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Contents.Introduction 4

Private Cloud 8

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 10

Cooperative Cloud 12

Cloud Hosting 16

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Get ahead in the CloudCloud is a transition that is changing the way you will

buy, build, operate, and consume ICT infrastructure and

applications.

Cloud is something you can own as a private internal

cloud, and something from which you can consume cloud

services, delivered by a trusted service provider. Cloud will

continue to mature, evolving the way organisations think

about constructing and deploying ICT infrastructure and

changing the way organisations consume and pay for ICT

services.

Cloud is a technology, a service, and a strategy; and as

one of the UK’s leading Systems Integrators, Managed

Service Providers, and Managed Hosting Providers, Logicalis

appreciates the full potential of cloud for our customers,

whether cloud is a private infrastructure you manage

yourself or a set of services we deliver to you.

Logicalis can build any size of bespoke private cloud, can

deliver a readymade cloud to your site, or provide secure

cloud services from our UK based Data Centres, and

because our cloud services come with a contracted SLA,

you can start to consume cloud services with confidence.

How we view Cloud Cloud is a flexible, secure, and reliable ICT infrastructure

or service that can be used by commercial and public

sector organisations to support their strategic or tactical

ICT delivery needs. If you are looking to make internal ICT

infrastructure as efficient to own and operate as possible,

mitigate the cost of replacing an end-of-life data centre,

move ICT infrastructure provisioning to a trusted services

partner, meet requirements for externally provided

Disaster Recovery (DR) services, need to host core

business applications such as ERP or e-commerce sites,

or require extra compute or storage capacity to manage

business burst, then cloud should be a consideration.

You’re bound to have questions We believe cloud shouldn’t be complex or confusing.

But cloud is evolving fast, and if you’re creating a strategy

around cloud there are many questions you will need

answering: Where do I start with cloud? Which bits of cloud

are right for me? Where is the cloud? What does cloud cost?

What service levels can I expect? What security measures are

in place? Where is my data?

Our belief is that we are uniquely positioned to answer

all of these questions, and have the ability to demonstrate

that cloud isn’t something that represents a risk to your

ICT infrastructure or your business, but is a technology

architecture, solution or service you can confidently adopt.

Introduction.

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Sounds good – why Logicalis? Logicalis offers a unique portfolio of Cloud Solutions and

services, from private cloud all the way through to hosted

cloud.

Logicalis Cloud Solutions are...

• Built with best practice expertise and years of

experience in providing virtual data centre solutions.

• Enterprise class and secure, not a service out there on

the internet.

• Governed by SLAs and service contracts.

• Constructed to individual or community requirements.

• Built with enterprise class technology infrastructure

and software.

Logicalis design, build, host and manage…• Private Cloud – highly virtualised and automated data

centre infrastructures managed either by your own

ICT department or by our managed service experts.

Our Bespoke On-Site Cloud Service (BOCS) delivers

our unique Virtual Container (VC) solution, delivering

‘virtual’ features to nearly any enterprise application.

• Infrastructure as a Service – Logicalis hosted

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Network,

Compute and Storage services, charged by bandwidth,

blade or storage consumption.

• Cooperative Cloud – hybrid private and hosted

integrated cloud solutions for cloud burst, cloud DR,

cloud application test and development and shared

service infrastructure.

• Cloud Hosting – cloud based application hosting for

individual organisations, government shared services

or ISVs.

All of our cloud service offerings are hosted and managed

in the UK so your data never leaves UK shores.

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Transitioning to the cloud doesn’t have to be riskyIn the same way we think cloud shouldn’t be complex or

confusing, migrating to the cloud shouldn’t be risky – in

fact, removing risk through all stages of cloud adoption is

something Logicalis Virtualisation and Cloud Consultants

take pride in.

Our Virtualisation Migration Risk Assessment (VMRA)

service focuses on the migration from non-virtual

infrastructure to private cloud and our Cloud Migration

Risk Assessment (CMRA) takes customers from private

cloud to hosted cloud. Both services take our customers

on the journey to the cloud, and are a tried and tested

methodology for producing a successful outcome every

time.

