How Scalable Licensing And Infrastructure Benefits Your Business

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Scalability = Operational Flexibility

Scalability is a systems characteristic which enables a platform hosting a system to automatically muster additional computing resources as the system workload increases.

In a cloud world, a scalable system is a system which is able to automatically provision additional computing resources such as processor, memory and bandwidth as the demand for computing resources from the hosted system increases.

Scalability meets user expectations

Users interacting with online services expect systems to be perpetually available, function at peak performance levels and have a user interface design which is aesthetically pleasing, intuitive and simple to use.

Scalability’s purpose as a feature of online services is to ensure a system is able to function at the performance levels expected by its users.

Scalability and its impact on availability

Downtime in an online world is not good for business. Ensuring systems availability has multiple real-world business benefits which impact the profitability and brand reputation of an organisation.

In today’s business world, all revenue-based transactions are processed via an IT system or application. This is true for both online e-commerce type transactions as well as traditional invoice runs on an in-house financial application. If a revenue-generating system is down the business cannot make money.

Scalability ensures online systems availability during periods where services are under heavy load. Services which are not able to scale will ultimately stop responding and go offline when all the allocated computing resources for the system have been consumed. The system can only start responding again if existing locked resources are released or additional resources added.

Scalability, therefore, benefits businesses by ensuring services and applications stay online and functional.

Poor performance and unavailability are punished in an online world

Most modern organisations interact with their customers through some form of online platform.

Social media has enabled organisations to interact with their customers on many different levels which have strengthened customer relationships. However, social media has also given consumers a platform to voice their grievances to the organisation while broadcasting these to other customers.

Poor application performance and service unavailability are heavily punished on social media. Businesses should, therefore, ensure they constantly strive to deliver an online service which performs well above the expectations set by its users.

By configuring their applications with a scalable architecture, organisations can ensure their applications perform admirably under heavy load.

Zettagrid’s cloud is built for scalability

Delivering Australia’s most advanced self-service cloud hosting platform with solutions such as application hosting as well as public, private and hybrid cloud offerings, Zettagrid is well placed to resolve scalability issues for businesses.

Organisations have the option to provision their services on Zettagrid’s cloud platform by subscribing to their virtual data centre or virtual server services which are built on VMware.

Zettagrid virtual servers have the added benefit of being fully customizable and give users the option to configure the computing resources of their virtual machine as they see fit with no templates or images which lock them down to specific configurations.
Should customers ever need to scale a Zettagrid virtual server they can easily do so at any time via the Zettagrid self-service portal.

Create a hybrid cloud with Zettagrid to facilitate on-premise scalability

Organisations could opt to create a hybrid cloud between their on-premise private cloud and the Zettagrid platform. This configuration gives customers the flexibility to move workloads between their two environments as demand fluctuates.

For periods of high demand, they can run their workload on Zettagrid’s platform which can scale to the resource requirements required.

Once demand decreases customers can simply migrate their workloads back to their private on-premise private cloud.

Scalability is good for business

The business benefits of scalability are clear and tangible. Scalability ensures you can make money and keep your customers happy when your systems are at their busiest.  Scalability is a major business benefit delivered by Zettagrid cloud. Organisations can rest assured that their systems stay online and responsive when they need them to.

Find out more information about Zettagrid cloud service by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

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Multiple Availability Zones. What Does This Mean For Your Business?

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Risk is inherent in any undertaking and the risk of IT failure in business is a threat organisations need to take seriously. There are dire consequences for not having some form of risk mitigation in place for IT failures.

Data Protection + High Availability = Business Survival

IT failures are unpredictable and could originate from anywhere

There are many potential failures which could affect an IT environment. These failures could be as a result of local failure incidents such as user errors, hardware component or full system failures. Failures could also result from full environment-wide disasters which could range from a full data centre or site failure to a catastrophe negatively impacting an entire city or region.

Backups first

Data and System backups are the bare minima an organisation needs when implementing a risk mitigation strategy for IT failures and disasters. However, in a world where uptime is directly related to profit and reputation, legacy backups will no longer suffice.

