Your Cloud, Your Way

Are you looking to take your cloud to the next level with automation and orchestration? Or do you want to build a cloud from the ground up? Appko’s cloud experts are masters of Cisco Cloud software and platform. Appko can assist with modernizing and customizing your cloud to your organization’s specific needs.

Appko has built public, private, and hybrid clouds for some of the biggest service providers and companies in the world. Appko focuses on the business solution, leveraging the best of breed technologies, and can develop solutions to bridge gaps in vendor solutions.

Appko’s engineers were a part of the Cisco engineering team that built IAC, and continue to assist Cisco with its development. Our deep knowledge of and experience with IAC equips us uniquely to implement and customize an IAC solution for your business.

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC):

Appko can assist you with developing, configuring, upgrading, and migrating your CIAC setup

• Design and Architecture
• Test, dev, pilot, and production
• Implementation into you organization

Prime Service Catalogue and Portal

• UI / portal customized for your organization
• Service item / service catalogue

Process Orchestration

• Automation of services
• integration into services within org: LDAP, AD

Network automation

• Creation of real network topologies that focus on users and the applications that they use
• Dynamic installation of virtual network devices on demand with on boarding and off boarding of tenants and organizations
• Lifecycle operations for Layers 2 through 7, including modification and removal, that maintain the relationships and life cycles of users, tenant organizations, and applications associated with network capabilities

Cloud governance

• Allows organizations to establish quotas and limits ahead of time, eliminating the surprise of large bills from public service providers
• Gives end users an understanding of the costs of services at time of ordering before requests are finalized
• Financial or consumption limits deliver financial granularity for project budgets
• Allows enterprises or service providers to fund service expansion or staff additions from savings or from incremental revenue derived from offering Cisco IAC services to their customers

Multi-cloud management

• Cisco IAC delivers out-of-the-box provisioning and management capabilities for Amazon EC2,OpenStackVMwarevCloud Director, and VMware vSphere and is designed to be extended to additional hypervisors and cloud providers
• Multicloud management allows enterprises and service providers to tailor service offerings to the specific costs and functions of hypervisor platforms and specific project needs
• Cisco IAC supports two infrastructure layers: OpenStack and Cisco UCS Director

ACM and Orchestration Services:

Cisco IAC is tightly coupled with Application Configuration Management tools such as Puppet and Chef. Appko can assist you with customizing, orchestrating services, and implementing ACM into your IAC platform.

We can also assist you in integrating your ACM tool of choice, like Salt and Ansible, into you IAC platform.

Lifecycle Service Offerings:

• Design, architecture and planning
• Custom Development services
• Integrations
• Implementation services
• Production pilot, Production release
• Post Production support
• Sustaining Services and maintenance support

Cisco One Services:

• Automate your infrastructure to deliver unified computing, network, storage, and virtualization instances that span virtual and bare-metal resources.
• Use the automation to fulfill infrastructure orders that are tailored to your specific policies and governance, and to deliver cloud-ready infrastructure services in minutes, improving time-to-value ratios.
• Appko can assist you with your Cisco One ECS implementation and customization.

Our engineers are experts in all Cisco One technologies, including:

• Intercloud Fabric (ICFB)
• UCS Director (UCSD)
• Prime Service Catalogue (PSC)
• Virtual Application Container Services (VACS)
• Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
• Process Orchestrator (PO)

Technical Expertise:

• Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud
• Business solution focus
• Best of breed technologies
• World class engineering resources
• Custom development

Your Cloud, Your Way

Do you want to take advantage of the proven power and support of VMware? Or do you need some help extending and maintaining your current VMware setup? Appko’s cloud experts can help your business with all of its VMware needs.

Appko has built public, private, and hybrid clouds for some of the biggest service providers and companies in the world. Appko focuses on the business solution, leveraging the best of breed technologies, and can develop solutions to bridge gaps in vendor solutions.

VMware Technologies:

• vCenter
• vSphere
• vCloud Suite
• vRealize Suite
• ESXi
• Virtual SAN
• NSX

Lifecycle Service Offerings:

Plan

Providing Businesses with a roadmap for implementing VMware and Cloud based on organization requirements

• Business justification, use cases, and ROI analysis
• Strategy and roadmap documentation
• Cost benefit Analysis
• Cloud readiness Assessment
• Cloud migration Planning
• Cloud architecture
• Comparative analysis between open source and licensed model

Build

Assisting organizations with customization and implementation of VMware based on organizational requirements

• Hypervisor selection and configurations
• Hardware considerations: server, storage, network
• Portal customizations: self service
• Orchestration and Automation
• Integration with Directory Services: LDAP, Active Directory, ...
• Application Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef, ...
• Security architecture and policy
• Elastic network analysis and design
• Production pilot, production release

Manage

Providing support and maintenance to your organization's VMware environment as your cloud scales to organizational requirements

• QA and Testing
• Post Production support
• Sustaining Services and maintenance support
• Custom Development services
• Integrations

Experience:

• Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud
• Business solution focus
• Best of breed technologies
• World class engineering resources
• Custom development
• Migrating Applications

Your Cloud, Your Way

Do you want to take advantage of the license free, open source power of Openstack? Or do you need some help extending and maintaining your current Openstack setup? Appko’s cloud experts can help your business with all of its Openstack needs.

