Use Case: Data Centre Virtualisation

Data centre services are critical components of effective enterprise solutions. A recent trend in data centre services is to share computing resources across multiple customers. Similarly, using multiple physical data centres enables more resilient and better performing services with improved load balancing.

A challenge is connecting enterprise networks to these data centres. If the NSP infrastructure is directly connected to each data centre, then any change in the physical location of the service must be coordinated in advance with both the enterprise customer and the NSP responsible for the enterprise network. If the customer uses multiple NSPs, the challenge is quite complex indeed. A further challenge is understanding performance of the service from the data centre to the enterprise location. Simply having green lights on the server is insufficient service management in today's market.

The Nexagent System enables the infrastructure that interconnects your data centres to become your service delivery vehicle. This enables you to remove nearly all physical connectivity and integrate solutions via a network interconnection providing rapid activation and, therefore, healthier revenue and margins.

Service clients from any data centre

Through a network service delivery approach, every data centre is directly accessible providing flexibility to the data centre operator in service source location

Integrate data centre services directly into enterprise WAN

Through a service delivery approach that directly integrates data centre services into NSP platforms, reach all your customers directly

Monitor service performance end-to-end

Through integrated solution monitoring, understand exactly how the data centre service performs across all links in the network supply chain

Improve delivery intervals

Through a pre-connected service delivery approach, accelerate provisioning intervals from multiple weeks to several days

Significantly, the data centre operator can provision services from any data centre without impacting any of the enterprise network transport providers because the enterprise network is de-coupled from the physical service location.

The result is a network-based virtual data centre platform that complements your virtualisation within the data centre itself. Most importantly, via a network interconnection service delivery approach, the data centre operator now has end-to-end service performance knowledge and can work with the enterprise customer to monitor and maintain optimal service performance. This is possible because the data centre service is integrated directly into the enterprise WAN via the network interconnection.

To learn more about how Nexagent can help lower costs and improve service performance for Data Centre Virtualisation, please contact us today.