Disaster Recovery next

Businesses today at very least need an enterprise-grade disaster recovery solution. However, to ensure maximum uptime and true resilience in the face of a disaster, businesses should augment their disaster recovery solution with a robust and resilient business continuity service enabled and delivered through high availability.

Ultimately you need Business Continuity

True disaster recovery business continuity solutions must mitigate all downtime risks and ensure systems remain available. Each risk, no matter its size, origin or impact affects the availability of online systems.

Failures which impact the availability of online systems have a real business impact and could affect the viability of a going concern due to the negative effect system down time has on revenue and brand reputation.

Cloud Disaster Recovery is resilient and affordable

Cloud service providers like Zettagrid offer industry leading cloud-based disaster recovery business continuity solutions at a cost affordable to most organisations.

Service providers must ensure they build redundancy into their platform

True enterprise cloud disaster recovery business continuity service providers need to have their own built-in redundancy to ensure they can offer their customers true high-availability.

Zettagrid meets these criteria and guarantees its service through its multiple availability zones.

Service providers also need to have geo-redundancy

Enterprise disaster recovery solutions commit to high levels of redundancy and availability to mitigate against predictable downtime risks such as user error or hardware failure.

However, it is often large-scale unpredictable disasters such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis etc. which could have the largest negative impact on most businesses. To mitigate this risk, cloud service providers need to ensure they have a geographically dispersed redundant platform.

Zettagrid leads the way with geo-redundant availability zones

Zettagrid runs multiple availability zones, located in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, and Jakarta, with each running separate isolated instances of their infrastructure to mitigate the risk of a large-scale disaster affecting an entire city or region.

These multiple availability zones not only protect the Zettagrid cloud but also contain key benefits for Zettagrid customers.

Find out more information about Zettagrid cloud service by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

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The 6th Indonesian CIO Network Conference in Yogyakarta

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Yogyakarta, 6 March 2018- Zettagrid Indonesia participate at The 6th Indonesian CIO Network Conference held in Royal Ambarrukmo Yogyakarta from 5th to 7th March 2018. The conference bring topic about Shaping and Securing The Digital Economy In Indonesia.Most of attendees are come from IT C-Level company all around Indonesia and also a member of Indonesia CIO Network (ICION). The event held by Zettagrid Indonesia premier partner Advanced Technology Pacific

 

 

 

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Cloud Government Presentation To Diskominfotik At Balai Kota DKI Jakarta

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Jakarta, 28 February 2018- Zettagrid Indonesia has been invited by Dinas Komunikasi, Informatika & Statistik Provinsi DKI Jakarta to give presentation about cloud computing solution in Balai Kota Jakarta today (28/02/2018). Cloud Computing adoption has growth significant recently in Indonesia, government is one of the sector that already adopt cloud technology to increase IT efficiency and provide public service more simple, fast and easy to use.

 

 

 

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Do Not Have Disaster Recovery, How It Risk For Business?

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Written by Nicki Pereira, Chief Technology Officer of Zettagrid  : Unplanned outages have a real business impact. Your business is impacted when IT disasters and system outages occur and these impacts have a direct or indirect cost associated with them.

A revenue generating system such as an e-commerce website has direct financial consequences when it goes down. Non-revenue generating systems such as your email service may have indirect costs when it fails such as the inability to send invoices to your customers. Either way a system outage is bad for business and must be mitigated through careful contingency planning.

Organisations must have a disaster recovery plan in place so when the inevitable happens they are able to recover swiftly and thereby reduce the business impact and cost.

Unplanned outages are not a rare occurrence

This infographic shows 47% of companies experienced and outage of downtime in the last year and 95% of these outages were unrelated to natural disasters such as fire or flood.

Research conducted by Zerto shows there are many root causes for unplanned outages. These include hardware failures, environmental failures, human error and cybercrime.

Hardware failures

According to the research conducted by Zerto, hardware failures such as failures in the electrical supply or uninterrupted power supplies accounted for approximately 31% of reported outages in 2016.