"OpenStack is an attractive private cloud option for enterprises ... But it's best to go with an implementation partner if your IT team doesn't have OpenStack skills ... You need consulting; you need training ... Right now, you need to have a pretty big team if you're going to do it from scratch"

Appko has built public, private, and hybrid clouds for some of the biggest service providers and companies in the world. Appko focuses on the business solution, leveraging the best of breed technologies, and can develop solutions to bridge gaps in vendor solutions.

Openstack Technologies:

Appko has experience in all openstack technologies, including the following:

The Openstack Roadmap contains information on the latest realeases of Openstack, as well as planned and in-development feature for future releases.

Lifecycle Service Offerings:

Whether you are in the midst of planning or building your cloud, Appko offers services to support the whole lifecycle of your cloud.

Build

Assisting organizations with customization and implementation of Openstack based on organizational requirements

• Hypervisor selection and configurations
• Hardware considerations: server, storage, network
• Portal customizations: self service
• Orchestration and Automation
• Integration with Directory Services: LDAP, Active Directory, ...
• Application Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef, ...
• Security architecture and policy
• Elastic network analysis and design
• Production pilot, production release

Manage

Providing support and maintenance to your organization's Openstack environment as your cloud scales to organizational requirements

• QA and Testing
• Post Production support
• Sustaining Services and maintenance support
• Custom Development services
• Integrations

Experience:

• Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud
• Business solution focus
• Best of breed technologies
• World class engineering resources
• Custom development
• Migrating Applications

Appko Cloud Engineering has built some fantastic Cloud Computing solutions for some of the best names in the industry. We have also developed our own product, although we no longer support it. myCloudPod is still a very good reference archetecture and demistrates Appko's deep engineering talent in the area.

What is a myCloudPod?

myCloudPod is a true Self-Service Cloud computing experience for your own private infrastructure. mycloudPod provides a complete cloud solution for your converged infrastructure which will drive user adoption and success at all levels of your organization.

myCloudPod + Your Pod = Cloud Computing

Its easy to get started with myCloudPod. We offer a SaaS solution that can be set up to your infrastructure in less than a day at a low cost. Your organization will quickly have a self-service cloud ready for your users. Your users are empowered, IT become cloud leaders, and VARs sell more.

Solution

Converged infrastructure with tools for administrators is not a complete solution. myCloudPod adds user self-service for cloud compute to complete the solution. mycloudPod is agnostic to your converged infrastructure preference. Your Pod, now It’s Your Cloud.

Success

myCloudPod brings success to the entire lifecycle of the CI investment. Users are empowered, IT becomes a leader, and VARs provide more complete solutions.

Empower Users:Users are empowered to create environments for their servers. mycloudPod is intuitive and a beautiful user experience. myCloudPod does not require hours of training concepts like on networking, virtualization, storage, and administration. Users have immediate access to your private cloud.

IT Leads:Many CIO's and IT leaders are building roadmaps to the cloud. myCloudPod helps IT lead on the new paradigm shift to the cloud and provides a real world IT self service model to their organization. Now IT leaders can begin shaping their organization to provide ITIL service.

Sell:VARs now have the ability to sell a complete solution to their customers. myCloudPod + converged infrastructure is a complete cloud solution. Conversations go from line item SKUs to strategic long term solution conversations. VAR is now in the advisor role to the customer.

myCloudPod capabilities

myCloudPod PODs

• Provision Pod: create a new Pod in either the Public or Private network.
• Firewall: Access Rules provides a route from outside the Pod to Servers inside the Pod.
• VPN: VPN Accounts allow full access to the Servers inside a Pod using standard Windows VPN. No VPN client required.
• Load Balance: Spread the load for a service running on multiple Servers. Multiple web servers can be used for a single website.
• IP Subnet and IP Management: All IP networks are dynamically created and managed in the background without any input from users.
• No networking experience needed: Your users can easily and quickly create Pods, while all the networking services are automated.

Servers

• Provision Servers: create, edit, and remove servers.
• Backups: create backups and restore to any of the backups.
• Disks: create and remove additional disks for your Servers.
• Configure: adjust the amount of memory or number of CPUs for your Servers.
• On/Off/Suspend: boot/reboot, shutdown, or suspend your Servers.
• KVM (Console): Access your Servers from myCloudPod with Keyboard/Video/Mouse control in the web portal.
• Define Templates: create a new Template from any existing Server. Templates are used as the base of new Servers.

Saas

• Borderless Networks: Access your infrastructure without need of firewall rules or special network setup.
• Deployment in 1 Day: myCloudPod is set up for new customers within hours.
• No Project, No Software, No Risk
• User Accounts: User administration for your Cloud is handled within myCloudPod. You can add/remove your own users.
• Manage CI Resources: Control which infrastructure your users are provisioning to.