Cloud on Demand has been appointed by Microsoft as a Cloud OS Network Partner in South Africa, undergoing a massive paradigm shift.
“Virtualisation is like religion. You are VMware or Hyper-V, not both. Well that was how it was in our organisation before we went down this road,” says Jonathan Kropf, Cloud on Demand CEO.
So why two platforms?
“Simple. Each has their own use case and their own addressable market. It is not often that the customers overlap,” Kropf adds.
Microsoft and its push around the “Cloud First, Mobile First” messaging has created a buzz around Cloud services in the market place and particularly in Microsoft centric customers and partners.
The problem is that with Latency at up to 400ms on international connections, deploying production applications and moving to the Azure Cloud has been problematic.
To solve this, Cloud on Demand aims to deliver the core Azure services, with a familiar Azure interface, but delivered in local DC’s, with local people to interact with and local people to talk to about challenges and migration requirements.
The first services that will be live are:
- VM’s – IaaS
- DBaaS – Both SQL and MySQL
- Service Bus – Messaging Framework
- Websites – PaaS for delivering applications
“This is not a game for us and we are not ‘dabbling’ in this service. The impact is going to be massive on the local Cloud market,” says Kropf.
“We still maintain that Cloud should not be a compromise and that Consumer Cloud services are not the solution for the Cloud journey for anyone serious about taking advantage of the benefits of Cloud.”
For this reason, Cloud on Demand has opened up its API’s for integration into clients’ Microsoft/VMware environment.
Cloud on Demand also allows direct termination of your connectivity to your Public Cloud to create true Hybrid Clouds.
“Whether you are a VMware shop or a Microsoft shop, it shouldn’t matter. You should still be able to move workloads to the Cloud, use a familiar interface and spend less time worrying about the migration,” concludes Kropf.
