Skygone Cloud

 

Enterprise-Class Cloud Infrastructure

Skygone Cloud delivers a high-performance, yet flexible computing environment, built to meet the demands of even the toughest enterprise requirements. Skygone Cloud allows you to host your entire GIS operations including your spatial and non-spatial data, GIS desktop, and GIS Server applications, all on one scalable, on-demand infrastructure. Using the latest Cloud Computing, hardware, and network optimization technologies, we purpose-built Skygone Cloud to handle the robust CPU, memory, and storage requirements that GIS operations demand. 
 
Skygone Cloud allows you to easily achieve complex tasks, such as:
  • Instantly scaling and cloning entire applications
  • Hosting mission-critical applications on a redundant, high-performance infrastructure
  • Maintaining legacy applications that reside on legacy platforms
  • Providing instant development platforms for developing new applications 

More than a Cloud.  A Global Service Delivery Platform (SDP)

Skygone goes beyond just scalable Cloud infrastructure; we enable applications, data, web services, and business models to be templated and easily delivered across the globe. 

As a global Service Delivery Platform (SDP), Skygone infrastructure acts as an enablement-engine for previously localized services to be distributed to your customers that may benefit from or collaborate with the services.

Our Cloud Platform

Skygone Cloud is purpose-built to meet Enterprise-class computing demands.  Skygone Cloud is built with an emphasis on interoperability, high performance, and ease of use.  Our platform is purpose-built to handle the performance demands, complex architectures, and security requirements that enterprise-level computing demands.

Each application is packaged to include everything it needs to run.  Skygone Cloud enables applications to scale from a fraction of a server - to several hundred servers, while maintaining the ability to be replicated on-demand and deployed to any one of our multiple data center locations without modification.

Hardware - Skygone Cloud operates only the latest Intel dual quad-core processors, proven networking, and high I/O storage technology.  We believe in open disclosure of what powers our Cloud infrastructure, so that can make confident and informed decisions about the technical aspects of our platform. Skygone has chosen to partner with the leading processing and storage technologies available on the market today.  What does this mean for you?  Together, these compute components supply maximum performance, reliability, and security of your applications and data. 
   
Our data centers are rock solid.  We take our underlying infrastructure very seriously and only select the best data centers to power our Cloud operations.  Below are the high level specifications of our state-of-the-art data centers.

Specifications

  • Over 40,000 total square feet of raised floor based on fault tolerant topology
  • 99.995%+ uptime (Equals Uptime Institute Tier 4 rating)
  • SAS 70 Type II Certification
  • Fully Redundent, Multi-sourced Power
  • Physical Security of motion sensors, card, biometric, and physical security staff on premise 24/7
  • Multiple ISP service providers with each carrier having diverse path of entry to building
  • Redundant Cisco systems core network 

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

This is a piece, ranging from very large to very small, of Skygone's Cloud dedicated to you.  "Virtual" simply means that your Private Cloud's physical infrastructure is still hosted by Skygone just like our public Cloud, but with VPC, you have dedicated computing resources rather than sharing computing resources as you do on our public Cloud. 

How do we "dedicate resources" to you if they are part of our Cloud?  We use AppLogic's unique ability to completely isolate physical hardware including, servers, storage drives, and even firewalls, to provide you a isolated, yet scalable environment. 

How is my VPC environment isolated, yet scalable?  Because your VPC is built with the same technology as our Cloud, you have access to our instantly deployable Infrastructure Templates, the ability to scale resources (CPU, RAM, Storage, etc) inside your VPC (up to the resource limits the physical hardware you decide to deploy to your VPC), and also the ability to add more physical infrastructure to your VPC at anytime. 

On-Premise Private Cloud

An "On-premise" Private Cloud is a services-based implementation of our powerful Cloud technology inside your own office or data center that uses hardware, data center infrastructure, and licensing owned by your organization. 

This services engagement is followed up with knowledge-transfer, best practices, and maintenance.  Plus, even though your Private Cloud is deployed On-Premise, you still have the ability to push some or all of your applications to Skygone's Public Cloud or Virtual Private Cloud at any time.

The implementation of an On-Premise Private Cloud is a great way to add an enterprise-class, flexible, IT environment to your organization to increase agility, reduce IT management costs, and optimize data center related expenses, without compromising your security practices and internal IT practices.  You can even utilize your existing servers if you wish to keep your new hardware capital costs low during implementation. 

The On-Premise Private Cloud gives you full control over the IT policies and procedures that your organization may be required to follow by regulatory or government standards. In fact, On-Premise Private Cloud is a perfect implementation strategy for organizations that are bound by industry standards (i.e. FISMA, HIPPA, etc.) requiring physical hardware audits and administrative compliance. 

Getting Started

1.  Browse our Application Marketplace and choose a configuration that matches your needs.  If you don't see what you need,  we'll build a custom template for you.  We continue to build additional application templates every day and will make them available to the AppStore incrementally.

2.  Create a Skygone Account to allow single sign-on ability to monitor your system, access your billing information, and change your computing/storage resources.  Once your billing information is accepted (using a credit card will allow for instant deployment; however, we do provide offline payment options) the Infrastructure Template(s) you selected are deployed on Skygone Cloud.

3.  Login to your new servers via Remote Desktop (RDP) or Secure Shell (SSH) to load and configure your applications and data.