A quick run through of the Logicalis Cloud history Private cloud building is in our DNA. As accredited expert

data centre partners of Cisco, HP, IBM, NetApp, VMware

and CA technologies we can build private clouds based on

all major server and storage platforms. And of course, we

have virtualisation experts on all major hypervisors and

operating systems so we can provide cloud infrastructures

from Intel through to Mainframe.

Something innovative and really beneficialLogicalis has innovated in both our Private and Hosted

Cloud solutions through our unique Virtual Container

(VC) technology. VC technology will change the way you

think about provisioning all aspects of a cloud service,

making resources simple to manage, provision and move.

With VC technology an Oracle database, including all of

its computing, data, network, security and other necessary

elements, can be moved between data centres or between

on-site and hosted clouds within minutes. Virtual

Containers are unique to the Logicalis BOCS and Hosted

Cloud offerings, and are enabled through the innovative

technologies of Cisco, NetApp and CA technologies.

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What can Logicalis do for you?Logicalis offers a complete cloud engagement, and because

we are a Systems Integrator, Managed Services Provider,

and Managed Hosting Provider, offering all major forms of

cloud solutions and services, we are able to deliver cloud

in a way that meets your specific business and technology

needs.

Creating space for new possibilitiesCome to our Data Centre Innovation Centre and see what

Logicalis Cloud has to offer.

To book a visit contact 0800 876 6987

Virtualisation to Cloud Professional Services capabilities

Logicalis Virtualisation to Cloud Service offerings

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Private Cloud.

A bespoke and highly virtualised data centre

infrastructure that’s built specifically for a

customer’s ICT infrastructure capacity needs.

So why should I build a Private Cloud?The chances are that you may well already be in the

process of moving some of your ICT infrastructure to

something that resembles a cloud. If you are virtualising

then you’re already on your way. Private Cloud isn’t simply

about putting a hypervisor on your Intel estate (but that’s

a good start), it’s really about taking all the infrastructure

components you already have and making them work more

efficiently and then linking them, which means you can

provision and manage them more simply. Linking virtualised

servers, storage, network, security and management tools

and turning them into a pool of resource is what the term

‘cloud’ really means.

Does Logicalis have a pre-built Private Cloud solution?It’s called BOCS (Bespoke On-Site Cloud Service).

Logicalis has worked extensively with Cisco, NetApp and

CA technologies to build an optimum solution for on-site

cloud infrastructure and can package any size of BOCS

and deliver this to our customers in self-contained racks.

The BOCS includes all the management and automation

tools needed to run a cloud, as well as our expertise

in integrating new cloud solutions into your existing

infrastructure and operating processes.

Could I get a Private Cloud from any ICT supplier?Clouds are highly consolidated, efficient, operational pools

of ICT infrastructure resource and Logicalis is one of the

few partners in the UK who can deliver cloud solutions

across all major server and storage platforms. We also have

the capability to deliver the operational and automation

tools and the experience that enables cloud to be run as

one highly efficient IT business resource.

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Our partners are your partners too Certified by Cisco, HP, IBM, NetApp, CA

technologies, VMware and others as data centre

partners, Logicalis can design, build and service

any size and type of private cloud infrastructure;

whether it is sitting on a Mainframe or Intel,

operating a hypervisor or a mainstream operating

system.

Virtually everything is virtual Private clouds are the next generation of highly

virtualised data centres, but in a Logicalis Cloud

EVERYTHING is virtualised; network, computing,

storage, security and operational tools. Logicalis

don’t simply build ‘virtual’ infrastructures, we

architecture environments that enable the

provisioning of new capacity and the movement of

key business workloads.

Why should I work with Logicalis? Logicalis build Private Clouds that are made to measure

to our customer’s needs. We offer ‘Cloud Principles’ for

every corporate application and our tailored approach of

integrating network, compute, storage and infrastructure

automation gives you an adaptable and powerful solution

for all your enterprise applications.

Okay, what about a few specifics?• Logicalis deliver a complete range of customer owned

private cloud solutions.

• We are cloud skilled with major vendors including Cisco, IBM, HP, NetApp, VMware, and CA technologies.

• We have 20 years experience in computing, storage and networking, and are one of the few partners able to create truly integrated private cloud solutions.

