This document discusses Virtustream's Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service, which is a fully managed cloud-native application platform hosted on Virtustream's enterprise-class infrastructure. It provides full lifecycle management of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, access to developer services, 24/7 monitoring, and supports a hybrid cloud model with on-premises and off-premises capabilities. Key benefits include reduced operational complexity, enhanced security, cost efficiency through Virtustream's MicroVM technology, and flexibility for deploying applications across multiple environments.
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In 2017, containers are indeed exploding in popularity, and enterprises are using them outside of testing and development environments as they gain trust in this rapidly developing technology. As more and more enterprises pushed to increase their application agility and efficiency, containerization is growing into production environments and facilitating new application transformation efforts.
Most enterprises have started their cloud journey with mobile apps or apps with web properties known as system of engagement, designed to improve customer or end-user experiences. They can be rapidly iterated, well suited to cloud-native development and are more often developed from scratch. Seeing the advantages of cloud models, enterprises are increasingly looking to apply them to their core enterprise business apps; like analytics, ERP and CRM type apps. Typically, these core enterprise apps are large and complex, traditionally far less flexible. The vast majority of them have significant customizations applied to them. They are not easily replaced, and can be slow and very expensive to rebuild for cloud native environment.
In order to help meet enterprises meet this challenge, Virtustream have partnered with Pivotal to combine their industry leading cloud-native application development platform with enterprise-class Virtustream Cloud to form a powerful cloud-native application development solution known as Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service, to enable enterprise developers to not only re-platform and modernize their custom and traditional enterprise apps for cloud-native environment but also build and deploy net new cloud-native apps to create new services to meet their business goals.
For PCF projects that do lift-off and successfully transition into production at scale, running PCF becomes extremely complex. Frequently, broken infrastructure must be fixed, performance of system must be tuned, more and more capacity must be added. Additionally, software and hardware must be upgraded and reconfigured without much downtime. Most enterprises don’t have such inclination to continue to build and manage their cloud-native application development environment on a daily basis. <Click>
Virtustream PCF Service provides a complete cloud-native application development solution that includes PCF hardware and software platforms, onboarding and migration services to cloud, and day-to-day operation and management of running PCF in cloud.
Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service is a fully managed cloud-native application platform that combines enterprise-class cloud infrastructure with industry-leading Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform to form a powerful application development and delivery solution, for rapid development and delivery of cloud-native applications. Hosted on an enterprise-class cloud infrastructure, it is designed as a dedicated, private cloud-native application platform service with rigorous security and compliance capabilities.
Patented Virtustream MicroVM technology eliminates overprovisioning of cloud resources, resulting in cost efficiency without sacrificing the performance, availability, and security expected in a private cloud. For those customers looking for a hybrid cloud solution, Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service can be deployed with on-premises Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud as a single-source hybrid cloud solution from Dell Technologies.
Packaged with onboarding and managed services, the service is an enterprise-class cloud alternative to general-purpose public cloud offerings and significantly reduces time and complexity associating with deploying and managing a cloud-native application platform.
General-purpose public cloud services are typically designed to provide multi-tenant cloud services, without dedicated resources for each tenant in their cloud. This means an enterprise may have to share physical and virtual cloud resources with several other companies to run its platforms and applications. While this type of shared resources model can be an efficient way of utilizing cloud resources, multi-tenant cloud services can be less secure and often do not meet the more rigorous requirements of enterprises developers who want better isolation and flexibility of single-tenancy with dedicated resources for their application development environments.
With this in mind, Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service is hosted on enterprise-class Virtustream cloud infrastructure, designed as a single-tenant, dedicated private cloud native application platform service that provides each customer with dedicated instances of PCF with access to Pivotal’s developer services.
Virtustream PCF Service off-loads the responsibilities to Virtustream so developers can focus on writing code, without worrying about the operational and management challenges of the underlying infrastructure and platform.
Virtustream Managed Services provide best-in-class PCF management including PCF-native service patches, upgrades, deployment, capacity management and scaling. Support includes two types of support models to interact with the Virtustream support team. Customers can either choose a support model which includes business hours of 8am-to-5pm or a more comprehensive support model which includes 24x7x365, depending on customers’ business demands. Regardless of the support model that a customer chooses, Virtustream Managed Services ensures 24x7x365 monitoring and incident resolution backed by production SLAs for all customers.
For those enterprises who also have on-premises PCF platform but are having difficulties managing it, Virtustream also provides flexible managed services for on-premises cloud-native application platform to support hybrid cloud environments.
Virtustream PCF Service’s container-based architecture enables developers to code in multiple languages and frameworks with a ready-to-use cloud computing environment and application development services. It supports on-demand PCF-native services such as MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and SpringXD and provides access to a large and growing ecosystem of PCF-native blueprints and tools. The availability of these pre-defined services means a wide range of software can run and be managed from within the PCF platform, and ensures that developers get the functionality they need, on-demand, to build applications rapidly, while streamlining the operational control.
Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service maximizes cost efficiency and delivers true consumption-based billing by metering, monitoring, sizing and pricing Virtustream cloud resources based on a granular measure of actual capacity used known as the MicroVM. <CLICK>
Virtustream MicroVM is a patented technology that acts as a unit of consumption to allow for accurate measurement of resources used in clouds. Like the kilowatt-hour (kWh) consumption metric of a home’s electric bill, the Virtustream MicroVM measures actual consumption of compute, memory, network and storage resources as opposed to what has been actually provisioned for customers. <CLICK>
This is in contrast to the measurement scheme offered by most cloud providers, which mirrors the low utilization levels and wasted resources found in physical computing environments. <CLICK>
As a result, with Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service, customers pay for exactly what they consume and use and don’t end up paying for under utilized, overprovisioned resources. Enterprises experience significant cost savings due to the more efficient resource measurement and utilization capability of Virtustream Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service.
For enterprises that require on-premises hybrid cloud solution, Virtustream PCF Service offers capability to integrate with on-premises Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud as a single source hybrid cloud solution from Dell Technologies. The solution offers seamless managed services for continuity between on and off premises environments.
For the Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud customers, Virtustream PCF Service is ideal for off-premises capacity expansion without any upfront investments.
Integration between on-premises Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud and Virtustream PCF Service for a fully managed hybrid cloud solution with common cross-platform managed services
In all, Virtustream PCF service enables enterprise developers to re-platform and modernize their custom and traditional enterprise apps for cloud-native environment and build net new applications to support the entire enterprise application ecosystem, from the edge to the core business functions, all under one cloud, while off-loading the operational complexities of app development to Virtustream.
4 Key highlights of how Virtustream PCF Service simplifies the cloud-native journey for enterprises.
Packaged with onboarding and managed services below the app container, Virtustream PCF Service is an enterprise-class cloud alternative to general-purpose public cloud offerings. It significantly accelerates enterprise software innovations, without the operational and administrative challenges of deploying and managing a cloud-native application platform.
Virtustream PCF Service combines enterprise-class Virtustream Cloud infrastructure with industry-leading Pivotal Cloud Foundry cloud-native application platform to form a powerful cloud-native solution for enterprises to rapidly develop and delivery of applications. Hosted as a single-tenant service, it is a dedicated, private cloud-native application platform service with quick scalability and rigorous security and compliance capabilities. For those customers looking for hybrid cloud, Virtustream PCF Service can be deployed with on-premises Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud as a single-source hybrid cloud solution from Dell Technologies to be used for added capacity or as a secondary availability zone for disaster recovery purposes. And lastly, Virtustream’s patented MicroVM technology eliminates overprovisioning of cloud resources to significantly reduce cost, without sacrificing performance, availability, and security expected in a private cloud.