These outages would have affected entire IT environments due to the loss of power to all systems. In addition, power failures in IT environments often result in data loss and data corruption.

The downtime impact the business’s revenue stream. Compounding this is the time, effort and cost of recovering from such an event that can be a substantial hit to the bottom line.

Cybercrime

Cybercrime accounted for 22% of outages in 2016 according to Zerto. Ransomware as a category has grown exponentially from 3.2 million incidents in 2014 to over 638 million incidents in 2016.

Earlier ransomware malware variants usually affected individual end users so the impact was limited unless the users inadvertently infected and encrypted an organisation’s file server. Newer variants can now affect entire networks by propagating through vulnerabilities on unpatched computers.

Either way, the impact of a cybercrime incident such as ransomware resulting in a system outage has both direct and indirect costs. Organisations with no effective disaster recovery solutions have paid millions in ransom.

If you add the losses due to the downtime to these numbers, the financial impact is substantial.

The human error factor

The research conducted by Zerto reported that human error accounted for 22% of unplanned outages in 2016.

As with other causes of unplanned outages these may have been environment wide and could have taken days to recover from. For example, a systems administrator applying an untested patch to several production servers may have resulted in data loss or data corruption.

Entire systems may have needed to be rebuilt and restored which would have had a financial impact due to the loss in productivity and availability.

Environmental incidents

Environmental factors such as water, heat, CRAC failures accounted for 11% of outages reported in 2016 according to Zerto. These types of outages would also be system wide.

Depending on the damage, the time to recover from these types of events could be significant due to the damage caused. Recovery times for these environmental incidents could be days or even weeks.

The business impact from being offline for such a prolonged period would be catastrophic.

The cost of each hour of downtime

According to Zerto research, one hour of downtime has a substantial financial impact to businesses of all sizes when factoring all of the various impacts, costs and losses.

For small businesses, each hour of downtime costs $8,000 on average.

For mid-tier organisations, each hour of downtime costs $74,000 on average.

For large enterprises, each hour of downtime can cost $700,000 on average.

Conclusion

Unplanned outages are clearly a threat to any organisation. Disaster recovery solutions should not only be undertaken to meet a compliance obligation. The costs of unplanned outages are real and affect the profitability and sustainability of businesses.

Organisations must invest in a robust and scalable disaster recovery solution which is able to ensure business continuity.

Careful consideration must be given to the Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) to ensure data loss and operational downtime is kept to a minimum to meet business uptime objectives..

Find out more information about Zettagrid disaster ecovery solutions by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

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High Availability Benefits with Zettagrid

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Written by Nicki Pereira, Chief Technology Officer of Zettagrid  : Why do organisations need high availability?Availability of critical online systems and services is key to the longevity and success of the modern organisation.

Your customers expect your IT infrastructure to be available when they need to interact or transact with you. Your staff, who are another significant stakeholder in your organisation, also require a stable and accessible platform to perform their duties.

On both sides of the spectrum, your stakeholders need your systems to be accessible and responsive at all times. This requirement is beneficial to your business as it helps to ensure your organisation functions at peak efficiency levels supporting your strategic goals and operational objectives.

Zettagrid’s solution built on high availability has many direct and indirect benefits for your business. Let’s look at three key high availability benefits Zettagrid cloud powered by VMware delivers.

Top 3 key benefits of high availability;

1.    Mitigating the risk of down time

In today’s connected world, down time in any public facing system results in reputational harm to the organisation. As society has become more reliant on online systems, any down time is perceived as organisational instability which can result in an erosion of customer confidence. Not to mention the direct opportunity cost and lost productivity when systems are not available for commercial transactions and operations.

Zettagrid has removed the hassle and financial burden legacy HA solutions are notorious for and prides itself on making high availability easier and more affordable than it has been in the past. Zettagrid therefore mitigates down time risk with an effective platform at the best price possible.

2.    Mitigating the risk of lost revenue

Even if your business is not involved in any form of e-commerce, system availability directly affects your organisation’s ability to generate revenue. Systems are tightly integrated in modern organisations and dependencies exist between all operational applications be they revenue generating or not.

