INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
“In a cloud environment,
tenants own and control their
applications. Self-service
gives tenants the control they
need, enabling agility and
flexibility. When it comes to
differentiated services, CSPs
cannot thrive on just providing
basic infrastructure. They
need to add value and create
differentiated services to set
themselves apart
from competition.
Automation,” Naidoo continues,
“is a key requirement to enable
agile processes for deploying
cloud applications as well as for
monitoring, chargeback
and reporting.”
He points out that a multi-
tenant environment creates
significant requirements for a
storage system.
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“These requirements are
often cumbersome to design
and implement with legacy
storage. The Tintri enterprise
cloud platforms remove the
complexity by aligning itself
with what matters most – the
tenant application,” he says.
Multi-tenancy at the
management layer
In most cases, CSPs deploy
multi-tenant services such as
IaaS and DaaS by leveraging
management solutions. For
example, a CSP may deploy
IaaS using VMware vCloud
Director or OpenStack; VMware
Horizon is commonly used
for DaaS.
“While these management
packages provide the framework
and tools for multi-tenant
environments, Tintri surfaces
specific tenant VM information
to facilitate reporting and
chargeback. Tintri also enables
per-VM policy configuration
through the Tintri REST APIs and
Powershell toolkit,” says Naidoo.
In some private cloud
deployments, tenants are given
access to the infrastructure.
“Dedicated infrastructure per
tenant is not cost efficient,
so CSPs deploy private clouds
on shared infrastructure and
use multi-tenancy to isolate
tenants,” says Naidoo.
“Tintri supports hosted private
cloud environments through:
secure tenant separation, data
encryption, service assurance
and per-VM analytics that can
be used for billing, chargeback
and customisation.” ¡
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