iland Mixed Cloud provides the benefits of cloud architecture while supporting traditional physical environments. It provides configurations that combine virtual and physical, colocated assets—for example, a mostly virtualized environment that requires physical servers, routers, or other hardware such as a network appliance acting as a firewall or spam filter.

There are two sides to every cloud

The benefits of virtualization in a scalable, flexible cloud infrastructure are undeniable. But not everything can or will be virtualized which means that IT organizations have to support physical servers as well as a virtual infrastructure. The challenge is finding a way to integrate the two.

Reasons for mixed architecture

iland Mixed Cloud provides security, costs savings, and scalability while meeting specific business and technical needs. Some of the commonly cited needs for the iland Mixed Cloud solution include security, technical and operational requirements, and intellectual property issues.

How it works

iland supports virtual and physical solutions with colocation, connectivity, and managed services at all iland cloud infrastructure datacenters. Whether you utilize physical servers, routers, load balancers, or other hardware, iland provides solutions to integrate these physical devices into a mixed cloud environment.

iland Mixed Cloud applications:

• Software requiring specialized hardware
• Complex SaaS distribution needs
• Legacy software
• DR environments requiring hardware
• Colocated customer/vender needs
• Enterprise data warehouse
• Corporate ERP systems
• Credit card processing system
• Certain VoIP applications
• R&D or other highly confidential data
• Operating systems not available in the cloud