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| Source: Cloud Plus website. |
Cloud Plus, a wholesale provider of private cloud solutions in Australia and New Zealand, is turning to Brocade for its data centre and MPLS network infrastructure. The Brisbane-based company leveraging the pay-as-you-go flexibility of the Brocade Network Subscription acquisition model.
Cloud Plus has seen 147% growth in fiscal year 2014, and is on schedule to exceed that growth in 2015. The data traffic running over its network has been growing at an even faster pace as a result of the telecommunication industry's falling costs for network bandwidth and the ability of Cloud Plus partners to execute larger deals that deliver data transfer at a lower price.
In the new Cloud Plus data centre in Sydney, Brocade VDX 6740 switches have been matched with Supermicro multinode integrated compute devices and high density storage devices from EMC and Supermicro to create an efficient cloud computing infrastructure. As demand for capacity at the Sydney data centre grows, Cloud Plus can add more Brocade VDX switches to increase the size of the fabric network, enabling it to align costs with revenue on a dynamic basis.
"Network traffic continues to grow exponentially while the cost of storing and switching data falls. As a service provider, we need highly scalable infrastructure to support this trend. We also have to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to cater for significant bursts of growth without compromising performance. The infrastructure investment required to achieve that can tie up a lot of capital," said Jules Rumsey, Chief Executive of Cloud Plus.
"Brocade Network Subscription enables us to make maximum productive use of out limited financial resources rather than having capital locked in currently unproductive assets. Likewise, Brocade's highly scalable, open, and manageable network platforms enable us stave off short-term upgrade cycles and allow our senior engineers to be client-focused."
Brocade partner ASI Solutions has been training the Cloud Plus engineering team and assisting with network planning to ensure smooth deployment of the new Brocade switching and routing platforms within the company's existing network infrastructure. Brocade Network Subscription meanwhile, gives Cloud Plus the flexibility of introducing new Brocade equipment into the network whenever it is needed, while only paying for the capacity that is actually being utilised.
"Network capacity planning is a notoriously difficult discipline. Get it wrong and you could end up ripping out equipment long before its end of life or, alternatively, never utilising the capacity you installed several years ago," said Gary Denman, Senior Director, Australia and New Zealand for Brocade. "Cloud Plus partners and clients look to the flexibility of on-demand cloud services to mitigate the financial risk of their IT operations and Cloud Plus is, in turn, mitigating its network risk with Brocade."
Cloud Plus has seen 147% growth in fiscal year 2014, and is on schedule to exceed that growth in 2015. The data traffic running over its network has been growing at an even faster pace as a result of the telecommunication industry's falling costs for network bandwidth and the ability of Cloud Plus partners to execute larger deals that deliver data transfer at a lower price.
In the new Cloud Plus data centre in Sydney, Brocade VDX 6740 switches have been matched with Supermicro multinode integrated compute devices and high density storage devices from EMC and Supermicro to create an efficient cloud computing infrastructure. As demand for capacity at the Sydney data centre grows, Cloud Plus can add more Brocade VDX switches to increase the size of the fabric network, enabling it to align costs with revenue on a dynamic basis.
"Network traffic continues to grow exponentially while the cost of storing and switching data falls. As a service provider, we need highly scalable infrastructure to support this trend. We also have to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to cater for significant bursts of growth without compromising performance. The infrastructure investment required to achieve that can tie up a lot of capital," said Jules Rumsey, Chief Executive of Cloud Plus.
"Brocade Network Subscription enables us to make maximum productive use of out limited financial resources rather than having capital locked in currently unproductive assets. Likewise, Brocade's highly scalable, open, and manageable network platforms enable us stave off short-term upgrade cycles and allow our senior engineers to be client-focused."
Brocade partner ASI Solutions has been training the Cloud Plus engineering team and assisting with network planning to ensure smooth deployment of the new Brocade switching and routing platforms within the company's existing network infrastructure. Brocade Network Subscription meanwhile, gives Cloud Plus the flexibility of introducing new Brocade equipment into the network whenever it is needed, while only paying for the capacity that is actually being utilised.
"Network capacity planning is a notoriously difficult discipline. Get it wrong and you could end up ripping out equipment long before its end of life or, alternatively, never utilising the capacity you installed several years ago," said Gary Denman, Senior Director, Australia and New Zealand for Brocade. "Cloud Plus partners and clients look to the flexibility of on-demand cloud services to mitigate the financial risk of their IT operations and Cloud Plus is, in turn, mitigating its network risk with Brocade."
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