Cloud bursting with HP CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration and Savvis

Overview
What is CloudSystem bursting?
Public cloud bursting is a feature of HP CloudSystem Matrix that enables enterprises to provision public and private
infrastructure resources in a seamless way. Combined with CloudSystem‟s powerful private cloud management
capabilities, the ability to „burst‟ beyond the private cloud environment, and to leverage infrastructure resources
offered by external cloud service providers, creates a virtually unlimited pool of hybrid cloud resources for
CloudSystem users to draw upon for cloud service delivery.
Why burst with CloudSystem?
As enterprises grow their portfolio of cloud services, CIOs are becoming strategic brokers to determine and optimize
service delivery options. Based on business needs, some cloud services are being sourced from a private cloud, some
from public clouds and others from hosted private clouds. As business needs change, resources must be added,
subtracted, reconfigured, and rebalanced across available channels dynamically. To optimize cloud service
deployments in these environments, CIOs need a cloud service delivery model that is flexible across hybrid delivery
channels and can be managed as an integrated technology environment.
HP‟s unique approach to bursting with CloudSystem ushers in the era of hybrid computing in a way that enables
enterprises to embrace both private and public clouds fully, and to make hybrid clouds fundamental to their IT
architecture and provisioning strategies.
 For enterprises, the unmatched flexibility of hybrid clouds redefines the scope of „what is possible‟ by opening
access to a breadth and depth of resources and to new service delivery options that are simply not available
using either private or public clouds alone.
 Of critical importance to IT, bursting to public clouds from CloudSystem brings public clouds into the sphere of IT
governance and control, and makes them manageable from the same environment used to manage private
clouds.
 Cloud service designers benefit as well, by being able to leverage both private and public cloud infrastructure
resources from a single service design and provisioning environment
Hybrid cloud use cases
With hybrid cloud resources at their disposal, enterprises can go beyond thinking in terms of using private or public
clouds, and think instead of how to use private and public clouds effectively together. This holistic view enables
hybrid cloud to become a foundational element of IT strategy, touching everything from IT planning and operations,
to the design of individual services.
Some use case examples:
 Growth – as a risk management strategy, an enterprise may choose to experiment with the idea of expanding
into a new geography via a service provider first; if the trial is successful, the enterprise may choose to open a
datacenter in the new location and transition from using public to private resources at that time.
 Elastic capacity – to help contain costs, an enterprise may choose to use public cloud resources to augment
internal capacity as a way of handling fluctuating demand for IT resources. At times of higher demand, lower
priority services can be deployed to public cloud resources to ensure that private resources will be available for
higher priority workloads.
 Technology operations – to increase operational efficiency, an enterprise may plan to use different resources
for different phases of a project‟s lifecycle. For example, a software development team might routinely plan to
use public cloud resources for application development and testing, and to switch to using private resources for
production deployment.
 Service optimization – to maximize performance, a single service can be designed to use both public and
private cloud resources. For example, a two-tiered web application could be designed to run the web tier in a
public cloud, while keeping the database tier closer, running on internal resources only.