by well-known names in the industry. Their computing resources are huge: hundreds to thousands of cores can be made available for use within minutes and, sometimes, even seconds. Economies of scale provide relatively inexpensive computing resources to a wide range of users. A downside, however, is that servers may be shared by a number of applications when users are looking for the most inexpensive solution; this can be mitigated by reserving or acquiring entire servers.

Private Clouds

Private clouds operate within the confines of a single organization. Since many organizations have significant computing resources within their data centers, systems must be set up to allow users across the company to access these resources without having their applications or workloads confined to a specific set of machines. Private clouds typically serve the entire workforce of an organization, with fast provisioning of the required software, independent of the company’s business organization. Billing back to the organization using the resources may also be important in determining profit/loss for separate operating units.

Hybrid Clouds

Hybrid clouds combine the on-site private cloud and public clouds. A typical workload may initially be assigned to the private cloud infrastructure, but should more capacity be needed, the additional work can be sent to the public cloud. This “bursting” of work to a public cloud requires a resource management system that can perform the task seamlessly.