Virtual Data Centre

The Interoute VDC has all the characteristics of a public cloud; the ability to burst, pay as you go pricing and real-time deployment. By combining scalable elastic computing with the most trusted network technology, Interoute has created a truly unique enterprise-computing platform, the first without compromises.

Public Cloud Simplicity, Private Cloud Security

The Interoute VDC address the critical success factors of the IT manager when choosing whether to build a private cloud or buy a public one.

• Security – built into the fabric of Interoute’s MPLS network, VDC leverages the secure standard for corporate networking. MPLS provides "Internet any-to-any access" but with label separated security.

• Compliance – Interoute has the largest footprint, control and ownership of its own facilities in Europe, ensuring location and access control is sensitive to your demands.

• Integration – Interoute VDC can be used either to extend your web presence or build out your internal corporate IT infrastructure. Use our API to control your VDC infrastructure directly from you existing applications.
• Public and private on the same platform - The integration of Interoute’s MPLS/IP network makes this a cloud delivered either using the Internet or as part of your corporate infrastructure, eliminating the cost and resource constraints of the private cloud.

• Architecture – Hypervisor independent and open standards based, ensures that as technology changes Interoute is able to lead, react and respond with a best in class service.
  
• Fully automated backup and disaster recovery – Storage options include the ability to create local and remote copies of all you data continuously with the click of a mouse. You can choose whether the volume you need is standalone, replicated locally or remotely in one of the many Interoute Virtual Data Centre zones.

	Attachment	Size
	Interoute VDC datasheet (PDF)	2.43 MB
	VDC Competitor Analysis (PDF)	152.31 KB
	VDC Application Programming Interface (PDF)	475.85 KB
	VDC Storage (PDF)	610.14 KB
	VDC Scalable Storage - Dedicated NetApp (PDF)	584.86 KB

Matthew Finnie, Interoute CTO explains why Interoute Virtual Data Centre is different….(in a good way)

I'm often asked, “So what’s different about the Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) when there are many different cloud computing solutions already”?

• Firstly, VDC is a virtual equivalent of building a real physical data centre. You can plan your server, switching and storage in exactly the same way as you would the ‘real’ thing in the physical world.

The big difference is:

• you only pay for what you use, eliminating the upfront investment costs of the data centre
• you can build it in more than one place so high availability and resilience are part of the solution
• you don’t pay for the network between data centres or data transfer to and from storage

This means VDC requires little “relearning” and saves money; so no 'speed bump' as you get your head around the transition. On the contrary, it speeds up all current implementations.

However, for many they will still say "so what, there are solutions that do this I still don’t know what’s really different or better?"

Interoute’s VDC has been designed and built in a completely new way that gives it a unique flexibility.

• Interoute VDC is literally built into the Interoute network as opposed to an isolated data centre attached to the internet or one with a handful of agreements with 3^rd party exchange providers. Interoute’s Network is Europe’s backbone providing 30% of all new capacity for new and old providers. We additionally serve over a million corporate users with sophisticated and secure services. Interoute does public and private in a very big way.

It is this ability to offer what cloud technologists would call public and private on the same platform that makes it unique.

• You don’t need to decide whether your computing can be public or needs to be private. As with the physical world that decision is one of networking and not down to the computing offer. The same is true of Interoute. We can offer a large public elastic computing solution or a highly secured certified solution using the same platform. The security comes from the network's ability to make it public or private. For a more detailed analysis please read our whitepaper on "Cloud Computing and Security" 

I think you’ll now see that this is different.  The combination of network and computing creates an easy to use secure elastic computing capability eliminating the cloud 'trade off' debates and confusion.  With Interoute VDC you are back to the debate of how to build your applications, not how to re-write them to make use of this alternate, but brilliantly convenient, new capability. Welcome back.

Not so different? If you disagree let me know.

Join the LinkedIn Interoute VDC Group and let Matthew and the world know what you think. 

Matthew Finnie
Interoute CTO  

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Enhance your offer with Interoute’s VDC

Interoute VDC provides an enterprise-class IaaS platform for partners who need flexible, fast and cost effective on demand IT infrastructure for cloud services. VDC gives Partners providing application and software solutions, a flexible secure environment which can scale to keep pace with business growth. Fast provisioning, pay as you go pricing and underpinned by Interoute’s highly resilient European Data Centres in Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva and London it’s made for businesses doing business in Europe.

• Our Partners benefit from Interoute’s web presence and marketing by promoting their existing ISV and enterprise solutions on the Interoute CloudStore.
• Partners can run their own solutions on Interoute VDC or incorporate VDC into their existing portfolio of enterprise solutions.
• Partners can enhance their service offering by adding Interoute’s innovative services to their portfolio, adding value and breadth to the solutions they offer.

The Interoute VDC pay-as-you-grow model allows Partners to minimise CAPEX costs and ensure they stay predictable, controlled and in line with service revenues. More importantly, increasing your product portfolio to include capabilities such as Interoute’s Unified Connectivity, Unified Communication and Security Solutions will bring new opportunities for growth.

Retain and win new business from existing customers

Building business with  existing customers is more cost effective than acquiring new customers. Offering new and innovative propositions, allows you to add significant value to your customer’s business which in turn builds a stronger relationship. Interoute’s flexible pricing options allow you to set a pricing structure that fits with your business and your customers’.

Win new customers

Organisations from SMB’s up to larger Enterprises are looking to providers for the latest cloud solutions to help control costs, add flexibility and increase mobility. As an Interoute Partner your cloud solutions can reach a new audience of IT savvy customers, benefitting from through Interoute’s online channel.

Application Developer?

Interoute is excited to launch its application developer partner programme; this enables software providers to extend their addressable market by offering their applications through the CloudStore to our customers. Join our Application Developer Partner Programme.

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