MomentumSI offers private cloud consulting and implementation services for both IaaS and PaaS. Our expertise is in the leading open source cloud environments including OpenStack and CloudStack. Our teams can help you determine the requirements for your private cloud and quickly bring the vision to an operational state. We offer pre-packaged cloud solutions as well as custom-designed clouds.

Technology Selection & Stand-up

As the success of the cloud has grown, so has the number of vendors offering solutions. MomentumSI helps organizations to sort through the products and technologies to understand which ones are best. In addition, MomentumSI provides services to help companies:

• Evaluate private clouds via proof of concepts and pilot programs
• Install and configure the private cloud according to a reference architecture
• QuickStart programs for OpenStack and CloudStack
• Evaluate the system characteristics: high-availability, security, performance, etc.
• Creating standard assets for: images, operating systems, platforms, etc.

Extend the Private Cloud

Initially, focus is placed on standing up a basic private cloud. This typically includes features like instance provisioning, basic security, on-demand portal and access and configuration of network and storage. After the base cloud is established, organizations will want to extend the feature set to include more sophisticated features, including orchestration, auto-scaling, auto-monitoring, connectivity to public clouds, and PaaS features like databases and message queues. MomentumSI provides services with:

• Identify and prioritize private cloud extensions
• Implement the extensions according to the reference architecture
• Stress test the extensions to ensure availability, security and performance
• Document new operating procedures

Migration to Private Cloud

MomentumSI works with organizations to migrate existing applications to their private cloud. Often, this work will initially focus on applications that have already been virtualized. In other cases, the ROI will indicate that non-virtualized work loads are better candidates for private cloud migration. MomentumSI helps organizations with:

• Determining the migration strategy
• Making recommendations on application architecture and design changes
• Creating a standardized, repeatable process for redeploying the software
• Implementing and testing the changes

MomentumSI consultants are versed in a variety of private cloud solutions. To learn more about our offerings, please contact us.