Designing, implementing and maintaining a Grid in-house requires a significant investment, and it is difficult to build a capability that guarantees service levels without over sizing your grid to account for peak requirements. An alternative is to capitalise on the Grid that is available as a service, on-demand; a grid that offers guaranteed service levels, can be flexed in size according to requirements and is supported and maintained with guaranteed availability levels.
For companies who have not yet embraced Grid, Excelian are now able to offer true "On Demand Grid", bringing all the benefits of Grid architecture, but without the considerable overheads associated with design, implementation, ongoing support and hardware costs. In addition, customers who subscribe to our On Demand Grid service, have complimentary access to our considerable Grid implementation knowledge via the Excelian ‘Supportal’. Excelian’s facility can support any vendor Grid solution, such as DataSynapse, Platform or Open Source.
Excelian’s On Demand Grid integrates into your existing infrastructure; flexing your existing grid or providing fully outsourced services via a grid client that can submit grid jobs to the Excelian hosted grid infrastructure.
The solution consists of a set of software components and grid capacity that ensures that you can get your grid up and running as soon as possible, giving the following benefits:
- Significantly reduced implementation time
- Suitable for point solutions or enterprise grids
- No risk of vendor lock in; the Excelian developed client API and framework is Open Source
- Allows multiple clients to connect from a variety of sources
- Grid capacity can be scaled up or down depending on your demand
- The "Pay for Use" model gives you full control over your grid costs
- You control your own grid virtual machine system images and maintain your own software
- Build, test and debug locally and then provide certified Virtual Appliances that you are confident are secure and stable
With the On Demand Grid, you will pay for the resources you use, when you use them. Capacity can be flexed up or down according to your requirements, and each month a bill will be presented with accurate usage statistics of CPU hours consumed and a fixed price per CPU hour.