For example, if a non-revenue generating system such as your identity management solution fails, chances are your staff will not be able to login to the financial system. This means no invoice generation and as a result no revenue.

Even if they can log in a day or two later, generating invoices later means a delay in cash collection directly affecting your cash flow.

Zettagrid’s HA solution mitigates this key business risk for you. With a resilient national network built with geo-redundancy you can rest assured your business can continue to operate no matter what form of incident or outage affects business environment.

3.    Increase in operational flexibility

Platforms with high availability offer more operational flexibility to organisations because they’re always on. This flexibility provides organisations with the opportunity to perform planned maintenance on production systems without triggering any down time.

Maintenance tasks such as performing operating system updates and deploying a new version of an application to production can be completed without negatively affecting the availability of critical infrastructure.

The easy to use interface Zettagrid offers to its customers makes working with your backed-up data and systems easier than ever. You can now continue to serve your customers while running crucial maintenance that used to take your business offline for hours in the past.

Choose the right technology partner

The material business benefits of high availability are clear. However, deploying a high availability solution is a complex project as there are many variables to consider. Where will I host my second environment? What technology platform should I use? Which systems do I need to enable first?

Choosing the right technology partner who has the track record, skill, expertise and capacity is a key step on your journey to high-availability.

Zettagrid offers Indonesia’s most advanced self-service cloud hosting platform which is easy to use, super scalable and highly available with availability zones in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Jakarta.

Zettagrid possesses all the key qualities you are looking for in a technology partner for your high availability solution.

Discover how Zettagrid cloud powered by VMware can deliver high availability for your business.

Find out more information about Zettagrid solutions by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

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Moving To Cloud. It’s As Easy As 1-2-3

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Why Zettagrid Cloud

Zettagrid delivers Indonesia’s most advanced self-service cloud infrastructure platform and helps customers realize the true benefits of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), offering true cloud flexibility.

From a commercial standpoint, you don’t get locked into any contracts and from a technical standpoint, Zettagrid gives you the freedom to configure your environment exactly as you need it.

The Zettagrid platform operates in more data centres than any provider in Australia with the largest VMware cloud footprint. In addition, multiple availability zones in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Jakarta give customers regional flexibility and a fully redundant platform for peace of mind.

Although Zettagrid’s world-leading cloud service platform is packed with features, migrating to any of Zettagrid’s cloud services is also easy and straightforward.

To highlight this fact, below are some examples which illustrate how easy it is to get started with Zettagrid.

Getting Started with the Zettagrid Product Catalogue

The Zettagrid Product Catalogue is an easy to use and intuitive interface where you can order and configure any number of Zettagrid cloud services.

This online service gives you the power to set granular requirements for virtual servers, a Virtual Data Center (VDC), a SecondSite Disaster Recovery and other services such as Veeam Cloud Backup and Replication.

Unlike other cloud service providers who force you to use predetermined virtual machine configurations, Zettagrid allows you to specify the virtual hardware settings of your services from the vCPU count to memory and storage. This freedom to choose gives you true flexibility as you can configure your Zettagrid services to match your requirements and budget. You simply configure your service and once you are ready click on the ‘Add to Order’ button.

Veeam Cloud Connect Replication to Zettagrid

To create a Veeam Cloud Connect replication service on Zettagrid you only need a Cloud Connect endpoint, a username and a password.

To configure the service, you simply log in to your account and then click on the security tab of the Cloud Connect replication service. Once the service has been provisioned by Zettagrid you can then setup the necessary using the dedicated Veeam Backup and Recovery console.

On the Veeam Backup and Recovery Console, you configure the service by selecting your service provider and deciding on the license cost, CPU, RAM and storage requirements. You then configure the host, resource pool, datastore, network and IP address of your Network Extension Appliance.

Once you have completed this, the service is rapidly provisioned for you. Quickly, easily and efficiently.

