Enterprises are facing ever-increasing IT costs and they want to realize the scalability, time to market, and cost benefits of cloud computing without having to rely solely on public clouds. By taking advantage of the capabilities of the AMAX CloudMax private cloud appliance platform, enterprises can utilize the many benefits that public cloud computing offers, such as self-service, automation and elasticity, but still maintain high levels of availability, security, control and sovereignty of data required for mission-critical applications.
The CloudMax was developed specifically for enterprises seeking a fully scalable, pre-packaged, pre-integrated total hardware/software solution delivering out-of-the-box cloud services to improve IT responsiveness and increase utilization with fewer resources. CloudMax combines cloud management automation and advanced engineering into a ready-to-deploy total solution, helping companies move into the cloud seamlessly while reducing IT complexity, necessary manpower and overall operational expenditures.
The AMAX CloudMax cuts expenses and delivers ROI by creating a more agile, automated enterprise cloud computing environment.
CloudMax Core Values:
- Compatibility
Right combination of hardware and software solutions to help customers reduce the time and risk of selecting independent hardware platform and software.
- Customization
The flexibility to customize the platform based on the customer's specific needs and application requirements.
- Scalability
Without the need to deploy, test, and fix physical servers, enterprises can spin compute capacity up or, more importantly, down at a moment's notice.
- Out-of-the-Box Solution
A complete platform that will work seamlessly together, right out of the box. Easy to deploy and maintain.
The AMAX Cloud Solutions
The AMAX CloudMax private cloud appliance solutions eliminate the associated complexity and excessive costs with traditional enterprise cloud deployments. The CloudMax on-premise, x86-based private cloud appliance is a complete platform that integrates hardware, storage, networking, virtualization, internal and external security, disaster recovery, and dynamic management solutions to create a private cloud environment. The CloudMax was designed specifically for enterprise environments, with diverse computing infrastructure requirements across virtual and physical machines, and supports various hypervisors and operating systems from a single end-to-end management platform.
Private Cloud Management
At the core of the new private cloud offering is AMAX's next-generation automated cloud management program, which accelerates and simplifies cloud computing deployments and offers a high degree of integration, flexibility, and resource optimization, providing an enhanced self-service, request-driven user experience. The cloud management program features intelligent resource reservation and allocation to ensure the right resources are allocated to the right application at the right time.
AMAX Unified Storage Platform
At the heart of CloudMax is AMAX's Unified Storage Platform, which centralizes and simplifies data management, reduces capacity requirements by up to 50%, and is the ideal platform for server virtualization to drive consolidation and greater efficiency. An integrated Local Protection suite provides snapshots of file systems and iSCSI volumes to deliver an additional layer of protection necessary for Disaster Recovery. With scalability from 6 to 120 disk drives and up to 240TB of capacity, the Unified Storage Platform is ready to meet the needs of growing organizations with increasingly complex storage requirements.
Optional advanced Disaster Recovery features:
- Remote Protection Suite — Replicates file data over IP for disaster recovery, backup, and/or testing
- Application Protection Suite — Provides application integration features and replica management
- Security and Compliance Suite — File-level retention capabilities, event enablers
AMAX Unified Threat Management
Data protection for mission critical applications is a vital component of a secure cloud environment. The AMAX UTM delivers internal security policy management and external security features at three levels: intrusion prevention, application control, and SSL VPN, all within a simple management interface that provides real-time protection without compromising cloud performance.
Advanced networking and configuration flexibility features:
- Application Control
- Gateway Anti-malware
- Intrusion Prevention
- Web Content Filtering
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