• Our tried and tested VMRA process helps customers plan and de-risk the move to highly virtualised private cloud.

• We are able to create ‘clouds’ that support all major technology platforms and operating systems (from Intel to Mainframe); not just hypervisor based ‘cloud’ solutions.

• Logicalis has architected a packaged enterprise class Private Cloud; Bespoke On-Site Cloud Service (BOCS), pre-packaged infrastructure including management and automation tools (Cisco, NetApp and CA technologies). We can even run it remotely.

• Logicalis can virtualise everything through our unique Virtual Container (VC) technology.

Can I sit down and discuss my Private Cloud requirements with Logicalis? Absolutely, cloud is no different than any other ICT

architecture. We expect to spend time discussing and

designing your cloud environment requirements with you.

Visit our new Data Centre Innovation Centre where you

can see the Logicalis BOCS in action and examine the

possibilities it could offer your business. There is practical,

hands-on experience available, as well as a consultation

process to genuinely assess your requirements.


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Infrastructure as a Service.

Readymade compute, storage and networking

solutions built with enterprise grade technology

and delivered as an SLA-based, contractual service.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – there’s a lot of it about?There is, but we believe the Logicalis IaaS solutions,

Compute as a Service, Storage as a Service and Network

as a Service, are perfect for all mission critical business

applications or storage requirements. As a Systems

Integrator we build Private Cloud infrastructures every

day, and our IaaS services are designed to the same

architectural and service standards.

So our IaaS solutions provide a truly enterprise class

service, based on technology you would use yourself

– probably better because we use the most advanced

computing, storage and networking platforms available,

from leading vendors you will recognise.

Our highly secure, multi-tenant hosting platform is ideal

for individual clients or communities of clients, and is a

UK based IaaS offering, charged on a capacity over time,

contracted model.

Crucially, it’s enterprise grade technology

Our kit is the best there is because we deliver against

a contracted SLA. So, though you might care about the

platform it’s built on, you will care about the service it

delivers even more. The Logicalis IaaS offerings are truly

enterprise class; built on recognised technology platforms

and operated from our own UK Tier 3+ Data Centre.

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So, what’s the deal? Customers can select from simple capacity over time on

blades or storage capacity, to flexible purchasing options to

provide the elasticity many will need for specific times of

year or changing capacity requirements.

• Compute, Storage and Network Services

• Pay per use (blade, storage, bandwidth), contracted capacity over time

• Massive capacity capability / high density hosting

• SECURE platform, run in the UK, by a trusted UK ICT solutions and services provider

• SLA based contractual model over 1, 3, 5 years

• Pre-provisioned and SLA based burst capacity

• ‘Blade Days’ offer access to ad-hoc agreed capacity resources

• Logicalis unique Virtual Container (VC) technology – creating secure, virtual resources on a multi-tenant

cloud service

• Built on enterprise class technology (Cisco, NetApp, CA technologies etc.)

• Hosted in a state-of-the-art, high density, Tier 3+ Data Centre estate

• Accessible through private and closed connectivity networks (commercial and public sector class)

• Internet Connectivity as a Service for e-commerce applications available

• Ideal for government class, G-Cloud services.

Building solutions for your future Visit our new Data Centre Innovation Centre where you

can see the Logicalis IaaS offering in action. Meet our

dedicated Cloud Architects who will work with you to see

which elements of your ICT infrastructure could be moved

onto a Logicalis IaaS service. Work with us to design and

build your IT future.


We believe in working for you and with youUnlike most ‘pay as you go’ IaaS offerings, the

Logicalis Cloud is designed to work for customers

as a long-term ICT infrastructure service and is able

to run mission critical workloads.

IaaS is a service that our customers depend on.

SLAs form the basis of a long term contractual

service delivery model, incorporating service and

capacity flexibility and agility, based on a managed

service contract.

We also work with... Logicalis uses Cisco, NetApp and CA technologies

for our Compute, Network and Storage as a Service

offerings, which means our IaaS services are built

on the same technology that an enterprise would

use itself, but to a scale and a density that offers

environmental efficiencies and cost reduction

through technology consolidation. These efficiencies

mean that using IaaS makes perfect business and

ICT sense.

