Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud

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Windstream’s Cloud Solutions include robust, enterprise-class Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud options to meet your computing, storage and security needs. Before you select a cloud computing option, it's very important to evaluate your existing environment. Let a Windstream Hosted Solutions professional help you determine which cloud computing solution best serves your business need in terms of security, scalability, flexibility and more.

Public Cloud: High Performance & Availability

Windstream’s Public Cloud is built on a massively scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure. This secure, enterprise-class cloud delivers resources, applications, even servers, when and where they’re needed.

Private Cloud: The Compliant Cloud

Our Private Cloud is built on fully dedicated (not shared or multi-tenant) infrastructure to provide a highly secure cloud environment that meets the strictest compliance requirements.

Hybrid Cloud: The Best of Both Environments

The Windstream Hybrid Cloud blends and maximizes the best of a multi-tenant cloud and a dedicated or colocated environment, providing you with the utmost in flexibility, security and efficiency.

Benefits:

Public Cloud

  • Allows you to deploy infrastructure capacity on demand for situations such as seasonal spikes
  • Affords greater cost control without having to purchase large, costly individual servers
  • Provides processing, storage, networking and security
  • Produces automated resource balancing

Private Cloud

  • Delivers the benefits of virtualization, like improved utilization and performance, in a secure, dedicated and compliant environment
  • Allows one or more physical servers to be partitioned into multiple self-contained virtual machines, each with its own operating system and its own set of applications

Hybrid Cloud

  • Gives the cost control and flexibility of the public cloud plus the secure, dedicated environment of the private cloud
  • Leverages our cloud for web based front-end computing power and other resources
  • Handles overflow situations such as seasonal spikes
  • Cross-connects existing back-end resources
Ideal For:

Public Cloud

  • Applications requiring high performance, scalability and availability
  • Production environments
  • Testing, development and quality assurance

Private Cloud

  • Organizations with heavy regulatory compliance requirements
  • Environments requiring the highest level of security
  • Specialized hardware, OS, or software licensing requirements

Hybrid Cloud

  • Businesses that want cloud benefits while meeting the requirements of a physically separate environment
  • Regulatory compliance and requirements that prohibit running an entire application environment in the cloud
  • Large CPU demands and storage capabilities
  • Organizations with limited physical infrastructure
Physical Infrastructure:

Public Cloud

  • Shared, multi-tenant

Private Cloud

  • On premises at Windstream data centers

Hybrid Cloud

  • Shared or dedicated
Server Attributes:

Public Cloud

  • High end, HA infrastructure
  • Supports multiple OS
  • Robust SLAs
  • Individual node uptime reliability

Private Cloud

  • Fully dedicated infrastructure
  • Highly secure, highly available

Hybrid Cloud

  • Single, verrsatile environment
  • Cross-connects traditional dedicated environments to a cloud environment
Storage:

Public Cloud

  • Secure enterprise-class storage on multi-tenant server

Private Cloud

  • Fully dedicated data

Hybrid Cloud

  • Store data on multi-tenant cloud or dedicated server
Scale:

Public Cloud

  • Resource pool
  • Bursting ability

Private Cloud

  • Fixed resources per customer

Hybrid Cloud

  • Resource pool and fixed resources
  • Some bursting ability
Reliability:

Public Cloud

  • 99.99% SLA

Private Cloud

  • 99.9-99.99% SLA

Hybrid Cloud

  • 99.9% SLA
Security:

Public Cloud

  • Enterprise-class security
  • Shared firewall with dedicated VLANs
  • Intrusion detection

Private Cloud

  • Highest security levels
  • Dedicated firewall
  • Intrusion detection

Hybrid Cloud

  • Combination of shared firewall with dedicated VLANs and dedicated firewalls
  • Intrusion detection