IaaS Platforms: 5-Series, 4-Series, and 2-Series
5-Series Virtual Datacenter.
The 5-Series Virtual Datacenter (VDC) platform is Bluelock’s flagship platform designed for the highest level of performance, service and security. While a wide-variety of workloads are appropriate for the 5-Series VDC, production workloads and applications that require very high availability, advanced services and a superior end-user experience are most prevalent. These applications are often customer-facing or have similar, high-expectation requirements. Common applications well suited for a 5-Series VDC include new production, stable production, staging and performance testing workloads.
Features of the 5-Series VDC:
- Enterprise-level, top to bottom design with resilient architecture for production workloads
- Low subscription density to insulate performance impact of demand from other applications
- Guaranteed reserved capacity for immediate use via the self-service portal
- Storage options available – Performance, Standard and Archive
- Advanced high availability networking, load balancing and firewalls that can service all of your Bluelock Virtual Datacenters
- Resource model variations to align price with client risk and growth expectations whether demand is growing, bursting, stable or declining
- Allows purchasing flexibility with varying commitment levels
- Managed Services capable – Backups, Antivirus, OS Patching and Monitoring
- Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99%
- Provided with enterprise support levels - support team, availability and response times
Features of the 4-Series VDC:
- Have confidence in your recovery with easy and effective testing
- No application modification is required to obtain recovery protection
- Recover into a proven, enterprise-grade cloud environment that can support and run your production resources successfully
- Accurately predict and manage monthly expenses with access to replication service costs in Bluelock Portfolio™
- Professional services available to assess your RaaS needs and assist in the implementation of your strategy
2-Series Virtual Datacenter.
Bluelock’s 2-Series Virtual Datacenter platform is a scalable, on-demand VDC designed to enable fast deployment of public cloud resources and considerable day-to-day flexibility. Bluelock clients often select the 2-Series platform for pre-production and non-production workloads which are transient in nature. Common workloads include application development, functional testing, demonstration, application trial and proof-of-concept environments.
Features of the 2-Series VDC:
- Architected for pre-production, transient workloads
- Matches the risk profile and budget of less critical workloads
- Enables quick access to datacenter resources through the self-service portal on an as-available basis
- Pay-as-you-go billing with access to utilization and cost metrics
- Provided with Bluelock’s Standard storage tier and Basic support level
- Self-service backups, antivirus, patching, monitoring, and basic licensing options only
- Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.9% with weekly maintenance periods exempt
- Simple migration to 5-Series VDCs for workloads that are ready for production
- Connectivity to resources in 5-Series VDCs for simplified cloud infrastructure management