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Cooperative Cloud.

A matched architecture, integrated private and

hosted cloud providing a single cloud service

delivering next generation data centre capacity.

What is a Cooperative Cloud?Logicalis Cooperative Cloud is an integrated private and

hosted cloud solution providing a single infrastructure

‘resource pool’ with the freedom to move application

services or data between private infrastructure and the

Logicalis Cooperative Cloud service.

Cooperative Cloud is ideal for customers looking to cap

the size of their own ICT infrastructure or those who

may have run out of power or space. It is also ideal for

those who may need a representative infrastructure for

DR or application test and development and need to have

a trusted and integrated service they can use in the same

way as they do their own. The Logicalis Cooperative

Cloud makes two clouds look as one, act as one, and

creates a hybrid cloud solution ideal for commercial and

public sector cloud customers.

How is it constructed? The Logicalis Cooperative Cloud is a highly integrated

matched architecture solution, with private and hosted

clouds working together to deliver a hybrid, secure, flexible,

enterprise class cloud offering. We use the same reference

architecture for both the on-site and hosted clouds,

giving full freedom of movement for applications or data.

Both sides are constructed from the same technology

architectures and, using some of the clever features of

the Cisco UCS computing platform, we can even make a

customer’s blade (all the way down to mac address) move

between clouds – and that makes this a true enterprise

enabler.

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How can the Cooperative Cloud help? Our BOCS is delivered as a self-contained cloud

infrastructure with enough compute, storage and network

capacity to meet expected local demand and local capacity

capability. Additional future capacity, in the form of DR

services or burst capacity for example, is provided by the

Logicalis Hosted Cloud, with agreed capacity availability

over the long-term. The customer simply sees one set of

infrastructure. This is a highly integrated solution providing

maximum flexibility and scope for innovative capacity

provisioning.

Give me examples of how it works? The Logicalis Hosted Cloud could provide full HA / DR

services for the on-site BOCS. So, if your DR data centre

is running out of steam, you could move all DR service

requirements directly onto our cloud.

Or, if at certain times of the year an on-site application

needs more capacity, you can simply ‘move’ a local

workload back onto our cloud to free up room as and

when it is needed. Once the ‘burst’ requirement has ended

you can move workloads back locally. The blades you

used in our hosted cloud could have been your DR blades;

so you can burst into your own DR facility and make

significant cost savings.

What is the technology behind it? The BOCS and the Logicalis Cooperative Cloud are based

on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) stateless

computing technology, coupled with automation innovation

from CA technologies, which enables us to move work

loads that cannot be ‘virtualised’ with the same ease as

those that can. This allows customers to choose whether

to run a virtual or non-virtual workload on their own

private environment or move it up into the hosted cloud

when they need more application capacity or if they need

to free up private space for a new workload.

The solution is hypervisor and workload independent, and

can operate VMware, HyperV or Citrix hypervisors and

most other major operating systems. Our architecture is

designed for delivering enterprise class services and you

can choose to run part of the cloud as a non-hypervisor

resource for applications or operating systems that cannot

or should not be supported through virtual technologies.

It is a truly made to measure environment.

This powerful feature means the Cooperative Cloud is

ideal for supporting any enterprise application workload,

making it a highly efficient choice of on-site cloud services.

In fact, you can consider a BOCS as a data centre in a rack

– all pre-designed, sized and configured by some of the best

engineers in the UK.

What are the two key elements of Cooperative Cloud?

Bespoke On-Site Cloud Service ( BOCS) – •

on-site, highly efficient, Private Cloud.

Cooperative Hosted Cloud – Logicalis hosted •

secure multi-tenant Cloud Service.

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Basically...The great benefit of the Cooperative Cloud is that with

matched architecture, designed for enterprise class

services, you can move applications from your site to

our hosting site with ease. It is a packaged on-site cloud

connected to a packaged hosted cloud giving you a single,

seamless, packaged solution. The Logicalis Cooperative

Cloud offers customers or communities of customers a

straightforward route to cloud adoption.