Using VMware vCloud Director to create a Hybrid Cloud with a self-contained Zettagrid Virtual Data Center

If you are already using VMware as your virtualisation platform you can rapidly and effortlessly transform your environment into a hybrid cloud by extending it to Zettagrid’s Virtual Data Centre offering.

To take advantage of this feature you simply download the VMware vCloud Director Extender. Once installed and configured you can use this VMware plugin to simply and efficiently view, copy and operate virtual machines, vApps and templates from your own VMware environment to Zettagrid.

Conclusion – It really is as easy as 1-2-3

From these few examples, you can clearly see that moving to a powerful Zettagrid cloud solution is a simple, efficient and effortless process.

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Happy Chinese New Year 2018

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Dear valued customers and partners,

Zettagrid Indonesia would like to say a Happy Chinese New Year 2018 with the hope that you will have many blessing in the year to come.

Wishing you and your family a joy, prosperity and success this new year.

 

Best wishes from:

 

Zettagrid Indonesia

 

 

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Achieve Amazing Business Resiliency, How To?

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Written by Nicki Pereira, Chief Technology Officer of Zettagrid  : Business resilience is a something that everyone knows the importance of, but most organisations fail to see its value until it’s too late. However, as the digital landscape continues to evolve, it has become incredibly dangerous and foolhardy at best to maintain this mindset.

The unavailability of tools such as Trello, Slack, Adobe Cloud and Grammarly crippled the creative industry during the widespread outage. Equally, even Microsoft’s Office 365 recently left European users unable to access Exchange Online leaving many unable to access their email accounts. Meanwhile, security breaches at Equifax have left their reputation in tatters.

These are just a few examples of high-profile incidents that have highlighted how any business can go offline and become invisible to their customers at any moment in time. In a world of endless options, fickle users will then visit your competitor. These are the inconvenient truths that businesses are facing and why reputation is increasingly topping the list of business priorities.

However, to prepare for the unexpected and the inevitable impact on your business to ensure that all IT services are up and running within minutes is much easier than you might think. The days of needing expensive secondary data centers, duplicate IT equipment and lengthy wait periods interrupting your operations and impacting your business are thankfully behind us.The problems of having an always online business are well documented. But how to achieve the elusive business resiliency and disaster recovery strategy is a topic that often leaves more questions than answers.

Understanding that business continuity is critical to your commercial survival is the first step that will set your organisation on the road to stability. With SecondSite, we provide an affordable real-time replication solution that will seamlessly integrate into your disaster recovery plan.

Rather than having one single point of failure, we replicate your virtualised IT environment into Zettagrid’s cloud and do the heavy lifting for you. Failing over to a different zone takes away the risk and ensures that all services remain online until your primary site recovers.

The most attractive feature for IT departments is that users will be blissfully unaware that you have failed over into the cloud. Rather than wasting time managing communications or appeasing key stakeholders with regular updates, IT can concentrate on resolving the issues at hand while its business as usual for everyone else.

Although many organisations already have a disaster recovery plan, recovering from a backup is traditionally a painful and time-consuming process. In an always-online economy, businesses no longer have the luxury of going offline in a world where time is the new currency.

Ensuring that data synchronisation, accessibility, and a recovery site is in place for your virtual environment is the new belts and braces approach required to increase the availability of all services and applications. But, there is much more to achieving business resiliency than having a virtual get out of jail free card when disaster strikes.

Ensuring that you can determine and communicate compliance across your company, boardroom or even auditors is equally as important. Regular reports that highlight exactly what information and applications are always available is one of the most important aspects of achieving high availability and amazing business resiliency.

A neglected recovery plan that is tested or revisited every few years has never been an effective strategy. Equally having all your eggs in one basket whether it be in-house or cloud only is also a recipe for disaster.

The secret sauce to effective business resilience is having the ability to deploy, test and recover faster when the inevitable happens. It is imperative that any real-time disaster recovery replication solution should replicate into multiple zones to avoid going offline in an always-online digital world.

It has become crucial to understand the costs and implications of downtime during an outage. We understand that the top of businesses wish lists will be a scalable and quick disaster recovery solution that is both reliable and affordable for organisations of any size.

