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thinkgrid's platform
providing infrastructure, aggregated best of breed cloud services backed by a powerful provisiooning and management platform.
ThinkGrid's cloud computing platform is built to offer a wide range of hosted business services. To deliver these services to a guaranteed availability of 99.99%, an infrastructure which is versatile, scalable and higly resilient is required. To best explain the platform, we have a diagram of the layers involved.
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There are 6 logical layers involved in the stack, which enable actual real services to be deployed and managed. Click here to zoom into the diagram left. Each layer can be adapted and expanded to encompass new technologies and solutions, but ensure a simple way of provisioning, management and billing.
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Service Layer
Rather than pure compute, ThinkGrid offers a service catalogue of true business IT and communications services that can be spun-up and customised into a solution for any business. To learn more about the services click here
Intelligence Abstraction
In its basic form, the brains behind creating and delivering services and resources. This layer talks with virtualisation and clustering grid service controllers to generate services such as desktops, VOIP systems, Exchange etc. from the right location, for the right customer. This layer also manages the billing of plan/services and gives end-users access to configure these services once provisioned.
Operating System
The operating system is at the heart of delivering best of breed services, which are stretched over the set of resources allocated. All major operating systems are offered from Windows to Linux, but these can inhabit the same networks for a heterogeneous environment.
Virtualisation Layer
Virtualisation and clustering are two ways of generating pools of resources from which services can be deployed and launched. Virtualisation allows the scaling up and down of elements such as CPU on the fly and, once plugged into the IA layer, allows this to be done via a GUI and billed. This layer also self-heals by moving resources around the grids and data centres to maintain quality of service.
Storage
No data is stored on servers or blades. Instead, all data is stored on Storage Area Networks (SANs). These high powered enterprise devices allow for image roll back, secure access and replication across sites for redundancy. Elastic LUNs give users the ability to dial up the required resources at any time, as well as to mount storage to any resource, anywhere, anytime.
Worldwide data centres
Our points of presence in data centres around the world. ThinkGrid is bringing new locations online all the time. However, since the services are internet-based, ThinkGrid operates 6 carriers per data centre to deliver high speed access wherever you are in the world. click for more
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