Remind me – the Logicalis Cooperative cloud has...• Highly integrated Private and Hosted Cloud Services

• Compute, Storage and Network IaaS packaged

services

• Logicalis unique ‘Virtual Container’ (VC) technology

creating secure and movable virtual resources

• Supports most enterprise applications

• Ideal for long term growth capacity outside of

existing data centre

• Predictable application test and development

• High Availability (HA) or Disaster Recovery (DR)

• Secure public sector / government shared services

• BOCS for all on-site private cloud capacity

• SLA based contractual model over 1, 3, 5 years

• Built on enterprise class technology (Cisco, NetApp,

CA technologies)

• Hosted in the Logicalis UK Tier 3+ Data Centre estate

• Accessible through private and closed connectivity

networks (commercial and government class)

• Ideal for government class G-Cloud services.

Where can I see it in action? The Logicalis Cooperative Cloud offers customers, or

communities of customers, a straightforward route to

cloud adoption. Come and see it for yourself in our new

Data Centre Innovation Centre.


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Cloud Hosting.

Secure, reliable, made to measure hosting for

enterprise applications, e-commerce systems

and ISVs.

We give you an ideal environmentMany commercial and public sector organisations and

ISVs need a secure and reliable environment in which they

can host core business applications, e-commerce sites or

deliver services to a group of customers as Software as a

Service (SaaS).

Logicalis Cloud Hosting offers an ideal environment for all

of these requirements.

Putting you on the map We host your applications and services in our Tier 3+

UK Data Centre. High bandwidth internet services are

already available and we have interconnects to major

internet exchanges and other networks. Cloud capacity and

storage is all UK based and the service is managed from

UK managed service centres. This is especially important

to industries where information security is paramount.

Government customers can be assured that Cloud Hosting

with Logicalis meets the highest security and operational

standards.

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Get it exactly right with usLogicalis Cloud Hosting is a made to measure solution

for any size of requirement. Customers work with us

to design and select a bespoke environment. Our cloud

operations and architecture team ensure that we work to

your specific hosting requirements.

Our managed services team can also help you manage your

operating system or hypervisor technologies, removing a

layer of management, and ensuring that you truly are in a

cloud hosting environment that is enterprise class.

Innovation through consultation Logicalis Cloud Hosting is designed for fast access,

so bringing your application on board is managed by

our dedicated engineers, who will help you size and

scope. Logicalis use its innovative Virtual Container

(VC) technology to create a specific virtual cloud which

customers can deploy their operating system and

application stack of choice.

Host with the most• UK hosting environment

• Tier 3+ Data Centre

• Flexible costing based on Network, Compute and

Storage as a Service

• Highly efficient hosting environment based on

enterprise class technology platforms

• Virtual Container (VC) to deliver a single hosted

virtual environment

• High bandwidth internet connectivity available on

request

• Managed Services to help run your operating or

hypervisor environment

• Connectivity to major internet exchanges.

Have a closer lookCome to our Data Centre Innovation Centre and see

Logicalis hosting possibilities in action.


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Logicalis design, build, host and manage…• Private Cloud – highly virtualised and automated data

centre infrastructures managed either by your own

ICT department or by our managed service experts.

Our Bespoke On-Site Cloud Service (BOCS) delivers

our unique Virtual Container (VC) solution, delivering

‘virtual’ features to nearly any enterprise application.

• Infrastructure as a Service – Logicalis hosted

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Network,

Compute and Storage services, charged by bandwidth,

blade or storage consumption.

• Cooperative Cloud – hybrid private and hosted

integrated cloud solutions for cloud burst, cloud DR,

cloud application test and development and shared

service infrastructure.

• Cloud Hosting – cloud based application hosting for

individual organisations, government shared services

or ISVs.

All of our cloud service offerings are hosted and managed

in the UK so your data never leaves UK shores.

Overview.

What can Logicalis do for you?Logicalis offers a complete cloud engagement, and

because we are a Systems Integrator, Managed Services

Provider, and Managed Hosting Provider, offering all major

forms of cloud solutions and services, we are able to

deliver cloud in a way that meets your specific business

and technology needs.

Creating space for new possibilitiesCome to our Data Centre Innovation Centre and see what

Logicalis Cloud has to offer.


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