Can you say with confidence that your operations will be free from interruption for the foreseeable future? Is your organisation’s productivity and reputation safe from harm? And are you prepared for a disaster?

Zettagrid’s award-winning Disaster Recovery Solutions is bringing much-needed innovation to the disaster recovery space to efficiently deliver organisational resilience. But what are your experiences and insights in this area? We would love to have a conversation to understand what challenges your business is facing and how we can help you overcome them.

Find out more information about Disaster Recovery Solutions by visiting the Zettagrid Indonesia website.

*This article originally taken from blog.zettagrid.com

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What Is VMware vCloud Director? And Why Is It Relevant To You?

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VMware vCloud Director is an offering from VMware which enables cloud providers to provision Software Defined Data Center services which are ready for consumption in a matter of minutes.

A Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) is the final destination of a cloud migration journey. This journey of evolution starts with virtualising hardware followed by storage and finally networking and security.

The primary business benefit of a SDDC is simplification for cloud service providers enabling them to provision secure IT resources and applications and having these available for consumption in a matter of minutes.

The business agility which a SDDC provides is an important competitive advantage in the digital age where speed to market is often the difference between success and failure.

Business agility delivers benefits

A SDDC, enabled by VMware vCloud Director, creates greater business agility for cloud service providers such as Zettagrid who in turn pass on this benefit to their customers.

In a world where an accelerated rate of change and multifactor business forces are constantly driving dynamic and fluid business requirements, businesses need to be able to respond with rapid agility to ensure they meet the objectives set by the market forces at play.

The business benefits of organisational agility cannot and should not be underestimated. Business agility creates a competitive advantage, leads to higher customer satisfaction and retention and increased employee productivity. In addition, agility can also lead to a reduction in cost and creates the opportunity for businesses to react rapidly to new opportunities.

Enabling vCenter customers to extend their existing data centers to the cloud

Existing VMware customers can easily migrate their existing data centers to the Zettagrid cloud using a vCenter plugin, aptly named vCloud Director Extender, which enables simple, secure virtual machine migration and data center extension.

In essence, vCloud Director Extender is a vCenter plugin that enables VMware customers to directly connect to Zettagrid’s vCloud Director environment for workload migration.

This simple yet powerful vCloud feature simplifies the complex process of extending your existing infrastructure or migrating your infrastructure to the cloud. It allows for user-driven workflows, seamless connectivity, and cold or warm migration options.

Improved Security

Any technology solution, from infrastructure application planning to implementation and operational maintenance, must take security seriously. Confidential information, hosted on online systems, is only a single authentication credential or system vulnerability away from being compromised by malicious actors who could use this data for nefarious purposes.

By utilising vCloud as an extension to their existing VMware environment, VMware customers can maintain security and control over multi-tenant environments with policy-based user controls and VMware vShield security technologies such as vShield Zones, vShield Edge, vShield App and vShield Endpoint.

Application portability

According to a recent white paper published by the Cloud Standards Customer Council, an end user advocacy group dedicated to accelerating cloud’s successful adoption, interoperability and application portability between clouds is a critical success factor for any cloud extension service or cloud service platform.

Zettagrid and the VMware VCloud Director solution offering from VMware subscribe to these principles and standards which include the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) as well as industry standard API specifications such as LDAP, OAuth, and SAML.

VMware vCloud Director and Zettagrid

Zettagrid delivers Australia’s most advanced self-service cloud infrastructure platform. We provide the easiest, fastest and most highly available cloud through their full network integration and have the largest VMware cloud footprint in Australia operating data centers in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Jakarta.

To use VMware vCloud Director with Zettagrid simply provision a Zettagrid Virtual Data Centre which offers superior business benefits such as fully customised sizing, simple management, no contract lock-ins and a simplified costing engine.

To move your infrastructure to the next level of evolution, sign up for the Zettagrid Virtual Data Centre and then transform your environment into a hybrid cloud simply and efficiently by using the vCloud Director Extender plugin.

Find out more how Zettagrid VDC can benefit your business.

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