Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC)
Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC) is the
world's first open cloud platform purpose‐built for enterprise
networking, security, and mobility. Virtela ESC provides
seamless communications between enterprise end users using any
device (i.e. desktop, laptop, smartphone), private data centers,
private and public clouds over any mix of underlying transport
networks or network service providers.
To enable seamless communications around the world, Virtela
implemented a wholly different cloud architecture. Virtela ESC has
a breakthrough architecture that is open at every level, locally
distributed around the world, and optimized for virtual devices to
support various applications, including delay-sensitive
applications. These innovations unlock exponential benefits for
enterprises faced with supporting increasingly distributed
workforces that need fast and secure access to increasingly
centralized applications from anywhere in the world. Additionally,
many companies often face decreasing IT budgets and staff. Virtela
ESC frees the enterprise from common cloud constraints: closed
platforms that tie services to a single network provider,
centralized models that are inefficient for delay-sensitive
applications, and "rack and stack" approaches that remain complex,
costly, and cannot scale with enterprise demand. Click here to learn
more about Virtela's cloud vision.
The key unique attributes of Virtela ESC are as follows:
- Open Architecture
Virtela ESC is independent of the underlying network, carrier,
and technology. As a result, it delivers the best service to any
location, using any network anywhere in the world. This
infrastructure independence gives customers the freedom to choose
the best mix of carriers, for example, to optimize network access
to any compute, storage, or other public/private cloud service or
data center resource. Virtela ESC is the only all-inclusive cloud
architecture available today.
- Locally Distributed
Virtela ESC effectively brings services to the end user's
doorstep via its highly distributed network of
50 Local Cloud Centers
(LCCs) in major financial centers around the world. By pushing
service delivery to the network edge, Virtela accelerates
applications immediately, near the content source, and instantly
mitigates security threats near the source of attack. Conventional
clouds follow a centralized hosting model that may take end user
traffic halfway around the world before reaching desired content.
Virtela ESC offers the deepest geographic reach of any cloud
platform available today.
- Optimized for Virtual Devices
Virtela ESC changes the "One Device, Per Service, Per
Location" status quo model. Virtela has decoupled service delivery
from hardware, virtualizing multiple services within the network
cloud to eliminate the complexity and expense of deploying multiple
devices at your offices. This results in an order of magnitude cost
savings and ease of use. Virtela ESC services can be activated
within minutes and feature a consumable pay-as-yougo pricing
model.
Virtela's
overlay multi-carrier backbone network uses intelligent routing and
switching capabilities within the LCCs to deliver highly reliable
service across best-of-breed carrier networks around the world.
This backbone can withstand the smallest performance issue to
major infrastructure outages, including complete carrier network
failures. Virtela ESC also leverages predictive analytics
technology called VirtelaPredict to
diagnose over 95 percent of potential network and security issues
before they can impact network health. VirtelaPredict helps
ensure that major issues affecting availability are prevented
before they occur, that recurring bottlenecks are proactively
investigated and that issues are responded to and remediated before
they cause an outage. The combination of Virtela ESC's
intelligent, fully redundant, multi-carrier backbone and
VirtelaPredict ensures industry-leading service performance and
availability.
Virtela ESC supports a wide variety of services including:
- Managed
Cloud-based Application Acceleration. The service
makes applications such as email, web-based collaboration, backup
and storage, ERP/CRM and windows file sharing run 5-25x faster with
a 250% money-back guarantee. The service works regardless where the
applications are hosted-within the enterprise headquarters or
office locations, private cloud or public cloud such as Amazon EC2,
IBM Cloudburst, and Rackspace cloud. If end users do not experience
faster application response time, Virtela pays the customer 250% of
the service charge. Virtela's cloud-based application acceleration
interactive model show how much performance improvement by
application customers can achieve based on their locations and
remote access speed around the world.
- Managed Cloud-based
SSL VPN. This service provides reliable and secure
remote access for mobile and remote workers around the world using
a simple web interface and Internet access. It offers the highest
remote access availability SLA-up to 100%-in the industry with
Virtela's global load balancing, global redirect capabilities, as
well as Virtela's resilient, multi-carrier backbone. The service
also offers a seat reservation feature that allows IT managers to
reserve seats in the event of traffic spikes or in a disaster
recovery situation.
- Managed
Cloud-based Security. Virtela's portfolio of
cloud-based security services includes cloud-based firewall,
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS), web filtering, Security Event and Information Management
(SIEM), and malware services. This suite of services allows
customers to save on upfront hardware while getting the benefits of
a fully managed service. With a layered security approach,
Virtela's Managed Cloud-based Security detects and blocks malware
coming from the Internet, WAN, or LAN and offers an extra layer of
defense with protection purpose-built for bots.
- Managed
Cloud-based SIEM. Virtela's SIEM service tracks
traffic events on a multitude of network devices, including
routers, switches, firewalls, and IDS/IPS. This service helps
companies strengthen their security posture, protect their
intellectual property, and facilitate the collection, management,
and analysis of log data that is integral to meeting SOX, GLBA,
HIPAA and PCI audit requirements. This service is also wholly
integrated within the security services that Virtela offers.
- Cloud-based
Mobile Device Management. As smartphones become more
common in the workplace, IT managers now need to manage these
devices as part of their IT infrastructure. This service helps with
mobile expense and security management. Companies will be able to
control costs by getting alerts when usage limits are reached and
when roaming occurs, as well as set different policies by user
group, as examples. IT managers also have the ability to locate
lost or misplaced phones, remotely wipe/selective wipe
applications, prevent access to corporate data if rogue
applications are detected, and more. Virtela's service is
mobile operator and OS platform independent. The service can be
activated quickly from the cloud, includes a unified management
portal called Virtelaview
TM, and offers the industry's first real-time
notification SLA.
We invite you to listen to a
podcast for more information about Virtela ESC.
Virtela's managed cloud‐based services, enabled by Virtela ESC,
complement our managed CPE‐based services, giving you the
flexibility to choose the best solution on a location‐by‐location
basis and allowing you to leverage our in‐depth experience and
expertise in deploying, managing, and maintaining global
networking, security, and mobility services.
Related Resources
Data Sheet: Enterprise
Services Cloud (PDF)