Intalio|Cloud Appliance

Enterprise cloud computing, in a box.

Simplifying Enterprise Cloud Computing

The amount of technology and expertise required for developing an elastically scalable and reasonably secure cloud computing platform for the enterprise is absolutely mind-boggling. Servers and networking components must be finely tuned and optimized, and the complexity of the software stack deployed on top, from the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to the Platform as a Service (PaaS) to the Software as a Service (SaaS) rivals the one of the most complex ERP packages ever built. While large Web services providers such as Amazon or Google can afford to dedicate the resources necessary to build such a stack, the average IT department of even the largest companies in the World certainly cannot. Such is the challenge addressed by the Intalio|Cloud Appliance.

The Intalio|Cloud Appliance puts in a single rack (or multiple of them) all the hardware and software required to build a true enterprise-class cloud computing platform. The IaaS layer provides elastic compute and storage utilities in a truly multi-tenant manner, the PaaS layer provides a set of powerful application engines and advanced development tools used to create and manage the most complex enterprise applications, and the SaaS layer provides a set of pre-built applications (BPM, CRM, etc.) that can be used as is, or as templates for developing custom applications.

Architecture

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The appliance's architecture is designed to address two major requirements:

Up and Down Scalability
The Intalio|Cloud Appliance must be able to serve a very large number of accounts (hundreds of thousands), for both small (no more than 3) and large (millions) numbers of users, in a multi-tenant environment and in a perfectly elastic manner. This is achieved by using blade servers that offer extremely high memory density (up to 144GB per blade), Solid State Drives (SSD) for all database storage, and the InfiniBand networking technology.

Enterprise-Grade Fault Tolerance
The Intalio|Cloud Appliance must provide 99.999% availability in order to support mission-critical applications and processes. This is achieved by using top-of-the-line blade enclosures (like the HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure), Solid State Drives used in RAID 6 mode for the complete software stack and for all database storage, real-time VM replication, and redundant network adapters and networking switches.

Components

		HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure 16 blades capacity 2 enclosures per Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1
		HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Server 2 Quad Core Intel Xeon X5500 CPUs and 144GB Memory 16 compute blades per Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1
		HP StorageWorks SB40c Storage Blade 6 SATA II 2.5" 250GB Solid State Drives 16 storage blades per Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1
		HP 4X QDR IB Dual-port Mezzanine HCA 40Gbps bandwidth and 1.2 microseconds latency One adapter per compute blade
		HP Smart Array P700m Controller 3Gbps bandwidth One adapter per compute blade
		HP BLc 4X QDR IB Switch 16 internal 4X QDR ports, 16 external 4X QDR QSFP ports 2 switches per HP c7000 enclosure
		HP GbE2c Layer 2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch 20Gbps bandwidth, 5 External 10/100/1000BASE-T uplinks 2 switches per HP c7000 enclosure
		HP StorageWorks 3Gb SAS BL Switch 8 x 3Gbps aggregated bandwidth 2 switches per HP c7000 enclosure
		HP StorageWorks 600 Modular Disk System 70 SATA II 2TB Hard Disk Drives 4 systems per Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1
		HP ProLiant DL160 G6 Server Used for system management 1 unit per Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1
		HP TFT7600 Rackmount Keyboard and Monitor Monitor, keyboard, and touchpad 1 unit per Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1

Specifications

Specifications for the Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1:

Standard 19" Rack 16 Compute Blades 16 Storage Blades 32 Quad Core Intel Xeon X5570 2.93GHz CPUs 128 CPU Cores 2.3TB 1333MHz PC3-10600 DDR3 Memory 24.5TB Solid Stage Drive Database Storage 560TB Hard Disk Drive File Storage InfiniBand QDR Networking Fabric Gigabit Ethernet Networking Connectivity Directly Attached SAS Storage Connectivity 1 Management Server 1 Screen, Keyboard, and Touchpad

Scalability

A virtually unlimited number of Intalio|Cloud Appliance racks can be deployed in order to build a larger cloud. For example, the cloud required to serve 1.5 million users, which is the number of users served by Salesforce.com as of May 1st, 2009, would be made of 22 racks only, and would ship in a single container that could be delivered in your data center or on your parking lot in less than 6 weeks.

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Availablility

Intalio|Cloud Appliance is currently available through an Early Access Program.

Please contact us to get started.